May 31st, 2008 — Testing Concepts, Questions & answers, Testing Interview questions, Basics of Software testing
Despite of hundreds of web articles on Smoke and sanity testing, many people still have confusion between these terms and keep on asking to me. Here is a simple and understandable difference that can clear your confusion between smoke testing and sanity testing.
Here are the differences you can see:
May 7th, 2008 — Questions & answers, Testing Interview questions, Web Testing, Basics of Software testing
This is the guest post from VijayD
Question:
What is the difference between client-server testing and web based testing and what are things that we need to test in such applications?
Ans:
Projects are broadly divided into two types of: Continue reading →
May 4th, 2008 — Bug Defect tracking, Software Testing Templates, Basics of Software testing
This is the guest post from Vijay D (Coincidence with my name).
Below sample bug/defect report will give you exact idea of how to report a bug in bug tracking tool.
Here is the example scenario that caused a bug:
December 17th, 2007 — Quality assurance, Test strategy, Basics of Software testing
Are you developing any Test plan or test strategy for your project? Have you addressed all risks properly in your test plan or test strategy?
As testing is the last part of the project, it’s always under pressure and time constraint. To save time and money you should be able to prioritize your testing work. How will prioritize testing work? For this you should be able to judge more important and less important testing work. How will you decide which work is more or less important? Here comes need of risk-based testing.
October 9th, 2007 — Testing Skill Improvement, How to be a good tester, Basics of Software testing
Jayant Deo asks:
“Looking at the current scenario from the industry it is seen that the testers are expected to have both technical testing skills as well either need to be from the domain background or have gathered domain knowledge mainly for BFSI is commonly seen.
I would like to know why and when is this domain knowledge imparted to the tester during the testing cycle?”
First of all I would like to introduce three dimensional testing career mentioned by Danny R. Faught. There are three categories of skill that need to be judged before hiring any software tester. What are those three skill categories?
1) Testing skill
2) Domain knowledge
3) Technical expertise.
August 12th, 2007 — Quality assurance, ISO standards, Basics of Software testing
First in brief know what is Quality? Quality can be define in different manner. Quality definition may differ from person to person. But finally there should be some standards. So Quality can be defined as
How a Product developer will define quality - The product which meets the customer requirements.
How Customer will define Quality - Required functionality is provided with user friendly manner.
