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Changing testing culture in the company
There has to be some sort of pain point to make Management and front-line employees aware of the need for testing. How your company does that depends on how mission or life-critical the software truly ...
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How to determine 'reasonable' response times for performance testing?
Consider using A/B testing on your site to determine the impact of response time differences to your customers.
If done well, you will determine
If performance differences really matter
How much ...
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How quality relates to functionality? (it is not considered by quality models)
To improve quality for a software product we are splitting up quality into internal and external quality. Spread over three quality groups. It gives a more detailed view on the different quality ...
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What is quality javascript in the new world of es6+
I'd highly recommend you take a look at the Airbnb Style Guide. Although, it's a little long and has some subjective rules, you can easily pick out your favorites and apply them to your code reviews.
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How to choose appropriate test data for equivalence class partitions?
Should I create some linkage in my documentation so that the same
inputs are avoided across different scripts?
Yes, you should create the same to avoid repetition of input data and expected results....
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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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How to determine 'reasonable' response times for performance testing?
There is no quantitative measurement for 'reasonable'. We will always disagree about what reasonable means. When using an application that is of no consequence to me, my tolerance level will be around ...
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How to determine 'reasonable' response times for performance testing?
Ideally acceptable response time ranges should be specified in SLA or NFR.
If they aren't - you need to make an assumption for how long end user will have to wait which may be minutes for i.e. in-...
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How to apply boundary value analysis to a practically unlikely/impossible boundary?
Is it acceptable to re-define boundaries from functional to testable?
It depends.
If you are testing a value that represent a physical property you can safely limit yourself, although it is a good ...
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What can be used within individual workbenches to produce the right output? - ISTQB question
Tools and techniques allow you to test in a specific way (depending on the tool, or on which technique used).
They will produce correct output (as in: the product has been verified correctly by using ...
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Changing testing culture in the company
Testing culture can only be changed with support of upper management. If management doesn't support you, then you won't be able to change the culture. So you have to make a case to management that ...
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Establishing QA in a new company - models/guidelines to follow?
I've had the same request a few years ago indeed. The company I am working for decided to set up a dedicated QA dept.
After an initial period of research we decided to adopt an international standard, ...
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API Test Plan Documentation Standards
My personal take:
At a high level
Test the API Endpoints, Status Codes and Data with Smoke, Happy and Sad Tests
At a detailed level one needs to ask the following questions.
The answers will guide ...
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Changing testing culture in the company
Who Test Often, Release Often.
Proposed Solution:One needs to build a strong case for testing to project team/ management in terms of visibility.
I think the key lies in release frequency.This is ...
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Maximum how many lines in a java class file recommended?
There is no recommended code limit. Usually when you navigate through the code you navigate through logic, not through the lines. Number of lines can also be dependent on the code style (like whether ...
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Maximum how many lines in a java class file recommended?
1800 lines of code is definitely not desirable. You need to refactor your class to separate the responsibilities. On a general rule, check the following
Possibility of separating utility methods to a ...
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What Standards are covered in the Release Process?
I have used ISO/IEC 90003, which discusses how to implement ISO 9001 for Software Engineering as a guideline for areas that should be covered in a process. There are a number of sections that discuss ...
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Is there any standards in Software Performance testing?
There are many references about performance testing. The ones referenced in the wiki page Yu Zhang linked are a good starting place.
That said, there are no set standards for performance testing for ...
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Is there any standards in Software Performance testing?
It is hard to adhere to a single standard as software performance testing has to be tailored to their contextual environments.
Software performance testing has relatively vague requirements, as ...
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Difference between standards "correctly implemented" and "followed" - QA vs QC
You can look at this from the product vs process perspective: is "not following the standard" a product or a process problem? It is a process problem because the issue is that the process/policy/...
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How to apply boundary value analysis to a practically unlikely/impossible boundary?
This is a situation where a set of test data designed specifically for unusual/rare test scenarios comes in handy.
The way I'd deal with your situation is this:
Set up two or more extremely high-...
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Establishing QA in a new company - models/guidelines to follow?
Having gone through the CMM adaptation I'll point out that it isn't just what is inside the QA process that matters. The QA process needs inputs and outputs and having a formal (written) process means ...
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