Questions tagged [test-management]
Use for questions about managing the test process, including organizing test cases and test results.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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How to manage, link and track conversion of manual to automated test cases?
We are maintaining our test cases in testlink. For a given sprint we write functional test cases for features and regression suite update accordingly. Now we are in the process of starting automation. ...
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How one can add quick value from test automation where there are no formal test cases?
As a new QA in a project,how one can add quick value from test automation where there are not even formal test cases? What are the few quick wins in general?
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The best way to summarize QA reporting?
We all know the problem, we have a reporting for the unit test, which is then usually sent as a warning "Build is not running" via email.
We have a reporting for automated acceptance test, we have an ...
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What timeframe should be scheduled for exploratory testing?
Basically, the Explorative Test should be planned accordingly over a Timebox. But how do you define these?
Does the team decide within the sprint planning how big the effort for the exploratory test ...
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Multiple Scrum Teams - How Can I Make Use of QA?
Currently, I have two Scrum-Teams I'm responsible for, who did not plan a QA structure before. There were code reviews, and partly acceptance test.
Previously, the functionality was developed within ...
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Exploratory testing or SBTM in the Sprint Planning?
I would like to include SBTM in our sprint. Ask with, of course, many questions.
Where is the difference to explorative testing?
Is more worthwhile an explorative test with timebox?
What times should ...
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Should only Software Testers be blamed for serious production defects?
I work as QA engineer whose responsibility is primarily testing the functionality of a financial web application and database testing to some extent.
I have miss some critical defects in the past ...
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Big data application testing
I am working on a project which has big data components in it. What would be testing artifacts (types of testing) of it which consists of data batch jobs, data ingestion framework, HDFS, tableau ...
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What is Pragmatic risk analysis and management?
Going through ISTQTB documents found term PRAM
Pragmatic Risk Analysis and Management
Could anyone out there provide a practical example of PRAM
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Are there any freely available plugins or integrations for JIRA to write test cases? [closed]
Are there any freely available plugins or integrations for JIRA to write test cases?
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What is the difference between generic and specific scaffolding?
I searched the difference on google. But could'nt find any intuitive explanation for both the terms. Can someone give me the main differences between the two in software testing.
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how to enable assertions through the Gradle Kotlin DSL?
The simplest possible assert usage I could think of:
thufir@dur:~/NetBeansProjects/helloAssertions/src/main/java$
thufir@dur:~/NetBeansProjects/helloAssertions/src/main/java$ ls
App.java
thufir@dur:~...
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GITHUB Branching & Merging Challenges [closed]
We have a team of 6 automation QA resources.
We are using GitHub to update our automation scripts and merge to master. This project contains test cases for smoke and regression test scenarios. It ...
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How can 100% test coverage be "not enough to prove working code"?
It is known that 100% test/code coverage does not mean your code "works" as expected.
What is generally meant by this statement and what use cases could demonstrate that 100% coverage is not enough?
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How to ask better questions as QA to business analyst regarding functional specs to add value?
As a manual software tester, i ask a lot of questions/queries to my team's business analysts in email. For ex, there are some UI or functionality changes implemented, then i have queries both before ...
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What could a QA engineer do when a project is in an early stage?
Good day, beautiful and smart people!
We've been prototyping an application and it is more or less at the MVP stage and the customer, seeing the minimum desired functionality, is taking things ...
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Should I store my test results in a database or google docs?
I'm currently trying to decide what is the better place to store my test results; database (sql/nosql) or in a spreadsheet placed in google docs.
I have the impression that storing it into a database ...
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should test case names include numbers to maintain order in a tool like Spira or ALM
should test case names include numbers to maintain order in a tool like Spira or ALM
Users that came from Excel refuse to let go of the 1.01.001 1.01.002....
We have moved to a tool and automation ...
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How increasing appraisal costs decrease failure costs?
It is said that increase in the appraisal costs (i.e. costs spent for finding non-corfomances - testing, reviews) decreases the failure costs (that comprise of internal (fixing of bugs we found + ...
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Categorizing defects to identify root cause [closed]
In my current project, we have a lot of defects :) arising from different areas of the system.
I would like to go to each defect and associate what is the root cause for that particular bug. ...
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Migrating from AngularJS to ReactJS or what to do with existing e2e tests
The Story
We have a mission critical AngularJS application which we extensively test with e2e tests using Protractor/WebdriverJS. At the current state, we have ~30000 lines of existing e2e tests which ...
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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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Are there best practices for archiving test output reports?
I am using Katalon Studio for test automation. The reports are written to the disc. But, after a while, after many test suites are executed, the reports folder has grown to more than 40 GB. I would ...
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