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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Add a unit test for each new bug
In my job all developers that resolve a bug have to add a new unit test that warns about this type of bugs (in the case it occours again). If a unit test is not possible (for example, a webpage design ...
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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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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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Is Software Testing Really Needed?
I'm a student working on my B.E(CS) and my question is the following:
Is testing in the software field needed?
If we create a software with great care, then why should we test?
After testing can ...
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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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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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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 tester's time be included when estimating tickets?
When creating time estimates for tickets should the time taken for testers (QAs) be included in a tickets estimate? We have previously always estimated without the testers time but we are talking ...
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The cost of longer delay between development and QA
At my current position, QA has become a bottleneck. We have had the unfortunate occurence of features being held out of the current build so that QA could finish testing. This means features that ...
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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 does a large company make rookie mistakes which leave security holes? [closed]
Sony was recently hacked with a SQL injection and the passwords of their user's was stored in plain text. These are rookie mistakes. In such a large company, how does this pass QA? How do they not ...
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How to encourage client to do some in house QA testing?
Update/Clarification My client understands the need for their in-house testing and he/they always swears they will "do better" (i.e. do something) but it just doesn't happen. They don't have the ...
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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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Do you believe it's a good idea for Software Engineers to have to work as Quality Assurance Engineers for some period of time? [closed]
I believe it is. Why?
I've encountered many Software Engineers who believe they are somehow superior to QA engineers. I think it may help quench this belief if they do the job of a QA engineer for ...
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what is the difference between Soak testing and Stress testing?
Can anybody explain the difference about soak and stress testing? I googled about them and found that both are about to test the software beyond its limits. Is it right for both testing strategies?
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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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Should QA find reproducible scenarios?
Sometimes my QA team reports bugs, but neither I or them have any idea on how to reproduce them. This leads to very long and frustrating debugging sessions which sometimes do not even yield results.
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Are end-to-end and integration tests worth it for non-mission critical stuff?
It's well known that end-to-end and integration tests are costly. Of course if we develop applications where people might die if things go wrong it's a worthwhile investment. However in applications ...
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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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Is creating a completely duplicate system for quality assurance (QA) of another a bad practice?
At work we have a quite complicated system. Let's call this system, System_A. Our QA team has created another system, call this system, System_B, to test System_A.
The way System_B is used is as ...
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Is seniority/paygrade an important factor for effective QA members? [duplicate]
As a member of our company's QA team, I frequently get entirely unenthusiastic feedback from developers in their responses to test results in our agile, web-based software-as-a-service shop. Most of ...
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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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If we have TDD and BDD why do we need QA for? [duplicate]
If we have TDD and BDD why do we need QA for? Isn't the job of the developer to write bugs or failing tests? If this is true how a QA fit in? Thanks.
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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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If a new feature is implemented and there is a bug, should QA reject that feature or accept it and file a new bug?
At work, we use a bug tracker called Pivotal Tracker (www.pivotaltracker.com) that allows engineers to file features and bugs. If a feature or bug fix is delivered, it is QA's job to accept or reject ...
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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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Who de-duplicates bug tickets?
One of my team mates and I just grabbed separate bug tickets, assigned them separately to ourselves, but the tickets were duplicates!
What is the best way to resolve duplicate tickets? Is this ...
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When should development stop and QA begin?
We write a complete functional specification for our development team of two. We do not have professional testers however we have drafted in the help of our available helpdesk personnel to perform 'QA ...
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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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What should developers test before submitting their work to testers? [closed]
Is there a checklist the developer must go over before passing their work to testers?
Also, what are the conditions/cases the developer must pay attention to ?
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Test-driven development and improving white box testing skills
I am an entry level Java Programmer straight out of school.
I have good knowledge and experience with J2SE.
Can anyone advise me on how to improve or tune my skills towards being a Java white box ...
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Git branch model with QA and branches
We would like to use Driessen's git branch model but we also have QA side. I think I understand how this git flow works but I'm still not sure about testing. For example, I have five new features, ...
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What programming skills does someone in QA need to work effectively in extreme programming projects?
Well, the title really says it all, but to elaborate a bit, can you take a random, typically effective QA department and have them learn to work in an XP environment (with a learning curve to pick up ...
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How to handle growing QA reporting requirements?
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Our company is growing very quickly - in 3 years we've tripled in size and there are no signs of stopping any time soon. Our marketing department has expanded and our IT requirements ...
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Is separate QA team, redundant in development life cycle?
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Developer is the best person to know/understand the dark corners after any development/enhancement of enterprise software, compared to QA technician.
Developer can assess the depth/...
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What is proper order of pull requests and testing?
We want to setup proper development workflow.
We have two main branches: master(release branch) and develop(working branch).
We want to use pull requests properly.
We see two ways how to do this:
The ...
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Do Agile projects use abbreviated defect reporting? [closed]
I'm accustomed to relatively rigid defect reporting, something like this.
Steps to reproduce:
1. Access customer manager for user Test01
2. Check "User must change password" and click Apply
3. Access ...
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Outsourcing Quality Assurance and Testing [closed]
I was recently approached by a software firm that specializes in Quality Assurance and Testing.
Up until this point, the developers at our (small) company have been responsible for their own QA for ...
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Long-Term Strategy For Implementing a QA System?
I have been given the task of implementing some QA testing into a massive existing system. We're going to start out with system-level tests and might add unit tests if it is deemed necessary.
I ...
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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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Software testing automation documentation
What document types could be used when describing software testing automation (on any phase, automation planning, test design, implementation, reporting)? Is there any standard types of documents?
If ...
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When conducting a code review, should the focus be on the completeness of the requirement?
Given that the reviewer is not part of the project, but was assigned to review because he has done some coding for the application being updated/enhanced.
Is it the reviewer's job to ensure that the ...
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Is it legit to close a bug as duplicate of another still open bug?
I often encouter the following pattern: A bug is resolved/closed as duplicate of another still open/unfixed bug.
I have trouble understanding the reasoning behind this strategy. From my naive point ...
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How detailed should QA aim to be?
When QA discovers an issue during testing should they...
Log the bug with the test case and scenario information and move on testing?
Try investigating to determine why the bug is happening?
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Mock Objects for Testing - Test Automation Engineer Perspective
How often QA engineers are responsible for developing Mock Objects for Unit Testing. So dealing with Mock Objects is just developer job ?. The reason i ask is i'm interested in QA as my career and am ...
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Regarding QA/Testing, can a bounds test be unrealistic? (See image for clarification)
I ask this because I am interning as a QA Engineer and one of my bugs got rejected by a remote project manager because I performed an unrealistic test.
Basically, the bug involved a large text field ...
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How can I introduce QA and break it into parts for various people?
I was recently asked how to do this, specifically:
How to introduce QA into an organization?
How to break up QA into parts that others can do ?
How to prioritize what needs QA?
How to determine what ...
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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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Should deployment errors constitute a build failure?
Our software uses in-house written deployment software due to the complexity of the product. As part of our current QA (not dev) build process (using more in-house software) we compile the code, patch ...
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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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