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What is Bi-directional Traceability Matrix?
Requirement Traceability matrix maps the user requirements with the test cases. In simple words, the matrix helps in determining if all the requirements have been covered(i.e there are test cases ...
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Software Requirements Engineering
The definition of ‘functional requirement’ is that it essentially specifies something the system should do.
The definition for a non-functional requirement is that it essentially specifies how the ...
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How to ask better questions as QA to business analyst regarding functional specs to add value?
As others have said, communicate the way the BA is most comfortable with.
Some other suggestions:
Start by confirming your understanding of the functional spec/feature behavior - I can't stress ...
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How to ask better questions as QA to business analyst regarding functional specs to add value?
It's not an easy question and I am not sure it belongs in SQA, but have you tried to set up meetings and ask the questions face to face ?
Many times a small demo or a few minutes of screen time can ...
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The third amigo problem when customer is unknown
This is an example of building a software system for the marketplace. In this case, you have many customers or users, each of which has its expectations for the system. However, someone must have ...
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What are the ingredients for a successful Three Amigos meeting?
Make testing the focus
For a given feature that you are discussing, as a group, go through what you plan for unit tests, integration tests and end-to-end tests. Talk about how you will do ...
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How not to do chaos in software requirements from the beginning?
Ask more questions.
Ask better questions.
(Try Example Mapping, or other solutions listed in this question)
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How to ask better questions as QA to business analyst regarding functional specs to add value?
See if you can get some time with the BA to walk through questions. Maybe they comprehend better by seeing than by written description. If you aren't in the same office a quick skype (or what ever ...
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Proper way to form a functional requirement
To my understanding:
As the developer, even you will not perform this action; you will still need to test running it as part of your unit tests.
In the case of this action can not be performed due ...
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How should Software Testers improve the process of Requirements Analysis?
Review business and functional specifications on early phases. This should not take much time. Don't be afraid of asking questions and to look silly. After all this is your job to find bugs and bugs ...
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What is the best practice to analyze the requirement as a tester?
It is not answerable. Answer is: "QA should devote as much time as needed to find out all inconsistencies in requirements, but don't waste anything beyond that". So you are back on square one.
To ...
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What is the difference between SRS, RA, FRS, BRS documents?
The short-short answer - it depends.
The longer version
Despite the names and theoretical definitions, the differences in practice in my experience come down to how a particular organization chooses ...
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What are the ingredients for a successful Three Amigos meeting?
One of the ways is Example Mapping.
All you need is a pack of coloured cards and pens and preferably a table.
Write the story on a yellow card and place it at the top of the table
Write the ...
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How not to do chaos in software requirements from the beginning?
I think this question is as a result of not following two of the most important testing principle:
Early testing
Early testing states that testing activity should begin as early as possible. This ...
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How can ISO 9000 and ISO 25000 Quality definition differ - parts included
The main difference it that requirements are what has been written down in the requirements documents, both the top level requirements document as supplied by the customer and in the derived ...
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What is the best practice to analyze the requirement as a tester?
It’s better to catch the requirement ambiguities and fix them in the early development life cycle itself.
Project functionality (What should be done and what should not be done).
Software, Hardware ...
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How should Software Testers improve the process of Requirements Analysis?
You see that as a problem, I see that as normal development process in an Agile team.
There is a reason why The Agile Manifesto says
Welcome changing requirements, even late in development
Like ...
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How to ask better questions as QA to business analyst regarding functional specs to add value?
First when you go through the Change request document, you read it carefully, inline it with current implementations and the raise queries to your BA with previous implementation and current change ...
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How should I document tests and requirements when third-party software is broken?
The short answer: you can't prevent regression in third party software.
More detail:
Third party software, as one of the comments mentioned, is outside your control. Since it's essential to your ...
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What are the ingredients for a successful Three Amigos meeting?
I'd also add that seeing the story beforehand is a good way of making the Three Amigos session more likely to provide benefit.
Thinking up questions and issues on the spot when you've only just seen ...
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What does QA need to take into consideration while checking that tasks are valid
Not answering the question directly, but using templates in tickets would help the author and you better understand what is expected and what is missing.
It really depends on the tool you are using ...
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What does QA need to take into consideration while checking that tasks are valid
That is the job of the whole team in agile process. Firstly all of people involved in development process sit together and come up with Definition of ready, which is basically a checklist for task/...
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How to ask better questions as QA to business analyst regarding functional specs to add value?
just to be clear, the function of testing is to verify the behavior of the entity under test. the role of QA probably should not be to design or engineer the product (that is unless the company only ...
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How to ask better questions as QA to business analyst regarding functional specs to add value?
So here I can see two possible issues:
BA does actually understand your questions but they do not want to take responsibility since there might be some tricky points or areas.
BA does not understand ...
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What percentage of total Requirements for a system are defect?
Assuming that you are asking if there is some kind of typical measure of how many requirements for a given system are in fact incorrect in some way, the simple answer is it depends.
Is a requirement ...
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How should Software Testers improve the process of Requirements Analysis?
As a QA Tester, you can take some time out before starting testing and using that for writing extensive use cases which will cover most of the scenarios. This will help you in later stages. However, ...
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What is the best practice to analyze the requirement as a tester?
Ensure the requirements address the objective or its purpose.
Ensure negative scenarios or conflicting workflows of the requirements.
Define scope of the requirements. What is covered and what is out ...
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What is the best practice to analyze the requirement as a tester?
When I read the word requirement my spline shivers. It is just an idea, probably a flawed one, it is definitely not required. What that blog describes is traditional waterfall, where the costs go up ...
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What is the difference between SRS, RA, FRS, BRS documents?
It always boils down to the question of how much documentation do we actually need and when does it start to become waste. Waste is documentation no one ever reads or uses. I think a lot of this ...
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What is the best practice to analyze the requirement as a tester?
Testers should:
Write Test Cases based on the requirements
Clarify any assumed requirements
Begin Testing at the requirement phase
Requirements should be:
clear and specific with no uncertainty
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