Questions tagged [test-management]
Use for questions about managing the test process, including organizing test cases and test results.
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How do I set up test stages for a Magento Cloud environment?
My current project is about planning a test project environment in the Magento Cloud environment. Of course, the Magento Cloud offers the possibility to create other stages from the master.
Is the ...
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Appropriate way to organize tests given new hardware features
I work with network/server infrastructure. On of our products (a server host) now supports wire connections with SFP(+) modules for copper (RJ45) and fiber (previously only RJ45).
The tests for our ...
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In Azure Test Plans, how do you Move a Test Case to another Test Suite?
In Microsoft Azure DevOps Test Plans / Test Manager, Test Plan view, how do you Move a Test Case to another Test Suite in the same Test Plan?
I am not able to drag and drop the test case to another ...
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Does the test and test tooling differ from Magento to other test tools or solutions?
I am on my way to one of my next Magento projects. Currently there is no test environment, no test days, no concepts or test plans. Even a team has to be set up first.
I have already worked a lot in ...
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How can I test some feature in all major mobile devices(android, apple etc) in minimal amount of time?
Someone asked me what strategy will you follow to test some important features of your application before prod release so that it will work on almost all the mobile devices?
I gave Suggestions like:
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How to export Test Project with all dependencies from TestLink?
I need to export a Project with all children (Test Suite, Test Case, Requirement) into a XML file to import into another TestLink instance.
How do I export in one XML with all the desired data?
Both ...
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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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Is there a kind of check list for the project start in the area of test management or test engineering?
Actually a very good question and somehow hardly discussed so far.
Is there a checklist - for test engineers and test managers when they start into a project?
Basically yes clear at least from ...
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Agile test procedures in Waterscrum + Staging Enviroment
Currently I am working in several teams at the same time. The project teams work in Waterscrum and have defined an agile sprint of - one week development + one week testing.
All teams work with each ...
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How to provide Product Owner with estimates for unit testing?
"How long does it take his developer to write a unit test?" This is exactly the question the project owners keep asking me. The question is not actually how long it takes to write the unit test, but ...
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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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Legal test (on pre-producten Stage) slows down deliveries. How can I structure or accelerate this process?
In the course of, among other things, legal test procedures in the staging area, we have integrated a further step, namely pre-production, in which our lawyers check the texts of the pages to be ...
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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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Non-functional test, in which CI test step is it best to use?
Within the Continious Integration stages, within this staging development, it is clear to everyone what is to be done where. Unitest in development, sonar if required, or RESTAPI testing via SoapUI.
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Test Structure Analysis Documentation
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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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Test and developer of the psychological approach. Avoidance of tensions implement, but how?
Many testers are aware that sometimes it is not easy to mediate between developers and testers or to find a common approach.
Sometimes, anger also tends to rule on both sides. Within ISTQB this area ...
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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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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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Staging Environment with API Gateway Environment
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My current test scenario is about designing a test staging environment that is addressed via an API gateway. We chose WSO2. They already have corresponding test frameworks on board, ...
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How to handle unit test / integration test for a Installation / Setup Application that can be used in multiple platform such as Windows, Linux, Unix
I'm handling a code repository that is responsible to deploy / install / upgrade agent that are running on different platform, windows, unix, linux.
The code base already has some unit test to cover ...
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How to distinguish known issues from real misses and communicate both to management
As am I working in a small firm, there is no QA manager position here right now. We are working with different projects, currently I am focusing on 4 to 6 projects which are using agile development.
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What is shift left concept means in AGILE?
What is shift left concept means in AGILE?
What is agile and shift left concept?
How to use it in a software development life cycle
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How to organise test cases for configurable application
With multiple clients I’m stuck how to document different varieties:
Take for example cancellation:
one client has cancellation period x
another y
third one does not have cancellation option.
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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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Randomization test with constraints
My current project is written in C++. It takes a certain config file to do various work. There are a large number of parameters inside the config. I would like to do randomization test for those ...
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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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How to organise tests for multiple versions of a feature
I have this scenario for using Jira and Zephyr:
I wrote a test against "Feature A" for release "Release 1". Now some of the functionality of "Feature A" was changed for "Release 2".
I want to be able ...
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Retest whole system or just changes with regression tests
After regression tests are done, bugs are filed and fixed. A new release build is made with bug fixes. Should you re-run regression tests again on new build or is it enough to do only re-testing of ...
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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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What should I do when receiving testing modules depended module is not completed from developer side
You are getting a build for testing with three modules, but the second module is in the development phase. So what do you do when you need to test the third module, which is dependent on the first and ...
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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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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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Reducing production failures in case of multiple releases across multiple projects on a daily basis
Currently, I'm handling QA for umpteen number of projects (web and mobile). All these projects have multiple features being rolled out on a daily basis. The number of production bugs increased ...
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Why do some Software Testers never analyze the product extensively or use different techniques/heuristics to generate better ideas?
I am a black-box tester myself. I take my job seriously and try to find new ways to improve my test design experience. I have seen some of the Software Testers in my company take their job very ...
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Buffer for errors in the Sprint Planning Meeting?
In a discussion with a Product Owner I had the situation that there were many bugs in the Product Backlog, but PO did not have time to prioritize them.
So he wanted to set a story that is timeboxed ...
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How to improve agile environments as test lead?
I'm a test lead in a company and have only a handful of people in the testing team.
We are working on multiple projects simultaneously. Our company is following an Agile methodology. In some time, ...
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How to deal with or prevent idle in the test team?
I'm currently in two scrum projects. The team consists of 9 people (5 developers, 3 testers). We work with user stories, story point estimates and two-week sprints. The team has received a great deal ...
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What do I have to consider in an exploratory test charter?
I am currently trying to build a test charter for my exploratory test within a timebox. But what exactly should this charter contain?
Session Charter: This includes a mission statement, a short
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What is the best way to automate acceptance testing?
First of all: A royal road and a really correct solution to automate acceptance tests does not yet exist. I am as aware of that as many of you are aware. But is that really so? Is there no way to go?
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What changes for testers when they are testing in agile environments?
We know that the whole development team is responsible for the quality of the product. If only the testers test, there can be no question of shared responsibility. Of course, the testers in the team ...
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How can a Tester use Heuristics effectively to generate good test ideas?
I have tried to use Test design Heuristics to guide my strategy for test design. For instance, during exploratory test session, I use different tours like file tour, menu tours.
Can you give real-...
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Test management tool (MTM/TFS or HP ALM) integration with Gitlab, Jira, TestComplete
My company uses Gitlab for code check-in, Jira for bug reporting, and TestComplete for automation. We are looking for a test management tool that will integrate with our existing tools. The choice is ...
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Vulnerability scanner with different scan profiles
As part of our development, we also want to test vulnerabilities for our Scrum teams in addition to load testing our websites. This should be planned in accordance with the sprint planning, found ...
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How often should we carry out load testing during development?
Within our team we would like to do load tests in a CI process. For this we want to use either Jmeter or just a comparable tool.
Jmeter offers u.a. the possibility that one can plan and execute a test ...
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Can contract requirements be met but software still not accepted?
I am reading a technical standard IEEE 730-2014 which defines the following two activities:
5.4.3 Evaluate product for conformance to established requirements Determine the degree to which the ...
