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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Is there a test management tool that I can associate tests with multiple projects?
I'm looking for a test management tool (mainly for manual testing), that would allow me to associate tests with multiple projects.
We're a consulting firm that has many clients with different ...
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Please suggest some ideas to test an IVR system?
I have to test an DTMF tones via keypad with toll free number, which has a company IVR automated response system. The IVR allows the user to login to the system and user can know account balance, talk ...
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Smoke test vs Sanity test vs Regression test vs Re-Test
After a few years in software testing journey I have faced several testing types but when deal with manager's question like "Do we have to do Smoke/Sanity/Regression/Re-Test to ensure quality of ...
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How to do more effective database testing?
I am testing a financial web-based application having the back-end built on SQL Server. As far as DB testing is concerned, I test simply whether any value/input entered in the UI application is saved ...
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Tools similar to Google BITE = Browser Integrated Testing Environment and in browser manual testing aids?
I read through How Google Tests Software and was quite curious about the BITE project. The main idea is to reduce friction in manual testing by allowing the following to be done without leaving the ...
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How to handle client if you found a high severity defect on the release date?
Suppose the product/application has to deliver to the client at 5.00 P.M, at that time you or your team member caught a high Severity defect at 3.00 P.M (Remember the defect is high severity), but the ...
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Feature branch testing before code is merged?
I am a QA professional working for a team which is planning to create feature branches for developers to implement independent features. We had a debate if Testing on each feature branch should be ...
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Should only Software Testers be blamed for serious production defects?
I work as QA engineer whose responsibility is primarily testing the functionality of a financial web application and database testing to some extent.
I have miss some critical defects in the past ...
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What to do if a Software Tester is constantly missing Defects/bugs in Production?
We had a software tester in our QA team that had been reporting a lot of issues, but most of them were low-priority visual bugs, browser-specific behavior bugs, sophisticated (but with low probability ...
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Should testers have access to view developers code? What are pros and cons of this?
I am working as a manual and automation tester for a financial company.
Testers in my company don't have access to the source code of our applications, we have limited access rights to our version ...
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Where to find Beta-Testers
New to the site. Please let me know if this question is out of the scope of this forum, and if there is a better place to post it.
I have developed many applications both in a production environment ...
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Difference between Test case, Test specification, Test procedure and Test design?
I have researched this question on the web, but still don't understand the difference clearly.
please help! thanks.
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How can I test a user story? Examples please?
I'm a new QA tester in a company in an Agile environment. During the sprint commit I was told that one of my tasks was going to be testing user stories. How exactly do you test something like that? If ...
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Is there a name for these kinds of tests?
In our company we have established some rule that from time to time (once a week or every few days) the whole team spends half an hour of testing their own software in its current state. We ...
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How to plan both manual & automated testing in 2 weeks sprint?
After finishing writing manual test cases (lets say in 3 days) we submit to PO(Product Owner) for review.
Now my question is, when to start manual testing and how (Might be based on our manual test ...
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What is the difference between big bang and top down approach in Integration testing?
I've read lots of articles on the internet but still having confusion, what really happens in both of them and what is the difference between them ?
Could someone please elaborate with a real time ...
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What is the best way to start & perform Exploratory Testing?
In traditional testing follow a fairly simple model in which there are test cases written beforehand for all the possible use cases and then after the test cases are final, they are executed & ...
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How do I get an automation testing job without experience?
I've been working as a manual QA for a couple of years.
I want to get an automation position. I took Java courses at a local college, I practiced, I learned Selenium, and I'm fairly confident I can ...
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What is Scenario Testing and how to create complex test scenario's?
Is there any general approach or methodology to create complex user scenarios for any application or is it completely context-driven.
Are there some general test ideas/patterns/strategies to create ...
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What is the sense of having a monkey tester execute your test script?
In our organization project managers are responsible for writing manual tests scripts that are to be executed later by testers. However, we found hard to find the right level of details. The right ...
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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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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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Zephyr vs Xray vs TestRail
We are thinking of implementing a test management tool for our test cases which are currently in Excel sheets. So far we have zeroed in on these three tools. Some of the features we are looking for ...
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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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How to write automation when test engineers are constantly pulled to do manual testing?
The scenario:
Scrum team consists of more developers than testers
Stories revolve around 80% of testing tasks
Why so much testing?
There are asks of E2E testing for several user flows; regression ...
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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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Internal Acceptance Test (not automated): How long should it take?
Given that each test environment is different, is there a general rule of thumb as to how long an internal manual acceptance test should take?
Definitions / clarification:
Where I came from, when we ...
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How can a software tester improve their note-taking skills while doing exploratory testing?
Should we take notes in a simple text file or should we take it in a fancy Excel sheet?
How can we take effective notes that can be helpful while revisiting a testing module or application?
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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 to further expand knowledge in Software QA?
I recently passed the ISTQB Foundation Level exam and even though I did pretty well in the exam I have the feeling that I haven’t learned much at all except maybe some basic concepts and a few ...
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What are the main role and responsibilities of a tester?
I am new to this field and I have decided my career as software tester. What are the role and responsibilities as a software tester?
According to my assumption:
Analyzing the Requirements from the ...
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How can I test Web service without any automation tool and only using manual
I am a manual tester and my responsibility is the web, mobile application testing in which I need to test a web service but I have not used any automation tools yet.
Please suggest me a manual way to ...
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what is difference between Test Cases and Test Scripts?
I know that test cases are written in human readable language, whereas test scripts are written in code and mostly done for automated testing.
But can anyone tell me what else make them different ...
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How to test dynamic GPS location in mobile
How to test my application for GPS location without travelling in real-time?
Problem behind my query :
I am in need to test a travel-based application where your location will change according to the ...
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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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Importance of test automation experience to advancing in QA departments
I am a test engineer with about 7 years of work experience. I am not an computer science / engineering graduate. I have done a post graduate conversion course that included a good mix of software ...
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How to create test plan when there is one website and one tester
I want to create a test plan for one website which is of medium size. I have got many test plan templates from the internet but those are too lengthy and perfect for testing team and big websites.
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Deployment Testing
What kind of things should be looked at after you have deployed a new system? So far I can think of the following:
Things to check:
a) Check it deploys to right folder: Open machine where build ...
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What is the difference between Gold bug and Latent bug?
There are two different bugs, Gold and Latent. Both exists in application from (lets say) Sprint 1. I would be thankful if you could tell me the difference between Gold bug and Latent bug?
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Want to switch from software development to testing domain
I have 4 years of experience in software development. But I did software manual testing more than software development. I am good in finding tough functionality related bugs.
I have passion for ...
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Name for exploratory "role play" testing?
Our company produces a business-to-business software which is (more or less) a social network for companies.
Every now and then, we organize some kind of "Role Play session" for testing the software. ...
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Which testing process will be good to start building a new product? [closed]
Your company is started building a new product and they are hired you as a Sr. QA position for this new product.
As of the companies expectation you have to work on both manual and automation (...
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Tips to test product in the production environment?
A lot of experience people says that testing in production is the worst but I observe in testing that a lot of time a few bugs a reproducible only on any one specific environment(like dev, QA, staging,...
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Ethical Hacking career options for qa professionals
As a test engineer or QA engineer it is very important to have at least one of the Software testing certifications. This will help to broaden the software testing knowledge, also helpful for testing ...
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How to Reduce the Technical Debt of 1000 manual test cases?
I want my team to move away from manual testing as much as possible. As part of that I want us to automate around 1000 manual test cases. Some of these tests are for legacy features, which don't even ...
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How can we reduce Test Cycle time using manual test execution?
I'm working on a project where we will not use test automation in this starting stage, at least not until first stable build is released. As we are executing test cases manually, I need your help and ...
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How do I train a new manual tester?
We're looking to promote one of our customer service agents into a testing role. Right now they roughly go through our deploys in a staging environment prior to it going live. They've requested more ...
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How in depth should test plans be in agile environments?
I am currently working in a small agile team and I am trying to decide if a test plan is worth creating or if it is then what to include. Currently working on a story that I believe could do with some ...
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Testing techniques repository?
I was wondering if there are any repositories or wikis of formal testing techniques - test design ideas, like pairwise or boundary. I couldn't find one so far.
Thanks!
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Difference in Web Services & REST/SOAP API from Black-box Tester perspective
I have practically tested web-services/APIs (testing back-end requests of mobile apps, JMeter scripting for a web-application) but when it comes to differentiating between web-services/APIs(REST/SOAP) ...
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