user-acceptance-testing

What is a good ratio of developers to testers?

What ratio of [senior] developers to testers do people think is best? Obviously this will depend partly on development/maintenance throughput, but is there a rule-of-thumb that a new company/project might work from? Also, would you use 'pure' testers, or would you combine testing with other roles (e.g. documentation, user training, etc...

How detailed should a customer acceptance test be?

Here is a test description, testing the "Create New Widget" use-case. Confirm that you can enter a new widget into the system. Here is another test description, testing the "Create New Widget" use-case. Bring up the application. Create a new widget by the name of "A-008", with the description being "Test Widget for Acceptance Te...

Code promotion: Enforcing the rules

So here is our problem: We have a small team of developers with their own ways of doing things-- I am trying to formalize a process in which we are required to promote our code in the following order: Local sandbox > Dev > UAT > Staging > Live Developers develop/test as they go on their own sandbox, Dev is its own box that we would us...

Pasting a huge excel document in a word test script

Hi, I have a UAT test script for which I need to post some reference tables (excel sheet) in the appendix. The excel sheet has a lot of columns and doesn't fit into the MS Word document even when I paste the table in the landscape page set up. Is there any good way to paste such a huge table without making things too complex. I've trie...