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Theoretical question deal with topics that do not generally have immediate practical uses. Please be careful when using this tag: your question may be more appropriate for the Computer Science Stack Exchange site.
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Equivalence partitioning understanding A<5 and B<5
I do not understand the following example. It says that a function X will be executed if either of A and B variables will be lower than 5. The go on and explains that there are three valid equivalence …
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If "negative" conditions are mentioned in the spec, are such tests still negative?
In most definitions of negative testing, the idea is that we test outside what is specified/expected and it is highly related to robustness.
So basically, if the behavior for such conditions is defin …
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Where (if there is) is the IEEE glossary newer than 1990?
I have been looking for some formal definitons but could not find any IEEE newer than 610, which is from 1990. Could you help me please?
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Why does Cem Kaner consider a test not revealing a bug a waste of time?
What about confirming the functionality in positive tests, proving it is working - should I say it is a waste of time? What kind of concept is behind this quote?
Unsuccessful tests, i.e. tests tha …
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Negative test cases confusion
In the Software testing book from Koirala, Sheihk, they say:
A positive test is when you put in a valid input and expect some
action to be completed in accordance with the specification.
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Test case design - do for all positive tests exist also negative ones?
There is ambiguity in all papers I have read so I would like to ask about the following requirement:
Requirement: Being a Game master, I can access the GM menu by typing "menuInvoke".
Trying to do t …
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If functional testing is referred as black box..how can it be done on unit test level?
Preparing myself for ISTQB, I found a bit odd many things in their textbooks. E.g. they call black box testing as functional testing when you are not concerned with structured but only observe the oup …
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Why is the cyclomatic complexity equal to two for a simple Hello World?
I would have two questions related to cyclomatic complexity:
Can I use this metric for a whole app? I guess I cannot, as it would be incredibly large number, considering functions calling functions …
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Who are 'users' in testing?
Having e.g. a system for booking flights, during UAT it is not being tested by real users (customers who will buy tickets) rather than people from the client side who will just simulate this. Are ther …
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Validation and Verification explanation (Boehm) - I cannot understand its point
Hopefully my last thread about V&V as I found the B.Boehm is text which I just do not understand well (likely my technical English is not that good).
http://csse.usc.edu/csse/TECHRPTS/1979/usccse79 …
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Quality Assurance tools discrepancies
It is a bit ironic, yesterday I answered a question related to this topic that was marked to be good and today I'm the one who asks. These are my thoughts and a question:
Also let's agree on the terms …
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bug: deviation from requirements vs deviation from expectations
I am not clear on this one. No matter the terminology, in the end the software fault/bug causes (according to a lot of sources):
Deviation from requirements
Devation from expectations
But if …
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Is verification and validation part of testing process?
Based on many sources I do not believe the simple definition that aim of testing is to find as many bugs as possible - we test to ensure that it works or that it does not. E.g. followint are goals of …
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What is the aim of software testing? [closed]
Having read many books, there is a basic contradiction:
Some say, "the goal of testing is to find bugs" while other say "the goal of the testing is to equalize the quality of the product", meaning th …
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Pairwise testing, not possible to say which combinations is faulty?
Let's say I have 4 (A,B,C,D) parameters with 3 possible values, also 81 unique combinations. With e.g. orthogonal array, I will end up with 9 test cases, each combining 3 pairs. But that means that if …
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