//Yes, Virginia, there is a wikipedia. What I'm asking here is what you've found unit testing to be in your own practice. It would be helpful to know the pros, cons, obstacles to introducing unit testing, flaws in the unit testing process, value gained by unit testing, and so on that the developers here have observed in their day to day...
Do you participate in code peer reviews or practice pair programming, or both? Have you been able to demonstrate an increase in software quality using these practices? What benefits and drawbacks have you observed in the course of practice? What hurdles to implementation did you face? In my own case, our development team pursued...
In my organization, people believe lightweight CMMI is a myth, despite evidence to the contrary. What are your experiences with lightweight CMMI? Have you done it and is it working well for you? ...
In your practice, what measure(s) do you use to know when it's time to stop testing an application and move it to production? ...
According to McCall's Quality Model, Product Revision is one of the three main perspectives for describing the quality attributes of a software product. Under the Product Revision perspective, maintainability, the ability to find and fix a defect, is identified as a key quality factor that impacts the ability to revise the software. Cle...
I am working on a new project and I wanted to know which automation tool is the best to use. Should I record-play or code? ...
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? ...
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 ? ...
Here is what I am looking for. I would love to have a tool that can be used to populate a database, allow us to do some interactive testing, and then reset the database to where it was before we started using it. Kind of like a DB fixture for unit testing, but for a user to use instead of an automated test suite. Does something like t...
Are there any good resources for learning to do black box QA testing? I applied for what looked like a technical testing position, but discovered in the interview that it was black box QA (I really don't know a great deal more than that at the moment). I'm still going to go for it, for the experience and since I need the cash. Any tips ...
It is a Java Swing application and I need the ability to take screen shots after certain steps in the test. ...
Which testing we perform first Smoke or Sanity, Also what are difference between them? ...