Questions tagged [qa]
Quality assurance (for software) is the process followed to provide some level of confidence that software-based system conforms to established technical requirements.
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Should we quit trying to do agile if QA takes 12 weeks?
Someone in my company recently proposed changes to our core product that our managers feel should trigger what I guess my company considers a full QA cycle (i.e. testing the entire product suite from ...
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Are programmers bad testers?
I know this sounds a lot like other questions which have already being asked, but it is actually slightly different. It seems to be generally considered that programmers are not good at performing the ...
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Where should QA team do the testing in Gitflow branching model
We are a big team (10-12 developers and 4 qa) working on multiple projects with the same git repository. Its a spring boot based backend web service. We are looking for a good git branching and deploy ...
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What is a good measure of testing/tester efficiency?
I am about to participate in a discussion with management regarding measuring our testing efficiency as a QA organization. The main reason behind this is that half of our team is contracted out and ...
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Coding and testing in the same sprint
How is testing handled within the same sprint as coding, if all or most of the coding is not done until the end of the sprint? (I'm referring to the "soup-to-nuts" development and testing of a single ...
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Dilemma of QA vs. iterations
In my company, we successfully working with agile practices - but without using iterations. The main reason is that we can't find a clean way to fit in QA in an iteration cycle.
We understand QA as ...
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How strict should you be about indentation/white space? [closed]
Our development process is as follows
code the task -> someone else QAs code and documentation -> task is merged into trunk.
Recently a colleague is refusing to pass the code QA due to issues with ...
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Sharing development test cases (unit and development integration) with the QA (test) team?
The testing team (the so-called QA team in some organizations) insists that the development team should share their (the development team's) test cases with them. Their arguments are that the ...
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How much time/money should be spent on software QA/QC? [closed]
Any non-trivial commercial application/program/system/what-have-you requires testing (QA/QC).
Not counting things like automated tests, how much time/money relative to the development investment in ...
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What is the role of QA in a BDD project?
If running a project using BDD with 100% coverage of user stories with automated acceptance tests, what would be the role of a tester / quality assurance person?
I guess I am imagining that ...
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Who is responsible for defects found during development?
When the QA find an error like 'broken design in web programming', do you call it a bug and the corrections 'patches'? (Assume all this is before delivery.)
I was of the feeling that the corrections ...
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QA - Developer communication [duplicate]
I am a developer and have worked at this company 4~5 years by now.
We have been practicing scrum for about 2 years.
I think, I have been worked well with QAs.
I believe QAs/developers/technical ...
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How are minimum system requirements determined?
We've all seen countless examples of software that ships with "minimum system requirements" like the following:
Windows XP/Vista/7
1GB RAM
200 MB Storage
How are these generally determined? ...
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Should QA be part of the development department?
I work for a small company that has had a product development department for quite a while. What we haven't had, however, is a QA/testing group.
We are looking to add a testing group, but are ...
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What are good requirements for a QA engineer? [closed]
We're hiring a QA person and I am supposed to come up with some interview questions. The truth is, I don't know much about what a good QA engineer should know, much less what good interview questions ...
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What is your strategy for converting RC builds into retail?
We're trying to implement a strategy for how we transition our builds from RC to released retail code.
When we label a build as a release candidate, we send it to QA for regression. If they approve ...
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How much detail is in a good UI regression test?
We use a detailed step-by-step user-interface regression test for our commercial web application. It has a "backbone" test for the most used / most important parts of the system, with optional tests ...
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What is Black Box Testing? Are Functional and Usability Testing its types?
I am writing about testing and I am confused about the following:
What exactly is Black-Box testing?
Are functional testing and Usability testing two different types of testing and are they types of ...
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Quality Assurance=inspections, reviews..?
Studying this subject extensively, the most books state the following:
Quality Assurance: prevention activity. Act of inspection, reviewing..
Quality Control: testing
While there are some ...
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Agile: QA without dedicated test resource
I'm currently working in a small internal software development team of four people. Having had a lot of success with Agile in the past (which none of my colleagues have used before), I'm keen to try ...
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Is there a "DevTest" or "DevQA" equivalent to "DevOps"?
I understand "devops" to be the application of the development processes (issue tracking, version control, release management...) to operations tasks (deployment, migration...).
Is there an ...
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