Questions tagged [documentation]
Test documentation describes the artifacts created before, during, and after testing for the purpose of communicating with stakeholders to solicit feedback, to capture your intended approach to provide guidance for your team, to provide actionable information for business decision makers, and to record your findings for due diligence.
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How to write multiple test step for same expected result
For example, I want write test case to load the page when user clicks on add button.
There are two way on how I can view the add button:
Step 1 : View Dashboard
Step 2 : Click on Add Button
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Any hints on how to automatically generate documentations about automated tests?
I've been in charge of a java / selenium / TestNG / Maven / Allure testing stack for a while, and it's been growing a lot in terms of coverage and features.
My concern is that, while I could onboard ...
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How do I determine if a software requirement is specifying implementation details?
After the review of requirements for the last sprint, I was reminded that a revision to the Software Requirements Specification (SRS) Document where we focus more on user requirements would be value ...
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How to do Testcases for a specification document?
I have always done these very simple test cases so I am actually very lost and got overwhelmed when I got this assignment where I should do test cases from a functional design specification document. ...
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Test Strategy Documentation for test automation
What are the main points that should be included in a test strategy test automation document for a particular project? I'm not looking at details but more of a high level overview.
I've found that ...
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What is the best way/tool to share automated tests with non-technical stakeholders?
I've been tasked with finding a tool/solution to present our automated python test cases to other stakeholders in the business (I won't write actual python for time-saving purposes).
Our tests are ...
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How to determine test coverage on a Protractor/Jasmine project
I'm new to a project that is in active development but is a mature application.
It has a lot of Protractor/Jasmine tests, but they are organized somewhat poorly. For example, multiple identical or ...
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API Test Plan Documentation Standards
I've a question for experienced API testers, especially those who work in large organisations. I've been tasked to identify any industry standards for documentation of API test plans. So far, I've ...
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I am a Junior software QA specialist, I am kind lost to understand what to do in this scenario?
Scenario:
Suppose that there is a mobile application (Hotel Booking). A particular use case does not work as expected (view booking history), as it has several defects and the business requirements ...
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For which purposes, projects and teams, test cases and checklists are better compared to each other? [closed]
I was wondering which advantages and disadvantages test cases and checklists have compared to each other. For which teams and projects each option is better?
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Best practice guide for documenting unit tests?
A set of a unit tests for a project 3+ years old, now fail.
It seems the tests themselves have become out of date, and I've wasted time trying to find non existent bugs.
To prevent this happening ...
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How to specify target in the TakesScreenshot interface's getScreenshotAs method
On reading the Java documentation of TakesScreenshot interface, it was observed that the method syntax and description for getScreenshotAs are:
getScreenshotAs(OutputType<X> target)
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Test Structure Analysis Documentation
Detail Information
Currently I am in the process of building a QA structure, the following points are included and each one is designed for a project.
Since I would like to start with the analysis ...
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Testing using real data of the customer
Is it common to use real data of the customer to perform testing? What policies companies apply regarding using real data of the customer for testing purposes? Is there any legislations regarding such ...
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Automated test execution custom pdf reporting tool
I am automating desktop-based application testing. My requirement is that based on my execution for a particular test, I would like to mark real-time results in pdf generated by the automation script.
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How to provide non-technical users with better rspec output
When writing UI automation specs RSpec has a great option
--format=documentation
You can combine this with
--dry-run
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The only problem is that it has all ...
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How have you automated the generation of software test documentation for ISO62304 testing?
I am working in a Medical Device/FDA/ISO62304 Software documentation world.
I would like to know from those who document unit and integration tests, how do you document testing. Part of the reality ...
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What are the documents maintained in software quality assurance?
What are documents(software quality assurance related only), a software quality assurance engineer,QA lead has to maintain/create while testing a software from the beginning to the end?
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Testing tools: poor documentation vs investigating yourself
With a recent, wild development of different libraries (mostly JavaScript), very frequently in the internet atmosphere, we come across with some awesome open source testing tools, that promise to help ...
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Can a Software QA take over all the documentations needed for the project?
I have been included in a very big project, with surprisingly, unorganized - to none - documents.
Every meeting, we had been asking for documents back and forth and they can't provide one. There's ...
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How do we effectively use mind maps (or anything similar) to demonstrate key areas (to test & impacted) while planning testing of complex new feature?
I was recently testing a new feature that impacts all most the entire application. While I was trying to communicate the business impact to my team I found it difficult to emphasize on it by the ...
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Beginner S.R.S testing section writing advice
I'm writing the Testing section for a SRS for a group project. We started out with the IEEE std 830-1993 SRS template but have kinda moulded it around our project to suit our needs.
We are taking an ...
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How to test and document a third-party application?
I'm working at a small organization which is hosting a third-party application (business software) for our users. The software is quite comprehensive; we are using only a subset of the functionality. ...
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Mind maps vs spreadsheets
We've been using Google docs spreadsheets to keep test scenarios for manual testing of our applications for quite a long time.
Recently, we've started to use mind maps as well, mapping the ...
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Test Case for Each Unit Test?
It seems highly impractical to have a test case/ticket for every unit test; however, the only experiences I have to draw from are from college, and an internship -both of which stressed having each ...
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New Hire: lack of documentation vs QA velocity
I've been thinking to raise this question long time ago since I ever started my career as Software QA. We, as IT professionals (that's how I consider us, regardless of the education level) are always ...
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How do I deal with poorly documented bugs?
I sometimes come across bugs that do not have enough information to reproduce the bug, or worse, understand what the issue is in the first place. Usually, business analysts, rookie QAs & ...
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Interview Question: How to plan and design testing for a web application?
For example, how would you test the login functionality of a system and what would be your approach (during the interview) to show a true understanding of the QA role ?
I am not looking for test cases,...
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How to link test cases back to the requirement (specification) document, and vice-versa
We are slowly generating small automated test cases for some software we develop. We've only got a few dozen or so written so far and we expect that in the end, we will have a few hundred, maybe a few ...
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Documenting application test coverage
We have both automated and manual tests for our actively developed application. A regular Jira workflow in our case is something like this:
Open -> In Development -> In Testing -> In ...
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Is it okay to test the absence of exceptions or error messages in an application?
There is a web page which is supposed to display current month's sales of five types of items. One bug report says that a server error message is displayed on this page and the sales report is not ...
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How do I deal with poorly documented tests?
I work in a big multinational company. There are too many testers in my company whose test cases (i.e. test steps) are unclear & are riddled with grammatical errors. Many of these testers are ...
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How to document the paths of my windows service in an easy to read diagram?
I have a windows service that issues thousands of android ADB commands to devices, I plan to go through the source for it and document all possible scenarios/paths, there are a lot of if x do y ...
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Which Reporting should a QA Engineer be providing?
I've worked in QA for a number of years now and not once have I (personally) created/generated any sort of report, maybe its just where I've worked has never required it. Browsing the market I notice ...
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Who needs to receive test documentation?
Besides my manager who do I need to distribute test documentation to? E.g. master test plan and master test report.
Do I need to send the product owner/business representative, who is unfamiliar ...
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Pros and cons of complex test scenario / test case / checklist?
I know, that test scenarios, test cases and checklists are different things and are important for testing. I've landed a job as a QA in startup that's adopted scrum methodology and is fast paced.
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How to document testing in Agile environments? [closed]
The "Working software over comprehensive documentation" agile value is one of the most controversial.
Regarding testing, how do agile test team achieve "Just Barely Good Enough Models and Documents"? ...
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What is the difference between SRS, RA, FRS, BRS documents?
I know I should ask this question in "Theoretical Computer Science" stack community. But as the name suggests, that community would provide me answer which is everywhere on internet-Theoretical. But I ...
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Is it ok to use Gherkin syntax to describe scenarios for backend applications?
I use gherkin syntax to write the scenarios of features that involve user interaction. However, I'm not sure if it is the correct syntax to describe scenarios to test backend applications.
If your ...
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What is normal communication when a developer moves a ticket to Ready for Test?
I have had a bit of ongoing debate and discussion with the developers on my team about the amount of information expected when a developer completes work on a ticket and passes it to QA.
We are an ...
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Can you get paid for reporting multiple bugs for a mobile app? [closed]
So I'm taking a QA course for my undergrad degree and we had to choose an app to test that we haven't used before. We already found several major bugs in the app and was wondering if the mobile app ...
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How to write technical documentation for Android Project? [closed]
I have created SRS document, and little Design document. Now, i am struggling to create Technical document which must be used as Reference for new developers when we assign update task to them. What ...
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visualizing the chronology of a discovery process
Meta: this is probably not a question for which there is a single, objective, best answer, but I'm going to ask it here anyway because it's applicable to our jobs and non-obvious.
I spent three ...
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What suggestions can people give about creating organized test cases?
Right now my company uses a large excel spreadsheet to create 'tests' for surveys we develop. Each column is one test through the survey. Each field is the answer you should choose. While this ...
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What is Bi-directional Traceability Matrix?
How is it different from a Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM)? Please explain with real life scenarios and examples. Also include or link reference material that might help!
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What software do you use to write release notes? [closed]
We want to move from MS Word to a web-based tool for our release notes.
What software do you use? Ideally, we want to use the same tool to track bugs and generate the Release Notes.
Thanks
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When creating a manual test script, can I reference other test scripts?
I need to write and execute some test scripts and provide evidence on a short time-frame. The basic scenario revolves around creating work requests in one system, and approving or rejecting them in ...
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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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Handling of Test Documents throughout Retests
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I'm currently doing development and tests for a Windows Desktop Application that plays together with some PLCs. One of my main tasks is to perform Functional Tests on a System Level for ...
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How to document my page object
What are some efficient and non-tedious ways to document my page objects?
What I first did was take screen shots of my screen and label each page object to its corresponding web element but this ...
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