Archive for the ‘Software Testing’ Category
Checklist of Test Cases
An Excellent checklist of Test ceses.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/micahel/archive/2004/07/07/did-i-remember-to.aspx
Video Lecture on Requirement Analysis for Test Documentation
Requirement Analysis for Test Documentation - Part I
Dr Kaner talks about the requirement analysis of the Test documentation. According to Dr Kaner IEEE 829 is an paradigmatic example of standard that supports heavy weight software development process. You don’t have to generate all the documents listed in 829 to be IEEE 829 compliant. Time spent in filling boiler plate information could be spent in documenting testing strategies and other useful information. The biggest problem with modern heavyweight projects is that they have a lot of inertia and resist the necessary change.
Video Lecture on Specification Based Testing
Specification Based Software Testing - Part 1
Dr. Kaner in this wonderful lecture explains the concept of specification based software testing. He explains what is specification based software testing. Importance of the specifications in the places where it is served as a contractual agreement is also discussed in this lecture. It also explains why specification might not be relevant if it served as vision document to guide the development initially and now it is not up to date. He also explains concept related to Active Reading can be applied to Specification documents.
Definition of Errors, Defects, Bugs, Failures and Problems.
All of these terms are often used interchangeably by QA Persons and they don’t feel any difference among those terms. I have a book “Managing the Software Process” witten by Watts S. Humphrey, In this book he precisely defines the distinction among Errors, Defects, Bugs, Failures and Problems. Read the rest of this entry »