Quality assurance (for software) is the process followed to provide some level of confidence that software-based system conforms to established technical requirements.
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Agile team with no dedicated Tester members. Insane or efficient? [duplicate]
I'm a software developer. I've been thinking a lot about the efficiency of the Software Testers I've worked with so far in my career. In fact, I've been thinking a lot about the Software Testers ...
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How can I introduce QA and break it into parts for various people?
I was recently asked how to do this, specifically:
How to introduce QA into an organization?
How to break up QA into parts that others can do ?
How to prioritize what needs QA?
How to determine what ...
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Partitioning code into assemblies for the sake of logical seperation
I've started working at this company, and the software is managed in a Visual Studio solution that includes hundreds of projects (C++ and C#).
After poking around the solution for couple of weeks, I ...
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My client's QA folks are shafting me. What can I do?
Backstory:
As the single developer with experience in the chosen technology, a month ago I drafted a component that for all extents and purposes worked within acceptable levels according to the ...
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Is seniority/paygrade an important factor for effective QA members? [duplicate]
As a member of our company's QA team, I frequently get entirely unenthusiastic feedback from developers in their responses to test results in our agile, web-based software-as-a-service shop. Most of ...
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Log defects for failures of other systems?
We build products which often integrate with third party systems. Sometimes these systems error, which in turn causes our system to error. For example, we call a web service when a user updates ...
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Functional Requirements / Specification and relationship to DEV and QA
Functional Requirements state "WHAT" needs to be done from a user's perspective
Functional Specification state "HOW" it needs to be done from technical standpoint.
Do QA teams focus and Functional ...
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Does a “QA Programmer” style job exist?
Basically a programmer that comes in during the testing phase of a project and once a tester finds a bug, tracks down the cause. I enjoy this investigative process and am generally able to track down ...
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What is a good measure of testing/tester efficiency?
I am about to participate in a discussion with management regarding measuring our testing efficiency as a QA organization. The main reason behind this is that half of our team is contracted out and ...
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Dilemma of QA vs. iterations
In my company, we successfully working with agile practices - but without using iterations. The main reason is that we can't find a clean way to fit in QA in an iteration cycle.
We understand QA as ...
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How can QA prevent defects?
Also according to Software Testing By Srinisvasan Desikan, Gopalaswamy Ramesh or ISTQB text books. Quality assurance is e.g. reviewing products, inspections, walkthroughs to see if all standards are ...
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Quality Assurance=inspections, reviews..?
Studying this subject extensively, the most books state the following:
Quality Assurance: prevention activity. Act of inspection, reviewing..
Quality Control: testing
While there are some ...
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QA - Developer communication [duplicate]
I am a developer and have worked at this company 4~5 years by now.
We have been practicing scrum for about 2 years.
I think, I have been worked well with QAs.
I believe QAs/developers/technical ...
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How much detail is in a good UI regression test?
We use a detailed step-by-step user-interface regression test for our commercial web application. It has a "backbone" test for the most used / most important parts of the system, with optional tests ...
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Must all new features go through betatest?
Obviously, small usability fixes and bugfixes go directly into the stable product. What about small new features? Can you afford to just release them after internal testing, or do they have to be ...
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What programming skills does someone in QA need to work effectively in extreme programming projects?
Well, the title really says it all, but to elaborate a bit, can you take a random, typically effective QA department and have them learn to work in an XP environment (with a learning curve to pick up ...
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Are programmers bad testers?
I know this sounds a lot like other questions which have already being asked, but it is actually slightly different. It seems to be generally considered that programmers are not good at performing the ...
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The cost of longer delay between development and QA
At my current position, QA has become a bottleneck. We have had the unfortunate occurence of features being held out of the current build so that QA could finish testing. This means features that ...
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Web standards or risk avoidance?
My company is building an App Engine application. The app encounters a bug (possibly due to an issue with App Engine itself, as per our research) on IE9, but it cannot be reliably reproduced and is ...
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What is your strategy for converting RC builds into retail?
We're trying to implement a strategy for how we transition our builds from RC to released retail code.
When we label a build as a release candidate, we send it to QA for regression. If they approve ...
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Training resources or ideas for very small team without a dedicated QA person or QA team [duplicate]
I have a very small 3-developer programming team that has zero QA people. We would like to hire a QA person but are unable to at this time.
Until we can hire a QA person with proper QA training ...
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Parallel Testing options in Agile Development?
I've read through some very good resources on the internet trying to find out if my initial proposed testing process is a valid option. So please any advice or recommendations are appreciated.
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How to structure process description documentation?
I'm writing a document describing process improvement recommendations. I have some best practices I've learned so far. I use those practices most of the time. But I suppose there are other ways to ...
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Is performance testing applicable to a QA or business user testing?
Performance testing is something that I, as a developer do when optimizing. However, if the change is purely optimization, should the QA or business user perform their own performance testing? I would ...
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Add a unit test for each new bug
In my job all developers that resolve a bug have to add a new unit test that warns about this type of bugs (in the case it occours again). If a unit test is not possible (for example, a webpage design ...
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Should QA find reproducible scenarios?
Sometimes my QA team reports bugs, but neither I or them have any idea on how to reproduce them. This leads to very long and frustrating debugging sessions which sometimes do not even yield results.
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Should QA be part of the development department?
I work for a small company that has had a product development department for quite a while. What we haven't had, however, is a QA/testing group.
We are looking to add a testing group, but are ...
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moving from development to quality assurance [closed]
I'm looking for advice on the best way to move from software engineering to quality assurance type of jobs.
Let's imagine a middle aged developer who is not up to date on all the current ...
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Software testing automation documentation
What document types could be used when describing software testing automation (on any phase, automation planning, test design, implementation, reporting)? Is there any standard types of documents?
If ...
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When conducting a code review, should the focus be on the completeness of the requirement?
Given that the reviewer is not part of the project, but was assigned to review because he has done some coding for the application being updated/enhanced.
Is it the reviewer's job to ensure that the ...
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Test-driven development and improving white box testing skills
I am an entry level Java Programmer straight out of school.
I have good knowledge and experience with J2SE.
Can anyone advise me on how to improve or tune my skills towards being a Java white box ...
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When should development stop and QA begin?
We write a complete functional specification for our development team of two. We do not have professional testers however we have drafted in the help of our available helpdesk personnel to perform 'QA ...
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Short Deadline and QAing Yourself
When you have a short deadline to being with, and you're nearing the end of development, would you rather rush through coding to dedicate more time to QAing or keep your pace and possible have VERY ...
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Are there coding tests to recruit a QA engineer?
I'm a software engineer in a small company and we are currently recruiting our first QA engineer. The guy will have to write as many as possible automated tests on our web-based tools suite.
As I've ...
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Should we quit trying to do agile if QA takes 12 weeks?
Someone in my company recently proposed changes to our core product that our managers feel should trigger what I guess my company considers a full QA cycle (i.e. testing the entire product suite from ...
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Should deployment errors constitute a build failure?
Our software uses in-house written deployment software due to the complexity of the product. As part of our current QA (not dev) build process (using more in-house software) we compile the code, patch ...
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Disposable Virtual Machines for QA environments [closed]
I'm far from an expert in virtualization, so pardon my ignorance.
I've had this idea (really doubt it's original, haven't looked much into the topic) of "disposable" virtual machines for QA ...
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What is the / your most effective QA process? [closed]
I'm looking for some ideas on how to improve our current Quality Assurance process. There is no official QA method in place right now, but we basically just get some requirements using a ticket system ...
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How are minimum system requirements determined?
We've all seen countless examples of software that ships with "minimum system requirements" like the following:
Windows XP/Vista/7
1GB RAM
200 MB Storage
How are these generally determined? ...
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Should the test and the fix be written by different people?
There is a common practice in TDD to write a test before fix to avoid regression and simplify fixing. I just wonder what if the test and fix will be written by different people, total spent time will ...
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Who is responsible for defects found during development?
When the QA find an error like 'broken design in web programming', do you call it a bug and the corrections 'patches'? (Assume all this is before delivery.)
I was of the feeling that the corrections ...
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Interested in Feedback on QA System Design
I'm in the beginning phases of creating a QA system and I want to make sure that the design decisions that I'm making now make sense and won't bite me in the butt later on. If you have even the ...
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How does a large company make rookie mistakes which leave security holes? [closed]
Sony was recently hacked with a SQL injection and the passwords of their user's was stored in plain text. These are rookie mistakes. In such a large company, how does this pass QA? How do they not ...
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Making Separate Assemblies For Different Types Of Tests For The Same Component?
I was told by a few members here that splitting up my unit tests into different assemblies for different components is the best way to structure unit tests. Now, I have a few questions about that ...
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How much time/money should be spent on software QA/QC? [closed]
Any non-trivial commercial application/program/system/what-have-you requires testing (QA/QC).
Not counting things like automated tests, how much time/money relative to the development investment in ...
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Long-Term Strategy For Implementing a QA System?
I have been given the task of implementing some QA testing into a massive existing system. We're going to start out with system-level tests and might add unit tests if it is deemed necessary.
I ...
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Outsourcing Quality Assurance and Testing [closed]
I was recently approached by a software firm that specializes in Quality Assurance and Testing.
Up until this point, the developers at our (small) company have been responsible for their own QA for ...
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How to Convince management that a specific product training is important to QA?
I am leading a QA team of 10 people. we have been received the request for a training of a ETL dataware housing tool for QA, Support and Development. But however the management does not feel that it ...
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What I need to do to learn Quality Assurance?
I am a Biology student, who has changed my career to IT and have been working in the software field for the past 4 fours under the QA (auditing processes for ISO9001 purposes). Now I'm a Software QA ...
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What should I know or learn to get up to speed on being a software QA engineer?
I've been a software engineer in .NET for the past 3.5 years, and did my own integration and unit testing, but nothing too extensive. Now I'm being interviewed for an entry level QA job, and I wanted ...
