Questions tagged [test-design]
Use for questions about designing tests, specifically selecting test techniques to use in specific circumstances.
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ORM validation and testing
Writing a web application we have many places where validation takes (or potentially could take) pace: - front-end application form - front-end application service - back-end application view function ...
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Designing an open source test framework without compromising security
Context
The robot framework website mentions robotframework-autoitlibrary in
its external library listing and it points to
http://code.google.com/p/robotframework-autoitlibrary/.And I found a
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Prepare data for groups of test cases
I am going to have a family of test cases that are going to work on a single data set. This data set needs to be loaded into a database as an initial step which is shared between all the test cases.
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What is the correct way to writing e2e tests?
I have a task do create e2e for a web app, but I don't know what is the correct way to do it. For example: In app there is a possibility to add new employee, so the scenario is:
Login to application(...
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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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For which purposes, projects and teams, test cases and checklists are better compared to each other? [closed]
I was wondering which advantages and disadvantages test cases and checklists have compared to each other. For which teams and projects each option is better?
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How to Create Test Scripts for UAT that focus on Business Process?
I am creating a Test Scripts for our UAT but I always ended up doing a test case that looks like a System test scripts. Is it ok to have another test case in a test case since I am validating that the ...
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What is Test Automation Framework?
I am a complete beginner in Test Automation and could not find a good answer on the web.
Some automation engineers use an underlying automation framework as a jar dependency in their selenium web ...
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API tests against production DB with no endpoints to set up test data
I'm creating regression tests for one of our APIs. I'd like to discuss how to go about it in my particular situation.
I have no problem on the dev environment, but when it gets deployed to a staging ...
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How to automate tests for a fancy web site
I am going to take up the responsibility of automating an in-house "Media" website that looks really fancy and has more than 50 elements per page.
But being from "industrial and data-center network" ...
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Boundary Value Analysis and Equivalence Partitions for electricity counter
I have task to build equivalence classes, and boundary values based on given information
To calculate the electricity cost user should enter an old and a new values of electricity counter and press “...
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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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Definition of ready and done in an agile test environment (when test teams are not on site)
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In my current project I work with different test teams, some of which work in different time zones, and also in different projects. However, all projects work on a common main project.
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What test automation tools and approached to use
When we think of test automation , there are tons of options that comes up and few of them like selenium, UFT , protractor , Cypress etc are popular.
So when we takes up test automation ...
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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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How long should a test wait to assume that the result remains fixed
We had a defect where in a situation the state of the application changed into something undesired. It has been fixed, we added a test:
Set up state
Action that triggered the wrong state change
Check ...
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How can SDETs improve test script reading & understanding for complicated code bases?
Recently I decided to explore some open source projects. I think it's a good way to learn more that how experienced SDET/Test Architect approach in their design. I found myself a little overwhelmed by ...
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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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Tool to track the testing pyramid state
Is there any tool for tracking testing pyramid state which visualises each stage of pyramid and where I can track disproportions of that?
p.s. I did a quick search and as I can see there are a plenty ...
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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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Best practice guide for documenting unit tests?
A set of a unit tests for a project 3+ years old, now fail.
It seems the tests themselves have become out of date, and I've wasted time trying to find non existent bugs.
To prevent this happening ...
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Can existing tests and data effectively compare old and new systems?
This idea was presented to me recently:
You have a complex legacy ETL system in Java in a TEST environment that no one understands completely. You write some tests that run it and compare the output ...
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Is refreshing multiple times a test case for web applications?
I have been faced with a QA test case where refreshing a page multiple times almost instantly (6x, 7x, 8x) creates a bug. This is totally random and every time the number of refreshes require to ...
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How to find gaps in regression test coverage
I've been tasked to identify gaps in the regression test coverage of a large C# based data management system that comprises a SQL database, server application, multiple web clients and multiple ...
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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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Area of responsibility of a test manager within the agile process?
At first glance, Scrum doesn't say anything about how to test and who should take responsibility for it.
Sure, it is always said that in Scrum the team is testing. But who bears the responsibility?
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Test Structure Analysis Documentation
Detail Information
Currently I am in the process of building a QA structure, the following points are included and each one is designed for a project.
Since I would like to start with the analysis ...
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Have test cases evaluated by everyone in the Scrum team? Including the developers?
I am currently assigned to a new project, on a Scrum team that didn't have a tester integrated before. There are no test cases yet, but the project is more advanced.
So I'm busy defining test cases ...
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How to handle bottle necks in agile testing procedures
We have a problem in our development team, the development throughput is much higher than our QA members can test.
Our test team found itself in a situation where a new feature needs to be tested ...
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Best approach to UI automation
Let me start with my background,
Been in the industry for over a year, got the wonderful opportunity to join the team despite no prior background, loving and enjoying every moment so far actually. My ...
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Creation of a test charter within the explorative test? How should it be structured?
According to istqb foundation level, a test charter is the following:
"An instruction of test objectives and possible test ideas on how to test. Test charters are often used in explorative testing. ...
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Penetration test in a staging environment. When and how much?
We certainly all know the discussion when penetration testing makes sense. In a staging scenario, the test scenario can be interesting to use there to perform a penetration test. And, of course, also ...
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What are the steps/action plan to introduce Test Automation in a company?
My colleague and I have been given the task of Piloting Test Automation in our company.
We need help deciding on the Action Plan.
Some Actions we noted are as below :
Design an Architecture of "...
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How do quality assurance engineers test calculations?
How do quality assurance engineers test calculations done inside the code and calculations in stored procedures?
Also if the calculation is complex what should be the approach to test something like ...
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Testing a function where the output is mostly relying on helper functions
Let's say I want to test this function:
foo(input){
a = bar(input)
if(a)
return baz(0)
return baz(1)
}
(pseudocode)
I want to test foo in isolation, so i mock bar and baz, but if I ...
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How to abstract data classes to be more object oriented?
I have run into problems keeping my tests as object-oriented as possible. I have had to rewrite large portions of my code multiple times now, and I feel that there is a better approach to what I'm ...
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What is the best testing approach and test designs techniques, that suites for gambling software testing with technical standards?
What is the best testing approach that suites to test a gambling software.
Specifically, what should I do in addition to normal functional testing? I am looking for answers that are specific to the ...
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What type of tests you should do first?
I had this question in a job interview:
Imagine that you have got a new application. You have never seen it
before, it is absolutely new. What types of testing will you do first?
As far as I ...
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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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What kind of usability testing can I perform when the final users of the product are developers?
I have built a framework aimed at developers and I'd like to carry out a test with users. However, since my final users are developers, I don't know how to approach this testing. The usual list of ...
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Can cucumber tag a single step?
The application that I'm testing receives input from an outside sensor, but sensor data is unavailable on the test environment. Therefore, I use mock data. The problem is, mock data requires some more ...
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How do you ensure the quality of the design when the design is “by doing”?
I am convinced that an incremental design can be good.
But if in the beginning a bad design is chosen and the subsequent steps are always based on it, in my opinion it can also run very badly.
So ...
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Field Length Validation for Desktop Application which has maximum 1000 characters
The character limit we are updating each field to will differ based on the information they are capturing. As a couple of examples, Company Name will be updated from 630 characters to 1000, and ...
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Handling Issues in a agile environment? [duplicate]
Right now I'm almost tormented by answering the following question:
"How do we handle our errors and issues in an agile environment?"
Scrum is a framework that does not directly dictate how to ...
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Is it possible to cover edge cases by using test design techniques
Is it possible to cover edge cases and corner cases by using test design techniques like; boundary value analysis, equivalence class testing... ?
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How do you prevent poorly written acceptance criteria?
One of the biggest problems from my daily work in the team is the acceptance criteria are mostly too unclearly defined. What this means in detail:
Stands inquiries, because the PO or a developer has ...
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Best way to communicate scenarios to be tested to the QA team
After finishing coding a new module for a web app, the team leader told me to inform the QA team to log in the dev version of the app and test all the possible scenarios.
The obvious answer here, ...
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Without writing the test cases is good approach to test the product or software in Agile process?
We have Several projects are lined up along with the product testing. Due to time urgency and time constraints the test cases are not writing up for some functions and UI and doing the testing without ...
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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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How to test the automation of a process?
After "automating" the import of some data, I need to test this. Yet I have no idea how to actually test this.
Info about the "automation":
We are having an application which has several "jobs". ...
