Questions tagged [test-design]
Use for questions about designing tests, specifically selecting test techniques to use in specific circumstances.
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Best way to plug in several sub flows as part of a single one in Cypress?
I am currently working on integrating Cypress e2e tests in our existing CI/CD pipeline (I'm not an automation engineer but a developer). Our application is a fintech app which involves the typical ...
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Test Strategy Documentation for test automation
What are the main points that should be included in a test strategy test automation document for a particular project? I'm not looking at details but more of a high level overview.
I've found that ...
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How to do Testcases for a specification document?
I have always done these very simple test cases so I am actually very lost and got overwhelmed when I got this assignment where I should do test cases from a functional design specification document. ...
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How to load test video streaming with traffic, internally?
We use centos 6, apache prefork, PHP 5, MySQL, and we have Wowza streaming engine on a different server. Nothing is on the cloud, we have on-premise servers.
We'd like to test a couple of things ...
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Selenium - Page Object Model - Good way to identify page during a dynamic flow
My application has a possible flow to get all info from the user, where at max might consist of pages in the order A->B->C->D->E->F, each page asking for different info until we get to ...
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What are the differences between counting/calculation estimate and estimation by test-cases?
The counting/calculation estimate is based on counting countable indexes such as stories, usage scenarios, marketing requirements, web pages, technical requirements, functions.
Estimation by test ...
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Automatic network condition change for MacOS app manual testing
I'm testing MacOS app and it relies a lot on the network condition, because it is uploading a lot of files.
I would like to simulate a network condition on my macbook, that automatically changes to ...
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Login Integration Testing Good and Bad Password
I am writing Cypress Integration Test for UpdatePassword. One reason I wanted one whole test: We had a minor bug before, when the user enters a bad password, and then fixes it up, the Submit Button ...
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How to find a specific occurrence of a field that exists in multiple places (Xpath)?
I'm new to Xpath and I wanted to know if there was a way to inspect a specific element, that is repeated multiple times throughout the webpage.
For this instance I want to inspect the specific span ...
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How QA Lead benefits from a Test Plan in terms of processes?
How QA Lead benefits from a Test Plan in terms of processes?
I am interested in specifics. What practical usage QA Lead has from a test plan? Currently, I have only seen that it is required for the ...
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Comprehensive software testing timeline
Can someone explain clearly timeline for different types of testing.
Where does Integration, Load, Stress testing and acceptance testing fit in?
when are test plan for each of them is prepared (and ...
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Different Scenarios for two elevators programmed to different floors
Assume there are two elevators programmed for stopping in odd and even floors.
i) What kind of test we need to do to ensure that the elevators working fine without any hassle.
ii) What are the ...
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How can I solve OutOfRangeException on using Selenium C#
I've faced with the below problem, while trying to run a data driving testing and have tried to resolve it, but nothing seem to be working for me.
Please could you take a look at my code and tell me ...
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The role of the classic software tester in Scrum?
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I wanted to ask if anyone has experience with the role of the classic software tester in Scrum ?
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My personal experience is that in the first days there is not much to do for ...
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ISTQB Foundation Level Paper 3, no. 37
How many test cases are necessary to cover all the possible sequences of statements (paths) for the following program fragment?
if (condition 1)
then statement 1
else statement 2
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Can a Manual Tester survive in software industry without learning Automation?
I mean to say is that if I dislike coding and don't understand complex code, then will I be able to survive as a QA. Or do I need to learn test automation to grow position and pay in my career, as I ...
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Is it recommended to use Page object model for cypress E2E test? if not what is the suggested method to adopt
I am new for writing e2e UI test using cypress. But I am uncertain if it's good practice to use page object model, when I repeatedly need to use same elements in different test cases. Does "Aap ...
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Is there a plugin to retrieve Azure Devops Test plan test cases to Jira stories
Tricentis qTest has a integration where in Jira tickets can be linked to the test cases in qTest and the associated test cases will be shown in the Jira ticket in a qTest section.
I'm trying to find ...
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How do you ensure your 'passing' tests(UI automated) actually pass?
How do you ensure your passing tests(UI automated) actually pass?
As automation engineer I think we should question our passing tests in the same spirit as we dig in our failing tests to find out ...
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How to make sure HTTP Request completed then proceed to next request using JMeter
Recently I'm new to JMeter, I have 9 HTTP requests and I want to make sure all the threads must run accordingly in order to complete the whole task in my project. Moreover, I do not think, that adding ...
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Test automation and test data generation for chatbots how to implement?
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Our customer wants complete test automation including test data generation for a chatbot. The test data will probably be provided to us via RestApi. Since we have not completed this area yet,
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Should Tester's still focus more on writing Test cases than Exploratory testing? [closed]
I don't focus much on writing hundreds of test cases in any test case management tool. I create my exploratory testing notes which include different test ideas, scenarios, heuristics-based test design ...
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As professional tester what approach/techniques you personally use to find important bugs faster and early in test process?
Background: This is important in general for any testing but I think this is particularly more important in agile when a critical feature is on the line which needs to be released early for various ...
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Is it a good approach to use a core automation framework(jar file) as opposed to creating all classes of framework yourself?
Some teams in an organization use existing core automation frameworks(made in Java). In my case, I converted it to a jar file artifact and then used it in their Selenium project as a local library/...
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How to automate tests for sanitization of user input [closed]
I've checked what is sanitization of user inputs.
And now I stuck with idea hot to automate tests for the sanitization of user inputs?
I'm new about this topic.
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ROBOT FRAMEWORK: [Error] Parsing ___.robot failed: Data source does not exist
I just setup Robot Framework yesterday. I went to YouTube to see some videos on how to set up and I found one that was just uploaded last month. I follow all the steps and I numbered it below.
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How to Demo Automated Tests
I automate tests based on test plans written by manual testers.
I would like to demo the automated tests to the authors of the manual test plans to ensure, that I've implemented the test correctly and ...
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E2E Testing: Testing field limits?
So I'm curious about this, and being in my first automation job I wasn't sure how others typically handled this.
Let's say we have a new "section" of a form with 3 fields. The 3 fields are ...
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Pairwise Testing - How do you find the most important cases?
Currently I have to create manual test cases for a feature with 64 different combinations. I think it is not useful to create test cases for all of them. How do I find the most important combinations?
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What is a Test Automation Framework?
Some automation engineers use an underlying automation framework as a jar dependency in their selenium web driver project in eclipse. Then, they use the framework to write functional scripting of the ...
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Test case preparation and execution time
I usually estimate the test execution time in a sprint by identifying the test scenarios related to requirements. (Test case point analysis)
Is there any techniques that we can use for estimate the ...
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How to test data retention policy and cron job for deleting old data?
There are some retention policies for the data that my company uses. For different types of data, we have different rules and these different types of data and files are used in 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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How can developers be assured that their software is fault free?
For example when creating software for critical real time applications, like those used in aviation, how certain are you that it's going to run without problems? Are you 100% certain or are you >90% ...
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White Box testing - Condition and Branch
I have been reading a number of tutorials about condition and branch testing (coverage). All of them show simple examples, and mention the difference of condition and branch to be that in condition ...
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xUnit tests patterns for testing threaded applications
Are there either any xUnit (or otherwise) design patterns or anti-patterns for testing threaded code?
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Can not sendKey to hidden element
I'm practicing to interact with element (nopCommerce domain).
But encountered some problems, when trying to perform sendKey to an invisible element.
This is an input field of product tags, which ...
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Pros and cons of complex test scenario / test case / checklist?
I know, that test scenarios, test cases and checklists are different things and are important for testing. I've landed a job as a QA in startup that's adopted scrum methodology and is fast paced.
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Test Case generation using Equivalence Partition [ISTQB Adanced Level Test Analyst]
You are testing a computerized gas pump that allows users to pay using credit cards. Four types of cards are accepted:
Visa
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American Express
The pump will reject any other ...
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Methods for testing existing or commercial software?
First of all ,sorry if post in wrong room, I confuse should write question in SQA room or academia room. But actually i think member in SQA have more experience about this, and will help.
I have to ...
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Alpha Testing via Company Testing Day?
In a server-client environment we want to test / observe interaction of several clients and stress of the server.
As it's a product the whole company is familiar with (we use it ourselves), I've ...
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homework testing method for schools [closed]
I've looked a lot for this kind of question and couldn't find anything, I think the answers here could be helpful to schools and their students.
My collage has problems with it's homework testing ...
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Prevent testing email in production
I'm going through some problem, that the developers are leaving the email traces in the websites deployed live. We are only knowing about it when an employee leaves and his/her email starts to bounce.
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How to use TestNG to create multi-user tests scenarios?
What I need to do is to create UI test cases for our application and we have decided to use Selenium with TestNG (we're still open to other options if there are considerable advantages).
The tests we ...
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Modern Selenium library to pick
I have been doing Selenium automation around 2013 - 2014. By that time there were only 2 bindings available (or maybe I knew only about 2) - Java and C#.
I remember I would have to write so much code ...
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Jmeter (jmx) - How to run requests sequentially where first request response is dependent on the second request
I'm using jmeter for load testing so I'm a little bit stuck at this situation. Below is the scenario.
There are two HTTPS (target1 and target2) requests, which needed to be generated sequentially in ...
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Looking for meaningful review of Leapwork
So I'm currently researching and comparing test automation tools, that would automate tests on the web (as in, testing a web site), and are relatively cheap and simple.
One such tool I'm looking at is ...
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Testing Server/Workstation Hardware specs recommendations?
I wanted to reach out and get some opinions of Testing hardware.
Should I use VMs or a stand-alone tower? If I use VMs, what would be some recommended hardware specs for the hosting server? If a ...
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API Automated Testing Tool XML & JSON
I am looking for an automated test tool that can:
MUST HAVE:
Ability to connect to a server endpoint, that returns JSON or XML based data.
Ability to fully parse and validate either XML or JSON (both ...
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Automating testing of incoming messages against templates
I have just been moved to a team, where we manually test system-generated messages (SMS and e-mail) - a bank sending notifications such as
"On 11.5.2018, transaction +1.94 from 111/7777 was made ...
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