I am preparing for testing certification and come across the strange question for which I don't have any clue what will be the answer. If anyone give some details it will be helpful .

Question : A project had got poor customer satisfaction survey (CSS) rating 3 consecutive times and asked to come reason for this , the project manager decided to do root cause analysis.

Which of the following techniques could he apply here?

1. force field analysis
2. regression analysis
3. fishbone analysis
4. power or interest grid

I'm working on a form builder project.

Users can drag and drop elements to build questionnaires.

If we simplify and say there is only 3 form elements that can be used:

1. Numeric answer, with configurable number of decimal points allowed 0 to 12
2. Multiple choice, click 1 radio button
3. yes or no, click 1 radio button

My maths says this gives us 3 forms with 1 control, 3 with 2 and 1 with 3.

We can then say that the numeric has 3 test configuration , (0,2 and 12 decimal points - the min/max plus happy common value, debatable but hopefully sensible).

Which gives us 5 forms with 1 control, 5 with 2 and 1 with 3.

However, one can have multiple of each control on a page. Lets say a page is limited to 100 controls.

It makes sense to me to test all of the above scenarios but then also where each control is duplicated - to see if having e.g. 2 numeric controls somehow interact with unintended consequences.

Beyond having 2 of each control - is there value in having 3 of each or 4 of each? How do I pick a number and justify it? I can't imagine if having 2 of each control on a page in each configuration doesn't cause any interactions, that having 3 or 4 or 9 - suddenly would do so?

Your test case seems fine, if that is truly the requirement. Before going further, I would check with the Product Manager or someone if that functionality is intended (and just not documented in the FSD).

If the FSD is truly "the bible", I would phrase the test case "System must not expose functionality that is not documented in the FSD", but this is just a wording preference on my part.

I understand that a higher standard deviation means that there is a variation in the response time, and vice versa for a low standard deviation.

But what is the context of the actual value? Is it in relation to the min/max values? In the screenshot below there's std dev of 7.83, how should that interpreted?

The simple option would be to ask the devs to add a status variable in the javascript that you can call via javascript executor class. I wouldn't like that since it introduces code in the product that has no obvious reason and violates clean code guidelines but it would work. The other way would be a spin lock, just something along the lines of
float EmergencyBreak = 0; while(!driver.findElement(ProgBar).isDisplayed()&& EmergencyBreak.

This would wait at most 7 seconds (35 iterations of 1/5th of a second) but break out as soon as the progress bar appears. In the end it really depends on the specific application though.

What is correct format for using XPath?

Does XPath vary with the browser?

drchrome.findElement(By.xpath("//a[contains(.,'Google')]")).click();

Its seems to me that you want to functionally test your application and are wondering what tools to use to do this. It is valid to ask for opinions in the QA/Test space because being QA's we will validate these opinions for our own cases before using them unlike programmers

As a test automation task this can actually be very simple , i'm guessing your application saves, restores and patches dotfiles and doesn't have complex interactions with other services and processes (e.g. networkmanager, dbus etc) so can just be run by command line options.

I think your choice of using shell scripts to test this is fine here because for me the most important part of test automation is exercise the code in the simplest and most understandable way possible.

I can't see many test tools adding much more to this than a shell script with a function to run a command and report which of a bunch of files have changed. This function could then be run over bunches of combinations of actions to check for specific results. A little bit of setup code might help to normalise the environment and or create a new user to do this with.

If you do want to try a framework then have a look at bats which provides a tap compliant test runner for bash based tests. https://github.com/sstephenson/bats

There is absolutely no need to attempt to test this in Rust , its a fascinating language with innovating memory safety at its core but its major overkill for tests unless you are specically testing Rust API calls.

I am learning and doing automated testing.

I was able to connect Firefox with selenium in the project created but now on of the experienced developer has given his code to go through and implement automation testing as per his approach using( excel approach). But when I imported his code in eclipse and copy pasted my code for firefox connectivity it shows an error saying can't connect to localhost...and firefox binary issue as well.

I read about the error, it says that version upgrade or downgrade but the same code is working in my another project. Also, I added the jar files that I have in my project.

Please advice me on the same.

Based on your question, the answer is to inform your superiors that their choices are for you or someone else to spend some huge amount of time manually entering the results (assuming you have been able to import test cases), or they can have someone with the proper programming knowledge uses the HP API to generate the import(which also could be a huge amount of time depending on how much data mangling and programming you need).

If this is a one-time data entry, there's a fair chance someone is going to find themselves manually entering a lot of data.

If you're going to need to import test result data on a regular basis, you have a better chance that programming resources will be available.

Regardless, at this point the decision needs to be made by someone further up the hierarchy than you because you don't have the access to make the decision.

I know that Selenium Webdriver is evolved from Selenium RC. Server in the Selenium RC was used to overcome the "same origin policy" using the proxy injection. Is it that the chromedriver.exe performs same functions? I tried find the answers online could not get any satisfactory explaination. Thanks in advance.