Questions tagged [test-design]
Use for questions about designing tests, specifically selecting test techniques to use in specific circumstances.
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Why testing, by definition, cannot find deadlocks and stack overflows?
Sean M. Beatty says in "Where testing fails" article that "deadlocks, stack overflows, race conditions and timing problems cannot be detected by testing (whether it is code inspection, whide-box ...
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Should A Formal Test Plan For Dynamic String Testing Include All Combinations?
Situation:
Large enterprise web application
Formal test plan in HP Application Lifecycle Management (née Quality Center)
Many dynamic text strings in the web application with several variables
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Web application GUI automation best practices
Our team develops automation solutions for various web based products.
I'd like to compile a list of patterns and best practices from the GUI web automation space that have been used and proven as ...
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Best practices for organising and naming test cases
I have a Python package which may contain several modules. Of course, I have unit tests, component tests, and functional tests. All of them are in package/module/test directories, most of them are ...
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Internationalization testing
By internationalization testing I intend testing application with one or more additional languages and one or more additional regional settings (locale).
We expect a number of risks with ...
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How to test a location based application
Our application is location based. We have tested its main functionality, (using mock locations) and now it is time to test how it reacts on real cases using GPS.
So, what are the main limitations ...
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Where to focus testing? On integration level or unit level?
Consider a modern web application that serves JSON through a REST API to a rich Javascript-based application with one or more single-page apps within it. Our own application is written using Angular ...
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Fitnesse editor with syntax validation?
We use Fitnesse with tens of project-specific fixtures to design the tests. However, writing the correct test is tedious, because of some trivial errors we make:
Syntax errors: unclosed tables, ...
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Layer testing - How should I test data replication/update?
I have a development background and now I'm starting with software QA. While building a solution developers often create code which is shared among different platforms/applications. One example is the ...
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What are some good test cases in order to do License Key authentication while software is being installed?
I want to learn about:
What could be the test cases to ensure the test coverage while any proprietary software is being installed using a license key. I wish to avoid (a) re-installation (b) multiple ...
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In performance testing, when have MFAT approaches been successfully applied (in addition to an OFAT approach)?
Background:
MFAT = "Multiple Factors at a Time"
OFAT = "One Factor at a Time"
In the field of Design of Experiments, practitioners in a large variety of fields (including software testing) have ...
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What is the best practice for testing against modules which collect statistic
We have a distributed application which should be monitored. There are some modules which collect external data (disk usage, free disk space, CPU utilization, memory utilization, etc) and some ...
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What are the best practices for Integration Testing of a middle-ware?
I want to know about the best practices of Integration Testing for a middle-ware product. It includes several backends and also I want to test it over multiple platforms. The features of Clustering is ...
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Is there a name for this type of vector operation?
I often find myself wanting to generate a lot of negative test cases by mutating a known good set of inputs.
Let's say I have a function that will accept (a, b, c) as an expected valid input for a ...
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Conditional statement for fail and error test outcomes in Selenium?
Say I have this function:
def tearDown(self):
""" clean up by closing the browser window """
self.driver.quit()
I want to skip closing the browser if the test failed or errored out (so I ...
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Testing/Verifying Google Analytic code
I need help figuring out a test methods for Google Analytic. Our client pushes out a lot of marketing campaigns and they love using GA to track what is working, what is not working and where to focus ...
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test cases for conversation unsubscription in a email
I am a newbie at testing.
The scenario described here is what happens when a user tries to unsubscribe from a conversation using Mailing list manager.
To unsubscribe the user sends an email sample+...
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What are the first steps a tester should perform when using combinational testing?
Hypothetically, lets assume that I am testing the "Search and compare flights" functionality of this website*, and I want to apply a combinational testing technique.
Where should a tester start this ...
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How to test the graphical contents of a bitmap or a PDF file?
The module I'm testing creates some graphical reports which include things like scatter plots and multipage line graphs. The bitmap will never be exactly the same between test runs, since some ...
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XMLs and JMS queue trigger to database - what to test?
I'm testing a system that involves XMLs from a JMS queue getting inserted into a database using a JMS trigger (webmethods).
Firstly, I turn off the JMS trigger to let messages accumulate on the ...
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How can I use causal loop diagrams to help me test?
Causal loop diagrams seem like a really powerful tool for modelling a system - but I have no experience with applying them to my testing.
Do you use causal loop diagrams? How do you use them, and ...
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Testing database transformation mappings
If regularly testing the creation of different datawarehouse tables using mappings from source tables. What do you suggest is the best approach or specific SQLs to do the trick?
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What new things need to be covered in Embedded Systems testing compared to normal manual testing?
Can you provide me with some common checklist for Embedded Systems testing please? What are the new things that are covered in this?
And can you also advise me some interesting references for reading ...
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How to use Selenium's PageFactory annotations with dynamic loaded elements?
I'm rewriting some Selenium tests according to the page object design pattern taking advantage of Seleniums' annotations. My problem is that I have some html select elements whose option elements are ...
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Turning software testing into an internal service
I've been tasked with changing the focus of my team from a "can do everything" team into one that is more service orientated, i.e. we can provide the framework for your testing rather than being there ...
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What goes in a Testing playbook?
The concept of the Testing Playbook has been recently added to the list of possible tools in your Context-Driven toolset. The Playbook has been described as being similar to the list of plays that a ...
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Do I Need To Create Mock Classes For Every Class?
Let's say I have a system composed of three classes: A,B,C that share certain dependencies.
To test A independently, I would need to create mock objects for B and C
To test B independently, I would ...
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Test cases for find and replace function of notepad [closed]
I have made a notepad in c and i want to add find & replace feature so i just want some test case for that feature so that it works fine in notepad editor.
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Tester Versus Test cases written by the tester [closed]
I have always believed that a great tester is one whose test cases help in discovery of a lot of bugs in the product and not one who finds a lot of bugs in a product.
In otherwords a team or a ...
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Workflow shortcut to meet the release deadline
When you design a test scenario or even when you run your tests and you stumble to lack of specifications from your marketing Dept. should you bypass them and take the initiative of making your own ...
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Multiple Assembly QA Systems?
I'm having difficulty deciding whether or not using multiple assemblies for a QA system is the right approach to take. Here are some important details:
The underlying system is a single assembly ...
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What types of testing are LEAST suited to using pairwise testing (and similar test design approaches)?
For those of you who have used pairwise test design methods (or similar combinatorial software testing methods) in an attempt to zero in on a manageable number of unusually powerful tests from among a ...
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