Questions tagged [team]
Team is a group of people who work together to achieve the same goal.
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What to do if a QA tester mistakenly deleted a table from the QA Database?
QA tester mistakenly deleted a table from QA testing env database. Should this be a big deal?
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How can I easily transition from a Test Engineer to a QA Manager?
What skills are needed to manage a QA team in an organisation?
Till now in y professional career, I have just worked on the actual testing part of the application.
Now, I want to move to a role of ...
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Why do HTML IDs need to be unique?
It is considered a good practice to have unique IDs of HTML elements. HTML standard specifies so:
https://www.w3schools.com/htmL/html_id.asp
You cannot have more than one element with the same id in ...
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Focus on team or focus on app?
Given the following scenario:
a company is working on a complex product - multiple teams working on multiple connected apps/microservices, sometimes more than one team works on a single application
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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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What does the correct planning of the test team look like in the run-up to a project?
In my new project I have to put together a new test team. The PO would like to know from me in advance how I will carry out the planning in this regard.
The initial situation is as follows:
No test ...
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What does QA need to take into consideration while checking that tasks are valid
I'm the QA lead in my company, and as part of that I'm responsible for the quality of the TASKS that each engineer has.
What does it mean? I need to verify that each task/story/bug that assigned ...
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Training QA generalists
For us, QA generalists are roughly professionals who can work in the variety of quality assurance disciplines, have experience in a broad range of products, industries, and tools, have an ...
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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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Detecting observation skills during an interview
In our company, we think that some of the key skills for a tester are the attention to detail and observation skills, these are some of the major things we are looking for in the interviews.
What ...
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Who is responsible for pinpointing bugs?
Let's imagine this common situation: a tester creates an issue for a developer to fix, providing the steps to reproduce, screenshots and other details (if available). Then, a developer does not think ...
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Strategies to building up reputation as a software tester in a team
It is important to maintain good and productive professional relationship with the management, stakeholders and development team. Many things may depend on that, but, for this question, let's focus on ...
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How to deal with not motivated testers?
We have several "testers" who are involved in manual testing and test automation, but all of that part-time. Some of them are not really interested in testing and test automation as a field and lose ...
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Using test-cases, check-list as supporting stuff in development?
Our company is moving from waterfall to scrum.
So now testers and developers are really working together.
And there is an idea to use checklists and test-cases created by testers as stuff that will ...
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One repo or separate repos?
My organization is starting up an automation team, and we are still working on our structures and procedures.
We are using Git to store automation code, and we seem to be of two minds; some feel we ...
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What roles could a QA team have in a (currently) Dev-only hackathon day?
I'm new to QA, and within the first few weeks of starting my position, the developer team held a hackathon day.
I love the idea of hackathons, but me and my team just carried on doing day-to-day ...
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How to deal with a lead developer who questions every action or process suggested by QA lead?
This is a very specific question:
I am QA Lead with reports who are senior QA engineers. Half of my team is new.
I have more experience in terms of some of the SDLC processes followed in our company ...
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What are the key differences between the roles of Assistant Team Lead and Team Lead in Testing? [closed]
Recently I was interviewed for the role of Assistant team lead and the interviewer asked about the difference between the roles and responsibilities of an Assistant Team Lead and a Team Lead. I am ...
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What practices do you use to Test-infect your engineers?
Let me start with some contexts in the form of a quote from JUnit Test Infected: Programmers Love Writing Tests:
The Problem
Every programmer knows they should write tests for their code. Few do.
The ...
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Who is a tester in an Agile Team? [closed]
In an Agile world, would you consider all of the team members testers? Are they part of defining the quality of the software? How can a team member be a good agile tester in your mind? What are the ...
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Software testing awards/certification/recognition at Team/Company Level
We are looking for certifications / awards / recognition that are awarded to the whole testing team or the company. I am not looking for individual certifications like ISTQB, etc.
The purpose of ...
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Software Tester: experience first, formal skills then
There's a person with actual manual testing skills gained after countless testing of in-house software products [open that page, that page, and that page. Run test. Wait. Record results. Run ...
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Best practice when migrating bug trackers
I am working on migrating from a 14 year old in-house bug tracker to MantisBT. I see the new bug tracker as a way to get more organized about our dev, QA, and project management processes. Ideally, I ...
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Do DevOps pertain to QA departments?
A lot of software products have really fast production cycles and frequent releases, this need has created the DevOps position.
Looking that the tasks of a DevOps position have much in common with ...
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Is it OK to use the classes under test to initialize the database for the tests?
I am working at a small in-house dev department in a non-IT organisation. Me and another junior dev are creating a mid-sized CRUD web application in ASP MVC. There is no formal test process in our ...
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What does a QA Architect do in a team, and what skills are needed for this job?
I saw a job ad for a QA Architect. I realized that I don't know what is the role of QA Architect in a team.
So, what does a QA Architect do in a team and what skill does he need to have both in ...
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What are good resources for mentoring QAs/Testers?
In recent times, I have been doing a lot of reading about mentoring and recently came across an article on the importance of good mentors.
For the testing community, what are good resources (books, ...
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Competition ideas between test teams [closed]
In my office we have several test team. Recently our organization decided to keep competitions between test teams. I look forward for the ideas to improve ourselves and compete among us to show up our ...
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What would be the best roles and assignments for a developer in a QA team?
How can a developer that joins a QA team give the help that has the biggest impact and which are the best assignments for him that would most benefit the team?
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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 get global teams to test smoothly on a different parts of the system?
I would like to seek for your valued opinions.
How do you get global teams (such as US, China, Korea, Singapore, Europe and Australia) which work on and are responsible for different parts of the ...
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How does a tester decide how much debugging/investigation to do before handing an issue over to development?
A common question from the testers I mentor is "When do I stop investigating on an issue, log a defect with everything I've found/determined so far, and hand it over to dev?" I have yet to come up ...
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My team codes in one language, I want to test using another. What can go wrong?
The people I work with are .NET programmers that aren't exactly on the BDD/TDD bandwagon yet. I'm the main web designer, but for the past few months I've also been assigned the tester role as well (...
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How to QA the QA candidates... what should I look for in a QA person [closed]
I run a software development company, I am considering hiring a QA person, what are the traits I should look for in a candiate? And what are the traits I should avoid?
(extra credit for how you can ...
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What should you look for in a testing manager?
In some organizations, individual contributors have the opportunity to interview their prospective manager. What should testers look for in a testing manager?
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What are the pros and cons of a testing team having a lead vs having a manager?
Given that a lead (at least in my employer's view) would be a highly technically experienced person who also does administrative duties and a manager would be more experienced with management and less ...
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What are good metrics for a test team to use to start measuring their workload and ability to meet external deadlines?
The tester team where I work has a demanding customer base (we do business-to-business software, some of it ultimately public-facing, some business-facing), an application that's gone beyond anyone's ...
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What additional benefits does an software engineer bring to a QA position
I have noticed in the last few years that employers are now looking for QA/Developers (QA engineers that have been skilled developers).
I would like to know what others believe are the actually ...
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When is it OK not to have dedicated testers/QA team?
I noticed that there are no dedicated QAs in the stackexchange team.
Since they are indeed making an awesome product, I wonder: When is it possible to have an absence of dedicated quality assurance ...
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What kind of testing should a developer do before passing a build to the QA team?
As a developer my knowledge of best QA practices, etc., are limited to know just enough to get me by writing unit tests, etc.
From a tester's point of view, what testing procedures should the ...
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What factors should affect the ratio of QA/Test staff vs. App Developers
I've worked in a variety of environments with differing ratios of QA / SDET personnel vs. developers focused on building and maintaining application features.
Is there such a thing as a "right" ...
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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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How to deal with testers who do more than test
In my firm, we don't have testers, exactly. We have analysts who translate business requirements into specifications. (Think the guy from Office Space, except these guys actually provide some value. ...
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Should testers be worried about Quality Assurance? [closed]
In some companies, the testers are expected to do Quality Assurance.
In my opinion, this is not the way to go.
Testers normally don't have the mandate to push things thorugh on a higher level.
Because ...
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Should programmers run automated tests written by QA?
Perhaps programmers have their own unit tests, perhaps as the result of doing Test-Driven Development. They run these tests very often; perhaps every few minutes, but at least a few times each day.
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How do you tell a programmer they're not testing their own code enough?
Suppose you're working with bright programmer, but every time you test the code you find a serious, obvious bugs. Things the programmer could have noticed if they did their own testing before checking ...
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What are the key properties of a great QA team member?
Provided you are ready to hire your first (or next) QA team member, what are the key properties of a person you will pay attention to?