Questions tagged [test-management]
Use for questions about managing the test process, including organizing test cases and test results.
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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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Advice when putting together a cost benefit analysis when considering changing defect tracking systems
we use a homebaked defect tracking system in my org. As a QA I have worked in various different organisations previously and find the current in-house solution to be sub par. I initially started to ...
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What's the recommended practice for separating unit tests from integration tests for automated testing?
On a project I've been working on, we've been steadily increasing the code coverage through tests. Some of these tests were done as integration tests and some as unit tests. The integration tests can ...
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How far would you go in ETL and data warehouse testing?
Recently I've been testing on an ETL/Data warehouse project and the strategy I took was to work very closely with the business and leverage their knowledge to come up with all the weird and wonderful ...
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What criteria do I apply to a highly complex development project to warrant getting "real world" data?
Both the product I used to work on and the one I'm working on now have a fairly large and complex matrix of possible configurations, work-flows, and data scenarios. The one product had, no joke, ...
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Any good open source test management tools ?
I am thinking of developing some test management tools, to sit alongside the open source automation tools that I currently use. Primarily for recording manual and automated tests, results and ...
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what should I do if my stability tests cycle is longer than the release cycle ?
Our long term stability test cycle takes about two weeks to complete, during this time another release (sometimes two) is being released.
What should I do ?
The test cycle can't be shortened, and we ...
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What are guidelines to use for exit criteria when releasing?
When I am in ship mode I normally apply a set of criteria before I will "Ship". They do vary, however they are typically along the lines of the following:
Zarro Boogs (Zero active issues). This ...
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Is testing a product your company uses different than a product shipped to customers?
Being in the embedded world I have always tested products that go to OEM's or end clients, I have never tested a product that my company really use.
Besides the fact that you can use and feel the ...
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How to avoid duplicated bug reports, described from different user perspective?
We get a lot of bug reports that ends up as the same bug, but are described through the eyes of a different user.
For example one can see a device has crashed, the other sees communications loss and ...
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Difference between "Testing Behaviour" and "Test Case"
I'm new to software testing and would like to know the difference between "test case" and "testing behavior".
For example, a registration form on the web has the following fields:
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When is it OK not to have dedicated testers/QA team?
I noticed that there are no dedicated QAs in the stackexchange team.
Since they are indeed making an awesome product, I wonder: When is it possible to have an absence of dedicated quality assurance ...
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What are the challenges around the integration of Manual and Automated Tests?
This is more a request for your professional opinion than a question...
We are seeing how test automation is spreading to more and more organizations. This in itself is a good thing, but at the same ...
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When is it inappropriate to use white box testing?
Sometimes, tasked with testing a piece of software for which there are no requirements, a tester will resort to white box testing. Are there times when that is inappropriate?
Here is an example. At ...
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reporting cumulative test results
Wondering if anybody else is using this way to report test results.
Some of the projects in the company I work for report test results on a cumulative basis, meaning that a test that passed once is ...
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What techniques are available to determine which browsers to test?
When websites being deployed to the internet are about to go live, the age old question always comes up. "Which browsers should I test?"
I am not asking that question because it will soon become ...
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What the most efficient way of testing cross platform (i.e. iOS and Android) applications?
I work on several projects were the client wants basically the same application implemented in both iOS and Android. At the end of the day, you have to test both - they are distinct pieces of software,...
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Testing NOSQL DB's like distributed Cassandra
Has anybody worked on testing Cassandra DB which is a NOSQL distributed DB?
What are the important things to be taken into account while doing this?
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Maintaining automation framework for different browsers like IE and FF
How to maintain automation framework for different browsers like IE and FF?
In my current set up, I maintain two different configuration properties files, one with xpath locators that FF supports ...
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How can I report coverage on an n-dimensional test matrix?
I have a test matrix for my product's installation, which is n-dimensional, where n is about 11 or 12 at this point. For instance, the OS is one dimension, and the DB is another, and the Reporting ...
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Testing techniques repository?
I was wondering if there are any repositories or wikis of formal testing techniques - test design ideas, like pairwise or boundary. I couldn't find one so far.
Thanks!
Ahmet
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Estimating a testing project
How do you estimate a testing project? What are the things to be take care of while estimating the time for a testing project ?
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Test management product recommendation
I am looking for a test management product to structure our current manual testing. What I would like to it handle is:
recording of test cases, including parametrised ones;
historical analysis of ...
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Should testers be worried about Quality Assurance? [closed]
In some companies, the testers are expected to do Quality Assurance.
In my opinion, this is not the way to go.
Testers normally don't have the mandate to push things thorugh on a higher level.
Because ...
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