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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What are the challenges around the integration of Manual and Automated Tests?
This is more a request for your professional opinion than a question...
We are seeing how test automation is spreading to more and more organizations. This in itself is a good thing, but at the same ...
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What is component testing and how to write component test cases?
I am new to testing. I would like to know:
What is component testing?
How do I write component test cases?
Please explain with examples if possible to make it more helpful for me to understand.
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I'm having trouble bridging theory with practical in software testing
Day before yesterday while chatting my friend(also a tester) he raised the topic theory vs practical in testing.
His points of concern were that by theory software testing has phases like planning, ...
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How to test a product without domain knowledge?
We have one product to test but we don't have the resource who have the domain knowledge of the specific field my company don't want to lose the client as it a breakthrough for the company & we ...
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Pair-testing with a candidate during an interview
Would it be a good idea to have an interview in a format of a paired exploratory testing session with a candidate on a manual/automated testing position? A thing under test might be an internal web ...
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Test for unknown issues
We have been developing wifi/2g boards that communicate to a server and store data.
This project has been running for several years already, and we are constantly updating both boards' firmware and ...
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Most productive onboarding for a new tester
We've been going through onboarding procedures with multiple people that were becoming a part of our QA team throughout the history of our company. During these times we usually try to meet with a new ...
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How can I spoof HTTP request data while testing?
I'm testing a Windows desktop application, that requests data from a server during certain operations. I want to make sure the application can handle all possible responses, including bad ones.
What ...
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Test Case Management Software
I currently write automated tests using WebDriver/Selenium 2 and utilize the Page Object model. I'd like to start documenting manual tests but our current process is only creating test cases in MS ...
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Any good references on Privacy Testing?
I heard a reference to Privacy testing recently (James Whittaker mentioned it here.) and it seems like a valuable area to know something about. It's extremely important these days as companies balance ...
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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 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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Whose responsibility is it to design test cases?
The question: Is it the developer's responsibility to design test cases, or the QA tester's? Or is it someone else's?
I am a software engineer at a small company in the United States. We have an ...
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How can I switch from manual testing to writing automation?
I am working hourly for low wage as a QA intern/tester. I want to learn more about this field. I have already graduated, so everything I have learned is self taught or learned somehow on the job. At ...
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When can a QA tester start their job?
According to SDLC Process, testing by QA testers only stars at 'Testing' phase. Is that saying before 'Testing' phase, QA testers have no work to do.
When can a tester actually start his/her job ?
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Is there a guide for systematic way of writing test scenarios?
Are there best practices in coming up with effective test scenarios? Are there documented test scenarios that can be reused across different systems?
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Heuristics for identifying "one-time" tests?
I understand the importance of having good "regression tests" to ensure fixed bugs don't get reintroduced. But I think it's possible to go too far and end up with a massive "regression test suite" for ...
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How many test steps are allowed in a single manual test case?
I have been writing Test Cases for half a year as of now. My question is: How many test steps are allowed only in one test case? For example more than 6 steps is not allowed or depends on ...
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How to deal with or prevent idle in the test team?
I'm currently in two scrum projects. The team consists of 9 people (5 developers, 3 testers). We work with user stories, story point estimates and two-week sprints. The team has received a great deal ...
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Good practices for finding valid issues in exploratory testing?
We've noticed that free-style exploratory testing is oftentimes a better source of new previously undiscovered issues. But, from time to time, I see our testers spending hours in a row in "free" ...
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Signal to noise ratio during early testing
The Context
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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Strategies and Techniques for Exploratory Testing and finding new bugs?
From what I understand, "Exploratory Testing" is about free-style testing that largely depends on creativity of the testers and how well they know the product or feature under test. It is something ...
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What is exact difference between TDD and BDD?
What is exact difference between TDD and BDD? Could you please briefly explain them to me?
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Testing with no QA team in an agile development environment
I'm currently working on a small team of a few developers, but even a small team of productive developers can develop a lot of functionality in one iteration (2 weeks in our case). We don't have a QA ...
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What are some Invalid data inputs that will break a text box?
I am testing an web-based enterprise application created in Asp.Net. I am testing a text box which accepts alpha-numeric character and maximum 255 chars.
Apart from normal boundary values, nulls, ...
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How to answer interview question “You find a major bug, but no developers are present. What do you do?"
At my last job interview, I was asked:
You find a major bug, but no developers are present. The release deadline is today. What do you do?
It's not a difficult question, but it can be answered in ...
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What is the difference between Software Test Engineer, Test Automation Engineer and Software Developer in Test (SDET)?
Software Test Engineer usualy performs “manual” testing (without spending time on automating and supporting the tests). Usually is responsible to find all (as more as possible) critical bugs in the ...
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Ideal size for a QA team
We've been growing as a company and with it the development, QA, DevOps and other teams.
I could not help but notice that with each new addition to our QA team, our meetings are becoming longer and, ...
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Should Software Testers say that functionality is "working fine" or should they say that "it seems/appears to working fine or looks good"?
As a blackbox tester, while giving my testing status to the management, i usually refrain from saying that a particular feature, enhancement of defect is "working fine" and say that it seems/appear to ...
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How to stay motivated when you don’t like the products you’re testing?
I work in a very great team which are aware of testing and everyone is great to work with. But I have a problem though. I don't have the interest in the domain I am working. At the beginning, I had to ...
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How to plan security testing of a web application?
Security testing requires thinking out of the box, it noes not have clear test cases, and it is not repeatable, meaning running same set of actions over and over again will never assure security.
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How can QA honestly identify their own strengths and weaknesses?
As a QA, I think of myself as being a bit above average in my field. I get paid well, I get promotions, & I never had any problem getting a good job.
I am fortunate enough to meet with new people ...
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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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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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What to do when defect is found in production but not during the QA phase?
In one of my interviews, I was asked this question What to do when the defect is found in production but not during the QA phase?
I answered it this way:
Check for impact on the system. And if is of ...
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Test Data Bank creation: approach, important points, useful links, data generators, file storages?
Being Senior QA, I often face one and the same problem: for every project I'm involved in I need to prepare / collect / generate various sort of testing data. It might be VERY different - below are ...
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Why is separating functional and non-functional test important (or not)?
There have been several questions lately along the lines of "Is X a functional or non-functional type of testing?". Although I understand the distinction, it's never been an important distinction for ...
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Security testing of web application
I am a manual tester with limited knowledge of how to code. How to approach the security testing of a web site. Are there any good tools/sites/docs/ or classes preferably for security testing where i ...
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What can be done if requirements are changing continuously in Agile?
If requirements are likely to change frequently during development. Although a complete change in requirement is possible, most of the time, it is the technical details that are subject to change. e.g....
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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 manual regression testing an technical debt for agile teams aiming for continuous delivery?
Background: Following are not my assumptions or expectations but in my last couple of interactions with different project teams, I am seeing these patterns where it is expected (from testing by the ...
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What are some small, standalone or web applications for test new QA staff on?
I'm permanently stuck with the following trouble: being Senior QA I need to quickly check and hire people for short-time testing projects.
I specialize mostly in manual testing, while the range of ...
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What are the test cases or test scenarios for palindrome?
In an interview, the interviewer asked me to write test cases or test scenarios to check if the input/string is a palindrome.
I told them one positive test case and another negative test cases. But ...
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How to prevent cheating by manual testers?
I'm the guy who is motivated to bring some quality assurance into our team. The problem is, that our developers very often hate testing and even if they have a test protocol, not all of them are ...
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So I have missed a BUG and passed a test case
I have been working on a new project for the past couple of months. The last three weeks of testing prior to release were super intense, and as I was the only QA on project, I have been working ...
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What is the role of QA in testing an application having MicroServices architecture?
I have to test a software application which will be developed in Microservices architecture. What are the difference in testing an application developed using Microservices architecture rather than a ...
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Testing without direction, how not to miss things? What about layout?
So this might sound like a "complain" post but it really isn't meant to be. But often-times I will be handed a project, lets say a Website. And be told to give it a "Full run through".
So I take a ...
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Smoke testing by Dev team
The QA manager in our organization is demanding that our dev team, which I am the manager of, do the smoke testing after we set up the testing environment and before the QA team begins testing, i.e. ...
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Will doing only Manual testing affect my QA career in the long run?
I test a web application for my clients. I only do the black-box functional testing. I don't do any automation as there are other testers hired for that. I just log defects in a tool manually. Also I ...
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Agile Tester vs Traditional Tester...........?
What is the Difference in Role of a Traditional Manual Tester, who works in a waterfall based Project and that of an Agile tester, who works in an Agile based Project?
My project has started to ...
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