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What are IEEE 829 Test Plan Standards? 2007-09-26 07:36:00 Hi All, I know I have been away from posting on this blog since long and I apologize for that. There were few things which needed to be taken care of so my blogging activity was side lined. I would try to be more regular in posting new articles on this blog now onwards. Recently, I have been searching a lot on testing jargons and come across a list of IEEE 829 Test Plan Standards as it was ...

What is a Traceability Matrix / Requirements Traceability Matrix? 2006-12-24 15:13:00 The concept of Traceability Matrix is to be able to trace from top level requirements to implementation, and from top level requirements to test. A traceability matrix is a table that traces a requirement to the tests that are needed to verify that the requirement is fulfilled. A good traceability matrix will provide backward and forward traceability, i.e. a requirement can be traced to a test ...

Quick Test Professional (QTP) Questions n Answers 2006-06-19 06:55:00 Here's a good resource for Quick Test Professional (QTP). You can find here answers for FAQs regarding QTP. If you have any question to be answered, which is not present in the list, please drop in a comment. http://qtpro.blogspot.com ...

Link for QTP (Quick Test Pro) 14-days free trial 2006-06-08 09:10:00 Click here for Mercury QuickTest Professional Free 14-Day Trial. Choose the link for trial version of QTP on the page. Note that you'll have to register to download the same. ...

WinRunner Interview Questions 2006-01-16 09:35:00 1. How to recognise the objects during runtime in new build version (test suite) comparing with old guimap? 2. Wait(20) - What is the minimum and maximum time the above mentioned synchronization statements will wait given that the global default timeout is set to 15 seconds. 3. Where in the user-defined function library should a new error code be defined? 4. In a modular test tree, each test ...

Have I Tested Enough? 2006-01-04 10:15:00 One of the most intriguing and difficult questions to answer in any software development life cycle is whether the software is defect free. No matter what the level of maturity of software application, it is next to impossible to say that a software application is defect free. We can answer this question to a certain level by collecting data with regard to the performance and reliability of the ...

Security Testing 2005-12-20 09:20:00 Security Testing: Testing which confirms that the program can access to authorized personnel and that the authorized personnel can access the functions available to their security level. Security testing is testing how well the system is protected against unauthorized internal or external access, or willful damage. The purpose of security testing is to determine how well a system protects ...

Funny replies developers give to testers.. 2005-12-19 10:01:00 Top 20 replies by Programmers to Testers when their programs don't work: 20. "That's weird..." 19. "It's never done that before." 18. "It worked yesterday." 17. "How is that possible?" 16. "It must be a hardware problem." 15. "What did you type in wrong to get it to crash?" 14. "There is something funky in your data." 13. "I haven't touched that module in weeks!" 12. "You must have the wrong ...

Link for WinRunner Demo 2005-12-12 09:14:00 Click here for Free trial version of WinRunner, Mercury Interactive's enterprise functional testing tool. Note that, you'll need to contact their sales department in you region. ...

What is Testware? 2005-12-02 18:30:00 As we know that hardware development engineers produce hardware. Software development engineers produce software. Same like this, Software test engineers produce testware. Testware is produced by both verification and validation testing methods. Testware includes test cases, test plan, test report and etc. Like software, testware should be placed under the control of a configuration management ...

Levels of testing 2005-12-01 11:54:00 A step into the world of software testing might seem like a nightmare, with memories of unending test scripts providing weeks of tedious repetitive testing and mountains of problem reports. Even after apparently exhaustive testing, bugs are still found, there is rework to carry out and inevitably yet more testing. But with careful planning, software testing can go like a dream. Levels of testing ...

Checklist for Acceptance Test 2005-11-29 09:30:00 Test Preparation - Has the plan for acceptance testing been submitted? - Have all possible interactions been described? - Are all input data required for testing available? - Is it possible to automatically document the test runs? - Have the customer specific constraints been considered? - Have you defined acceptance criteria (e.g. performance, portability, throughput, etc.) on which the ...

Writing effective test cases 2005-11-22 09:42:00 Testing cannot ensure complete eradication of errors. Various types of Testing have their own limitations. Consider Exhaustive black box and white box testing, which are practically not "Exhaustive" to the verbose as they are required to be, owing to the resource factors. While testing a Software Product, one of the most important things is the design of effective test cases. A Tester tries to ...

System Testing 2005-11-16 09:18:00 This type of test involves examination of all the system for software components, all the hardware components and any interfaces. The whole system is checked not only for validity but also for met objectives. The complete system is configured in a controlled environment, and test cases are developed to simulate real life scenarios that occur in a simulated real life test environment. System ...

More Testing types: Funny 2005-11-15 09:32:00 Have you ever done Testing to Obsession? Well, we did it once and with that particularly long and painful bout of regression testing, we came up with the list of other types of testing we ‘d like not to see – Aggression Testing: If this doesn't work, I'm gonna kill somebody. Compression Testing: [ ] Confession Testing: Okay, Okay, I did program that bug. Depression Testing: If this doesn't work ...