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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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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How can I organize QA documentation within an Agile environment
In Agile we favour immediate communication over documentation.
However, in QA we still have a need and desire to document the process to provide structure and guidance.
What high-level structure in ...
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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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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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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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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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Planning next sprint in Agile environment?
My boss and I had a meeting today and the topic was concerned with downtime for dev or QA. We currently work in an Agile environment. My boss wants to start working on dev for the next cycle while QA ...
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Where can I find examples of software development and testing documentation? [closed]
I am looking for real-life working examples of documentation of a software development project (including testing). According to some standard, there are a couple of documents involved in software ...
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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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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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Evidencing Testing
Historically at our company we have taken screenshots of every step in a test script, even if no bug has been found.
We are now moving from a waterfall method to iterative development cycles.
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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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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 approach running automated tests "from the head"?
I'm currently one of a group of developers developing tests for a web-based line of products. These products are separate but related, and are periodically released (ie versioned).
We are trying to ...
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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?
https://www.openproject.org
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Timing of development and testing in agile environment
We currently have a two-week sprint and we seem to have issues with timing between testing and development. We have (nearly) daily releases to a test environment. We stage our release about 1.5 days ...
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Software Requirements Engineering
I'm a newbie when it comes to Software Engineering and my question is not directly related to Quality Assurance or Testing.
When it comes to Requirement Engineering (RE), the requirements can be ...
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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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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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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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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 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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What kind of testing should a developer do before passing a build to the QA team?
As a developer my knowledge of best QA practices, etc., are limited to know just enough to get me by writing unit tests, etc.
From a tester's point of view, what testing procedures should the ...
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Good resources for traditional testers adapting to an Agile environment
I haven't experienced a transition from waterfall to Agile myself - I worked for companies using Prince2, waterfall approaches to managing projects, and then I got a job working for a company using ...
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