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Suitable Stages for Implementation of Test Automation in SDLC These days when tools & technology are available in abundance, automated testing is considered the prime resource to improve the efficiency of any software testing process. Sound planning, clear definition of roles of people involved in automated testing, adequate tools, their implementation & control are essential for the success of the automated tests in an organization. Automated testing tools must not be misunderstood as replacement of testers, nor they will make their work simpler. Actually their effort will be redirected to essential activities of the test automation process. That is why,…

Understanding the Role of V and V in SDLC 1) Traceability Analysis: It traces each software requirement back to the system requirements established in the concept activity. This is to ensure that each requirement correctly satisfies the system requirements and that no extraneous software requirements are added. In this technique, we also determine whether any derived requirements are consistent with the original objectives, physical laws and the technologies described in system document. 2) Interface Analysis: It is the detailed examination of the interface requirements specifications. The evaluation criteria is same as that for requirements specification. The main focus is on…

Questions Constantly being probed by Testing Managers during SDLC Software Testing is a specialization. Fact is that there are more specializations within testing itself. Managers of major organizations are constantly striving to make their software testing efforts increasingly effective day by day. With this view managers or testers are constantly probing the answers to the following questions during every stage of the SDLC. But getting an outright answer to these questions is not easy & needs further efforts on the project�s testing initiatives. 1) What should be the detailed testing tasks for this stage in SDLC? 2) How many persons…

SDLC-Software Development Life Cycle Software products, which don’t happen to be user friendly just, don’t find any place in a highly competitive market of this modern era, although they might have been developed with the help of the best available technology. The ease of use of the product is of paramount importance compared to its internal technology, which the customer is not going to see. Thus for the creation of Innovative Software products, the Development Life Cycle undergoes six phases like: 1) Initial Phase 2) Analysis Phase 3) Design phase 4) Coding Phase 5) Testing Phase 6) Delivery and Maintenance phase…

Download Link for your Favorite Presentation is at the End of this Page ****************************************************************************************** Difference between STLC and SDLC STLC means “Software Testing Life Cycle”. It involves following stages 1) Preparation of the test strategy 2) Preparation of the test plan 3) Creation of the test environment 4) Writing of the test cases 5) Creation of the test scripts 6) Execution of the test scripts 7) Analysis of the test results 8) Reporting of the bugs 9) Performing regression testing SDLC means “Software or System Development Life Cycle”. It involves following stages 1) Initiation of the Project 2) Collection of Requirements and…

Introduction UFT – erstwhile QuickTest Professional (QTP) is a software tool used by the testers around the world to automate their functional and regression tests for the applications. This software was initially developed by Mercury Interactive and was later christened as QTP when Hewlett Packard (HP) took over Mercury Interactive in the year 2006. HP Software Division later combined QTP with the HP Service Test to create a single software package, known as Unified Functional Testing (UFT). HP managed the software until its version 11.5. In the year 2016, when Micro Focus bought HP Software Division the product was renamed…

ISTQB Agile Tester Extension Exam Theory Study Material Part 6 Have a deep study of this entire question bank containing theory portion with detailed explanation. This study resource is as per the latest syllabus. Just 1 hr. of time spent in brushing up your knowledge just before the ISTQB Agile Tester Extension Exam shall be of great help in clearing it. Set of 10 Questions (Q. 51 to 60) with detailed explanation Q. 51: What is the role of testers in Iteration planning? Testers make a valuable contribution in the following activities: 1) Participating in the detailed risk analysis of…

Quick Start to preparation for ISTQB Agile Tester Extension Exam What are ISTQB “Extensions”? There had been a great demand for enhancing competence in vertical testing. Hence ISTQB came out with a novel concept of “Extension”. “Extensions” are certification modules focused on topics, like: 1) Domain-specific testing practices; 2) Specific Testing Techniques; 3) Specific Testing Methods; To pursue any “Extension”, ISTQB Foundation Level Certification (CTFL) is an essential pre-requisite. ISTQB came out with its first “Extension” by the name “Agile Tester” in June 2014. A) Check out if “ISTQB Agile Tester Extension” exam is meant for you? Are you already having ISTQB Foundation certificate (CTFL)? &…

Largest Databank of Sample Questions to prepare for ISTQB (CTFL) Foundation Level Certification Exam Part-3 Set of 25 Nos. Quick Concept Review Questions-True or False Type Study of these 25 questions shall be of great help in getting success in ISTQB Foundation Level Exam as per the Latest Syllabus updated in 2011 Correct Answers have been hilighted in Yellow Q. 1: Equivalence testing divides the input domain into classes of data from which test cases can be derived to reduce the total number of test cases that must be developed. A. True B. False <<<<<< =================== >>>>>> Q. 2: With thorough…

ISTQB Foundation Level Exam Crash Course Part-14 This is Part 14 of 35 containing 5 Questions (Q. 66 to 70) with detailed explanation as expected in ISTQB Foundation Level Exam Latest Syllabus updated in 2011 Deep study of these 175 questions shall be of great help in getting success in ISTQB Foundation Level Exam Q. 66: How much testing is enough, and how do we decide when to stop testing? We know that we cannot test everything, even if we would wish to. We also know that every system is subject to risk of one kind or another and that…

Importance of Maintainability to a Good Software & Role of Maintenance Testing Before going into the details of high sounding terms like maintainability etc, let us firstly understand the meaning of maintenance testing extensively used by experienced test managers in software testing parlance. What Is Maintenance Testing? Maintenance testing is the type of software testing that refers to testing the changes to an operational system or the impact of a changed environment to an operational system. In other words, it’s about keeping (maintaining) the achieved levels of quality across the entire life cycle of the software application. Quality here can…

A Simplistic Approach to Writing Test Cases – The Black Box way Article by: Swastika Nandi – a guest publisher of the article. Before gathering knowledge on how to write test case methods, we have to know what basically a test case is! Have you ever noticed that every one of us is a tester in one way or the other? So task to write test cases becomes all the simpler, as we all know what to test and how to test. The following discussion depicts simple pointers on test case writing methods. Here are some points on writing test cases and test…

Download Link for your Favorite Presentation is at the End of this Page *************************************************************************** Twenty Remarkable Testing Guidelines for Novices as well as Experts Software testing is a critical component of the software engineering process. It is an element of software quality assurance and can be described as a process of running a program in such a manner as to uncover as many errors as possible. The process of software testing involves creating test cases to break “the system” but before this a software engineer must understand the basic principles that guide software testing. Experts of the software testing industry have…

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Q.1: Which one of the following is product related A. Quality control B. Quality assurance C. Both A. and B. D. None of the above <<<<<< =================== >>>>>> Q.2: Howden claims that A. No general purpose testing can be used to prove program correctness B. There is no such thing as an absolute proof of correctness C. Both A. and B. D. None of the above <<<<<< =================== >>>>>> Q.3: Static testing involves A. Symbolic execution B. Code walk through C. Inspections D. All of the above <<<<<< =================== >>>>>> Q.4: The role of V&V in SDLC is given in…

ISTQB Certification Exam-Sample Papers Q. 151 to 160 (Quickly Review Your Skills before appearing for ISTQB Certification Exam) Set of 10 Questions. Correct Answers to Earlier Questions – Q. 141 to Q 150 are at the end of this page: Q. 151: In ______ testing doesn’t know anything about the sofware being tested; it just clicks or types randomly. A. Random testing B. Gorilla testing C. Adhoc testing D. Dumb monkey testing <<<<<< =================== >>>>>> [GogoleAd336] Q. 152: A series of probing questions about the completeness and attributes of an application system is called A. Checklist B. Checkpoint review C.…

ISTQB Certification Exam-Sample Papers Q. 81 to 90 (Quickly Review Your Skills before appearing for ISTQB Certification Exam) Set of 10 Questions. Correct Answers to Earlier Questions – Q. 71 to Q 80 are at the end of this page: Q. 81: The ________ and ________ are used within individual workbenches to produce the right output products. A. Tools and techniques B. Procedures and standards C. Processes and walkthroughs D. Reviews and update <<<<<< =================== >>>>>>   Q. 82: Which  aspects  of  testing  will  establishing  traceability  help? A. Configuration  management  and  test  data  generation B. Test  case  specification and change …

Download Link for your Favorite Presentation is at the End of this Page ****************************************************************************************** Ins and Outs of Software VandV Planning-SVVP The development of a comprehensive V&V plan is essential to the success of a project. This plan must be developed early in the project. Depending on the development approach followed, multiple levels of test plans may be developed, corresponding to various levels of V&V activities. IEEE 83b has documented the guidelines for the contents of system, software, build and module test plans. Following steps are followed for SVVP Step – 1: Identification of V&V Goals: V&V goals must be identified…

What is the Motive behind Software Testing? Testing is necessary due to the following reasons 1) Due to Technical Compulsions: a) Competent developers are not infallible. b) The implications of requirements are not always foreseeable. c) The behavior of a system is not necessarily predictable from its components. d) Languages, databases, user interfaces and operating systems have bugs that can cause application failures. e) Reusable classes and objects must be trustworthy. 2) Due to Business Compulsions: a) If you don’t find bugs, your customers or users will.b) Post-release debugging is the most expensive form of development. c) Buggy software hurts…

How Debugging is different from Software Testing When the testing of any software application gets completed successfully, debugging activity starts. During testing errors come to the light through efficiently designed test cases. Thereafter the process by which the detected errors are practically removed is called debugging. After testing, we immediately start our hunt for the errors i.e., to identify the interface or the module responsible for causing it. Then that section of the code is to be studied to determine the cause of the problem. This process is called debugging. Hence, we can say that debugging is the name of…

What are the prime considerations in Automated Testing? Automation makes life easier for testers for better reproduction of test results, coverage and reduction in effort. With automation we can produce better and more effective metrics that can help in understanding the state of health of a product in a quantifiable way, thus taking us to the next change. As a widely accepted industry practice, following considerations are kept in mind while performing testing with automated tools: 1) Clear and reasonable expectations should be established in order to know what can and what cannot be accomplished with automated testing in the…

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Effective Strategies of Unit Testing Place of Unit Testing in Software Development Life Cycle: This is the first and the most important level of testing. Its need begins from the moment a programmer develops a unit of code. Every unit is tested for various scenarios. Detecting and fixing bugs during early stages of the Software Lifecycle helps reduce costly fixes later on. It is much more economical to find and eliminate the bugs during early stages of application building process. Hence Unit Testing is the most important of all the testing levels. As the software project progresses ahead it becomes…

Functional Testing The only Answer to Quality Functional Testing refers to the type of testing which ensures that all functional requirements are met without any consideration to the final program structure. Functional Testing confirms that the application under development is capable to deliver as per user requirements. Functional Testing emulates the actions performed by the user and ensures that all execution paths are operating perfectly as desired in addition we are able to get the desired for the inputs supplied to the system.Following Six types of functional testing can be deployed to ensure the good quality of the final product.…

Understand the Best Practices in Testing Whenever anyone aims to research the process of software development, the famous age old statement comes to the forefront i.e. “Avoid reinventing a wheel & follow the industry vide best practices” The mantra of following the best practices adopted & advocated by the practitioners of the past comes up again. Such best practices are by and large classified under three categories: A) Basic B) Foundational C) Incremental A) Basic Practices:  Basics are the stepping stones, which guide us in our march towards adoption of newer practices emerging from the older ones. While adopting the newer…

Download Link for your Favorite E-Book is at the End of this Page QTP / UFT Certification-Review your Skills: Q. 281 to 290 Objective Type / Multiple Choice Questions on QTP – QuickTest Professional / UFT  (Quickly Review Your HP QTP / UFT Skills before appearing for Certification Exam) Set of 10 Questions Correct Answers to Earlier Questions – Q. 271 to Q 280 are at the end of this page: Q. 281: When a procedure is created in the Function Library editor, what is the extension on the file? A. .INI B. .TXT C. .QFL D. .VBS <<<<<< =================== >>>>>>…

Mutation Testing and Error Seeding-White Box Testing Techniques Error seeding and mutation testing are both error-oriented techniques and are generally, applicable to all levels of testing. Error Seeding Technique: In error-seeding technique, a predefined number of artificially generated errors is “sown” in the program code. After that, test runs are used to detect errors and to examine the ratio between actual and artificial errors based on the total number of detected errors. The testers do not know the artificially generated errors. Broad Comparison among these two techniques of white-box testing are as under Error Seeding Mutation Testing 1 No mutants…

Check your Skills on White Box Testing – through Descriptive Questions (Set of 13 Questions) (Answers to Objective Type Questions on White Box Testing – are available at the end of this article) Q. 1: What are Test Coverage Analyzers? Coverage analyzers are a class of test tools that offer automated support for this approach to testing management. With this tool, the tester runs a set of test cases on a program that has been instrumented by the coverage analyzer. The analyzer then uses the information produced by the instrumentation code to generate a coverage report. For example, in case…

Download Link for your Favorite E-Book is at the End of this Page ********************************************************************************** Know the Regression Testing & its Best Practices First of all let us see the meaning of the term Regression Testing According to Wikipedia, “Regression testing is any type of software testing which seeks to uncover software regressions”. Such regressions occur whenever software functionality that was previously working correctly, stops working as intended. Typically regressions occur as an unintended consequence of program changes. Common methods of regression testing include re-running previously run tests and checking whether previously fixed faults have re-emerged. Concluding Definition of “Regression Testing”: It…

Software Testing-Question Bank: Q. 41 to 50 Q. 41: What are the common problems coming across Software Development Process? Common problems in software development process are: 1) Poor Projection of Requirements – Generally the users are not very clear in regards to their exact needs. Most of the specifications given to Software Development Outsourcing vendors are rough and very sketchy. Problems arise if the requirements are unclear, incomplete, too general, and not testable etc. 2) Miscommunication – Becomes the main cause of problem when the developers remain ignorant of the exact needs or expectations of the customer. 3) Unrealistic Schedules…

Software Testing-Question Bank: Q. 31 to 40 Q. 31: What is Verification? Verification ensures the product is designed to deliver all functionality to the customer; it typically involves reviews and meetings to evaluate documents, plans, code, requirements and specifications; this can be done with checklists, issues lists, walkthroughs and inspection meetings. <<<<<< =================== >>>>>> Q. 32: What is Validation? Validation ensures that functionality, as defined in requirements, is the intended behavior of the product; validation typically involves actual testing and takes place after verifications are completed. <<<<<< =================== >>>>>> Q. 33: What is a Test Plan? A software project test…

Pointers to Effective Validation Testing described by a Good Manager to a New Tester An efficient Software Testing process comprises of two indispensable elements like its Verification and Its Validation. Verification testing takes place while the product is being created and has great influence on the quality of the product being created. Whereas Validation testing takes place after the product has been created. Verification is generally stressed upon by everyone; however it is rarely practiced due to being quite subjective and intangible as well as due to usual extremely tight deadlines of product delivery. Following pointers describe the validation testing…

STLC-Software Testing Life Cycle There is a systematic cycle to software testing, although it varies from organization to organization Software Testing Life Cycle: Software testing life cycle or STLC refers to a comprehensive group of testing related actions specifying details of every action along with the specification of the best time to perform such actions. There can not be a standardized testing process across various organizations, however every organization involved in software development business, defines & follows some sort of testing life cycle. STLC by & large comprises of following Six Sequential Phases:  1) Planning of Tests 2) Analysis of…

Resource related misconceptions about Software Testing Software Testing is usually viewed as a low-grade task in comparison with Software Development. Although software coding is a significant phase in the life cycle of any software product; testing activity & its great significance can�t be undermined. Testing is an extremely important phase of SDLC immediately after which the software product goes into production & flaws in the application come to the surface when the application actually starts functioning in the real world. Therefore, importance of software testing phase just can�t be undermined since this is an important phase where we gain a…

Mastering the Art of Effective Bug Reporting All software testers strive to achieve the prime aim of hunting maximum number of bugs in the software. When some build gets ready for testing, the main aim of the tester is to dig out maximum possible bugs from each & every corner. To achieve perfection in this task testing is performed from different angles. The application under test is subjected to the rigors of the following type: # Boundary value analysis # Validation Testing # Verification Testing # GUI Testing # Interoperability Testing # Integration Testing # Functional Testing  from Business concept…

Classification Among Testing Before delving on various types of Testing, let us firstly understand the basic definitions of Software Testing Definition of Testing: Software Testing carries many definitions as explained by various practitioners. Definition  1: Testing is a process in which the defects are identified, isolated (separated), subjected (sending) for rectification and ensured that the product is defect free in order to produce a quality product in the end and hence customer satisfaction. Definition  2: Testing is the process of executing a software program with the intent of finding errors. Definition  3: Testing is the process of Verifying and validating the software application with respect…

Glossary of Terms beginning Alphabet-S Safety: Safety is the capability of the software product to achieve acceptable levels of risk of harm to people, business, software, property or the environment in a specified context of use.   Safety Testing: Safety Testing is the process of testing to determine the safety of a software product. Safety Test Analysis: Safety Test Analysis is an analysis demonstrating that safety requirements have been correctly implemented and that the software functions safely within its specified environment. Tests may include; unit level tests, interface tests, software configuration item testing, system level testing, stress testing, and regression testing.   Sanity…