Questions tagged [test-management]

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Test management most commonly refers to the activity of managing the computer software testing process. A test management tool is software used to manage tests (automated or manual) that have been previously specified by a test procedure. It is often associated with automation software. Test management tools often include requirement and/or specification management modules that allow automatic generation of the requirement test matrix (RTM), which is one of the main metrics to indicate functional coverage of a system under test (SUT).

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How should I respond when the team wants to ignore a critical but hard to reproduce bug

I am a Test engineer in a company. Recently, I caught a special bug. Here is the bug description. Process: Send money to a recipient via online banking. Fill in all the required details and Transfer Amount X to the recipient. The problem …
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Estimating a testing project

How do you estimate a testing project? What are the things to be take care of while estimating the time for a testing project ?
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Keeping automation code away from application source code

Disclaimer: this question is not related to - "Test cases in source code" I am working on a super fast development environment where manual test cases were given no importance (thankfully things are bright on this front after some pushing) and UI…
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Is it a good idea to use a GitHub repo to track test cases?

I'm trying to get my team to standardize on a tool to manage and keep track test cases. Currently we have a bunch of documents in Google docs or other formats such as Confluence and the main requirement for now is to get things tracked in one…
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What approaches in testing could be suitable, when team doesn't get enough requirements?

So, situation is quite tough. As a test-manager, I have a need to create an approach when the team has a situation: when requirements and specifications are not accomplished and don't satisfy the definition of ready for testing quite often. To be…
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How to understand existing test coverage?

I believe this is a common issue for any QA that enters a project with existing test base. I entered the project which have lots of unit tests and FIT tests for existing functionality. When I test a certain defect or new sub-feature added to…
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What are guidelines to use for exit criteria when releasing?

When I am in ship mode I normally apply a set of criteria before I will "Ship". They do vary, however they are typically along the lines of the following: Zarro Boogs (Zero active issues). This normally translates to critical bugs fixed, all other…
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Dealing with Failures after testing?

How do you mentally deal with this? For example im testing on a "Virtual" Environment of the customers set up....but a lot of things are simulated either due to not having the equipment etc... When small issues come back I beat myself up over…
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Test management product recommendation

I am looking for a test management product to structure our current manual testing. What I would like to it handle is: recording of test cases, including parametrised ones; historical analysis of trends: number of tests, duration, succes…
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Any good open source test management tools ?

I am thinking of developing some test management tools, to sit alongside the open source automation tools that I currently use. Primarily for recording manual and automated tests, results and providing reports. Before I start these from scratch, I…
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What is the relation between development hours and testing hours?

Some say that testing hours should be less than development hours when estimating a development project. But I don't fully agree with this. (take an example of web application with shopping cart).
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Tracking manual test cases which are automated

My question is intended to those QA shops which follow the paradigm of writing manual tests and automating them. Though I know that many QA shops don't agree to this paradigm at all. Given the situation that you don't have access to fancy test…
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Is testing a product your company uses different than a product shipped to customers?

Being in the embedded world I have always tested products that go to OEM's or end clients, I have never tested a product that my company really use. Besides the fact that you can use and feel the product in the real world, what are the differences?
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What type of testing should I be starting with for a big PHP site?

My title explained it all. I have a site to be tested which has almost 100 million lines of codes. This site hasn't been tested yet. I don't know what type of testing should I start with. Should I start with some automation or manual testing? I…
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What software for test script versioning

What are some good and reliable software tools for versioning and housing test automation and manual scripts?
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