News: Testing
Acceptance Testing
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Monday, 02 March 09 - 05:07 PM (GMT +05:30) By Karthikeyan Shanmugam in Testing |
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Acceptance testing is associated not only with software field but also to any other field (such as manufacturing, engineering, even non-technical) that involves a customer and a system developed for the customer and developers of the system.Acceptance testing (also known as User Acceptance Testin...
Fuzz Testing
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Monday, 18 August 08 - 10:48 AM (GMT +05:30) By Karthikeyan Shanmugam in Testing |
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What is Fuzz Testing?In software testing, fuzzing is the practice of forcing applications to consume corrupted data and observing the results. Poorly coded applications will “fall over” when they get fuzzed data, typically trying and process the data without checking to see if it&rsqu...
Test Plan - Part 2
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Tuesday, 20 May 08 - 03:46 PM (GMT +05:30) By Karthikeyan Shanmugam in Testing |
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The scope of the test plan is the whole testing strategy, what application(s) will be tested and why, which support layers will be tested and why, and how much (if not all) of the development life cycle will require testing. A typical test plan should include the following: Application /system to...
Test Plan - Part 1
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Friday, 07 March 08 - 12:03 PM (GMT +05:30) By Karthikeyan Shanmugam in Testing |
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A test plan is a document describing the approach to be taken for intended testing activities and serves as a service-level agreement between the quality assurance testing function and other interested parties, such as development.A test plan defines the test objectives, scope, strategy and appro...
PDCA quality cycle for software testing.
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Friday, 07 March 08 - 11:36 AM (GMT +05:30) By Karthikeyan Shanmugam in Testing |
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PDCA approach (i.e., Plan, Do, Check, and Act) is a control mechanism used to control, supervise, govern, regulate, or restrain a system. The approach first defines the objectives of a process, develops and carries out the plan to meet those objectives, and checks to determine if the anticipated re...
Testing Strategy
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Wednesday, 23 January 08 - 02:31 PM (GMT +05:30) By Karthikeyan Shanmugam in Testing |
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The Testing Strategy provides overall context, but it does not include details such as who is doing the testing, what types of tests are involved, how you will track and measure the testing process, and what you will do when errors occur. Before you can actually begin coding and testing, you need...
Overview of ISO 9001 and CMM
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Wednesday, 23 January 08 - 11:28 AM (GMT +05:30) By Karthikeyan Shanmugam in Testing |
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ISO 9001 is the creation of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), a Swiss-based federation of national standards bodies. Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute (SEI) created CMM.ISO 9001 is part of the ISO 9000 family of standards. The new ISO 9001:2...
Checklist for Test Preparation
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Wednesday, 23 January 08 - 10:47 AM (GMT +05:30) By Karthikeyan Shanmugam in Testing |
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Questions contain for systematically planning and preparing software testing .1. Have you planned for an overall testing schedule and the personnel required, and associated training requirements?2. Have the test team members been given assignments?3. Have you established test plans and test proce...
Smoke vs Sanity
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Wednesday, 23 January 08 - 10:38 AM (GMT +05:30) By Karthikeyan Shanmugam in Testing |
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Smoke Test: When a build is received, a smoke test is run to ascertain if the build is stable and it can be considered for further testing. Smoke testing can be done for testing the stability of any interim build. Smoke testing can be executed for platform qualification tests. Smoke testing origi...
Software Life Cycle
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Thursday, 29 November 07 - 04:57 PM (GMT +05:30) By Karthikeyan Shanmugam in Testing |
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Project A user defined software test effort. Projects contain the specific test plans, test procedures, test cases, defect information, test schedule information, and performance data used to test software applications and track results. Pre-Alpha Pre-Alpha is the test period during which the pro...
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