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Boundary Value Analysis: Why would you test valid values inside the boundary?
We took 0 and 101 to test for INVALID data scenario.
We took 1 and 100 to test whether = part of <= and >= is working or not.
We took 2 and 99 to test whether VALID values are also working in(...
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Boundary Value Analysis: Why would you test valid values inside the boundary?
In your example, yes, it might be overkill if you are performing white-box testing. However, if you couldn't read or didn't have access to the code (i.e. black-box testing), these tests would be very ...
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Statement Coverage Question : ISTQB Foundation Level
Is there anything wrong with my flowchart?
Yes and no. It is correct functionally: it describes exactly what the code is supposed to do. However, in code, Display_messageZ is called in two places (...
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How to determine quality measures for correctness of dropdown sorting?
You should use the order that the company expects in the dropdown
That should be the order that makes most sense to your users based on their context
There is no 'best' way or simple standard other ...
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Introducing contract-based testing
Here is how I have seen this implemented before:
The consumer B produces a "B to A consumer contract file" that contains example requests and responses that it expects from A. B will contain a ...
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Statement Coverage Question : ISTQB Foundation Level
The answer for this question is 3. Here's why,
There are 2 if statements here. Each if statement has 2 possible out comes. Hence for each if statement 2 test cases would be required.
In the case ...
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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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How do I test a ranking system?
What should be the approach to test such a system? Generating all
possible combinations of data would be exhaustive when the number of
students and subjects increase.
You are looking for ...
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How should you interview for QA *Automation* positions?
This is a good question, from my experience you should be breaking down the technical skills you expect the candidate to master into 3-5 essential must have skills. For example:
Knowledge in ...
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Equivalent partitioning for alphabet or characters
Short answer is NO.
EP is not applicable to specific type of data format like numbers or alphabets/name
Equivalence Partitioning :
In this technique, input data units are divided into equivalent ...
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Is Orthogonal Array Testing similar to Design of Experiments?
No, not really.
Orthogoval Array Testing (OAT) is a way to combine inputs in order to have less number of test cases, which is mostly done to save time. An example could be when you have 3 variables ...
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What contract is in consumer-driven contract testing?
At the risk of sounding sarcastic, yes and no.
The consumer and provider contracts must define the syntax of requests and responses. If there are dependencies (indicating that the service is probably ...
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Introducing contract-based testing
To answer your question
Is this correct understanding? Am I missing anything?
The mechanism of sharing API Contracts depends on the contract testing approach you choose.
Consumer Driven Contract ...
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How to massage or format html in order to parse with xmlstarlet?
I think you have to pass it the HTML spec or also it does not understand the format.
-N n="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
Also see this question for some examples:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...
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Validating adherence to software architecture/design after implementation
If the non-functional requirements have been documented and have a specified target, then they should be testable. The problem comes in designing the tests to measure non-functional requirements. ...
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Statement Coverage Question : ISTQB Foundation Level
Correct flow chart --
Answer is C = 3
A,B, F,G
A,B, C, E, D, F, G
A, B,C, E, F, G
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How Can a Tester Increase his Observation Skills?
What I do in general to increase my observation ,is to close my eyes and describe in fine detail any known physical setting for me like my living room/my office cubicle/ any other extremely known ...
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