This document contains a summary of a presentation on essential test management and planning. The presentation was given by Rick Craig of Software Quality Engineering and covered topics such as test methodology, test levels, test planning, and test management. The summary consisted of over 20 slides covering these various test management topics in detail.
The document provides an overview of software testing, including:
- The testing life cycle and types of testing such as unit, integration, system, and regression testing.
- Key terms like errors, bugs, faults, and failures.
- The roles of testers, test leads, and test managers.
- When testing occurs in the software development life cycle.
- Test planning, test cases, and test tools like JIRA, Confluence, and TestRail.
- Certifications available in testing and common job opportunities in the software industry.
When develpment met test(shift left testing)SangIn Choung
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Sharing my thoughts and cases about co-work with test and developemnt. Two big approaches.
One is Engineering approach (
1. Early testing education
2. Test design
3. Test code guide
4. Pair-testing, programming
5. Test-Automation),
Second is Strategic activities (
1. Test Strategy/Plan
2. Test analysis/report)
Also, I wanted to mention tester's various career paths.
Thank you.
The key to successful testing is effective and timely planning. Rick Craig introduces proven test planning methods and techniques, including the Master Test Plan and level-specific test plans for acceptance, system, integration, and unit testing. Rick explains how to customize an IEEE-829-style test plan and test summary report to fit your organizationâs needs. Learn how to manage test activities, estimate test efforts, and achieve buy-in. Discover a practical risk analysis technique to prioritize your testing and become more effective with limited resources. Rick offers test measurement and reporting recommendations for monitoring the testing process. Discover new methods and develop renewed energy for taking your organizationâs test management to the next level.
The document discusses test execution and reporting. It provides details on general test procedures including planning, execution, and evaluation. It describes preparing the test infrastructure by setting up systems, software, and standards. Test execution involves conducting individual test cases, verifying results against expected outcomes, and analyzing any variances. Reporting includes documenting test logs, creating incident reports for problems, and providing effective defect reports using a standardized template. Defects are then resolved by referring them to defect or change management processes.
Automation testing material by Durgasoft,hyderabadDurga Prasad
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The document discusses automation testing tools QuickTest Professional (QTP) and Unified Functional Testing (UFT). It provides an overview of QTP, describing its features such as scripting language, supported applications and browsers. The document also covers QTP concepts like object repository, object spy, standard classes and object methods.
The document describes REC Group's methods for quality assurance, including system integration tools like version control systems, and system verification tools like automated testing environments and bug tracking software. It discusses REC's competencies in integration, verification, and automation testing for various domains including automotive, telecommunications, and web applications. Key tools and processes are outlined for supporting quality assurance, such as definition of acceptance criteria, test planning and execution, and incident tracking.
The document discusses quality assurance methods at REC Group including system integration, verification, and management tools. It describes responsibilities for customizing products, defining test approaches and plans, executing module, integration and system tests, and using test automation tools like Python and C++. It also outlines competencies in integration, verification, and skills in technologies like Java, Perl, and mobile standards.
The document provides an overview of software testing, including:
- The testing life cycle and types of testing such as unit, integration, system, and regression testing.
- Key terms like errors, bugs, faults, and failures.
- The roles of testers, test leads, and test managers.
- When testing occurs in the software development life cycle.
- Test planning, test cases, and test tools like JIRA, Confluence, and TestRail.
- Certifications available in testing and common job opportunities in the software industry.
When develpment met test(shift left testing)SangIn Choung
Â
Sharing my thoughts and cases about co-work with test and developemnt. Two big approaches.
One is Engineering approach (
1. Early testing education
2. Test design
3. Test code guide
4. Pair-testing, programming
5. Test-Automation),
Second is Strategic activities (
1. Test Strategy/Plan
2. Test analysis/report)
Also, I wanted to mention tester's various career paths.
Thank you.
The key to successful testing is effective and timely planning. Rick Craig introduces proven test planning methods and techniques, including the Master Test Plan and level-specific test plans for acceptance, system, integration, and unit testing. Rick explains how to customize an IEEE-829-style test plan and test summary report to fit your organizationâs needs. Learn how to manage test activities, estimate test efforts, and achieve buy-in. Discover a practical risk analysis technique to prioritize your testing and become more effective with limited resources. Rick offers test measurement and reporting recommendations for monitoring the testing process. Discover new methods and develop renewed energy for taking your organizationâs test management to the next level.
The document discusses test execution and reporting. It provides details on general test procedures including planning, execution, and evaluation. It describes preparing the test infrastructure by setting up systems, software, and standards. Test execution involves conducting individual test cases, verifying results against expected outcomes, and analyzing any variances. Reporting includes documenting test logs, creating incident reports for problems, and providing effective defect reports using a standardized template. Defects are then resolved by referring them to defect or change management processes.
Automation testing material by Durgasoft,hyderabadDurga Prasad
Â
The document discusses automation testing tools QuickTest Professional (QTP) and Unified Functional Testing (UFT). It provides an overview of QTP, describing its features such as scripting language, supported applications and browsers. The document also covers QTP concepts like object repository, object spy, standard classes and object methods.
The document describes REC Group's methods for quality assurance, including system integration tools like version control systems, and system verification tools like automated testing environments and bug tracking software. It discusses REC's competencies in integration, verification, and automation testing for various domains including automotive, telecommunications, and web applications. Key tools and processes are outlined for supporting quality assurance, such as definition of acceptance criteria, test planning and execution, and incident tracking.
The document discusses quality assurance methods at REC Group including system integration, verification, and management tools. It describes responsibilities for customizing products, defining test approaches and plans, executing module, integration and system tests, and using test automation tools like Python and C++. It also outlines competencies in integration, verification, and skills in technologies like Java, Perl, and mobile standards.
The document discusses quality assurance methods at REC Group including system integration, verification, and management tools. It describes responsibilities for customizing products, defining test approaches and plans, executing module, integration and system tests, and using test automation tools like Python and C++. It also outlines competencies in integration, verification, and skills in technologies like Java, Perl, and mobile standards.
Parasoft delivers a complete framework to create, manage, and extract greater value from unit tests. We help you exercise and test an incomplete systemâenabling you to identify problems when they are least difficult, costly, and time-consuming to fix. This reduces the length and cost of downstream processes such as debugging. Moreover, since all tests are written at the unit level, the test suite can be run independent of the complete system. This allows you to isolate code behavior changes, reduces setup complexities, and makes it practical to execute the test suite on a daily basis.
The document provides information on various testing concepts:
1. It differentiates between QA and QC, describing QA as process-oriented and prevention-focused, while QC is product-oriented and detection-focused.
2. A bug is defined as an error in a computer program that prevents correct functioning or results.
3. A test case is a set of inputs, execution conditions, expected results, and postconditions developed to exercise a program path or verify a requirement.
4. The purpose of a test plan is to outline the testing strategy, scope, responsibilities, and schedule to guide testing for a project.
The document provides an overview of QuickTest Professional (QTP) and its key features and functionality. It discusses QTP's basic features, the elements that make up the QTP tool window like the test pane, active screen, and data table. It also summarizes the QTP testing process which involves planning, generating tests through recording or programming, enhancing tests with checkpoints and parameters, debugging, running tests, and reporting results.
Testing in TFS involves managing the test process to improve quality and customer satisfaction. Key aspects of testing in TFS include: test planning, authoring test cases and scenarios, executing tests in test suites, tracking and reporting results, and managing bugs. Test cases go through various states like design, ready, pass, fail, and more to track progress and ensure quality.
The document discusses several automated testing tools:
- PHPUnit is a unit testing framework for PHP that allows writing and running automated tests. It helps ensure code quality and finds regressions.
- Selenium is a suite of tools for automating web application testing across browsers and platforms. It includes the Selenium IDE, RC, and Grid.
- Phing is a build system based on Apache Ant for PHP projects. It uses XML build files and PHP tasks to provide an extensible and flexible build framework.
Vskills certification for JMeter Tester assesses the candidate as per the companyâs need for performance and load testing of software applications especially web applications. The certification tests the candidates on various areas in building, installation of JMeter, Building of FTP, LDAP, Web, Webservice, etc. test plans, Listeners, remotes testing and using regular expression.
Full Testing Experience - Visual Studio and TFS 2010Ed Blankenship
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This presentation goes through the full testing experience of Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010 including using the new Lab Management features in the full testing process.
The document provides best practices for testing in Salesforce, including understanding business requirements before testing, creating a test plan and scenarios, preparing test cases, data, environments, and tools. It describes the stages of the Salesforce testing lifecycle including unit, integration, system, regression, and acceptance testing. Specific testing types for Salesforce like security, environment-based, governor limit-based, and integration testing are outlined. Do's and don'ts for test planning and case development are also listed.
Unit testing provides business advantages by promoting modular and object-oriented design. The document discusses unit testing in C/C++, including how to write simple unit tests, break dependencies between modules to facilitate testing, optimize tests for readability, and address performance when adding tests. It emphasizes starting small with a focus on real bugs and maintaining high quality and accessibility of tests.
This document contains 112 questions related to software testing, quality assurance, and automation. The questions cover a wide range of topics including the roles of QA and testing, test planning, bug reporting, test types, automation, metrics, and more. The questions are intended for software testing interviews and range from basic to more advanced.
MindScripts Technology Training Solutions,
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MindScripts provides training and job placements in Pune.Mindscripts gives 100% Job Placement for Java-Android and Software testing. It has ties ups with several MNC courses for software testing training,QTP training ,cloud computing ,android development training
Mindscripts is a software testing training institute in Pune that offers courses to help students become software testing professionals. The institute's fast track diploma course covers both manual and automation testing concepts and helps students obtain ISTQB certification. The course modules include manual testing, QuickTest Professional, LoadRunner, Selenium, SQL queries, and Quality Center. The objective is to help students find jobs in software testing within 30 days. Students learn testing principles, test case creation, defect logging, automation tools like QTP, LoadRunner and Selenium, and how to use Quality Center for test management. The course emphasizes hands-on training and practical experience.
Testers are taught they are responsible for all testing. Some even say âItâs not tested until I run the product myself.â Eric Jacobson believes this old school way of thinking can hurt a testerâs reputation andâeven worseâmay threaten the teamâs success. Learning to recognize opportunities where you may not have to test can eliminate bottlenecks and make you everyoneâs favorite tester. Eric shares eight patterns from his personal experiences where not testing was the best approach. Examples include patches for critical production problems that canât get worse, features that are too technical for the tester, cosmetic bug fixes with substantial test setup, and more. Challenge your natural testing assumptions. Become more comfortable with approaches that donât require testing. Eliminate waste in your testing process by asking, âDoes this need to be tested? By me?â Take back ideas to manage not testing including using lightweight documentation for justification. You may find that not testing may actually be a means to better testing.
Deadlines Approaching? Budgets Cut? How to Keep Your SanityTechWell
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Testing projects have a habit of dissolving into chaosâand even strifeâas deadlines approach and budgets are cut. When asked to do the impossible, risk management and mitigation tools can be the only way for testers to survive. Geoff Horne presents a proven method he uses for identifying and assessing risks and the effectsâboth positive and negativeâof various mitigation approaches. Through the school of hard knocks, Geoff has learned that the most plausible risk mitigation strategy is not always the best and may actually harm the project. Successfully used on different projects across different types of businesses, Geoffâs approach is based on evaluating risks and assessing the impacts across key criteria: resources, productivity, cost, quality, and confidence. Geoff presents risk assessments in a color-coded graphical format that enables an easy, straightforward comparison and prioritization of the mitigation strategies under consideration. Learn to maintain your sanity when you are next asked to do the impossibleâone more time.
Have you ever worked on a project where you felt testing was thorough and completeâall of the features were covered and all of the tests passedâyet in the first week in production the software had serious issues and problems? Join Dawn Haynes to learn how to inject robustness testing into your projects to uncover those issues before release. Robustnessâan important and often overlooked area of testingâis the degree to which a system operates correctly in the presence of exceptional inputs or stressful environmental conditions. By expanding basic tests and incorporating specific robustness attacks, Dawn shows you how to catch defects that commonly show up first in production. She offers strategies for making robustness testing a project-level concern so those defects get the priority they deserve and are fixed before release. Join Dawn to learn about robustness tests you can add to your suite and execute in just a few minutesâeven if your test team is over-tasked and under-resourced.
Have you ever wondered what makes a good Product Owner? Itâs a broad and deep role that is often filled with a hodgepodge of differently skilled individuals. Many organizations struggle to understand its importance as they scale their agile transformations. What about exceptional Product Ownership? What does that entail? In this highly collaborative session, Bob Galen explores the Four Quadrants of Effective Product OwnershipâProduct Management, Project Management, Leadership, and Business Analysis. Each of these critical aspects of the Product Owner role supports the agile team. Together, they lead to well-constructed product backlogs with an emphasis on creating high quality and high value products. Leave this session with a better understanding of the breadth and depth associated with outstanding Product Owners, a newfound respect for how challenging the role is, and with immediate insights and actions for improving your organizationâs Product Ownership.
Production Performance Testing in the CloudTechWell
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Testing in production for online applications has evolved into a critical component of successful performance testing strategies. Dan Bartow explains the fundamentals of cloud computing, its application to full-scale performance validation, and the practices and techniques needed to design and execute a successful testing-in-production strategy. Drawing on his experiences, Dan describes the methodology he has used for testing numerous online applications in a production environment with minimal disruption. He explains how to create a performance testing strategy to give your team critical data about how your online application performs and scales. Learn how to create a robust lab-to-production ecosystem that delivers the answers about what will happen when peak traffic hits your site. Take back practical approaches to mitigate the three most common problemsâsecurity, test data, and potential live customer impactâthat arise when embarking on testing in production.
Keynote: The Mismeasure of Software: The Last Talk on Measurement Youâll Ever...TechWell
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Lee Copeland maintains that most organizations have some kind of metrics programâand almost all are ineffective. After explaining the concept of measurement, Lee describes two key reasons for these almost universal metrics program failures. The first major mistake people make is forgetting that the model we are using for measurement is not necessarily reality. The second major blunder is treating ideas as if they were real things and then counting them. Lee describes the âThree Don'ts of MetricsââDonât measure it unless you know what it means; Donât measure it if youâre not going to do something with the measurement; and no matter what else you do, Donât turn your measurement into a goal. Through the years, Lee has discovered his favorite project indicator is not a measurement at allâand youâll be surprised to learn what it is. Join Lee as he shares his Zeroth Law of Metrics to guide your program to success.
The document discusses quality assurance methods at REC Group including system integration, verification, and management tools. It describes responsibilities for customizing products, defining test approaches and plans, executing module, integration and system tests, and using test automation tools like Python and C++. It also outlines competencies in integration, verification, and skills in technologies like Java, Perl, and mobile standards.
Parasoft delivers a complete framework to create, manage, and extract greater value from unit tests. We help you exercise and test an incomplete systemâenabling you to identify problems when they are least difficult, costly, and time-consuming to fix. This reduces the length and cost of downstream processes such as debugging. Moreover, since all tests are written at the unit level, the test suite can be run independent of the complete system. This allows you to isolate code behavior changes, reduces setup complexities, and makes it practical to execute the test suite on a daily basis.
The document provides information on various testing concepts:
1. It differentiates between QA and QC, describing QA as process-oriented and prevention-focused, while QC is product-oriented and detection-focused.
2. A bug is defined as an error in a computer program that prevents correct functioning or results.
3. A test case is a set of inputs, execution conditions, expected results, and postconditions developed to exercise a program path or verify a requirement.
4. The purpose of a test plan is to outline the testing strategy, scope, responsibilities, and schedule to guide testing for a project.
The document provides an overview of QuickTest Professional (QTP) and its key features and functionality. It discusses QTP's basic features, the elements that make up the QTP tool window like the test pane, active screen, and data table. It also summarizes the QTP testing process which involves planning, generating tests through recording or programming, enhancing tests with checkpoints and parameters, debugging, running tests, and reporting results.
Testing in TFS involves managing the test process to improve quality and customer satisfaction. Key aspects of testing in TFS include: test planning, authoring test cases and scenarios, executing tests in test suites, tracking and reporting results, and managing bugs. Test cases go through various states like design, ready, pass, fail, and more to track progress and ensure quality.
The document discusses several automated testing tools:
- PHPUnit is a unit testing framework for PHP that allows writing and running automated tests. It helps ensure code quality and finds regressions.
- Selenium is a suite of tools for automating web application testing across browsers and platforms. It includes the Selenium IDE, RC, and Grid.
- Phing is a build system based on Apache Ant for PHP projects. It uses XML build files and PHP tasks to provide an extensible and flexible build framework.
Vskills certification for JMeter Tester assesses the candidate as per the companyâs need for performance and load testing of software applications especially web applications. The certification tests the candidates on various areas in building, installation of JMeter, Building of FTP, LDAP, Web, Webservice, etc. test plans, Listeners, remotes testing and using regular expression.
Full Testing Experience - Visual Studio and TFS 2010Ed Blankenship
Â
This presentation goes through the full testing experience of Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010 including using the new Lab Management features in the full testing process.
The document provides best practices for testing in Salesforce, including understanding business requirements before testing, creating a test plan and scenarios, preparing test cases, data, environments, and tools. It describes the stages of the Salesforce testing lifecycle including unit, integration, system, regression, and acceptance testing. Specific testing types for Salesforce like security, environment-based, governor limit-based, and integration testing are outlined. Do's and don'ts for test planning and case development are also listed.
Unit testing provides business advantages by promoting modular and object-oriented design. The document discusses unit testing in C/C++, including how to write simple unit tests, break dependencies between modules to facilitate testing, optimize tests for readability, and address performance when adding tests. It emphasizes starting small with a focus on real bugs and maintaining high quality and accessibility of tests.
This document contains 112 questions related to software testing, quality assurance, and automation. The questions cover a wide range of topics including the roles of QA and testing, test planning, bug reporting, test types, automation, metrics, and more. The questions are intended for software testing interviews and range from basic to more advanced.
MindScripts Technology Training Solutions,
1st Floor,, Butte Bhavan, Above Carpet House,Near Nul Stop, Karve Rd, Pune 411 004
C8, Sant Tukaram Complex,Pradhikaran, NR Nigdi Bus Stop,Mumbai Pune Highway, Nigdi, Pune - 411044 Mobile : +91-97674 27924 +91-97674 27924
MindScripts provides training and job placements in Pune.Mindscripts gives 100% Job Placement for Java-Android and Software testing. It has ties ups with several MNC courses for software testing training,QTP training ,cloud computing ,android development training
Mindscripts is a software testing training institute in Pune that offers courses to help students become software testing professionals. The institute's fast track diploma course covers both manual and automation testing concepts and helps students obtain ISTQB certification. The course modules include manual testing, QuickTest Professional, LoadRunner, Selenium, SQL queries, and Quality Center. The objective is to help students find jobs in software testing within 30 days. Students learn testing principles, test case creation, defect logging, automation tools like QTP, LoadRunner and Selenium, and how to use Quality Center for test management. The course emphasizes hands-on training and practical experience.
Testers are taught they are responsible for all testing. Some even say âItâs not tested until I run the product myself.â Eric Jacobson believes this old school way of thinking can hurt a testerâs reputation andâeven worseâmay threaten the teamâs success. Learning to recognize opportunities where you may not have to test can eliminate bottlenecks and make you everyoneâs favorite tester. Eric shares eight patterns from his personal experiences where not testing was the best approach. Examples include patches for critical production problems that canât get worse, features that are too technical for the tester, cosmetic bug fixes with substantial test setup, and more. Challenge your natural testing assumptions. Become more comfortable with approaches that donât require testing. Eliminate waste in your testing process by asking, âDoes this need to be tested? By me?â Take back ideas to manage not testing including using lightweight documentation for justification. You may find that not testing may actually be a means to better testing.
Deadlines Approaching? Budgets Cut? How to Keep Your SanityTechWell
Â
Testing projects have a habit of dissolving into chaosâand even strifeâas deadlines approach and budgets are cut. When asked to do the impossible, risk management and mitigation tools can be the only way for testers to survive. Geoff Horne presents a proven method he uses for identifying and assessing risks and the effectsâboth positive and negativeâof various mitigation approaches. Through the school of hard knocks, Geoff has learned that the most plausible risk mitigation strategy is not always the best and may actually harm the project. Successfully used on different projects across different types of businesses, Geoffâs approach is based on evaluating risks and assessing the impacts across key criteria: resources, productivity, cost, quality, and confidence. Geoff presents risk assessments in a color-coded graphical format that enables an easy, straightforward comparison and prioritization of the mitigation strategies under consideration. Learn to maintain your sanity when you are next asked to do the impossibleâone more time.
Have you ever worked on a project where you felt testing was thorough and completeâall of the features were covered and all of the tests passedâyet in the first week in production the software had serious issues and problems? Join Dawn Haynes to learn how to inject robustness testing into your projects to uncover those issues before release. Robustnessâan important and often overlooked area of testingâis the degree to which a system operates correctly in the presence of exceptional inputs or stressful environmental conditions. By expanding basic tests and incorporating specific robustness attacks, Dawn shows you how to catch defects that commonly show up first in production. She offers strategies for making robustness testing a project-level concern so those defects get the priority they deserve and are fixed before release. Join Dawn to learn about robustness tests you can add to your suite and execute in just a few minutesâeven if your test team is over-tasked and under-resourced.
Have you ever wondered what makes a good Product Owner? Itâs a broad and deep role that is often filled with a hodgepodge of differently skilled individuals. Many organizations struggle to understand its importance as they scale their agile transformations. What about exceptional Product Ownership? What does that entail? In this highly collaborative session, Bob Galen explores the Four Quadrants of Effective Product OwnershipâProduct Management, Project Management, Leadership, and Business Analysis. Each of these critical aspects of the Product Owner role supports the agile team. Together, they lead to well-constructed product backlogs with an emphasis on creating high quality and high value products. Leave this session with a better understanding of the breadth and depth associated with outstanding Product Owners, a newfound respect for how challenging the role is, and with immediate insights and actions for improving your organizationâs Product Ownership.
Production Performance Testing in the CloudTechWell
Â
Testing in production for online applications has evolved into a critical component of successful performance testing strategies. Dan Bartow explains the fundamentals of cloud computing, its application to full-scale performance validation, and the practices and techniques needed to design and execute a successful testing-in-production strategy. Drawing on his experiences, Dan describes the methodology he has used for testing numerous online applications in a production environment with minimal disruption. He explains how to create a performance testing strategy to give your team critical data about how your online application performs and scales. Learn how to create a robust lab-to-production ecosystem that delivers the answers about what will happen when peak traffic hits your site. Take back practical approaches to mitigate the three most common problemsâsecurity, test data, and potential live customer impactâthat arise when embarking on testing in production.
Keynote: The Mismeasure of Software: The Last Talk on Measurement Youâll Ever...TechWell
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Lee Copeland maintains that most organizations have some kind of metrics programâand almost all are ineffective. After explaining the concept of measurement, Lee describes two key reasons for these almost universal metrics program failures. The first major mistake people make is forgetting that the model we are using for measurement is not necessarily reality. The second major blunder is treating ideas as if they were real things and then counting them. Lee describes the âThree Don'ts of MetricsââDonât measure it unless you know what it means; Donât measure it if youâre not going to do something with the measurement; and no matter what else you do, Donât turn your measurement into a goal. Through the years, Lee has discovered his favorite project indicator is not a measurement at allâand youâll be surprised to learn what it is. Join Lee as he shares his Zeroth Law of Metrics to guide your program to success.
Collaboration Techniques: Combining New Approaches with Ancient WisdomTechWell
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In our increasingly agile world, the new buzzword is collaborationâso easy to preach but difficult to do well. Testers are challenged to work directly, effectively, efficiently, and productively with customers, programmers, business analysts, writers, trainers, and pretty much everyone in the business value chain. Many points of collaboration exist: grooming stories with customers, sprint planning with team members, reviewing user interaction with customers, troubleshooting bugs with developers, whiteboarding with peers, and buddy checking. Rob Sabourin and Dot Graham examine what collaboration is, why it is challenging, and how you can do it better. Join Rob and Dot to learn about forgotten but proven techniques, such as risk-based objectives, checklists, entry and exit criteria, diverse roles, cross-checking, and root cause analysis. These techniques can help you work more efficiently, improve your professional relationships, and deliver quality products. Bring your own stories of collaborationâgood and badâand see how forgotten wisdom can help improve todayâs practices.
All testers know that we can identify many more test cases than we will ever have time to design and execute. The major problem in testing is choosing a small, âsmartâ subset from the almost infinite number of possibilities available. Join Lee Copeland to discover how to design test cases using formal black-box techniques, including equivalence class and boundary value testing, decision tables, state-transition diagrams, and all-pairs testing. Explore white-box techniques with their associated coverage metrics. Evaluate more informal approaches, such as random and hunch-based testing, and learn the importance of using exploratory testing to enhance your testing ability. Choose the right test case design approaches for your projects. Use the test results to evaluate the quality of both your products and your test designs.
Test-Driven Development for Developers: Plain and SimpleTechWell
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This document provides an overview of a presentation titled "Test-Driven Development for Developers: Plain and Simple" presented by Rob Myers. The presentation introduces test-driven development (TDD) and argues that it is more enjoyable and provides benefits beyond just unit testing. It demonstrates TDD techniques like writing one failing test at a time, faking functionality to get tests to compile, and refactoring code and tests. Case studies show that TDD can reduce pre-release defects by 40-90% with a 15-35% increase in initial development time.
A Big Helping of DevOps with Career Advice on the SideTechWell
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For decades-with the exception of agile-dev followers-the IT community has continued to build and protect its departmental silos. Project management, business analysis, development, testing, DB administration, and operations are just a few of the specializations that are carved out and institutionalized. Agile practices seek to eliminate the walls and empower people to deliver the highest value to the business. DevOps is the latest effort in this direction-bringing developers, testers, and operations together to replace their silos with a continuous collaboration pipeline. Paul Peissner introduces DevOps and explains how it is a key to transitioning from continuous integration (creating the finished software product immediately) to continuous delivery (making the product immediately available to users) and adding tremendous new business value. Paul describes the effects DevOps will have on classic organizational roles-development, test, and operations-and the new opportunities arising for those who are up to the challenge. Find out what you need to do now to be ready for this paradigm shift.
Leading ChangeâEven If Youâre Not in ChargeTechWell
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Has this happened to you? You try to implement a change in your organization and it doesnât get the support that you thought it would. And, to make matters worse, you can't figure out why. Or, you have a great idea but canât get the resources required for successful implementation. Jennifer Bonine shares a toolkit of techniques to help you determine which ideas willâand will notâwork within your organization. This toolkit includes five rules for change management, a checklist to help you determine the type of change process needed in your organization, techniques for communicating your ideas to your target audience, a set of questions you can ask to better understand your executivesâ goals, and methods for overcoming resistance to change from teams you donât lead. These toolsâtogether with an awareness of your organizationâs core cultureâwill help you identify which changes you can successfully implement and which you should leave until another day.
Baking In Quality: The Evolving Role of the Agile TesterTechWell
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While more and more organizations are practicing agile development methodologies, many have not learned how to âbake in qualityâ throughout the process. As an agile tester, you are an integral part of the development teamâworking on requirements, design, implementation, writing automated tests, and testing However, are all team members working together as they should to ensure quality from day one through final delivery? Dena Laterza offers proven tips to help you and your team make the cultural shift to adopt and foster a âquality firstâ team standard. Gain an understanding of a tester's involvement in test-driven development and behavior-driven development. Take back new ideas on automating tests, working with stakeholders, and becoming a fully informed tester. Learn how to push testing back into development and maximize the value of testers on the team. Take back a plan to get your agile team working togetherâas a team.
Testing with an Accent: Internationalization TestingTechWell
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Finding time to test the basic functionality, performance, and security of a system is difficult enough, so how do you find time to add internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) testing? Todayâs world is very small, and you may already have international users in your target market. Can you really afford to ignore those who canât enter their name correctly with the default US-ASCII character set? Will it still be a quality product to them? Paul Carvalho shares how you canâwith a little creative thinking and designâincorporate i18n and l10n testing into your regular routine. Great testing requires the right mindset, applied insight, preparation, and dedication. Learn how to identify the system elements that pose juicy risks; go beyond looking at the UI, using simple tools and tricks you can try right away; and discuss ways to integrate i18n into your functional testing in a fun way with little overhead. Impress your co-workers and delight your customers!
When a team is ready to embark on an agile adventure, it is vital to consider the behavioral and practical aspects of agile prior to jumping in. Mario shares the important readiness factors within his âReady, Implement, Coach, and Honeâ deployment framework. This includes preparing for an agile mindset of culture change and providing insight and knowledge into the challenging decisions that should be made prior to embarking on the adventure. Readiness includes establishing an organizational vision with objectives, embracing agile principles, evaluating buy-in and willingness, considering measures of success, adapting roles and responsibilities, evaluating existing practices, building a scalable agile framework, initiating agile education, and creating a customer validation vision. Outcomes include a better understanding of what can increase your chances for true agile transformation and an Agile Transformation Roadmap to begin or enhance your journey. For those who have already embarked on agile, enhance your current agile direction by understanding readiness factors.
Shaun Bradshaw presented on test management strategies for large-scale projects. He defined a large-scale project as having 100+ resources, a duration of 2+ years, integrating 6 or more major components, costing $70 million or more, and involving multiple external vendors. Bradshaw recommended developing an overall QA approach aligned with the project methodology, determining data and environment needs early, and establishing a team structure with key roles like a test architect and manager. Effective communication across the project was emphasized as the biggest challenge. Integration testing requires mapping critical data flows and a "bottom-up" approach. Performance testing of individual components and the full integrated solution is also important.
If youâve ever been involved in promoting cultural change within an organization, you may have experienced something even more disheartening than flat-out rejectionâa full rollback of hard-won cultural change followed by a decade-long resentment of anyone remotely associated with the implementation. This has happened at countless organizations with agile, with SOA, with virtualizationâand itâs starting to happen with DevOps. How can such a simple idea thatâs been so successful at so many organizations become such a resounding failure at others? Itâs not the organization, and itâs certainly not DevOps. The problem lies in the implementation, and ultimately, with its promoters and champions. Alex Papadimoulis discusses what this "DevOps thing" is all about, goes over the technical and organizational strategies for a successful long-term DevOps implementation, shares a few big failures at big companies, and covers the common and not-so-common pitfalls when promoting this type of cultural change.
The key to successful testing is effective and timely planning. Rick Craig introduces proven test planning methods and techniques, including the Master Test Plan and level-specific test plans for acceptance, system, integration, and unit testing. Rick explains how to customize an IEEE-829-style test plan and test summary report to fit your organizationâs needs. Learn how to manage test activities, estimate test efforts, and achieve buy-in. Discover a practical risk analysis technique to prioritize your testing and become more effective with limited resources. Rick offers test measurement and reporting recommendations for monitoring the testing process. Discover new methods and develop renewed energy for taking your organizationâs test management to the next level.
Rick Craig, a consultant with over 30 years of experience in testing and test management, presented a training on essential test management and planning. The presentation covered topics such as test levels, test methodologies, test planning, and test documentation like the master test plan. It emphasized treating testing as a lifecycle process integrated throughout development.
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Abstractâ In recent years, software testing is becoming more
popular and important in the software development industry.
Indeed, software testing is a broad term encircling a variety of
activities along the development cycle and beyond, aimed at
different goals. Hence, software testing research faces a collection
of challenges. A consistent roadmap of most relevant challenges is
proposed here. In it, the starting point is constituted by some
important past achievements, while the destination consists of two
major identified goals to which research ultimately leads, but
which remains as reachable as goals. The routes from the
achievements to the goals are paved by outstanding research
challenges, which are discussed in the paper along with the
ongoing work.
Software testing is as old as the hills in the history of digital
computers. The testing of software is an important means of
assessing the software to determine its quality. Since testing
typically consumes 40~50% of development efforts, and consumes
more effort for systems that require higher levels of reliability, it is
a significant part of the software engineering
Software testing is a very broad area, which involves many
other technical and non-technical areas, such as specification,
design and implementation, maintenance, process and
management issues in software engineering. Our study focuses on
the state of the art in testing techniques, as well as the latest
techniques which representing the future direction of this area.
Today, testing is the most challenging and dominating activity
used by industry, therefore, improvement in its effectiveness, both
with respect to the time and resources, is taken as a major factor
by many researchers
The purpose of testing can be quality assurance, verification,
and validation or reliability estimation. It is a tradeoff between
budget, time and quality. Software Quality is the central concern
of software engineering. Testing is the single most widely used
approach to ensuring software quality.
(Keywords: SDLC, Software quality, Testing techniq
Technique .)
I. INTRODUCTION
I. Introduction: Software Testing
Software testing is the process of executing a program or
system with the intent of finding errors. Software is not unlike
other physical processes where inputs are received and
outputs are produced. Where software differs is in the manner
in which it fails. Most physical systems fail in a fixed (and
reasonably small) set of ways. By contrast, software can fail in
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Gaurav Dubey, Amity School of Computer Sciences, Amity University,
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âąÂ   Explore the aspects of testing software for security
âąÂ   Learn about standards for software quality assurance
âąÂ   Discover the basic approaches to functional testing
âąÂ   Examine types of security testing
âąÂ   Explore the use of the bug bar and defect tracking in an effort to improve the SDL process
Testing is a critical part of any development process and testing in a secure development lifecycle (SDL) environment is an essential part of the security process. Designing in security is one step, coding is another, and testing provides the assurance that what was desired and planned becomes reality. Validation and verification have been essential parts of quality efforts for decades, and software is no exception. This chapter looks at how and what to test to obtain an understanding of the security posture of software.
Standards for Software Quality Assurance
Quality is defined as fitness for use according to certain requirements. This can be different from security, yet there is tremendous overlap in the practical implementation and methodologies employed. In this regard, lessons can be learned from international quality assurance standards, for although they may be more expansive in goals than just security, they can make sense there as well.
ISO 9216
The International Standard ISO/IEC 9216 provides guidance for establishing quality in software products. With respect to testing, this standard focuses on a quality model built around functionality, reliability, and usability. Additional issues of efficiency, maintainability, and portability are included in the quality model of the standard. With respect to security and testing, it is important to remember the differences between quality and security. Quality is defined as fitness for use, or conformance to requirements. Security is less cleanly defined, but can be defined by requirements. One issue addressed by the standard is the human side of quality, where requirements can shift over time, or be less clear than needed for proper addressing by the development team. These are common issues in all projects, and the standard works to ensure a common understanding of the goals and objectives of the projects as described by requirements. This information is equally applicable to security concerns and requirements.
SSE-CMM
The Systems Security Engineering Capability Maturity Model (SSE-CMM) is also known as ISO/IEC 21827, and is an international standard for the secure engineering of systems. The SSE-CMM addresses security engineering activities that span the entire trusted product or secure system lifecycle, including concept definition, requirements analysis, design, development, integration, installation, operations, maintenance, and decommissioning. The SSE-CMM is designed to be employed as a tool to evaluate security engineering practices and assist in the definition of improvements to them. The SSE-CMM is organized into p ...
1) Testing occurs throughout the software development life cycle and is organized based on the life cycle model used, such as the waterfall or V-model.
2) There are multiple levels of testing including component, integration, system, and acceptance testing. Each level has specific objectives such as verifying components or validating user needs.
3) Iterative life cycle models, like RAD and agile development, involve multiple shorter development phases with corresponding testing activities in each phase.
This document provides guidance for estimating testing efforts, with a focus on activities often overlooked that can stress test teams and risk project delivery. It notes that testing estimates should not simply be a percentage of development time, as many test tasks are underestimated. The document outlines factors to consider for tooling, staffing, documentation, and testing at various phases. It emphasizes the importance of thorough requirements reviews to avoid defects leaking into later phases and increasing costs. Early intervention to check requirements can significantly reduce later effort.
Software testing is an activity which is aimed for evaluating quality of a program and also for improving it, by identifying defects and problems. Software testing strives for achieving its goal (both implicit and explicit) but it has certain limitations, still testing can be done more effectively if certain established principles are to be followed. In spite of having limitations, software testing continues to dominate other verification techniques like static analysis, model checking and proofs. So it is indispensable to understand the goals, principles and limitations of software testing so that the effectiveness of software testing could be maximized.
1. The document discusses various types and levels of software testing including manual and automated testing. It describes unit, integration, and system testing which are done at different stages of the software development life cycle.
2. Software testing is explained as a process to ensure software code performs as intended without unexpected behavior. It aims to find defects, gain confidence in quality, and prevent defects. Complete testing of even simple programs is impractical due to the large number of potential inputs and outputs.
3. Economics and human psychology must be considered in testing as it is not possible to test all permutations of a program. Strategies like black-box and white-box testing help address challenges of testing economics.
Black-box testing views the program as a black box without seeing code. White-box testing examines internal structure. Gray-box combines black-box and knowledge of database validation. Test scripts are sets of automated instructions. Test suites are collections of test cases or scripts. Stress testing subjects a system to unreasonable loads to find breaking points while load testing uses representative loads.
The document discusses different software development life cycle models and their implications for testing. It describes the waterfall model, V-model, iterative models like RAD and XP. The V-model uses four test levels - component, integration, system and acceptance testing. Iterative models divide delivery into increments with testing at each stage. Whichever model is used, testing activities correspond to development activities and testers are involved from the start.
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This document discusses testing throughout the software life cycle. It covers common software development models like the waterfall model and iterative models. It describes different levels of testing like unit testing, integration testing, system testing, and acceptance testing. It explains the objectives, typical activities, and outputs for each test level. Finally, it compares different types of testing like functional, non-functional, structural, and regression testing.
Software testing is a process used to validate and verify software to ensure it meets requirements, works as expected, and can be implemented successfully. There are various types of testing such as functional testing to verify features and non-functional testing to check performance. Testing methods include white-box testing which uses internal knowledge and black-box testing which treats the software as a black box. The goal of testing is to find defects so the software can be improved.
The document provides a complete interview preparation guide for software quality assurance engineers seeking both manual and automation roles. It covers fundamental SQA topics like the SDLC, testing documents, testing methods and techniques. It also includes chapters on agile methodology, database concepts, API testing, Selenium automation, JMeter load testing, and aptitude questions. The guide is intended to be a comprehensive reference that candidates can print and refer to while learning and practicing technical skills.
Test driven development (TDD), a software development method, helps build high quality applications faster. Life-cycle, usefulness, limitations and similar techniques of TDD have been presented in this slide deck.
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Nehmen Sie an diesem Webinar teil, bei dem HCL-Ambassador Marc Thomas und Gastredner Franz Walder Ihnen diese neue Welt nĂ€herbringen. Es vermittelt Ihnen die Tools und das Know-how, um den Ăberblick zu bewahren. Sie werden in der Lage sein, Ihre Kosten durch eine optimierte Domino-Konfiguration zu reduzieren und auch in Zukunft gering zu halten.
Diese Themen werden behandelt
- Reduzierung der Lizenzkosten durch Auffinden und Beheben von Fehlkonfigurationen und ĂŒberflĂŒssigen Konten
- Wie funktionieren CCB- und CCX-Lizenzen wirklich?
- Verstehen des DLAU-Tools und wie man es am besten nutzt
- Tipps fĂŒr hĂ€ufige Problembereiche, wie z. B. Team-PostfĂ€cher, Funktions-/Testbenutzer usw.
- Praxisbeispiele und Best Practices zum sofortigen Umsetzen
Driving Business Innovation: Latest Generative AI Advancements & Success StorySafe Software
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Are you ready to revolutionize how you handle data? Join us for a webinar where weâll bring you up to speed with the latest advancements in Generative AI technology and discover how leveraging FME with tools from giants like Google Gemini, Amazon, and Microsoft OpenAI can supercharge your workflow efficiency.
During the hour, weâll take you through:
Guest Speaker Segment with Hannah Barrington: Dive into the world of dynamic real estate marketing with Hannah, the Marketing Manager at Workspace Group. Hear firsthand how their team generates engaging descriptions for thousands of office units by integrating diverse data sourcesâfrom PDF floorplans to web pagesâusing FME transformers, like OpenAIVisionConnector and AnthropicVisionConnector. This use case will show you how GenAI can streamline content creation for marketing across the board.
Ollama Use Case: Learn how Scenario Specialist Dmitri Bagh has utilized Ollama within FME to input data, create custom models, and enhance security protocols. This segment will include demos to illustrate the full capabilities of FME in AI-driven processes.
Custom AI Models: Discover how to leverage FME to build personalized AI models using your data. Whether itâs populating a model with local data for added security or integrating public AI tools, find out how FME facilitates a versatile and secure approach to AI.
Weâll wrap up with a live Q&A session where you can engage with our experts on your specific use cases, and learn more about optimizing your data workflows with AI.
This webinar is ideal for professionals seeking to harness the power of AI within their data management systems while ensuring high levels of customization and security. Whether you're a novice or an expert, gain actionable insights and strategies to elevate your data processes. Join us to see how FME and AI can revolutionize how you work with data!
zkStudyClub - LatticeFold: A Lattice-based Folding Scheme and its Application...Alex Pruden
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Folding is a recent technique for building efficient recursive SNARKs. Several elegant folding protocols have been proposed, such as Nova, Supernova, Hypernova, Protostar, and others. However, all of them rely on an additively homomorphic commitment scheme based on discrete log, and are therefore not post-quantum secure. In this work we present LatticeFold, the first lattice-based folding protocol based on the Module SIS problem. This folding protocol naturally leads to an efficient recursive lattice-based SNARK and an efficient PCD scheme. LatticeFold supports folding low-degree relations, such as R1CS, as well as high-degree relations, such as CCS. The key challenge is to construct a secure folding protocol that works with the Ajtai commitment scheme. The difficulty, is ensuring that extracted witnesses are low norm through many rounds of folding. We present a novel technique using the sumcheck protocol to ensure that extracted witnesses are always low norm no matter how many rounds of folding are used. Our evaluation of the final proof system suggests that it is as performant as Hypernova, while providing post-quantum security.
Paper Link: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/257
Your One-Stop Shop for Python Success: Top 10 US Python Development Providersakankshawande
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Simplify your search for a reliable Python development partner! This list presents the top 10 trusted US providers offering comprehensive Python development services, ensuring your project's success from conception to completion.
In the realm of cybersecurity, offensive security practices act as a critical shield. By simulating real-world attacks in a controlled environment, these techniques expose vulnerabilities before malicious actors can exploit them. This proactive approach allows manufacturers to identify and fix weaknesses, significantly enhancing system security.
This presentation delves into the development of a system designed to mimic Galileo's Open Service signal using software-defined radio (SDR) technology. We'll begin with a foundational overview of both Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and the intricacies of digital signal processing.
The presentation culminates in a live demonstration. We'll showcase the manipulation of Galileo's Open Service pilot signal, simulating an attack on various software and hardware systems. This practical demonstration serves to highlight the potential consequences of unaddressed vulnerabilities, emphasizing the importance of offensive security practices in safeguarding critical infrastructure.
How to Interpret Trends in the Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart.pdfChart Kalyan
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A Mix Chart displays historical data of numbers in a graphical or tabular form. The Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart specifically shows the results of a sequence of numbers over different periods.
Digital Marketing Trends in 2024 | Guide for Staying AheadWask
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https://www.wask.co/ebooks/digital-marketing-trends-in-2024
Feeling lost in the digital marketing whirlwind of 2024? Technology is changing, consumer habits are evolving, and staying ahead of the curve feels like a never-ending pursuit. This e-book is your compass. Dive into actionable insights to handle the complexities of modern marketing. From hyper-personalization to the power of user-generated content, learn how to build long-term relationships with your audience and unlock the secrets to success in the ever-shifting digital landscape.
Have you ever been confused by the myriad of choices offered by AWS for hosting a website or an API?
Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, Lightsail, Amplify, S3 (and more!) can each host websites + APIs. But which one should we choose?
Which one is cheapest? Which one is fastest? Which one will scale to meet our needs?
Join me in this session as we dive into each AWS hosting service to determine which one is best for your scenario and explain why!
Freshworks Rethinks NoSQL for Rapid Scaling & Cost-EfficiencyScyllaDB
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Freshworks creates AI-boosted business software that helps employees work more efficiently and effectively. Managing data across multiple RDBMS and NoSQL databases was already a challenge at their current scale. To prepare for 10X growth, they knew it was time to rethink their database strategy. Learn how they architected a solution that would simplify scaling while keeping costs under control.
Main news related to the CCS TSI 2023 (2023/1695)Jakub Marek
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An English đŹđ§ translation of a presentation to the speech I gave about the main changes brought by CCS TSI 2023 at the biggest Czech conference on Communications and signalling systems on Railways, which was held in Clarion Hotel Olomouc from 7th to 9th November 2023 (konferenceszt.cz). Attended by around 500 participants and 200 on-line followers.
The original Czech đšđż version of the presentation can be found here: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/hlavni-novinky-souvisejici-s-ccs-tsi-2023-2023-1695/269688092 .
The videorecording (in Czech) from the presentation is available here: https://youtu.be/WzjJWm4IyPk?si=SImb06tuXGb30BEH .
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