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Questions tagged [test-design]

Use for questions about designing tests, specifically selecting test techniques to use in specific circumstances.

Test Design involves the selection of a set of test techniques appropriate for discovering the information that stakeholders want to learn from testing.

Some techniques include, AllPairs, Design of Experiments, black-box and white-box. Implementation methods include tool selection (e.g. NUnit or FitNesse), and whether the tests are manual or automated.

The BBST Test Design course provides a survey of a number of different test techniques.

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Testing/Verifying Google Analytic code

I need help figuring out a test methods for Google Analytic. Our client pushes out a lot of marketing campaigns and they love using GA to track what is working, what is not working and where to focus their efforts next time. The client was under the…
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What are the first steps a tester should perform when using combinational testing?

Hypothetically, lets assume that I am testing the "Search and compare flights" functionality of this website*, and I want to apply a combinational testing technique. Where should a tester start this testing process? What should their first steps be?…
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cause effect graphing - creating simple graph

I need to draw an cause-effect-graph, I have read a lot about these graphs but still I am not able to draw one. I you could help me it would be perfect. Here is the description of program: function foo() is checking the user inputted string and…
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Workflow shortcut to meet the release deadline

When you design a test scenario or even when you run your tests and you stumble to lack of specifications from your marketing Dept. should you bypass them and take the initiative of making your own specs, or should you delay the deployment till you…
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Is it necessary to test third party tools?

I have a question about best practices for writing test cases. At my job, I am using a closed source, third party tool that parses files into a database. Since this is a third party tool, is it necessary to write a test suite for it? Should we limit…
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Internationalization testing

By internationalization testing I intend testing application with one or more additional languages and one or more additional regional settings (locale). We expect a number of risks with internalization, and want to mitigate them with proper test…
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Is there a name for this type of vector operation?

I often find myself wanting to generate a lot of negative test cases by mutating a known good set of inputs. Let's say I have a function that will accept (a, b, c) as an expected valid input for a function. I have sample invalid values for each…
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Should I use markdown as a test case format?

For anyone who has experience with using markdown to write test cases would you recommend it for test cases? I am specifically thinking instead of the HPQC step - expected - actual style, or given-when-then format for test cases?
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Testing Access Control

I'm in the process of writing Access Control tests for a system in the Utilities industry. A component of the system is accessed depending on the role of the User (Role Based Access Control). There are two layers of Roles - The top layer is an…
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How are dependencies dealt with when writing tests?

If you have three tests A, B, C and each tests a specific scenario, where B depends on A and C depends on B and A. How do you deal with that? Is it a case where there should not be three tests in the first place, but rather merged into one or are…
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Test data specification to generate actual test data

I don't want to describe the domain I work in at my work, so I will describe some fake scenario; might be silly but hopefully illustrative enough. Let's say we have a system that qualifies whether an employee deserves for promotion or not and want…
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Use case testing tools and methods

Is use case testing standard practice and if so could people point me towards some methodology and perhaps some tools. I was thinking that my Test cases could easily be represented via some type of UML. I found a tool which pretty much shows what…
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What kind of usability testing can I perform when the final users of the product are developers?

I have built a framework aimed at developers and I'd like to carry out a test with users. However, since my final users are developers, I don't know how to approach this testing. The usual list of tasks to perform doesn't seem appropriate in this…
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How do I test time zone scenarios?

Someone has a credit card issued in India but he is in the USA. Today is the last date for payment, he is paying around 8.00 PM in the USA but it's next day in India. How can a QA person test such scenarios?
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Approach to writing Manual Test cases/Scripts

I am in the process of writing Manual Test Scripts for a system in System Testing Phase. A comprehensive set of Use Cases have been prepared by the Business Analysts on team. From these Test Scenarios and Test Conditions have been derived. The…
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