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For questions concerning proper naming of events, activities, practices, or tools used in SQA. Using a proper terminology helps team collaboration and hence improves the overall quality of a Product.

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What is meant by the term "Pesticide Paradox" in testing point of view?

Boris Beizer wrote “Every method you use to prevent or find bugs leaves a residue of subtler bugs against which those methods are ineffectual.” In the most simple terms not every method or technique w …
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Using formal methods when you test applications

Cyclomatic complexity is one way to assess or measure the complexity of a chunck of code (specifically the number of linearly indpendent paths). Some developers may use this measure to refactor comple …
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What would be a good term for continuous testing post-deployment?

We refer to this as sustained engineering. Our sustained engineering teams fix product bugs identified by customers post release; they also make sure changes by upstream dependencies don't introduce …
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Is my test a perf unit functional smoke test or something else?

There are several reasons to organize related groups tests into different test suites. Purpose - the fundamental purpose of a functional test is different then the purpose of a performance test, or …
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If a test mocks out one dependency but not another, is it still a unit test or does it becom...

A unit test is a type of a functional test. I am not sure what distinction you are trying to make, or why it is important to you.
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Installation testing is part of functional or non-functional testing?

As I indicated in this reply Accessibility Testing - Should it be considered functional testing or non functional testing? I like the following definitions from http://www.lessons-from-history.com/nod …
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