Software Testing - Video Tutorial On Requirement Analysis, Documentation and Function Testing
Dr Kaner talks about the requirement analysis of the Test documentation. According to Dr Kaner IEEE 829 is an paradigmatic example of standard that supports heavy weight software development process. You don't have to generate all the documents listed in 829 to be IEEE 829 compliant. Time spent in filling boiler plate information could be spent in documenting testing strategies and other useful information. The biggest problem with modern heavyweight projects is that they have a lot of inertia and resist the necessary change.
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Video Lecture On Scripted Testing
In this series Dr. Kaner explains what is test script and why it provide fewer benefit than it claims? It talks about the problems associated with the presence of scripts.
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Software Testing - Video Lecture On Specification Based Testing
Dr. Kaner in this wonderful lecture explains the concept of specification based software testing. He explains what is specification based software testing. Importance of the specifications in the places where it is served as a contractual agreement is also discussed in this lecture. It also explains why specification might not be relevant if it served as vision document to guide the development initially and now it is not up to date. He also explains concept related to Active Reading can be applied to Specification documents.
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Software Testing - Video Tutorial On FitNesse & Testing Mobile
Rick Mugridge, Author of the famous book "Fit for Developing Software" explains the concept of story driven development, executable specifications and FitNesse. In this presentation, he addresses four main issues involved with software development and how FitNesse can be used to address following issues 1. How can we improve test coverage on a legacy system without discouraging its evolutio 2. How can QA be involved earlier and more effectively? 3. How can product managers better utilise their expertise?
Last Updated ( Saturday, 21 February 2009 14:08 )
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Software Testing - Video Tutorial On Complete Testing & Bug Advocacy
In this part Dr. Kaner explain how it is not possible to test completely. He demystify various concepts associated with the complete testing. He explains how 100 percent code coverage can not guarantee. Also how defect finding rate is not a good indication to infer that testing is complete. He discusses applicability of Weibull model and side effects of defect rate model. A simple example of square root is also discussed to emphasize how exhaustive testing is not possible
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Software Testing - Video Lecture On Regression Testing
In this part Dr. Kaner explain what is regression testing? Is it a testing technique or a practice? According to him, Regression testing is a practice of using tests which were developed using other techniques. He also explores the various reasons behind why we do regression testing.
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Software Testing - Fundamental Issues In Software Testing Video
In this part Dr. Cem Kaner gives an overview of fundamental issues involved in software testing. He talks about what role software testing plays in the whole software development process. He also touches upon what kind of information is expected from the testing group, ranging from bug advocacy to find out whether quality is good enough or not.
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Software Testing - James Bach Becoming Software Testing Expert
In this video, James Bach talks about the secretes of becoming software testing expert. It gives you information on what makes you testing expert ? He also talks about why it is important to question and even questioning the base of questions. His famous definition of perfect testing " Testing is the infinite process of comparing the invisible to the ambiguous so as to avoid the unthinkable happening to the anonymous " is also explained in this video.
Last Updated ( Saturday, 21 February 2009 13:25 )
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Software Testing - On Off Test
Inspiration for this Testometer test came from the blog ( Boundary Value Testing at WHET4 ). You can find link to this blog in the blog section. Link is not present here, as it will be interesting to do this exercise first and read blog later. This exercise gives us very good indication on how powerful boundary value tests can be and how little we use them. Mostly we use or think of boundary value analysis for integer inputs, this test gives you a chance to think differently. This test also makes you think about the concept of powerful tests. Time is limited, so how best you can test in a given time and situation.
Last Updated ( Friday, 20 February 2009 23:42 )
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Software Testing - distance test
In your high school, you might have calculated distance between two points, isn't it? Well consider you have a function which takes input as co-ordinates of two points and gives length between two points as output. There are couple of limitations, for example use only whole numbers and forgot to tell you do not give co-ordinates beyond 999 and -999
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Software Testing - Testometer Tic-Tac-Toe Game
In the game of tic-tac-toe, two players take turns marking squares of an initially empty 3 × 3 grid with either X’s or O’s. The first player always marks squares using X’s, whereas the second player always marks squares using O’s. If at any point during the game either player manages to mark three consecutive squares in a row, column, or diagonal with his/her symbol, the game terminates. Well then lets try out testing this TIC-Tac-Toe game. Like previous Testometer Tests, this one also will measure your testing skills. You should have a good understanding of this game and its rule before start writing test cases. Here you go...
Software Testing - Sine Wave Test
I hope you are familiar with the concept of sine waves. Idea behind this test is to make you familiar with the boundary value conditions. For people not familiar with Sine wave, this is how a sine wave looks.
Last Updated ( Friday, 20 February 2009 22:36 )
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Software Testing - Testometer Triangle Test
This is probably one of the most common question in software testing interview. This problem was first introduced by Myers, who was one of the first person to treat Software Testing as a different subject all together. This test check your ability to think about generating test data in a given condition.
Last Updated ( Friday, 20 February 2009 20:34 )
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Patents In Software Testing
According to the Wikipedia, A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a government to a person for a fixed period of time in exchange for the regulated, public disclosure of certain details of an invention. The person applying for a patent does not need to be the inventor who created or authored the invention.
You will be amazed to know that almost all the organizations small or big put immense emphasis on creating Intellectual Property rights or patents. This gives them competitive advantage in the market and they earn billions of dollars using these Intellectual Property rights. Software Testing is relatively new field and there is a lot of scope for you to get patents for whatever you are doing. There are enough reasons for you to start looking at this opportunity, of filing Patents. Some of the benefits of filing Patents are
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Research In Software Testing
Software testing is an engineering subject and similar to any other engineering field testing also have immense research opportunity. Research is happening in various fields related to software testing and organization as well as academics, both are working together in various research projects. Intention of this page is to provide you information on the research happening in the testing field and contact information of the people working on it wherever possible. This information might be helpful for you if you are interested in research and working in the testing field. You can also get opportunity to work on research projects by collaborating with the person/institution driving these research.
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Software Testing - Increasing Perceived Value of Tester
Questions & Conversations
This discussion is a bit old, but you will still find it relevant if you have not read it earlier on sqaforum. Original question from Elfriede was as follows I am preparing for a feature presentation on the topic of "Increasing a tester's usefulness as QA becomes less valued."
Right before the year 2000 testers were in high demand. However, after the big hype, the .com bust and given the current state of the economy, software testing is now outsourced and is often seen as unnecessary overhead.
How do you increase your perceived value as a tester in this current market? Are you still in the testing field? Some of my tester friends are now doing Sys Admin and other type of work. How has work life as a tester changed for you? Here are some of my suggestion - the more detailed reasoning for these suggestion is provided in my presentation:
Installation Testing Challenges
Questions & Conversations
This question was asked by John in Software-Testing yahoo group. Whole discussion was around, what are the different challenges associated with installation testing and how people have solved problems associated with the installation testing. Excerpts from the original question goes like this - Currently, it is the test team's job to verify each installation in various ways. This includes running every new installer that is created and then using a tool called Beyond Compare to compare the files that are installed with the build folder to ensure all files are identical. Secondly, for each build, the testers must compare all files of a new installed build with an installed build of the last version and note that all changes are expected.
We often find problems when we do these checks, and it will come back that the install developer left something out or had the wrong version of a file and we will need to do the whole process over again. Some of the interesting responses were as follows
Scripted Testing - Good or Bad
Questions & Conversations
CONTEXT - I am responsible at my organisation for reviewing test scripts for a software product in the Healthcare Arena. I have noticed a lot of repetition in the scripts.
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Software Testing - A Creative Career
Questions & Conversations
This question was asked by Dina in SQATester yahoo groups. Various reasons were discussed on why software testing is a creative career. This was the original question I'm a senior computer engineering student and I'm really considering testing as a career. I did an internship last summer and as fun as it was, I was disappointed. My question is this: I felt the problem is that the software produced are very much alike and so it turns the testing process to a routine. if you have this, you do that, end of story. I'm not sure if that was related to the whole career or was it just because the project I was working on was like that? Because the main reason I went into the testing career (or looking into it to be exact) is the creativity, not to mention that (I was told) I fit the description. I'd appreciate some guidance :)
Future Of Software Testing
Questions & Conversations
This question was asked by Mr. Satish in Software Testing and Software Quality Assurance google group. Discussion was centered around four main questions that Mr. Satish asked. - In the event of any bad patch for software industry, testers are the first one to get fired.
- Developers can also do job of testing as well as their job of coding.
- There is very good focus on the development of testing tools, and eventually tools will replace the testers.
- Testing is not drawing any more investment.
There were some very interesting points discussed in response to these questions. TestingGeek has tried to capture some of them to give you different view points.
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