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A test strategy is the set of big-picture ideas embodying the overarching direction or design of a test effort.

A test strategy is the set of big-picture ideas embodying the overarching direction or design of a test effort. It’s the significant values that will inspire, influence and ultimately drive your testing, and the overall decisions you have made about ways and means of delivering on those values.

Note that was “overall” decisions. A strategy is not a detailed plan. It’s the design behind the plan that you, as a skilled tester, have thought about and developed.

Fiona Charles, "Basics Revisited: Test Strategy" http://www.stickyminds.com/s.asp?F=S16783_COL_2

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How to test data migration procedure?

We are migrating our production data (DB and filesystem) from a fairly complex data model to another fairly complex data model. The migration process is given by the specification as a set of mapping rules and transformation functions. I'm planning…
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Mutation testing: is it useful for assessing test quality?

This is part of my quest how to test my tests and test data. I looked at the techniques that would help improve my test cases. While code/branch coverage can tell me whether my test suites cover my code base sufficiently, it will not tell me whether…
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How to define test strategy of a company (how testing is done at a specific company)?

We have to deal at times with requests where a prospective customer is approaching us for some work and wants to know how we do testing. Generally what we hear is a high level statement (or one liner to be specific) such as: Application x is being…
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When do you stop testing?

When do you decide to stop testing, for me it boils down to - Allocated time is exhausted No high severity/priority defects are found Any other pointers which you consider while deciding to stop testing?
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How to Automatically Test Statistic Data Which is not Aggregated in Real Time

I want to write automated e2e / functional / acceptance tests for a statistic service which calculates the numbers only once a day. For the tests I need to make sure that I know which numbers the test should expect. I have one option in mind:…
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I got test idea from former issues. How can I categorize this?

I'm a newbie in a testing world. I'm confusing about categorizing my work as a formal word of testing. The situation is this. Our app added video plugin functions in advance at Windows OS. At that time, there were many issues than usual. At this…
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Are browser console errors a concern for QA

In my company's web app, pages will work fine but in the browser's developer tools, will show we're producing console errors. The console errors could be something like a field is missing from some data structure. The code doesn't require it and…
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Test approaches for micro services architecture related application

We have an application now developing with Micro services architecture. From the testing perspective what sort of testing practices / strategies should follow
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