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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How should a Software Tester deal with missed Defects/bugs in Production?
I work as a QA/test engineer in a small software company. It is an e-commerce based product. I was assigned a few projects by my manager. I mostly do functional/blackbox testing. Before the production ...
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Can a Manual Tester survive in software industry without learning Automation?
I mean to say is that if I dislike coding and don't understand complex code, then will I be able to survive as a QA. Or do I need to learn test automation to grow position and pay in my career, as I ...
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What should Testers do if they are not able to find good defects in the product?
I work as manual/black-box tester. My responsibility primarily includes functional testing of a web application and to some extent database testing using sql server, based on the functional ...
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If a problem only occurs randomly once in every N times on average, how many tests do I have to perform to be certain that it's now fixed?
I know that you can never be 100% sure, but is there a method to determine an appropriate number of tests?
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Should Testers first discuss a bug with the developers before writing a bug report?
In my previous project, whenever the QA team used to find bugs/defects, they used to communicate the problem/issue to the developer sitting next to them, verbally. In this approach, most of the time, ...
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How to write a test plan
I am new to "Test Plan Writing" and I want to learn how to write test plan.
As a beginner, what do I need to understand and learn first to write quality/effective test plan?
What would you suggest?
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What's the difference between a good test and a bad test?
Please don't burn me for this simple question. I know, it may be very simple but for me it's complicated.
"A Good Test" or "A Bad Test" - every tester comes across these two terms.
Sometimes it ...
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How to explain the concept of test automation to a team that only knows manual testing?
I have been working as a QA in our 9 developer team for about a year. Had lots of 'firsts' within the year between personal and professional life. I replaced a QA who only did manual testing and ...
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Why do many jobs describe automation but then require extensive manual testing?
The question somewhat stems from 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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Typical software & tools short-list for *manual* QA specialist (tester) working environment
For QA workstations preparation (Windows-based PCs) our IT department uses typical batch deployment tools. I'm not at all interested in the details of such process, but IT guys ask me:
What typical ...
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How can developers be assured that their software is fault free?
For example when creating software for critical real time applications, like those used in aviation, how certain are you that it's going to run without problems? Are you 100% certain or are you >90% ...
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When writing manual test cases and scripts, how much detail is too much detail when documenting the steps?
One of the things that I try to balance when writing out test scripts for manual testing is trusting that the person executing the test (which may not always be me) is reasonably competent to know how ...
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What should a Software Tester do to become more valuable and helpful for the Development Team?
When I write detailed defect descriptions or bug reports, then my team's Development manager feels satisfied. What are few things a blackbox tester can do to help the Developers become more productive ...
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What if the software is so buggy it can't really be tested at all?
I know the best bet in this situation is for the testers to go through the process of reporting blocking-type problems initially show up, with the focus being on critical bugs. Since, this type of ...
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How to deal with automation naysayers?
In my team, there are a number of experienced QA people. I work mostly on developing tools to make the QA process easier for these guys, such as developing test automation.
The uptake has been slow, ...
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Does simply running the code during development mean 'Testing'?
I'm a reasonably inexperienced developer, and I recently got into a debate with the manager of our current project.
It's a concept demonstration for trial funded internally by our company. After ...
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How can I be sure that rarely reproduced issue is fixed?
I have a bug that is rarely reproduced, in about 1 case out of 5 attempts (20% reproducibility). Developers made a new version with the fix. How many times do I need to run a test to be sure that the ...
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Capture screen during exploratory testing
While doing exploratory testing it would be nice to be able to record the screen (in a non-intrusive way), so if a defect is found the steps to reproduce it can be easily reviewed.
Are there any good ...
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Is software testing different when we are dealing with game development?
I was reading this paper about the differences between software development in general and game development and the authors made some good points regarding software testing, pointing out, for instance,...
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Manual testing is better than Automation testing. Is that true?
With manual testing, you don't need to buy software automation tools or write scripts.
Automated tests are robotic and don’t necessarily act as a real would user. On the other hand, manual testing ...
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What benefit does having developer experience or background have on the effectiveness of a tester?
One thing that I've benefited from in my testing career is that I do have some knowledge of software development coding methods and concepts. While I probably could not code my way out of a paper bag ...
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Does automating your manual tests give you good automated tests?
I notice that the tag wiki for the "automated testing" tag contains the following sentence: "Commonly, test automation involves automating a manual process already in place that uses a formalized ...
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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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One of my team members executed security test without any consent
One of my team members, when deployed at a customer's site, executed a password attack against the customer's database. As a result, this customer's database was locked down for 30 minutes.
Now ...
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How to report a bug that has no technical solution?
When we were testing a project, which would require an Excel sheet as an input. The only validating mechanism of this whole file importing process was offered by Excel macro (validate against inputs' ...
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Transition from all manual testing to automated testing
Right now my company only does manual testing. We've talked about starting some automated testing for a while but it hasn't taken off at all. It seems like automated testing would be a good way to ...
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What are general tips to test a static website?
One of the NGO which work for the children welfare ask me to test their website. That's a completely static website on the single page simple navigation toward the section so I need general tips to ...
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What is the difference between sanity and smoke testing?
When there is a new build we perform smoke testing,in few projects they call it as sanity testing. Can someone please elaborate on the difference between the both?
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What would be the strategy when too many bugs are found in the final round of testing?
The QA team starts testing a software/product and there are “way too many” defects…!
Every other scenario is failing, new flows are explored & clarifications sought.
What would be the strategy now?...
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How can a Software Tester use "Out of the Box" thinking approach to find more bugs?
Well, I am a black-box tester and I don't think out of the box.
I just think about happy paths, thus I want to improve.
I always read that testers should have great critical, analytical skills and ...
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Should bugs found by exploratory test methods be taken against QA?
Should "unplanned" test cases be taken against QA's metrics in the organisation?
For context: there is an established process during the development life cycle where the development team and ...
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Can we replace everything with automation or do we need manual testing? [duplicate]
I have seen arguments that we should automate all our tests, and I have seen arguments that manual testing is necessary.
I don't know which one to believe. Is it even possible to automate all tests? ...
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Is it good practice to write unit tests when features are changed frequently?
Should I write the unit test cases for a frequently changing product?
For example: I start the project with Phase 1 (say it's 6 months long) and I know there will be a phase 2 (3-4 months or more) ...
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Testing a web application that sends activation link to newly added users
I have to add new users in a web application. Users need valid email addresses and users are activated by clicking activation link sent to their emails. As I have to add dozens of users so I cannot ...
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How to obtain "fresh mind" results?
I noticed that when you start on a project with a beginner mind (for that particular product) you have a fresh approach and start noticing a lot of bugs.
After a while and some experience with that ...
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Why do medium to large companies not adopt test automation?
Is test automation simply not a right fit for some medium/large organisations, regardless of whether they "care" or not and assuming it can be applied there? What are the most common reasons for this?
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Difference between requirement, use case, and scenario?
I've taken a class on software testing best practices and test design. In the content, they have a model that basically shows that the three items are derived in this way:
Requirements > Use case &...
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Gamification in software testing
Is there a place for gamification in software testing? Could it be made as a part of a regular testing process and could it have a positive impact on productivity and quality?
I've been thinking ...
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How should a tester deal with a bug found in production?
In my previous project, I was working as a black-box/manual tester. My major responsibilities were performing function testing, executing regression suites, running smoke tests etc. I was testing a ...
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What is the Real Business Value of Software Testing in an IT Project?
I work as a manual tester on a big project. My project follows Agile methodology. I test a Web-based application. I sometimes ask myself, am I giving any value to the stakeholders?
What is the Real ...
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Do we use/need test cases in Agile?
In our organization, we are implementing Agile. Right now, we start with the test as soon as we receive stories and never go for the test cases. We test the stories on the basis of acceptance criteria....
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How can I isolate bugs of users that we are not able to replicate?
I am having a recurring problem where bugs are cropping up once or twice in a build, and are reported by users but I and my team are not able to replicate them.
What techniques do you use to ...
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Testing in Open Source Projects
This is a bit of a general question. I'm trying to practice my testing skills and perhaps get some better experience with manual testing mature applications. In particular, I'm interested in desktop ...
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What is a good KPI for software QA?
How can you measure the efficiency of the QA team?
What KPIs would you set up?
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How do you test a backend API?
I was applying for QA position and the SDET asked me this question:
How do you test a backend API?
In the interview.
I wasn't sure I answered it correctly. Just wondering if I can get some input ...
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The test team as an enemy of development? And how can this be avoided?
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Forming a Scrum team should include all the skills necessary to develop a user story in order to deliver a potentially deliverable product increment with each sprint.
In traditional ...
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Should username/login ID be case-sensitive?
I need to know what is the standard rule for creating username/login ID. Should it be case-sensitive? If I have successfully created three accounts (user2, useR2, USER2), should I consider this a bug?
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Is Selenium the right tool for browser compatibility testing?
I have been seeing a lot of customers pushing for browser compatibility testing using Selenium. Was wondering whether this is really necessary. The push is mostly due to Selenium grid supporting multi ...
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When can we say a product is stable?
From a tester's point of view when do we say that a product is stable?
Is the product still stable when it contains a known bug?
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What to do when a bug is fixed, unfixed and fixed
A blocker bug I raised last week had been fixed and ready for re-testing.
This morning, I re-tested it, it passed and subsequently closed.
In the afternoon, by accident, I noticed this feature was ...
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