Questions tagged [testing]
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How can I help my developers gain test mindsets
I work as a PM for a medium sized org that develops mobile application.
My front end team has some challenges with test scenarios. Often a task will be handed over to the QA team or for code review ...
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Should UAT estimation be more than QA's?
I am a BA for a software company and we are in the middle of building a project for one of our clients and following waterfall methodology
When I showed the timeline to the client's project management ...
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Where and how V&V applies in an agile context?
I joined a company that is leaving the waterfall approach to implement a SAFe (scaled agile framework) one for developing. I'm part of the Quality Assurance team.
Before we had requirements register ...
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What is the good response to convince project manager about testing process?
I'm managing the testing effort for a new software application as a test manager. In a meeting with the project manager, I recommend that requirements, designs, and code should undergo reviews. The ...
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How to handle stakeholders' different understanding of project requirements?
As a software tester/QA, how to handle when stakeholders (e.g Project Manager and Developer) have different understanding of project requirements? I understand that this communication breakdown ...
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Where would CI/CD project fit within Scrum?
A development team wants to automate deployment and testing.
How would this be placed in the Sprint Backlog? And, how does this relate to Scrum Goal?
e.g. CI/CD could be large enough that it could ...
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In Scrum how do we maintain a small numer of end-to-end and UI tests (Test Pyramid)?
Scrum Teams often write automated tests for User Story's Acceptance Criteria. So every sprint the number of these tests increases. I suppose that many of these tests use browser testing frameworks ...
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Are development and testing of a feature done at the same time in Scrum?
Let's suppose a Scrum team needs to implement a new feature.
Do QA engineers write automated tests for the feature at the same time as developers write code for the feature? In other words, QA ...
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I was asked to accelerate my team's production: Agile, A/B Testing, Workflow & Process
I have a sticky situation at work I would like to get your advice on.
I'm currently a web development manager overseeing a newly completed team which consists of a developer, a digital designer, and a ...
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Is TDD/unit testing compatible with Lean Startup methodologies?
We're a small team mostly building MVPs following the Lean Startup Methodologygies and lean development.
Up until now, we've been shipping code without unit tests, in order to get our products or ...
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How to implement unit testing with a small Scrum team without spending half the Sprint unit-testing stories?
We are a very small team (1 front-end developer, 1 back-end developer/solution architect, 1 PM/UX) working in Scrum with 2 weeks Sprints.
Up until now, we were mostly working on prototype projects not ...
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How to automate inclusion of confluence design docs in Requirement traceability report on Jira
If an organization is regulated, it has to pass the audit and show that it has implemented a "requirements traceability". This means it has documented the path from a specific requirement to ...
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Best way to keep development and testing in synch
We have 1 frontend developer and 2 backend developers and 1 QA. QA is responsible for writing the end-to-end tests using Cypress. FE developer writes the unit tests. Backend developers write the unit ...
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Workflow from development to testing and merge
I am trying to formalize the development workflow and here's the first draft. Welcome suggestions on the process and any tweaks for optimization. I am pretty new when it comes to setting up the ...
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QA phase reporting for SW development
In our project, we have a testbook with some test scenarios to be performed by a QA team. Each scenario must be tested on multiple device/OS/browser (in this particular case, just 3 combinations), and ...
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Too much to test on the last day of the sprint [duplicate]
How can I avoid the issue where a lot of stories are moved to Under Testing on the last day of the sprint?
The Under Testing column is manageable on most days but on the last day and there day before ...
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QA-automation in a modern development?
I've heard that the QA-automation is gradually becoming a developer's work. More tests tend to be done on the lower levels of the Testing Pyramid. The automation of the end-to-end level, which is now ...
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QAs get all the Work at the End of Sprint
We have an issue in our Scrum Agile process, where all the Developers get PBI work done in the last few days of the sprint.
And then QA is forced to test everything at end of sprint. What is the ...
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How do I overcome a bottleneck in a team's process, when what people are telling me doesn't match what I see
I started a new job a few months ago as a scrum master.
The team was and still is having problems completing their tasks during the sprint.
Initially the problems seemed to be tasks that were too ...
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Long testing phase in Scrum
We are building quite a big and important feature in a Scrum Team. The PM wants to put this feature into a separate branch and not deploy it for a 1-2 months so the users can test it properly before ...
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Who else can test in absence of QA?
My team has got a dedicated QA for 4 developers (I know there is no such role in a Scrum Team, but I am writing here to provide information).
Now, the problem is: we are heading to Sprint end and she ...
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Is there any estimation method to estimate end user testing?
Is there any estimation technique that can help us to estimate the number of needed test cases in traditional software projects? For example, we have a Software requirements specification (SRS) with ...
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An agile approach with a waterfall delivery and the QA impact
My customer signed off on a major enhancement to an existing application. The enhancement will be delivered as a single new release and I can't change this. However, how we get to this final release ...
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Using Scrum for test development for a constantly changing product
We're currently developing tests for a software product that is very liable to changes - the changes are introduced very often and therefore we have to modify our test very often.
Commonly we are ...
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What could be my risk mitigation strategies if my client wants to contract UAT?
My client wants to squeeze UAT into 6 working days from originally planned 10 working days. This is because they want to go live because of an impending business reason. As a risk mitigation strategy ...
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Adding test cases to user stories (Backlog items) before the sizing session
Scenario: I was asked by management if it is a good idea to add test cases to user stories before the sizing session. This will involve investigating the item, writing test cases, speaking to ...
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Is QA stage mandatory to be included into user story cycle?
The problem I came across:
A 2-week Sprint is close to the end (let's say 80% of the time has passed by)
A particular user story has just been completed (and has unit tests)
What next? Testing takes ...
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Should a Product Owner start testing while an item is in code review
We have a Product Owner (PO) who starts testing while an item is in code review and gives feedback to developers. I see, from the point of view of the PO, that this allows for quicker feedback. ...
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In a data-driven startup, what should we *not* A/B test?
We are shifting our startup to a data-driven culture, and prioritising what to start testing [UPDATE: i.e. what goes in the product plan]. We have a reasonable number of users, and a working product, ...
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How to handle client's unrealistic testing results
I have an application form on a website to apply for something. It's been tested thoroughly and passes. However my client found that if you entered an emoji in one the fields that does an address ...
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Reduce amount of required hotfixes without technical knowledge
I'm a software developer who suffers from the regular hotfixes that are required to an application I've developed.
The application I've developed didn't had many infrastructure requirements from the ...
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Is writing tests after development an example of extreme programming?
Is this an example of extreme programming? Currently we try to write all tests before development is done, but at times it is done afterwards when there are time constraints.
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QA time budgetting
I am currently preparing a proposal to a client for a large web application development. My environment is outsourced software development. I need to budget QA time for the project.
Usually, from ...
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Should we have dedicated tester in team or testing is mutual responsibility of development team
We are currently having multiple scrum teams with 3 to 6 developers and 1 dedicated tester in each team.
Should we have scrum team like this OR have all the developers and they can share testing ...
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Scrum: Should user story acceptance criteria be mapped to test cases?
Should the acceptance criteria for a user story form the basis for the test cases when testing that feature?
Or, should there be a seperate story for testing, whose acceptance criteria is that the ...
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How to ensure sprint tasks are bug free before release
I was asked this question in an interview, and couldn't figure out the solution, so I thought I will come here.
Basically, I was mostly working as a developer, and had my own set of unit tests for ...
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How do I get client to participate in acceptance testing?
We have a weak spot in our flow. Whenever the time for acceptance testing comes, our client simply doesn't do it in time. There are 50 user stories in Jira waiting to be reviewed by him. The number is ...
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Can QA test in-progress tasks? How are bugs reported for incomplete stories?
I have recently been moved to a new team. There are a lot of practices that I think are not on terms with the Scrum Guide but for now I want to discuss two strange practices.
While we developers are ...
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Who is responsible to write UAT Test Scripts for Salesforce project?
In general who is responsible for writing UAT scripts for a typical salesforce implementation? Should the BA from Business side review the feature prototype and write scripts and should it fall on the ...
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Should I specify user story acceptance criteria in Given/When/Then format or checklists?
As far as I understand Given/When/Then format of acceptance criteria is used when the project is going to follow BDD (Behavior Driven Development). Thus, the acceptance criteria will be used for the ...
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Are there differences in Test plans for an agile model and a traditional model?
Are there differences in in-sprint Test plans for an agile model and a traditional model?
Is there any best practices to follow for in-sprint test plans?
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Test only stories in the Sprint?
We realized that we have an urgent requirement to complete a series of automated testing stories in a sprint. Therefore we took in automation only stories. Some manual testers took in a few other ...
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QA-Challenged Team - How to Improve?
Both in my Scrum Team and in the IT Department as a whole, we do not have a single hired QA-personnel. In fact, it is mandated by upper management that we cannot hire one (and I do not think this ...
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What UAT checklists should I give the testing team?
We currently do User Acceptance Testing (UAT) at the end of the every sprint. I circulate an email to the team letting them know the features that have been developed. The idea is for them to report ...
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In an scaled Scrum with multiple teams, who should be responsible for writing automated system tests?
We have three teams contributing to the same product. Currently our automated system tests are being written by two QA people that see what has been finished in the reviews and then write appropriate ...
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Project Management Methodology for software and real time audio processing project [closed]
Im starting a project with some college friends and we want to make a team of audio engineers and software developers. We have experience in apps development, filters implementation and audio ...
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How do you convince a client that testing is a must?
It is quite hard to sell testing in these days. Clients are always looking for cost savings and it often happens that they are not aware of low quality in the output. How do you deal with that?
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How to organise manual testing in a scrum team?
In a scrum team there are automation testers and manual testers as well as database mid and front end developers.
While the automation testers from the beginning of the sprint start creating tests to ...
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What is the role of test manager in a scrum team?
In a company, they are transitioning from agile to scrum. They have hired a very skilled scrum master to facilitate change, they have an up to speed product owner, a development manager who is up to ...
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Testing big systems in agile
In the organization I work for we have a HUGE product. It has about ~10 associated scrum teams. We have two types of releases:
1. The big ones
2. Service packs
For #1, we have system QA.
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