We've got a person from the business side on our team 1 day a week to assist with the UI testing. This is basic testing if the application works to as per requirements and what can we improve for the users. Obviously we want to get as much out of her as we can, so we're looking for a good introduction document to help her ramp up ASAP....
Does anyone have any recommendations for software to assist with the management of test cases - those created and maintained by quality engineers, not a part of the developers work? ...
I work on a number of web services and virtually every time I produce a major build, QA starts throwing up bugs that I frequently find have nothing to do with the server side code, but rather with their crap client library. I've tried to at least make it policy that they don't file bugs without the XML that they're pushing to the server...
I'm looking for a good introductory text on the theory of static analysis for bug finding. Any recommendations? ...
We are looking for ways to certificate our QA department. What courses/certificates could you recommend? What QA certificates are respected (in Europ/world wide)? Did you pass any QA certification ... was it worth the effort/money? Perhaps there are some certificates you do not recommend? Any other useful info is appreciated. ...
My company is about to purchase an automated testing tool. We are not a big company, and can only afford a single license for the tool. We have an internal dispute whether the tested OS should be the one most commonly used by our clients (XP) or the next generation OS (Windows 7). All possible OS are going to be tested anyway, but in a m...
I am a developer looking for a QA role. I know that the mindset of a developer and a tester differ fundamentally. Besides hands-on experience in a QA environment, are there any other ways to determine if I have what it takes to become a skilled tester? ...
I haven't been able to find any good resources about QA code of conduct and would like to start documenting this. The main issue I have is really basic stuff like: Someone reports "the design is broken" when the real issue is they are using IE6 and haven't updated their cache. A team member says you broke the build, when actually they...
I'd like to know if there is some tool to monitor changes that a patch does to a project. I have a source code repository, and I'd like to do things like: see what a patch changes in (text) output of an arbitrary program, eg. compiler output, or testsuite output etc. when applied given a line in some of these outputs, I'd like to bise...
We have a Windows Forms, .NET 2.0 application delivered via ClickOnce and driven by web services, that our customers occasionally wish to deploy into a Citrix environment. In some cases, the customer elects to allow our application to be deployed locally to user machines and bypass the Citrix server, in one case we've provided a static ...
Edit What software practices are being used in mission-critical industries where safety is paramount? For example nuclear power plant. Update Originally this question was: How would you develop software for a nuclear plant? I have changed it to save good answers. I'm also making this question community wiki. Please help to word it bette...
What languages do your testers use for writing complex testing scripts/simulators? ...
There are so many types of open source testing tools: for performance, functionality, and security testing. My question is, which open source tool (for both web-based and client/server projects) is: Largely used for performance, functionality and security testing Easy to understand Easy to use Acceptable/accepted in interviews Easy to...
I am looking for studies about applied code quality, comparing costs before and after. They should show a clear benefit in cost (or maybe a negative effect of too much cost). I need hard facts like (entirely fictional): After we added static code analysis to our build, the number of defects reduced to half. So we saved approx. 10 dev...
I understand the short answer to it is by doing testing but still how do you do this testing? Do you modify your test cases to include the bugs as additional test cases to run or do you just verify all the bugs in your bug tracking system starting from the oldest to the newest releases. Thanks for the answers. Looks like my question was...
We have a pretty complex Java system which includes a few back-end tiers including a database and a proprietary Swing front-end. There are back-end APIs to which external parties can attach that mimic our front-end. There are approximately 5 silos within our org that share this system. In total there are around 15 developers maintainin...
We are looking to improve our QA process. Can we rely only on Eclipse plugins or should we consider other "external" tools? I would be interested in QA tools for Java / Grails using Eclipse IDE. ...
I'm looking for a way to visualize compiler warnings and remarks, by annotating or otherwise showing which lines cause a report. This is much like a modern IDE like NetBeans or Eclipse already does, but I'd like to take output from several compilers (and other static code analysis tools) at once, and create one single annotation in ord...
In order to do quality assurance in a critical multicore (8) workstation, I want to run the same code in different processors but not in parallel or concurrently. I need to run it 8 times, one run for each processor. What I don't know is how to select the processor I want. How can this be accomplished in Python? ...
Having just set up a test framework for a new web application, I realized I missed one of the big questions: "How do I make tests independent from each other?" Years ago I have set up some complicated Ant scripting to do full cycles of deleting all database tables, creating the schema again, adding test data, starting the application, r...