Questions tagged [test-management]
Use for questions about managing the test process, including organizing test cases and test results.
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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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Change control for test cases
Currently, our QA team writes test cases for every feature and bug fix. These take the form of spreadsheets - each row is a test case with name, steps, prerequisites, outcome of the test (pass, fail). ...
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How can I format the current date and time and then use them in a variable in GoTest?
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get date
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Sun May 11,2014 9:60 p.m.
I need to convert it in to this format 2014.05.11.09.60.60.321 I tried to put this yyyy.MM.dd.HH.mm....
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Testing 21 search criteria and their combinations
Say I have a page with search function. The search function has 21 search criteria. If I want to test all combinations of criteria can be used, to calculate the number of times to test should be 21! ...
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What steps to take when you spot a bug before release?
Imagine you are responsible for testing a web application. Your team is preparing a release of a new feature. Just before the release you spot a bug.
What next steps would you take next to resolve ...
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Is QTP/UFT Automation compatible with Microsoft Access VBA
I would like to know if QTP/UFT Automation is compatible with VBA. I have an application (Microsoft Access) which uses VBA.
Is QTP/UFT Automation compatible with this and what is the pricing like.
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Starting testing from scratch in existing software project
The question is: "How to implement testing from scratch? How to structure things?"
I have taken the position of Head of QA in a start-up company. The situation is that they have a software ...
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Good Test Case Management Solutions for Agile with JIRA
I know this is a subjective question, but I'm looking to find pros and cons of different Test Management Software to be able to make an objective decision to get the best tool for my needs.
I am a ...
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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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Test Management Tool for managing multiple projects
I am looking for recommendations on Test Management Tools.
To start it would be mainly for manual testing, but we would like to integrate with our automated tests in the future. Ideally we would be ...
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Testing components between software teams
I've recently encountered this scenario in my exam preparation for a certification and I'm trying to understand how to coordinate testing of shared components across multiple software teams.
Team A is ...
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Defect Removal Efficiency confusion
I have read several articles by Capers Jones, who states that:
Defect Detection Efficiency (DDE): percentage of defects found after release
Defect Removal Efficiency (DRE): percentage of fixed ...
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Our company has more than 130 customer side bugs in just one moth after release. How can I reduce it as team lead? [closed]
Our company has more than 130 customer side bugs in just one moth after release. This problem exist before I join the organisation. My manager assigned me to reduce the number of bugs in production ...
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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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Jira Xray copy / push steps of a testcase to git (bitbucket)
I would like to commit / push all test steps of a jira-xray issue into git without writing custom code for the provided XRAY REST APIs.
The workflow should be something like this
Each day all jira ...
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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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Is it a good idea to use a GitHub repo to track test cases?
I'm trying to get my team to standardize on a tool to manage and keep track test cases. Currently we have a bunch of documents in Google docs or other formats such as Confluence and the main ...
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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 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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UAT Best practices | Level of detail
For our current software product some of our enterprise clients want to run User Acceptance Testing on their own acceptance environment. To help them get started we have setup an UAT testing suite ...
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ISTQB Advanced Level - Test Manager Exam (AL-TM; Core) they provide the answer to the question was wrong
I am practicing ISQTB _test management exam while going through the sample question i feel that they provide the answer to the question was wrong
This is the question
Evaluate the status of the ...
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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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Manual Testing Interview Question : What you should do as a QA if you found major bug at last day of Sprint?
If you found a major bug on the last day of a Sprint, what should you do? Can you change the length of the sprint which is already decided?
This question was asked me in an interview. What should be ...
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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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Mathematical / statistical relationship between tests and bugs?
As project manager, I would like to convince higher management to invest more time for development of unit tests for existing methods. My understanding is that unit testing is foundation/pre-req for ...
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How do I effectively measure the level of impact of test automation within a Safe Scrum environment?
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Currently we are within a Safe Scrum environment and have already automated much of manual testing. However, we would like to measure the effectiveness and coverage of test automation across ...
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Tools for tracking automated tests
I have used STAF/STAX in the past, and liked the way that information was tracked in the tests.
I'm currently investigating Technologies to tie together a few tools that use XML-RPC, and am ...
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Should testers be looking at code in the development environment?
I am a software tester, working on a project which has multiple different environments:
dev: developers are doing work here. This code is known to be under development.
test: this code has been ...
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How do I execute/test a large set of test cases with limited time and resources?
We have a large set of test cases but limited time and resources to execute/test them all. We thought but it's not possible to execute/test everything.
I want to know strategies which will be ...
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Properly manage regression testing as an interface between different testing teams
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We work in a Safe-Scrum environment with a large number of different teams, and here also correspondingly different test teams.
We have different test cases from different teams, which are ...
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When can I say I have enough resources to start testing activities?
I am kind of new to testing and I am still trying to get a good footing on what to do based on the theory given from the ISTQB.
The exercise of moving from the general guidelines in the Foundation ...
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How can I export test cases in HP ALM to be re-imported into another ALM project?
I've been put on a new project, which has some legacy test cases, these test cases exist in ALM. I would like to export certain sections of this test plan for usage in the new project, which again ...
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What is the difference between Software Test Engineer, Test Automation Engineer and Software Developer in Test (SDET)?
Software Test Engineer usualy performs “manual” testing (without spending time on automating and supporting the tests). Usually is responsible to find all (as more as possible) critical bugs in the ...
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Is TestLink dead?
I've been researching test case management tools on and off for about a year pending time to actually work on implementing a solution.
At the end of last year I had chosen TestLink as the solution as ...
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Test automation role: challenges beyond automated tests and frameworks?
Before asking the actual question, let me describe the current situation.
The IT department consists of a few Scrum-like teams, with one or two software testers per team.
Furthermore there are two ...
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What is the best way to explain the findings in Jmeter to a customer?
Yes, I know a simple question at first glance, but on the second it leaves you perplexed.
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One of our customers got a complete setup from us, and that was Jmeter and an integration into a ...
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Vulnerability regression testing in an agile environment
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We used different solutions in the test team to test our websites for vulnerabilities in different ways.
In doing so, we naturally also want to retest the bugs anchored in the backlog ...
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Visual Studio 2012 or MTM for Administrative reports?
I'm creating a report for my manager to help track what stage in the testing process her testers are in. We currently use VS 2012 for the development and MTM for test writing.
I tried creating a ...
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How to effectively deal with repetitive test cases
Suppose we have a contact form with these fields:
first name
last name
contact number
pin code.
While writing test cases is it a good practice to group similar test cases(TC)?
For example test cases ...
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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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how do you automate test a enterprise security software application?
I have been assigned to automate test a enterprise security software which will be installed on client computers with different operating systems (linux, windows).
my team challenge is to setup a ...
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One tool to rule them all
This question may have already been asked/answered in various places, and in various forms, but this is my problem. I have been in software testing for a few years now, most of this has been manual ...
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How to install Google test-analytics?
I have read How Google Tests Software book and want to install Google test-analytics, but I can't because installation instructions are absent:
https://code.google.com/p/test-analytics/issues/detail?...
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Security test plan for vulnerability test
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I would like to address the topic of security test plan. I can hardly find suitable material when it comes to the topic of Vulnerability test. Most of the time the information is limited to ...
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Is there a test management tool that I can associate tests with multiple projects?
I'm looking for a test management tool (mainly for manual testing), that would allow me to associate tests with multiple projects.
We're a consulting firm that has many clients with different ...
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Is security testing the sole responsibility of testers or part of a mixed team?
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The well-known differences between API/GUI i.e. Functional Test are clearly defined. However, I ask myself the question: Does security testing belong in the focus of testers at all? Or ...
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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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Testing a system with scheduled, event-driven data changes
I'm testing a software system that forces users to take action on their data every 60 or 180 days. The users get notified when the due date is approaching or if they have missed one. These users can ...
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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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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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