Test Automation Services and Tools are much hyped by our software testing and quality assurance industry. They are an integral part of our enterprise application development lifecycle. With the automation testing becoming an essential part of our software testing life cycle (STLC), from business owners to customers, various people are involved in this whole cycle.(…)
Defect Management is very critical part of the test management process. Defect management process and tools used for managing defects are very important for whole project delivery team including test team, development team and other stakeholders of the project. When a test manager is able to gather defect information effectively from the defect tools like(…)
Reviews are the form of static testing. In software reviews people analyze the work product of projects such as requirements document, design document, test strategy, test plan in order to find out any defects in the documents. Software Reviews, if done properly are the biggest and most cost effective contributor to product quality. As software reviews provide lot of(…)
Business and domain skills help in understanding how the system is used by business. Business users have clear understanding of what the correct system behavior is and so the inputs of business users is very important for test oracles. In case of any failure in the software, business users can clearly prioritize the failures, as(…)
Technical skills are very important for testers to get greater insight, a greater degree of effectiveness and ability to effectively communicate the failures and defects in system to developers. A tester with understanding of requirements analysis, design and coding has greater insight into defect life cycle. i.e. they know very well how developers introduce defects(…)
As we discussed in previous post individual skills of software testing professionals can be classified in three major categories, Software Testing Skills, Technical and Software Skills and Business & Domain Skills. In this post we will learn about the key software testing skills required by Test Analysts, Technical Test Analysts and Test Managers. We will cover some core software(…)
As a testing professional it is very important that you acquire all the important and must have individual skills for testing to progress and perform better in your role. Individual skills can be obtained through the experience or by education and training. Any of the following can contribute to your knowledge. • Knowledge of business(…)
People skills are very important for the test manager role. In order to succeed in test manager role it is very important that you recruit and maintain the test team with proper mix of skills. As skills requirement changes with every new project or client it is very important that test manager arranges proper training(…)
After determining that test execution has been complete the data from completed test activities need to be collected and consolidated. You need to analyze the data to find out facts and numbers about the testing activities during project cycle. Test closure activities are done mostly after the product is delivered but there are other instances(…)
Exit criteria is set of agreed conditions with stakeholders based on which you can officially mark the testing process to be completed for a particular test level. Exit criteria should be set for each test level. In exit criteria evaluation we assess the test execution against the defined and agreed exit criteria for a particular(…)
It is very important to document the process and other important activities in testing. Test management documents help to give a direction to whole team and everyone is on the same page. I agree that properly managing the testing certainly involves more than just creating test documentation, but putting some structure around test process is(…)
Test execution starts when the entry criteria has been satisfied. Test manager has to ensure that the test execution starts only when entry criteria has been satisfied in order to avoid any unnecessary defects and delays in testing. When test execution begins, the test analysts start executing the test scripts based on test strategy allowed(…)
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