Entries Tagged 'Basics of Software testing' ↓
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
- Degree of excellence - Oxford dictionary
- Fitness for purpose - Edward Deming
- Best for the customer’s use and selling price - Feigenbaum
- The totality of characteristics of an entity that bear on its ability to satisfy stated or implied needs - ISO
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.
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August 7th, 2007 — Testing Skill Improvement, Testing Interview questions, Basics of Software testing
What is White Box Testing?
White box testing (WBT) is also called Structural or Glass box testing.
White box testing involves looking at the structure of the code. When you know the internal structure of a product, tests can be conducted to ensure that the internal operations performed according to the specification. And all internal components have been adequately exercised.
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August 2nd, 2007 — Testing Tips and resources, Testing Interview questions, Basics of Software testing
Software Testing Types:
Black box testing - Internal system design is not considered in this type of testing. Tests are based on requirements and functionality.
White box testing - This testing is based on knowledge of the internal logic of an application’s code. Also known as Glass box Testing. Internal software and code working should be known for this type of testing. Tests are based on coverage of code statements, branches, paths, conditions.
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July 31st, 2007 — Testing Life cycle, Software Testing Templates, Test strategy, Basics of Software testing
Are you going to start on a new project for testing? Don’t forget to check this Testing Checklist in each and every step of your Project life cycle. List is mostly equivalent to Test plan, it will cover all quality assurance and testing standards.
Testing Checklist:
1 Create System and Acceptance Tests [ ]
2 Start Acceptance test Creation [ ]
3 Identify test team [ ]
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July 29th, 2007 — Testing Life cycle, Testing Tips and resources, Test strategy, Basics of Software testing
Today I got interesting question from reader, How testing is carried out in company i.e in practical environment? Those who get just out of college and start for searching the jobs have this curiosity, How would be the actual working environment in the companies?
Here I focus on software Testing actual working process in the companies. As of now I got good experience of software testing career and day to day testing activities. So I will try to share more practically rather than theoretically.
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July 18th, 2007 — Testing Tips and resources, How to be a good tester, Tester vs Developer, Basics of Software testing
Recently I read a very interesting article on “All I Ever need to know about testing” by Lee Copeland.
I was so impressed with the concept of our day to day work comparison with the software testing.
I will extract only points related to software testing. As a software tester keep in mind these simple points:
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