Verifying the behavior of a software system against the expected behavior of that system.
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Is there an effective way to test XSL transforms/BizTalk maps?
Creating repeatable tests for BizTalk maps is frustrating. I can't find a way to handle testing them like I'd do unit testing, because I can't find ways to break them into logical chunks. They tend to ...
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How to keep unit tests independent?
I've read it at many places that unit tests should be independent. In my case I have a class that does data transformation. These steps must be done sequentially, otherwise they don't make sense. For ...
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Testing multi-threaded race conditions
Reading the comments to this answer, specifically:
Just because you can't write a test doesn't mean it's not broken. Undefined behaviour which usually happens to work as expected (C and C++ are ...
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Can automation QA/Tester work in SDET profile
Since two years I've been working in automation testing profile that involves developing test frameworks using selenium,watir,JUnit. I now want to enhance my profile technically. Over a period of time ...
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How can a beginning programmer begin to learn and apply testing best practices when developing software?
While learning to develop in PHP it has been easy enough that my short, one page, 20 line little scripts I could add "testing code" directly to my functions to figure out where I am or get close to ...
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Is equivalence partitioning part of negative testing?
I assume that negative testing is an approach to design the test cases and so is equivalence partitioning. But I am not sure if NT is a part of ET.
An example:
A field can accept a numeric value from ...
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How to use lists in equivalence partitioning?
I have read that equivalence partitioning can be used typically for intervals or lists, e.g. I assume it can be used for every set of inputs.
Anyway if the requirement says that allowed colors are ...
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Beta-testing app good practice [duplicate]
I have just released an iOS app for beta-testing with TestFlight.
I'm wondering what is good practice during beta-testing?
Should I halt development of the app during beta-testing?
Should I ...
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Stubbing and mocking boundaries
Suppose I'm building a JSON API and would like to include an endpoint that returns a list of recently created posts. Somewhere in my system is an existing Post model with the following test:
create ...
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Improve Bad testing
We have a large team of developers and testers. The ratio is one tester for every one developer.
We have full bug tracking and reporting systems in place.
We have test plans in place.
Every change ...
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What is the real point of an “oracle” in the SW testing?
I know the definition of an testing oracle but to me, it seems to be overrated. I have a specification, why should I bother with thinking about oracles? I just compare what the spec wants and what the ...
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Coping with test code becoming too complex [duplicate]
Our test automation team writes tons of automation tests for our WEB application, but it seems to me that their code is becoming way too complex and warrants that someone will test it as well.
Is ...
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What is the difference, if any, between Model and QA environments?
I have worked for various organizations many of whom call their environment that comes after the test/developer environment and before the staging and/or production environment either model or QA.
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Unit Testing and “Fit”
I am reading Cristopher Alexander's "Notes on the Synthesis of Form", and he is describing a solution to a problem as having good fit, when there is an absence of bad fit; we can't describe all of the ...
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How many regression bugs from refactoring is too many.
Recent QA testing has found some regression bugs in our code. My team lead blames recent refactoring efforts for the regressions.
My team lead's stance is "refactor, but don't break too many things", ...
