Questions tagged [test-design]
Use for questions about designing tests, specifically selecting test techniques to use in specific circumstances.
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What are some use case of AI testing tools increasing test coverage and efficiency?
I am looking into some use cases of AI based tools that can be used to test functionality of a product more effectively.
Are there any AI testing tools that work like Generative AI where test ...
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Best way to test functionality without mistakes when deadline is tight?
What is the best test approach for blackbox/functional testing when there is very less time to test and feature has to go live in production next day.
without leaving out important test scenarios or ...
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How to avoid making lot of mistakes while testing functionality?
How can we avoid mistakes while doing testing specifically black box testing of application?
I test a financial web application that deals with lot of funds moving around and financial data in ...
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Test Case Result Chart to multiple Test Suites?
I have recently taken over Test Suite creation for my team and I have encountered a rather annoying and time-consuming issue.
We are using Azure DevOps Test Suites.
Scenario: Let's say we have 5 Test ...
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How should a Software Tester deal with missed Defects/bugs in Production?
I work as a QA/test engineer in a small software company. It is an e-commerce based product. I was assigned a few projects by my manager. I mostly do functional/blackbox testing. Before the production ...
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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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I want to know how to distinguish the blocked test case?
When I execute a test case, I meet a blocked issue 'QP-12' in my test case list. So I can't test cases QP-13 - 17, because there are a series of test cases of 'QP-12'.
In this case, to share with QA &...
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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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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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Contract like test without requests/rpc
I work on a (python) project that both depends and is depended on by other projects all developed in house.
Pkg A --> Pkg B --> Pkg C
Currently the API usage of Pkg B in Pkg A is only checked in ...
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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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Are there specific coding guidelines for test automation?
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Currently we are trying to find more ways to write better code. Of course, this does not exclude our automated test cases. We are already testing in the dev environment with SonarCube and ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Integration project automation and test strategy
I recently joined a company and will be working on an integration project. The Dev team will be building a solution to replace Excel spreadsheets. Data from multiple spreadsheets will now be displayed ...
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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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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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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 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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Is an inverted test pyramid really an anti-pattern?
I know that the inverted test pyramid, i.e., having more end-to-end tests than unit tests is an anti-pattern.
However, I've started to think, what could be advantage of having less unit tests then ...
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What should Testers do if they are not able to find good defects in the product?
I work as manual/black-box tester. My responsibility primarily includes functional testing of a web application and to some extent database testing using sql server, based on the functional ...
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What should a Software Tester do to become more valuable and helpful for the Development Team?
When I write detailed defect descriptions or bug reports, then my team's Development manager feels satisfied. What are few things a blackbox tester can do to help the Developers become more productive ...
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How many test steps are allowed in a single manual test case?
I have been writing Test Cases for half a year as of now. My question is: How many test steps are allowed only in one test case? For example more than 6 steps is not allowed or depends on ...
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No tests in the legacy project - what to start with as tester? [duplicate]
I've just joined a project, which is developed for internal use for over 10 years now.
There are no unit tests nor any other manual/automated tests designed. I'm going to be the only tester.
What ...
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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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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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Should application and automated test languages match?
If an application is written in a certain language, e.g. Python, Ruby, Clojure, etc. should Quality Engineers use the same language to write the tests?
Should this be a decision that we can apply ...
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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 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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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 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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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How to report a bug that has no technical solution?
When we were testing a project, which would require an Excel sheet as an input. The only validating mechanism of this whole file importing process was offered by Excel macro (validate against inputs' ...
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How to calculate security test or penetration test cost for the customer?
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A customer would like to know in detail what costs penetration testing causes on the one hand, and what benefits penetration has on the other hand.
Also, what it effectively means to save ...
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Test Suite vs. Test Plan
I am having a difficult time pinning down an official description of what a test suite is compared to a test plan.
In Test Computer Software they don't even mention suites. (I assume because the book ...
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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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Difference between requirement, use case, and scenario?
I've taken a class on software testing best practices and test design. In the content, they have a model that basically shows that the three items are derived in this way:
Requirements > Use case &...
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How to write test cases when different test data gives different results?
Example test case: Check mobile bill payment after due date.
For the above test case, different telecom operators have different sets of rules. For example, some allow payment after due date, and ...
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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 ...
