Verifying the behavior of a software system against the expected behavior of that system.
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Types of semantic bugs, logic errors [closed]
I am a PhD student and currently focus on automatically finding instances of new types of bugs in (Java) programs that cannot be found by existing tools like FindBugs. The existing tool currently is ...
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What does well written, readable tests look like? [closed]
Doing unit testing for the first time at a large scale, I find myself writing a lot of repetitive unit tests for my business logic. Sure, to create complete test suites I need to test all ...
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Test case as a function or test case as a class
I am having a design problem in test automation:-
Requirements - Need to test different servers (using unix console and not GUI) through automation framework. Tests which I'm going to run - Unit, ...
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ISO 12207 - testing being only validation activity? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How come verification does not include actual testing?
ISO norm 12207 states that testing is only validation activity, while all static inspections are verification ...
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How important are unit tests in software development? [closed]
We are doing software testing by testing a lot of I/O cases, so developers and system analysts can open reviews and test for their committed code within a given time period (e.g. 1 week). But when ...
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Verfication vs validation again, does testing belong to verification? If so, which?
I have asked before and created a lot of controversy so I tried to collect some data and ask similar question again. E.g. V&V where all testing is only validation: ...
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What can be done to decrease the number of live issues with applications?
First off I have seen this post which is slightly similar to my question. :
What can you do to decrease the number of deployment bugs of a live website?
Let me layout the situation for you. The ...
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What is the term for a 'decoy' feature or intentional bug? [closed]
I have forgotten a slang programming term. This thing is an intentional bug or a decoy feature used as a distraction. An example usage, "Hey Bob, QA is doing a review today. Put a $THING into the ...
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How do people maintain their test suite?
In particular, I'm curious about the following aspects:
How do you know that your test cases are wrong (or out-of-date) and needed to be repaired (or discarded)? I mean, even if a test case became ...
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What is the aim of software testing?
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 ...
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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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Are corner and edge cases too often ignored or disregarded and why? [closed]
I have the feeling that a lot of developers disregard corner and edge cases. Often they tend to just ignore these.
I was once working on a logistics project. In the order management of the ...
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Testing vs QA - output?
I was trying to find a relevant source of information for the above, but I failed. What is the output of software testing? Some say its "list of bugs", others say "answer whether or not the software ...
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What is the best way to go about testing that we handle failures appropriately?
we're working on error handling in an application. We try to have fairly good automated test coverage. One big problem though is that we don't really know of a way to test some of our error handling.
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Service to test app on all the iPhones?
I have some developers creating an iPhone app, often the app will not work on one type of iPhone even though it worked on another one using the same version of iOS. Therefore, I am looking for a ...
