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How to measure cost for Software Testing?

14 November 2011

How do we measure the Costs of Software Testing?
Measuring the cost of testing is an important step toward justifying any software testing initiative. All software testing expenditures are justified by comparing the benefits accrued with the cost. The benefits could be in terms of quality measurement and failure prevention or earlier detection etc.
Before testing managers [...]

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White Box Testing Technique-All about Code Coverage

14 November 2011

Let us firstly try to understand as to what is Code coverage.
It is a sort of metric meant for the measurement of the testing effort applied to the software application.
It is aimed at inspecting the code directly and is therefore a form of white box testing.
How do we capture the metrics of code coverage?
The process [...]

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Tricky Terms for Software Testing

8 June 2011

What is Ramp Testing? – Continuously raising an input signal until the system breaks down.
What is Depth Testing? – A test that exercises a feature of a product in full detail.
What is Quality Policy? – The overall intentions and direction of an organization as regards quality as formally expressed by top management.
What is Race Condition? [...]

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Challenges for Reusability in Software / QA Testing

11 May 2011

Successful implementation of reusability in software QA testing throws up many challenges. They might be difficult to answer; but they are certainly not impossible. Here we have a look at the most difficult challenges that lie in the effective implementation of reusability.
1. Safely separating the project functionality into shareable and non-shareable areas.
Every project deals with [...]

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Reusability in Software / QA Testing – Conceptual Understanding

11 May 2011

The Software QA / testing domain is a very rich field that could be mined for the benefits of reusability. Most of all QA actions such as clicking an object, opening a page, executing a command, verifying the output, generating different kinds of test data etc., are very generic in nature and wide in scope, [...]

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How to Create a Software Test Plan?

6 May 2011

The purpose of a Software Test Plan is to guide all testing activities related to a system. A Software Test Plan (STP) is a procedural guide for listing the testing activities that should be carried out for the project. It describes the software test environment for testing, identifies the tests to be performed, and provides [...]

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Common Software Testing Myths

6 May 2011

Below are listed the common myths that we encounter in the software testing industry. These myths are statements which are false, but they are so widespread that over a period of time, people assume them to be true.
Myth 1 : A software tester’s only task is to find bugs.
This view of the tester’s role is [...]

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Exploratory Testing Explained

6 May 2011

Exploratory Testing is a term that is widely used in the software testing industry, but sadly it is also much misunderstood. Many presume it wrongfully to denote any kind of testing where a software tester explores the application. Lets now attempt to understand what Exploratory Testing is all about.
Exploratory Testing is the process of simultaneous [...]

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Bug Severity Assignment

6 May 2011

When bugs are filed we tag them with a “Severity” flag in the bug report. This severity flag has values from S1 to S4 (with S1 having the highest severity)
S1 (Severity 1) -> Critical
A critical bug causes system crash or data loss, or core functionality of a feature is being broken.
S2  (Severity 2) -> Severe
A [...]

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