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Mar 1 |
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Radiobutton group with NO default option: bug / acceptable / it depends? @PeterL. Hmm, do you want to order () book, () audiobook, () DVD? Accidentally selecting any default choice would probably make people angry, but it wouldn't be catastrophe. Do you want to pay () by bill, () online, (x) never? The default choice is easy to make in this case. And your age case is actually a good example where we can't know what is the correct default. If the question is about life insurance, it is ok to require an answer. If it's just statistics for survey, it may be ok to accept empty answer. |
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Mar 1 |
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Radiobutton group with NO default option: bug / acceptable / it depends? I agree with the answer. To put it differently, don't provide default answer if the user needs to make a conscious decision when answering and it is ok to give an error message if no selection has been made. |
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Mar 1 |
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Radiobutton group with NO default option: bug / acceptable / it depends? @user246 Why shouldn't usability be tested? I think it's very important thing. |
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Feb 4 |
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Software Testing as a career path? Becoming a test architect As checking that sorting algorithm works correctly is something anyone can do, no-one should need to do it but it should be automated. Testing this kind of things manually is boring and not worth it. Manual testing should be about looking at combinations and patterns, thinking ease-of-use and end user, challenging decisions, exploring... |
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Jan 25 |
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Does anyone know of an automation tool that will perform actions on sending or receiving of an email? If you are just testing the capabilities of the software and not any public domains, I would suggest you run locally some small mailer and smtp server, and use those from the test script for sending and receiving the emails. |
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Jan 15 |
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What common browser plugins should be tested against? @PhilKirkham Good point. At least for adblock statistics are available at addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/statistics/… and answer seems to be about 15 000 000 daily users. |
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Jan 14 |
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What common browser plugins should be tested against? AdBlock, NoScript, Ghostery... |
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Nov 13 |
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Is it fair to report a bug discovered during review without performing a test? All those could work fine. Bug tracking system would be probably easy place, if you can enter them in a way that doesn't bother everyone every day. |
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Nov 5 |
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How Does System Testing Differ From System Integration Testing (SIT)? @Dan If you build all those parts yourself and they are all complete programs, you do integration tests for subparts of A and B, system tests for A and B and system integration tests for combination of A and B. If A and B are not complete systems themselves, you don't have any system integration testing to be done. |
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Nov 4 |
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How Does System Testing Differ From System Integration Testing (SIT)? I would call testing parts of the system, possibly with mocks, just "integration testing" and system integration testing would be different thing. Just goes to show that it's good to make sure others are using the terms in the same way. :-) |
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Nov 2 |
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Validation and verification in CMMi, ISO, IEEE. What should I refer to? It probably should apply to both definitions. The only way to know is to ask what the terms mean in certain context. I gave one interpretation, others have given others. I could add to my answer that not only tell which interpretation you are going to use, tell why you are using it. |
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Nov 2 |
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Validation and verification in CMMi, ISO, IEEE. What should I refer to? Apparently the ISO standard makes another division which might be as sensible. It's just on completely other level. |
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Sep 25 |
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The structure of test logs? @deepz Write the test log so that someone else can understand it. This doesn't mean that the log entry needs to be long, but it should describe things in context. It is also a wonder how much details one can forget in a year. So, write down what matters, but only that. |
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Sep 22 |
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The structure of test logs? I would add that even if it's just for you, consider if anyone else needs to read them afterwards and add information accordingly. Possibly next person doing your job at some point? |
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Aug 20 |
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Testing random number generation Why shouldn't you get to heavy-duty math or statistics, if you're going to test random number generator? |
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Jul 23 |
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Courses for non-IT people to study testing? I would have modified this question to be nicer and more useful, and, but these are not really questions that can be answered without context here. Try contacting some local testing association if there is one to get ideas. Or read some testing books or online material to get better understanding of testing field. |
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Jun 29 |
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Providing feedback to developers Pivotal Tracker seems like good candidate for you. With metrics, just remember to be careful. What ever you measure, the team will optimize for just that. And maybe the most important metric is your gut feeling as the client. |
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Jun 6 |
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If you could only give one book to a tester to teach them about testing, what would it be? Perfect software would be good read also to anyone working with testers. |
