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What is the difference between debugging and testing?
Introduction To Software Testing (Ammann & Offutt) mentions on p.32 a 5-level testing maturity model:
Level 0 There’s no difference between testing and debugging.
Level 1 The purpose of testing ...
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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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Does software testing methodology rely on flawed data?
It’s a well-known fact in software engineering that the cost of fixing a bug increases exponentially the later in development that bug is discovered. This is supported by data published in Code ...
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“It was working yesterday, I swear!” What can you do?
When you arrive in the morning, you find that your software does not work anymore, even though it did when you left yesterday evening.
What do you do? What do you check first? What do you do to stop ...
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Turn away a bug if no reproducible test case exists?
If customer has problems which are not reproducible because of complexity of actions they took they can't remember step by step - coders are missing a test case.
Indeed the issue is apperently ...
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Production-safe SQL stored procedure debugging
We have an enormous number of nested SQL stored procedures, and a number of different ways of debugging them (varying from developer to developer).
So far, our methods include:
An optional @debug ...
