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This is a good news for all Software Testing Help readers! Recently I’ve launched software testing community forum on SoftwareTestingHelp.com. I hope this QA forum is a great place for software testers to ask queries on anything related to software testing, testing career and automation tools like Winrunner, QTP, Loadrunner, TestDirector, IBM rational Robot and many more..

Software Testing Help is one of the largest and most popular software testing portal with on average, more than 100 comments per article. Thanks for your help and continuous support. I know many testing experts want to answer readers queries and now you will get a “software testing community” platform where you can share your thoughts and help other software testers for their bright future.

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What is agile scrum (sprint) process?

Scrum is a software development process. In today’s rapid world stakeholders want immediate return on their investments. They don’t want to wait for longer periods to get full featured product. As a result, nowadays new software development and testing framework is catching momentum i.e. Scrum approach.

In scrum, projects are divided in small features to be developed and tested in specific time-frames called as sprint (small cycles). Features should get developed and tested in specified small time-frames.  This agile scrum team is handled by scrum master.

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Again, I want to share my experiences with you on an interesting software testing topic. It’s a hot topic in any organization, yes as a tester or QA you can guess it, nothing other than – Testers vs. Developers.

Testers the troublemakers

It’s funny, how almost everywhere developers consider testers as the troublemakers. Actually it’s not their fault, no one like to hear faults in his/her own baby. And same thing which we (tester) are doing, of course intention behind that is to deliver quality output to client. Constantly there is bitterness at some point in the game between these two roles. Wonder why? It’s the genre and responsibility of these two roles.

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This article is a part of software testing questions and answers series. You can see all previous articles under this Q&A series on this page – Software Testing Questions & Answers. If you want to ask a question, just write a comment below.

Mallik asks:

What type of database (SQL) questions asked in interviews for test engineer position (not for database tester)?

This depends on many factors whether these questions are for testing positions at entry level or for experienced testing professionals. The depth of database interview questions depend on the experience of the candidate.
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Over my career I have used open source as well as licensed enterprise test management tools. Test Management tools are used to store, organize, execute and view test reports. In general test management tools provides features like managing test scripts, test planning, reporting, requirements tracking and collaboration with bug tracking tools. If you don’t know anything about test management tools then playing with it is the best way to learn without wasting time reading other documents. Most of the enterprise test management tools are available for free to try.

Today I am reviewing TestLodge test management tool which is very simple to use for any test project and even any newbie can start using it right away. Thanks Scott Sherwood, Test Lodge owner, for offering this tool for review.

TestLodge Test Management Tool Features:

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The software testing question and answer posts are back! Yes, this post is part of Question and Answer Series we started couple of months back and I will be doing it frequently in coming posts.

If you want to ask a question, just write a comment below.

Abhishek Asks:
“I want to do a software testing course so I need your guidance which institute I join? I am preferring the institute offering placement after completion of course”

Selecting a good software testing institute is always a tough task. Many institutes fake about their staff skills, education and experience. Also they make false commitments of 100% placement. Beware of such Continue reading →