During QA process we usually need to describe a sequence of actions, that causes some bugs. Usually the best way to do it is describe a situation by text messages. Sometimes screen-shots are helps. But i believe that video or slide-show should to help QA team and should to reduce time loss on QA-team - developers iterations. Some time ...
My department, and I assume many others, have an unusual year end problem: they haven't consumed all their budget. If they don't spend it all, then next year the budget will be reduced. We've recommended numerous small pieces of software, but they've been rejected as "too inexpensive - we need to buy software development tools that cos...
I have worked in environments where the QA team has been actively involved in the development process from the onset of a project through maintenance. I generally have found this to be effective as the QA team has an idea of what is going on from a business prospective early on in the process. They can start working on test scripts ver...
Can anyone suggest good testing tools/plugins for use with Firefox? Currently I use firebug and SQLInjector. Are there any others that people enjoy using for QA testing of web based systems? I know selenium, but we don't currently use it. ...
The stareast conference is coming up in April of 2010 and I'm trying to make a business case for it being worthwhile to go to. Has anyone been to a past one? Was it worthwhile? Did you gain anything from it? ...
no, it's not a chemistry question :-| came across this firefox add-on, molybdenum, a capture replay testing tool (I guess it's a play on selenium), and would like to know if anyone has had any luck using it in flash/flex apps? Thanks. ...
in my project, we are setting up continous integration environment and as part of this process, propose simultaneous fixing of defects during the QA test cycles. What is the generally practiced process when it to releasing this into the QA environment. Are these fixes immediately deployed into the QA environment (after itnegration test...
I am a Lead QA Engineer in a Software company and at a stage in my career wherein i need to plan my next move. Option 1: The very obvious move would be to stay as a QA Lead and eventually become a QA Manager. But i don't see very good prospects/future after that. Or am i wrong? Option 2: I love programming/coding, though i haven't spe...
Question: How to make code behave differently when running locally vs. in QA vs. in production? Example: In an ASP.NET MVC application I have a controller set up to deliver e-mail notifications. When running locally on a development machine I want the e-mails delivered to the developer, when in QA I don't want any e-mail notifications ...
Hi All, When I am Trying to test a Scorecard, There are few base measures which are sourced from Views and Tables.Specifically these views have been created for this project only. When I asked to test the the Scorecard, As a Tester what is my scope ?. Is newly created views also need to be tested or not ? Or Just Test the Base measure...
I need help testing! :) I work at a small webdev company and am responsible for the quality of our applications. We build e-commerce sites every now and then, and since our customers rely on the site to make money, the have to be completely bug free. Sadly, we've had issues with that in the past and we're looking to tighten up our tes...
I wanted to try and install XStudio, but i wanted to see the pro's and con's of choosing the opensource XQual Studio project over Quality Center. thanks ...
First as an intro, I am not technical! meaning I do not program :-) although I can and have provided a detailed requirement documant it "seems" to me that the programmers are taking too long to produce the desired s/w First, I would like suggestions how is it best to know if they are on track. Secondly, how long does it take for examp...
Hi, We need to write Test cases for segmentation Logic for Latin based languages. w.r.t that I have found many sites, doc's for rules of segmentation logic, related to that i got one link "http://www.lisa.org/fileadmin/standards/srx20.pdf" but we don't want to use this. Now we are looking for more relevant segmentation rules which can s...
I'm working on a project that makes heavy use of shell extensions. I want to test it in as any versions of windows as possible. Is there a service designed for this? Almost like a VPS host but with OS images for retail XP, XP SP1, XP SP2, etc ...
Requirements Testing is an important area of testing. We can find Explicit Requirements from System Requirements Specification, but what to do with Implicit Requirements? There could be numerous scenarios even for a Login Screen. Can we bind/use Q-Patterns to cover implicit requirements? Do you guys have some other solution for this? ...
Website security testing is an imp area of testing. How can we ensure the penetration of important info from HTTP request bucket? There are many tools which can show us http request bucket but how can we ensure penetration from it ? What should be techniques to test this area ? ...
My company isn't big enough to necessitate a full time QA person. We are building a large-ish web site for a client and would like to use a 3rd party to QA it. The site supports a lot of user generated content and we're looking for someone to go through and try it all out and make sure everything is firing like it should. ...
I'm looking for a web application testing framework that is intented to be used by customers. That is, tests will be created by users, not programmers or testers. Thus, no scripting. It has to have some kind of IDE/GUI. Selenium IDE is nice but too basic. The more or less suitable solutions I've found: CubicTest. Seems to be very nice...
What do you think about the adoption of quality assurance in a software house that uses SCRUM as Agile methodology? Could they live together? EDIT: Pheraps I made a mistake using the term "quality assurance". With that, I mean making documentation to describe what the software will do. In an Agile methodology I think that this can't liv...