Questions tagged [qa]
Quality assurance (for software) is the process followed to provide some level of confidence that software-based system conforms to established technical requirements.
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How to test the parts of an application that cannot run in a test harness
I'm working on a program that runs as a sort of plugin to the Windows UAC prompt (and other similarly difficult environments). The testing situation is a bit abysmal. End-to-end tests are not possible,...
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Grafana - detecting abnormal behavior of applications
Have Grafana on premise with prometheus.
Some anomalies can be detected by viewing a set of charts (slow requests, retries, pending transactions, etc.). SRE operators need to have the opportunity to ...
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Does unit testing spot bugs that QA testing typically does not?
By QA testing I mean like say integration testing, system testing, regression testing, user acceptance testing and the like. If unit testing is skipped altogether would bugs that typically are spotted ...
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Quality Assurance for Large SQL Script Releases
I'm often releasing large SQL scripts for projects and minor works - my problem is that there's nothing (except the logs) to indicate that the release was successful. There could be an object missing, ...
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Separation of Concerns between test automation engineer and manual QA engineer? [closed]
I've been working as a test automation engineer for almost two years now. As expected, most of my job involves ensuring that the automation (primarily written in Python) is operational and reliable. ...
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Who should perform the validation test, the software developer or the software user?
Who among the two is responsible for validating the software when testing it? Or is it a joint effort?
On the one hand, the software developer is responsible for ensuring that the software is built to ...
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Is it possible to assess the quality of software if the customer keeps changing what it is supposed to do?
Kind of a yes/no question, if so, how?
If the customer is unsure of his requirements and keeps changing them, on what basis are the software testers supposed to test the software to assess its quality?...
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Unit Testing Internal Classes
Advice on unit testing is often focused on publicly exposed classes. What about cases where the only public class is simply there to instantiate internal classes? Should the internal classes be unit ...
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Manual Testing with OR condition/multiple valid entry points
I am trying to figure out the best practice for manual testing where there are multiple valid routes to reach a step in the test.
For example, a test for changing a password could be:-
Test 1
User ...
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Identify Enhancements early as a QA
I am having a problem currently where product managers are raising improvements as bugs. Also, they expect us testers to catch them early. Our company doesn't have any requirement document and as QA ...
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Steps to achieve the best code quality?
Currently I'm on a project where my objective is to obtain the best code quality.
We have unit, integration & e2e testing. The e2e tests are written by the Business team in cucumber and these ...
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How to increase confidence in changes without a great test suite?
I've worked on a few codebases without a great automated test suite, where changes that concern the whole platform have to be thoroughly tested by developers and there would be a high risk that a ...
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Shall QA team share their Test Cases with Dev Team? [duplicate]
I am building the test process for my development team.
Currently, we have multiple ping-pong scenarios between Dev and Test teams.
to send the product to QA then QA find issues and return them to ...
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"Dev to QA handover" process improvement
I would like to get some help or ideas to solve my problems,
I just join a small company as junior project manager and I faced with 2 challenges sorry for my ignorance but I am new into the agile ...
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In unit testing should I check if a method is being called or just check the result?
Suppose I have similar function:
Helper2 helper2;
public void myFunc(Helper helper)
{
if (....)
helper.mySecondFunc();
else
helper2.myThirdFunc();
}
In my unit test should I ...
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