Questions tagged [manual-testing]
Can also be described as "interactive testing" - used for any question involving testing performed by humans or with human intervention.
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Rest API and resources validation from QA perspective
In the current project, let "toys" be the category and "gun" be the product. The ID for the toys category is 2 and ID for the gun product is 1.
The URI for categories is /api/v1/categories/<...
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Need ideas/suggestions for validating test cases for a large web application
I'm currently testing a web application that has 300+ test cases. I'm doing manual validation only. How to prioritize them and to make sure I'm covering 100%?
I'm also validating the reports page ...
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Difference between Corner Case Testing, Boundary Case Testing and Edge Case Testing
Can someone explain difference between Corner Case Testing, Boundary Case Testing and Edge Case Testing with an example.
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I started working as a Manual Tester in an IT firm. What practices should Iapply to be a good tester? [duplicate]
I need some guidance regarding how I can make sure of the quality of that product.
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Difference between Accessibility Testing and Usability Testing?
Both terms Accessibility Testing and Usability Testing seems similar.
Are they both same? Or is there any difference between Accessibility Testing and Usability Testing?
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Is it important to know manual testing before learning test automation?
Is it important to know manual testing before starting to learn how to do test automation?
Test automation is a part of testing activity, so obviously you need to be aware of testing concepts and ...
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What is shoulder checkin in software testing?
I had an interview and they asked me about shoulder checking.
This is the first time I heard this term. Share your knowledge on this topic.
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Regression Testing: Set Proper Test Boundry After a Bug Fix or Refactor
Let's say a developer fixed a bug or refactor a component which can affect many places in the application. As a tester how do you define the scope of the regression tests so you don’t miss any bad ...
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What are the scopes of API testing
I am testing few API endpoints of a product and there are many observations like:
Server response with 500 error if the application content type is JSON instead of form data.
Different endpoints ...
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Writing test cases for a test with repetitive test steps
I have a task where I need to test payment through different payment methods (31 methods). What is the best practice in writing test cases with repetitive test steps? Should I just use "Repeat steps 1-...
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How do I execute/test a large set of test cases with limited time and resources?
We have a large set of test cases but limited time and resources to execute/test them all. We thought but it's not possible to execute/test everything.
I want to know strategies which will be ...
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How to integrate 4 QA engineers into 4 dev (Scrum) teams?
In the Product Team I work in, the engineering resources look as follows:
4 dev teams (4-5 members each), each team with a dedicated Product Owner
1 QA team (4 members)
Approach 1:
Currently, the ...
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Is there an effective tool for organizing or salvaging test suites in Azure DevOps Test Labs?
I am having a lot of trouble making heads or tails of our test cases that existed prior to my on boarding. A third party vendor took all of our test suites from TFS and dumped them into a single test ...
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Can't able to print the failure Message in Jmeter if API request getting fail
I tried the multiple API hits on the server through Jmeter and save the result data in the file but some how I cant print the failure Message in the file, any body helps me how to print the failure ...
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How to write good test scenarios?
Scenario 1: As a admin i want to verify pet owner names won't ask by IVR assistance < Pet Owner number register in PMS DB >
Description: weather user call for give IVR number while connecting IVR ...
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What are the important features to use with Selenium IDE? [closed]
I am an intern and was assigned to be a Software Tester.
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Which document is used for post deployment and what is its name/content?
Which document is used for post deployment or what is the name of that document.
And what things does this document include?
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How should a Software Tester deal with missed Defects/bugs in release [duplicate]
I work as a QA/test engineer in a small software company. It is a web based product. I was assigned a few projects by my manager. I mostly do functional/black-box testing. Before the release, I tested ...
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How do we react as a real users while testing the web application
Any ideas and suggestions to test web applications as a real user perspective. The reason while asking this question is while doing UI testing we are more concentrating on the functionality for the ...
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Why do many jobs describe automation but then require extensive manual testing?
The question somewhat stems from a frustration after seeing recent trends in software testing jobs -
In Job Description, automation skills are given utmost priority. All the interview rounds will be ...
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Testing REST - submitting a web-form. Identifying why the server responses with 500 for some emails and for some - 200
The troubled email is teststudent12@skyeng.ru, the URL is https://junior.skyeng.ru/online-uroki-po-matematike/ (form is placed almost at footer).
The website to test is in Russian. If you want to ...
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How to effectively document exploratory testing sessions for future re-use without slowing down?
Background: On using exploratory testing heavily complimenting automated testing , where every tester documents his/her observations in individual personal ways in fast timebox sessions which is ...
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How to test a system alone with very little experience?
I have little experience with testing and I'm being hired to work on a team where I am the only tester. I'm struggling to find the best approach for the process. Being alone should I write down a test ...
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Overcoming Cultural Differences with off-shore people
starting position
At the moment I have different test teams at my disposal who work on different continents or who accompany my project like now in India.
I have noticed a wide variety of ...
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Are there more agile testing techniques like test jumpers, mob testing etc.?
In our project we want to move away from the regular testing methods (e.g. ISTQB specification based testing) and we want to expand our testing technique with agile testing techniques. Who knows agile ...
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How can I measure how effective my testing is? What metrics should I use?
I am working as SQA and mostly do smoke testing and regression testing manually. But I think it is consuming more time and I am not certain about if it's completely tested or not.
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Difference between Test coverage and RTM?
What is difference between Test coverage and Requirement traceability matrix?
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User Acceptance Testing with Single sign on enabled
our client want to test the system, UAT. But they have a single sign-on implemented. They want 1 single person to log in as 4 different users on their machine to perform UAT? But I assume single sign-...
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Usability testing vs UX testing.What is the difference?
I khow that UX - How user feels about using a product. UI-how easy it is to use a product and how convenient is a product to end user.
Is it the same or not?
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Does the test and test tooling differ from Magento to other test tools or solutions?
I am on my way to one of my next Magento projects. Currently there is no test environment, no test days, no concepts or test plans. Even a team has to be set up first.
I have already worked a lot in ...
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Why use an API test if I can get the same information from the website?
Why should I check the server response by using a GET call through an API if I already have a button on the site with the functionality to call the same method?
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How can I test some feature in all major mobile devices(android, apple etc) in minimal amount of time?
Someone asked me what strategy will you follow to test some important features of your application before prod release so that it will work on almost all the mobile devices?
I gave Suggestions like:
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Testing earring [closed]
Here is my check list for testing earring.
Manual testing
Verify that skin will discolor (a black or green color)
if the gold isn’t real.
Genuine gold will not react with the skin.
Automated
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JNLP file can harm ur computer warning of chrome using Selenium Java. Tried 3 options but none working
My goal is to download .jnlp file which is considered as a harmful file by chrome.
So, i have thought 2-3 solutions for this. I am using Chrome 76 version and i dont want to downgrade the chrome ...
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When a non-important “step” fails, should the TC fail too?
Let's say you are testing a calculation done by function X.
The test case looks like this:
Open the menu and select F X
Confirmation dialog appears
Function screen appears
Enter 10 and hit ENTER - ...
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Where can I get experience(volunteer) as a software Tester?
I am new to software testing. I want to gain some experience and exposure in it, so, I was looking for an opportunity to gain skills.
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Test if an API Service is available
I'm creating a test suite for a test that should check that a specific API Service is available. So I'm confused on exactly how I can check the availability of a service. Is it sufficient to only ...
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Trying to isolate if the application is sluggish or if it's a network congestion issue
I'm trying to nail down why our application is sluggish at certain times. The application sometimes is zippy almost instantaneous and other times it is slow as molasses. The application is run on a ...
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Are there generally accepted standards for frequency of bugs?
Are there any sort of general standards, levels or percentages for how many issues should be reopened due to a bug being found during testing?
Of course this will vary but I am looking for a general ...
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Which browsing mode is better for Web App Testing? Incognito mode or Normal mode?
I have a web app for testing. Can someone tell which browsing mode(Incognito/Normal) is better?
What are pros and cons of testing Web App in Incognito mode and Normal mode?
My mentor advises to use ...
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How to write manual test cases for complex calculations
How do I write test cases for an application which consists of complex mathematical formula?
For example, suppose a user wants to calculate total cost and values coming from more than 3 or 4 modules/...
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Benchmarking web page performance
I currently work in QA at a small software company that develops web based training software. Most of the work I do is manual usability testing but recently I've been tasked with performance testing ...
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How to test the content in a Japanese language website?
We are migrating the existing japanese website and relaunching in our company platform. I need to do the content testing in the migrated site. Please help me how to verify the Japanese content with ...
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Structuring of a test strategy paper (Review)
The first step is not to create a test plan, but a strategy paper which should provide basic information about the planning of a new concept.
Since I am here with a customer who needs information for ...
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ISTQB question clarification (determination of tests in the program)
Analyze the following highly simplified procedure:
Ask: "What type of ticket do you require, single or return?"
IF the customer wants "return"
Ask: "What rate, Standard or Cheap-day?"
IF ...
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Staging Environment with API Gateway Environment
Short description
My current test scenario is about designing a test staging environment that is addressed via an API gateway. We chose WSO2. They already have corresponding test frameworks on board, ...
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Testing Real World Objects - Interview
I have a Junior QA interview coming up, and I was asked to learn the basics of Selenium. I have done this through free tutorials. I am fine with the Selenium concepts, but I was told I would be asked ...
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What books or sites you recommend for learning how to create the best testing strategy for a product?
I work for a very complex and configurable product and I need to improve testing strategy for it. I dont want to deep dive into each of numerous test cases created for it before - instead I want to ...
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What is the name of use case of this type
Say there is feature that is accessible to different users using that they can submit the application if there is one unique id.
I have logged in as user-01 in one browser and clicked on the
feature ...
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How to write meaningful test case title in TestNG+Selenium
When writing manual test cases, the test case title used to be something like
TC1: Verify that the user is able to login to facebook and react using
heart.
When trying to automate the scenario ...
