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Why can't bugs be completely prevented?
There are several factors involved in the reasons it's impossible to create non-trivial bug-free software.
Technical
Even the simplest software has effectively infinite pathways through it. ...
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What are the good non technical books every professional tester must read which helped someone in real-time projects with specific examples?
My favorite 12 from over the past 3 years
Servant Leadership In Action - Leadership
The Alchemist - Perseverance and Level Two thinking
The Obstacle is the way - perseverance, focus
The Art of Clear ...
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Why can't bugs be completely prevented?
There is a says in testing
There is no patch for Human Stupidity ..!!!
There are many reasons for software bugs human mistakes in software design and coding. There is a very good BLOG may help to ...
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Can you explain the "Level of Risk" for each features in the context of writing 'Test Plan: Features to be tested'? Note: test plan format- IEEE 829
Risk is the possibility of a bad experience for someone who matters.
"who matters" may include users, sponsors, developers, testers, managers, regulatory agents, etc, etc, etc.
"bad experience" may ...
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Is equivalence partitioning test technique is really worth anything?
Ah the joys of combinatorial math.
As the other answers have implied, it's very easy for pretty much any technique to generate a massive number of test cases for any real-world application.
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Why can't bugs be completely prevented?
Not really much that could be added to Kate's answer, but here is my attempt anyway.
Is it possible? - Maybe, but NOT Feasible.
Going through all of the permutations of data, configurations, ...
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How is System Software Testing different from Application Software Testing?
In layman’s terms, application software testing is much complex as compared to system software testing. This is because system software testing is all about attaining functionalities within a confined ...
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What are the good non technical books every professional tester must read which helped someone in real-time projects with specific examples?
The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman
This will help in understanding usability testing on deeper level.
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Is equivalence partitioning test technique is really worth anything?
for an extensive system
That's why we have the principles of modularization and composition as code quality criteria.
Conducting checking in a big module is not sound engineering.
Taking your own ...
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Is equivalence partitioning test technique is really worth anything?
If for such simple code, I need 20 ECs, for an extensive system, the ECs will be an enormous number - rendering the EP test technique not very helpful.
Am I, and all the SW test textbooks, overplaying ...
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How can it be verified that all automatic updates for the host operating system are blocked?
I guess the simplest way is to run cmd tool that is responsible for updates and check if it fails to update (error code or error message returned) your system. However you should be prepared to the ...
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How can it be verified that all automatic updates for the host operating system are blocked?
There are OS that force updates and others and won't update unless you act.
The latter is naturally not a problem.
For the former, I see two options:
1 - You can run inside a Virtual Machine, using ...
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What are the good non technical books every professional tester must read which helped someone in real-time projects with specific examples?
Violence and the Sacred - René Girard (How society uses "try-catch" blocks to expel violence - once you get it, you start seeing this everywhere)
Antifragile - Nassim Taleb (make your systems not only ...
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What are the good non technical books every professional tester must read which helped someone in real-time projects with specific examples?
My book recommendation's are all the Simon Sinek books:
Start With Why
Leaders Eat Last
While both are leadership focused books, Start With Why brings the concept of the golden circle and how to ...
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How is System Software Testing different from Application Software Testing?
I'd disagree with the premise, or at least, disagree with breaking things into those two pieces. Because there are at least three types of software, if you want to look at a business software stack.
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How is System Software Testing different from Application Software Testing?
System software consist of operating systems on which generally we runs our various applications. They are very well documented and tested in much early phase of products life cycles(System software i....
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