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What could a QA engineer do when a project is in an early stage?
If the product is at the MVP stage and your QA is just getting started, there's a problem. As a BA I saw this time and time again with dev vs QA where the dev team only got the BA to do testing when ...
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What could a QA engineer do when a project is in an early stage?
Are you aware that “70 to 85% of bugs in software are due to incomplete or inaccurate functional requirements?”
"There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking ...
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What should be a tester's reaction when any person from business team find a bug?
I have been telling them that 100% tested and bug free product is a
myth.
It might be the way you are telling it. Probably it is true, but having an attitude "it is not my problem" is not the right ...
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IEEE 730 standard - Why was "non-functional" term deprecated when applied to requirements?
The terms “performance requirement” or “performance attribute” are preferred over “non functional requirement” according to the most recent update of The IEEE Standard for Software Quality Assurance ...
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What could a QA engineer do when a project is in an early stage?
Although all observations are valid, from a project point of view, I am missing the motivational and learning point of view.
Starting some automation now can also be part of the learning of that ...
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How should agile stories be written to make QA testing easy?
Introduce high-level testing methods may help, such as behavior-driven development (BDD)
Direct quote from Wikipedia:
BDD is largely facilitated through the use of a simple domain-specific language (...
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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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Password field testing, few questions
If you don't have specific requirements you should design test cases based on best practices, best user experience and security.
It's not a bug, because it does not behave differently from ...
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How do I test when I have incomplete requirements
But, there are ALWAYS requirements - even if they are not formally documented. They may take some time to discover and list, but they exist.
First, look for general requirements and work to document ...
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What could a QA engineer do when a project is in an early stage?
I agree that it may be too early for much automation. But there is still a lot QA can bring to the project to help it be successful at this stage.
If it were me on the project, along with learning ...
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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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What is intermittent issue in Testing?
The simple answer is: an issue that occurs at an irregular interval or not in a continuous or steady manner.
Another way to define this "a mysterious and undesirable behavior of a system, ...
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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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How should agile stories be written to make QA testing easy?
Consider adjusting your development workflow to include and promote some of the following practices:
QA can tag a ticket for a developer to talk to qa before they start writing code
QA reviews ...
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How do I test when I have incomplete requirements
How do I test when I have incomplete requirements?
Like you normally would.
You'll never have complete requirements, there will always be some information missing or things you don't know ahead of ...
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What could a QA engineer do when a project is in an early stage?
It sounds like you're on the right lines already but, in addition to going through the requirements and getting familiarised with the roadmap, it's definitely worth getting him to exploratory test the ...
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What could a QA engineer do when a project is in an early stage?
note: I assume you are CTO or similar role or the "boss" for QA stuff
In order to clarify my "idea" of QA during project/product development, I've write down following workflow as example:
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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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Anyone aware of a browser where HTTPS can be disabled entirely for negative testing?
You could try using oldweb.today
for example here is IE4 rejecting https://google.com since it is HTTPS.
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How to link test cases back to the requirement (specification) document, and vice-versa
I wouldn't link in both directions; this means a lot of effort and may quickly become out of date. Maintaining documentation can also slow down development really bad. From my experience, code tends ...
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What if the application has functionality that wasn't in the requirements?
Undocumented features are BUGS
It doesn't matter whether the undocumented functionality appears harmful or not, it is still a bug for the following reasons:
Because the functionality isn't ...
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What should be a tester's reaction when any person from business team find a bug?
Production defects are always the metric of a tester's performance (or some other variations like ratio of prod issues to the ones detected on testing phase weighted by their severity for example). So ...
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Password field testing, few questions
Since you don't have guidelines, you would have trouble justifying the behavior of the password field as a bug.
That said, I'd suggest you raise a bug and classify it as a security flaw. You can cite ...
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What should be a tester's reaction when any person from business team find a bug?
First reaction should be, buy some time to investigate the issue and co-ordinate to fix the issue. Then let them know "we would investigate why the issue has been leaked from our testing".
then,
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Possible Test cases for "We should allow user to have easy way to contact support via web site"
Based on your question, below are the possible test cases for checking the contact us link.
Assumption
Consider Contact us is a link, on clicking the link will open a popup with contact us form or ...
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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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What could a QA engineer do when a project is in an early stage?
I think it's a good time to ask questions about how you're defining quality for the app (ie, how quick it needs to be, how accessible it needs to be, supported browsers) I've also found that test ...
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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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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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Possible Test cases for "We should allow user to have easy way to contact support via web site"
If I was handed a site that had a "contact us" link and a requirement of "we should allow users to to have an easy way to contact support via web site" I would start with these questions:
How do you ...
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