Questions tagged [test-management]
Use for questions about managing the test process, including organizing test cases and test results.
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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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How would we know when we are over-testing?
I've recently heard the idea of over-testing for the first time while listening to the interview of the coverage.py maintainer on the Talk Python to Me podcast show.
coverage.py has a new feature to ...
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How to manage "test activities" that take place between test cases in a test suite?
Within a test suite, each test case generates a large amount of test data, which is used as input to the next test case in the sequence. Frequently we want to manipulate the test data to cause ...
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How to effectively document / manage existing manual test cases?
Recently, I came across a feature that had been tested before.
This ticket was assigned to me on Jira, there was no mentioning of any previous testing on this ticket.
After I discovered a few issues ...
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Functional Testing - How do you track your test cases?
So I'm the sole-developer maintaining a software project owned by a non-profit. Being the sole CS guy on the project, I'm finding myself wearing many different hats. One of those is of your typical ...
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How to structure the test suite in test management tool
Im using Testlink as our test management tool. We are using in agile environment
How to structure our test cases as test suite in our test management tool. Also how to maintain the tracerbility
We ...
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Difference between Test Cycle and Test Suite, in qTest
I am trying to navigate qTest for the first time and get a good understanding of the application.
What is the difference between a Test Cycle and a Test Suite as described by qTest's Test Execution ...
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How to resolve high priority issue at the time of delivery [duplicate]
What will you do if you find a high priority bug and your client wants to deploy the software after knowing that critical bug and you don't have your Developer to fix that bug he is on vacation?
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New to Management Information testing
I am starting a new role as a Management Information tester. Can someone give me some beginners advice please. I keep hearing source and target? What exactly does this mean?
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I need to do research on any topic related to Quality assurance. Which topic would be good? [closed]
The topic should not be vague and something which is difficult to achieve. Simple and conclusive topic would be the best.Please suggest some.
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What are the testing practices in Financial Services
I'm currently working on a new financial services software and wanted to know what is the current testing practices in the financial services.
Would love to hear any thoughts/insights regarding the ...
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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 to evaluate a candidate skills for purely manual testing [duplicate]
Is there any well-defined process to be followed in evaluating a candidate for manual testing?
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Test Management Tool for Cucumber and BDD test cases
We want to maintain a single test management tool for all the cucumber tests and the manual test cases (test cases also written in BDD format).
Will create the manual test cycles for execution as ...
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How should Software Testers improve the process of Requirements Analysis?
Whenever, i am working on my task of Analyzing the functional specification or requirements documents of any new Feature, enhancement or Defect fixes, I just go through what is clearly evident in the ...
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Opensource test management tool thats being used for both agile and waterfall
I am looking for some open source test management tool that should go well both for agile and waterfall and can integrate with TFS.
Anybody using something like this and have reviews that will be ...
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Adding tests to a half-finished project
Background:
We are a small dev team in a larger org. We have no testers allocated to us. We have had our backs against a wall for five months developing something as quickly as possible. In that time, ...
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Test Management Tools and automated tests - how to integrate the two?
I’m desperately looking for a test management tool that fully supports automated tests. As this sounds simple, I still fail to do so.
We have a bunch of automated tests, which are run as part of our ...
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What are the Differences in Test Management with TFS vs MTM for 2017 vs 2012?
What are the Differences in Test Management with Team Foundation Server, Visual Studio, & Microsoft Test Manager for 2017?
testing activities processes as of 2012 are:
Create backlog items (in ...
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Should Software Testers say that functionality is "working fine" or should they say that "it seems/appears to working fine or looks good"?
As a blackbox tester, while giving my testing status to the management, i usually refrain from saying that a particular feature, enhancement of defect is "working fine" and say that it seems/appear to ...
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How does Continuous Integration add value to Automation Testing?
How do I gain the value from CI tools as an Automation Tester?
What are the advantages to using such tools and how do they help me and the company in the development process ?
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Test Design Automation
I have downloaded an article from Dzone regarding Test Design Automation. I"m not quite understand what is Test Design Automation.
Please enlighten me on this.
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What are good ways to manage test data?
The company I work for is moving towards CI and DevOps.
Currently we store our test data (mainly XML test requests) either on a network drive.
We want to move away from this. Looking for a system we ...
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Fail vs Error in automated tests
Do you guys separate fails and errors in your automated tests report?
fail - assert error
error - all code errors (except from asserts)
In my opinion we should. Lets say we have such testcase ...
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What should tester do when user stories/documentation is outdated or simply wrong?
We are doing 'scrum', but we are also developing side feature (project) that has extremely hard time with defining correct business requirements.
This feature is not properly included in scrum, ...
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What are key advantages of adding developer who can test vs tester who can code
Background: To hire for an engineer position in a small(2-3 developers) agile team where there is no existing "tester" in the team.
Problem statement: We are trying to decide what skills we should be ...
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What software for test script versioning
What are some good and reliable software tools for versioning and housing test automation and manual scripts?
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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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Looking for a SAAS with step-by-step test cases + email alert on success + github issue opening on failure
Anyone knows such a service?
Want it to be as simple as possible and use it mainly for running sanity checks on every version.
I want to define a test case (hopefully divided to sections) and be ...
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Im looking a test plan template document for agile environment. Appreciate if you can share
Im preparing some QA template for QA department. We are following Agile development process and im looking a test plan template that can use in agile environment
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What would be the strategy when too many bugs are found in the final round of testing?
The QA team starts testing a software/product and there are “way too many” defects…!
Every other scenario is failing, new flows are explored & clarifications sought.
What would be the strategy now?...
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How do you know when to stop testing?
Background: While manually testing an application in scenarios, where an application has complex functionality features, supporting multiple platforms(Web/mobile/Web APIs)/versions(OS Versions) where ...
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Looking for ''test management tool'' for manual testing [duplicate]
I am researching Test Management tool for creating test plan, test cases, test coverage, test matrix, reports and also should integrate with automation tools with providing some features for e.g. test ...
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How to ensure one change does not affect the rest of the component?
There will be a lot of releases coming out during the lifecycle of a package release. How to ensure that the latest change does not affect the previous components?
I would say once a release ...
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What is the difference between unexpected result and deviation from normal workflow?
In the context of software testing, what is the difference between the following:
Deviation from normal workflow
Unexpected results
Incorrect results
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Testing a multi-platform project
We have an Android app that also has an online portal.
Currently, two teams of developers are working on the Android and the web part separately.
the process is being tracked using two separate Trello ...
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Naming a positive "happy path" test case
We have a rather reach set of unit tests for our Python/Django backend. Most of the tests contain a one or more "happy" path tests and a lot of "negative" test cases checking the validation, error-...
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What is the right time to start Test Automation for any long run project?
There are many situations when we realizing that Automation Testing must be done.
I work in a product based company and we are going to start to work on that product from the scratch. In the product, ...
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How to manage test automation project with agile methodology when we have no control over the software we are testing
A team is developing software and testing it using a dummy back end. That team is not allowed to have access to the real system for testing (politics), so my team is testing it with the real back end. ...
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Using a different database engine for testing
This was inspired by the Speeding up Django unit tests with SQLite, keepdb and /dev/shm article that demonstrates how switching from PostgreSQL to an in memory SQLite helps to speed up testing during ...
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Managing quality of Supplier testing
We are starting from scratch on how to get better visibility of how and what our software suppliers are actually testing and the governance around that process. Would welcome any input or examples of ...
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When does the testing phase start in a project
When a new project starts in an organization, when does the testing role come in? Is it at the same time as the development stage, or later?
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How to motivate devs to test their own work?
I don't know if you have faced the situation but I wanted to open a discussion about the following topic: How to motive developers to test their own work?
When I mean "their own work" it can go ...
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Test Plan/Strategy scenario
New here. i have this scenario right here as im applying for my first intern position. i really don't understand what to do here. should i make a testplan document etc?
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1) You're given the ...
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Looking for a way to identify tests to deprecate/remove based on code changes [duplicate]
How do companies do this typically? Is there any metadata linkage between test cases and code components covered?
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Clean up test cases
How do companies clean up test cases? If I have 5000 tests in my library and 1000 of them are deprecated because we have cleaned up the code associated originally, how do we ensure that the tests are ...
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Should I test multiple paths to a webpage in this case?
Here is an example. Say you are testing an ebook reader web app. The app lets users highlight text, add notes to highlighted text, view all their highlights & notes in the book, search for ...
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How to establish better tracking of escaped bugs?
At my company, we don't have good tracking for escaped bugs (or awareness of in QA a lot of the time) once releases go to prod.
When the users find bugs they have a tendency to go straight to the ...
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How to incorporate manual testing into an existing project
My project is a CRUD web application written in PHP and React, with user panel and admin panel. We were just assigned a manual tester and I (as the project's Lead Developer, and a person responsible ...
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How to develop and review test cases?
This is how our test case development process looks like. A tester writes a test case in a spreadsheet, with each test step and expected result. Then, another tester reviews the test case and approves ...
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