Questions tagged [development-process]
A software development process, also known as a software development life cycle (SDLC), is a structure imposed on the development of a software product
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What are some approaches to testing a major software update?
In the past while at work, we've had to do updates to some major libraries/tools we use in building a web app. For example, we recently upgraded Angular versions and are currently updating our Django ...
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Signal to noise ratio during early testing
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For the past several years our QA team has been very active in manual and automated testing of our products which led to a very small amount of real-user complaints about the functioning ...
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What are the advantages of CMMI over ISO 15504 (SPICE), and vice versa?
Trying to write a paper where I have to compare process improvement models to implement for a hypothetical avionics software development company.
From researching, it seems that CMMI and SPICE are ...
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How to implement CMMI in any organization? [closed]
I need to learn about CMMI process. Like what it is, how it can be effective to make process smooth and mainly, how can we implement this in an organization?
I need to know from the very beginning to ...
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Documenting Unit Tests
We follow a BDD approach to development, we have our testers creating scenarios from a specification, and these are then given to our developers before any work is started. However, we find that some ...
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How to update softwares in a company [closed]
If a company wants to update their systems like for example ERP or CRM or a bookkeeping system etc. How can they best do this.. Just update the systems on every computer and hoping it works 100%? Or ...
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Considerations and suggestions for QA lead responsible for software testing and development processes [closed]
I am offered a position as a QA lead, which is a big-big step up for me.
I would appreciate some feedback, heads-up, suggestions, certify and considerations when tackling such a responsibility.
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If your organization produces software, does ISO 9001 (or similar) apply to software development, even if you don't trace to ISO 90003?
Let's say that your organization is certified to be compliant with ISO 9001 (or an industry-specific interpretation, such as AS 9100 for aerospace) and that your quality management system applies ...
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How to delegate defects to developers by tester in ALM tool? [closed]
How to delegate defects to developers by tester in ALM tool?
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How do you test for everything that could go wrong?
Okay, so I know we can't test every scenario possible, it's just not possible. But I want to get any ideas for making tests more comprehensive and getting the QA team to find problems before the code ...
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Means of Quantification of QA impact
I am currently looking into methods to quantify the effect of QA on a team, be this in terms of overall productivity improvement or net effectiveness. In doing so I am evaluating various methods by ...
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Why testing is not a stand alone activity
I am trying to understand the following concept -
Testing is done parallel with other activities and thus it is not a
stand alone activity, it is a complete process called STLC
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Ways to specify list of files for a build?
I am looking for alternative ways for developers to specify and maintain a list of files that need to be installed on the target system - to be communicated to the build team.
At my small company we ...
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Status of the requirement which has a critical bug
The requirement is almost implemented with an exception of one single and simple but critical bug (the bug is like "constant X should be added to the final value"). As soon as there is a high priority ...
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How can I stop Google from crawling my website? [closed]
I have incorporated google analytic code into my website, however, I don't want Google to crawl through my website for some days. If I run "robot.txt", still my website can be viewed in google search ...
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How to test effectively when DEV/BAs design separately?
I'm at an organization where QA is basically kept in the dark when it comes to requirements/technical design. Documents are created usually during the Requirement gathering phase, but then by the time ...
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QA in an Extreme Programming Agile Environment
I've been a QA in an agile environment before, but I've now found myself at a company that practices Extreme Programming to the T. I was wondering where you guys think that a somewhat traditional ...
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The meaning of failure - what is the flaw in our process?
A company I've started working for uses a QA process I haven't come across before, and it seems flawed to me. I'm keen to know what we should do to fix this process.
We use a JIRA workflow. After our ...
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Are the gains going from Selenium IDE to headless worth it on small projects
I am a web developer in a very small team(2 devs, one hardware), and I spend as much, if not more time testing applications(due to requirements issues) than the actual developing. To help with this, I'...
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What goes in your definition of done (DoD) ?
In agile projects, we use the definition of done to ascertain when to consider a user story to be ready for acceptance (implemented and tested). In the project's DoD we have things like following ...
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Is there a good mature SaaS development checklist?
We have a generic checklist to set client expectations and ensure that we do the major things in SaaS development like user management (registration, logging in, de-activations, password changes, etc),...
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QA internship..what should my workflow look like?
I'm an intern at a small custom software company that was hired to help test some of their in house software. They didn't have the time or resources to hire a full time person for testing so they are ...
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What is System-Wide Processing? [closed]
I am not sure if I should post this question here, but I did not found any other stackexchange site which might be more helpful.
If this question is better to be asked somewhere else, please feel ...
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QA Methodology: Do you retest every change on a new build or only changed code?
I am leading a new QA team at my company and we are small (Myself and one other person). We are currently testing releases compiled by over 10 developers, so the ratio of developers to QA is skewed. ...
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Crowdfunded feature request system - would it make users hate me?
There's a free webapp I develop and I use a feature request system where each user gets limited votes and it works great. Since I don't get paid for this though, I was thinking of turning the most ...
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Open project vs Project Libre [closed]
Have you experience of using these and the knowledge to make a comparision between them for the suitability of managing a testing effort?
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Testing an IMAP client
I am writing an IMAP client library for a Uni project. I need comprehensive, in-depth testing for it. This is the focus even more than the e-mail functionality itself. What should I do? I am looking ...
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What is the role of the software development manager in a QA/QC process?
I have read about software QA/QC and software-test that in an agile environment the software QA process "directs" the software process, that is to say, that it doesn't ship until it's ready to ship ...
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Where does Automation creation happen w/in the Development Cycle?
I’m a Software QA Engineer at a small web development company and I need help wrapping my brain around implementing a new process.
As of recently, my shop only handled ‘one-offs’. We would work on ...
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Turning software testing into an internal service
I've been tasked with changing the focus of my team from a "can do everything" team into one that is more service orientated, i.e. we can provide the framework for your testing rather than being there ...
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Is it easier to write "correct" software in functional languages? [closed]
Functional languages like F# and Scala are becoming popular. Do these types of functional languages make it easier to write higher quality software that requires less testing. In other words, is it ...
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