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Learning something new about software testing?

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Eugene Founder last edited by Eugene

How often do you read or watch something to improve your knowledge in software testing?
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I always read something about software testing once a week on the weekend
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I wish I can do the same, but there is no time for studying at all these days...
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About 2 hours once a week)
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Supervised machine learning in a "one-time-test" classification problem
Manual Testing • test management test design regression testing test planning • • rosemadder

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Sounds like a reasonable approach. However, regardless of all the other features you may come up with, you probably want to take the test's past bug detection into account (production and test system, but be aware of flaky tests). This can be an absolute (e.g. total number of found bugs) or a relative (e.g. number of found bugs within the last n days/weeks/months/…) value. When developers tend to make a specific test fail, you probably don't want to label it as a one-time candidate. There's an awesome and freely available course on ML by Professor Yaser Abu-Mostafa. He describes the essence of ML as follows: A pattern exists. We can pin it down mathematically. We have data on it. Quite often the first part isn't obvious, but I think that if you can describe it mathematically and have data, simply start coding. ML involves a lot of experimenting. Therefore, the sooner you start, the sooner you will know what to adapt. To quote Rasmus Rothe: […] in real-world scenarios, it is less about showing that your new [ML] algorithm squeezes out an extra 1% in performance compared to another method. Instead it is about building a robust system which solves the required task with sufficient accuracy.
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How to do version compatibility testing
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To test any thing is to simulate the conditions necessary to for the thing to happen and see if the thing happens. To paraphrase what Dan Wilson said. If you want to see if v3.8 of an app prompts for an update, load v3.8 and see if it prompts for an update. When you're working with multiple versions it helps to have a standard procedure for setting up the testing environment with with any supported version of your software.
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Who needs to receive test documentation?
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There's so much testing documentation you could produce, your audience will vary massively... test plans, strategies, summaries, risk assessments, defect reports, etc. Not everyone needs to see everything. Define your project team and ask them how much information they want, or how much they need. For example, at my current client, only the Project Manager is interested in weekly progress reports in UAT, but the Test Manager wants daily progress reports. Everywhere is different, unfortunately. There's no real standard!
Difference between Scalability Testing And Capacity Testing?
Manual Testing • performance terminology manual testing load testing non functional • • Laycee

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A web search of the terms resulted in, Scalability Testing, is the testing of a software application to measure its capability to scale up or scale out in terms of any of its non-functional capability. Performance, scalability and reliability testing are usually grouped together by software quality analysts. The main goals of scalability testing are to determine the user limit for the web application and ensure end user experience, under a high load, is not compromised. One example is if a web page can be accessed in a timely fashion with a limited delay in response. Another goal is to check if the server can cope i.e. Will the server crash if it is under a heavy load? 1 Dependent on the application that is being tested, different parameters are tested. If a webpage is being tested, the highest possible number of simultaneous users would be tested. 2 Also dependent on the application being tested is the attributes that are tested - these can include CPU usage, network usage or user experience. Successful testing will project most of the issues which could be related to the network, database or hardware/software. Capacity testing: To determine how many users and/or transactions a given system will support and still meet performance goals. Capacity testing is conducted in conjunction with capacity planning, which you use to plan for future growth, such as an increased user base or increased volume of data. For example, to accommodate future loads, you need to know how many additional resources (such as processor capacity, memory usage, disk capacity, or network bandwidth) are necessary to support future usage levels. Capacity testing helps you to identify a scaling strategy in order to determine whether you should scale up or scale out. People in different localities have different understanding of terminologies. Hence you should try to find out what your team or organization thinks of these to be. For me they may be used interchangeably!
Object Oriented Programming with Selenium Page Objects
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The fragment idea is what you should use. As the Selenium Wiki page says, a page object should provide the services to interact and retrieve information. Since you don't want to create dependencies between the catalogue fragment and the pages, you should pass the fragment location as a dependency: a WebElement in its construtor - baseElement. Inside it, you can do findElement on this baseElement, rather than on a WebDriver. This way, the pages pass their knowledge of the fragment location to the object which encapsulates the knowledge of the fragment behavior.
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User Research Insights Database
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A wiki based e.g. on MediaWiki seems to be a solution here. You can enter text, upload media, do fulltext searches and - by categories - assign tags.
Good resource for a test case document
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This link should be a good start: http://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/test-case-template-examples/
Searching for a program to test bug finding
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I do not think that anyone releases intentionally buggy software (with easy-to-find bugs), with possible exception of first version of any MicroSoft software :-), or some obscure open-source project which no-one uses anymore (and bugs will be the reason). So if you want a system with known bugs, best way IMHO would be to preserve a old buggy version of your own software, deploy it on a test server, and let your candidates poke around.
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What should be tested besides compliance with functional requirements?
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In my opinion, testers should absolutely be testing non-functional attributes (performance, usability, privacy, security, reliability, compatability, supportability, etc.). In general, I think testing should have less emphasis on functional requirements and more emphasis on non-functional requirements, but I don't want to side track your question.If you're looking for a list, start with the ilities. If you're looking for a recommended list, it sort of depends on your product and customers. Overall, I find the list in my first paragraph a good place to start, but there's no one size fits all answer here.
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Mentoring for new Project Managers
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I'm not a "project manager" per se, but as a youth scout leader, I often ask myself the question as to how I can help the patrol leaders in the troop become better leaders, and by extension plan for summer camp, klondike (the big competition between scout troops), and similar things. What I've learned over the past few years I've been trying to help my fellow scouts is that the first rule is: Tell them that if they have a question, the can just ask me (or one of the other, more experienced scouts) anything. The second is like it: If you notice they have a problem, talk to them at the patrol leaders council (think of it as a department meeting of sorts), counsel them - but don't take over their "project" (in the case of scouts, their project being getting ready for the next campout, planning the meetings etc). Just give them advice, and if they ask for more assistance, or tell you to shut the heck up and let them do their job, do what they say. The third is: Let them fail, but do help them get back up on their feet. Dinner sucked last weekend on the campout? Well, help them get back on their feet for the next campouts dinner. Again, be there for them, help them, but don't do their job for them.
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How could I make this sheet more intuitive?
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I agree with Michael Lai that you need to test with actual learners and trust their feedback. A couple of answers from a general UX perspective: Putting each character in its own line might be space inefficient, but it would greatly help with memorization. We are better at memorizing contents in small meaningful chunks, rather than in large quantity. Visually separating the chunks will help user with memorization. It might also depend on the cultural background of your users: Chinese websites are often filled with contents with no white space, US and European websites use a lot more white space. There is indeed no indication regarding the 4 types of tiles. Your system might be performing well for memorization or not, but you can't know because users have no way to guess what's expected of them. I would include a presentation in your website to explain how the sheet works, and a short tutorial on top of the generated files (with the possibility to disable it for returning users)
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What are the possible test scenario's to test a Text field?
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It depends on what the text field is supposed to accept and what it's for. If it's meant to accept specific formats of data, your tests will be different than if it's meant to accept free-form data. For example, text fields are often used for postal code entry. For that, there's likely to be validation that the postal code format matches the official format for the country (USA: xxxxx or xxxxx-xxxx where x is any number, Australia: xxxx where x is any number - those are the only two I know offhand). Some other considerations: Is there a way to get invalid input into the field? Most browsers will allow drag and drop or copy/paste into fields: this is a common way to put invalid data into a field. The key thing is to handle the invalid input gracefully. Is there a way to override the field length limitations? Copy/paste and drag and drop can do this. I've also seen holding down a key do it, particularly if a control key is involved. Are there limits on the characters the field should accept? If you're limiting to English alphanumeric, the field needs to handle other characters gracefully. Special character handling - does the field handle characters that have specific meanings in HTML, JavaScript, the back-end programming language used, SQL? Does it handle leading spaces? Should it handle leading spaces?
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Junior QA test task
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I can guess based on the cases that we gave to our testers. (We really wrote a special application for this, with bugs, and gave it to testers, but that's the case). The tester's goal is not to find bugs (strange as it may sound), but to test the functionality. Accordingly, the test case does not have to find a bug (especially if it does not exist), it must check that the entire application works as it is intended. A trivial option for authorization: Open authorization Drive in the name Drive in a digit Drive in a name of 70 thousand characters Drive in "nothing" And so on .. There may not be bugs here (and should not be), but the key idea is that the functionality works.
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Is it worth joining the Association of Software Testing (AST), BBST Courses?
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I've successfully completed the AST's BBST Foundations course, and a couple of colleagues have just completed it (and enjoyed it!). It is possible to self-study with the material, but I'd definitely recommend doing the AST course if you can. (There is a self-study student workbook in preparation, due out late 2012/early 2013). When you do the AST course, you'll find yourself working through the material supported by peers and tutors, with lots of supporting exercises and quizzes. You'll find yourself responding to the new material you've learnt as part of the exercises, but you'll also find that you're expected to review and comment on other students' responses, consider their feedback to you, and then decide whether you'd modify your original answer. I found that this process gave me a much deeper appreciation of the material - it really forced me to examine my ideas quite closely, and rethink them in many cases.It's pretty intense. You pretty much get out of Foundations what you put into it in terms of time - the course recommends 12-14 hours a week, and you do need to put at least that much time in (some people put in much more, but it's doable with that time). I'd recommend taking a look at http://www.associationforsoftwaretesting.org/training/orientation/students/ as it'll give you a good idea of what will be expected of you.As might be obvious from the above, I think the AST courses are fabulous - both in terms of content, but also in terms of instructional design. It's so clear that every aspect of the course has been carefully thought out to increase how much and how well you learn.I intend to complete all three courses at some point, for me it's a matter of when I can afford the time. I'd definitely recommend at least doing Foundations to any tester (the experience level on the session I took ranged from a couple of months to more like a couple of decades). The order you suggest is correct - Foundations is a pre-req for Bug Advocacy, and you need to do both Foundations and Bug Advocacy to prepare you for Test Design. Hopefully I'll see you on one of them sometime? :)Note: I also found this article by Cem Kaner about the courses - http://www.logigear.com/magazine/articles/black-box-software-testing-test-design-course/
Good book on databases for beginners
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It really depends on which flavor of RDBMS you're working with. Oracle database management is significantly different from SQL Server database management, for instance. I answered a similar question recently here, but one of the best (Oracle) DBA books that I've read is Darl Kuhn's Pro Oracle Database Administration. I used it as a textbook in graduate school, and it covers everything from install, config, backups, partitioning, etc, as well as common real-life problems and their solutions. I wouldn't classify it as being for "beginners", but I had never had any database management before either, and I did ok.

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Good resource for a test case document
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Searching for a program to test bug finding
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What should be tested besides compliance with functional requirements?
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Mentoring for new Project Managers
Test Management • learning career • • Pearlaqua

How could I make this sheet more intuitive?
Usability Testing • forms layout learning intuition page layout • • Raziyah00

What are the possible test scenario's to test a Text field?
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Is it worth joining the Association of Software Testing (AST), BBST Courses?
Manual Testing • learning self education • • jonetta

Good book on databases for beginners
SQL, Database Testing • learning • • Analeea