The requirements definition document includes a general description that specifies competitive advantages of the project under development and its functionality. It briefly outlines the main properties of the product and indicates what qualifications a user should have to work with it. At the same time, the document does not contain […] Read More
The advantages of use case driven analysis is that it allows you to manage complexity because it focuses on the user of the system rather than the system itself. Users will have a clearer idea of what useful things the new system will do if you choose a method that […] Read More
Any error encountered by the user immediately undermines his trust in the whole program. Errors which seem to be insignificant at first sight as well as insufficiently detailed messages issued by the program actually may prevent the user from making correct generalizations or conclusions, and at that their correction requires […] Read More
Each software defect discovered during the testing process should be obligatorily documented and tracked. Once a new defect is found its investigation information is immediately entered into the database. For this purpose, you must use specialized databases that support the storage and tracking of defects – such as DDTS. When […] Read More
Outsource QA demands of yours when you lack resources, time, money, effort, domain knowledge – in other words, everything that is necessary to conduct a really effective testing. Input redirection. If the program expects that the commands will be entered from the keyboard, it does not mean that it cannot […] Read More
Inexperienced tester This person may be an experienced computer user (programmer, manager, network analyst), and may be just a beginner computer user, etc. Whichever is true, he lacks working experience in software testing and is completely unfamiliar with the program under test. Therefore, he needs to be provided with a […] Read More
It is worth knowing that effective and successful tests are executed by independent software testing companies. At that their services are provided upon request and at attractive price. Besides improving the product quality it is possible to save on expenses and gain access to a multitude of valuable resources and […] Read More
The main purpose of the Issue Tracker Issue Tracker is primarily used to correct the maximum possible number of software errors. Anything that does not contribute to achieving this aim is a side effect. When designing an issue tracking system (issue tracker), it is necessary to be very careful about […] Read More
The test plan as a product A good test plan helps to organize and coordinate the efforts of the employees who develop and test software products. Therefore, most businesses prefer to outsource qa and testing needs of theirs to offshore partners because these people are known to benefit from the […] Read More
QA outsourcing is one of the most demandable quality assurance services as it is used to conduct independent assessment of software to be developed. This is the way to market a bit faster and increase customer satisfaction while meeting timeline and budget expectations. Technical Support Group Members will answer questions […] Read More
The motto says: having a testing team, even a dedicated one, does not mean getting rid of programmers. If there is no testing team in software development department, the programmers know that nobody but them are responsible for the correct operation of the program. However, as soon as the team […] Read More
Product planning (design) The planning is the first stage of software development life cycle where it is determined how the product will look like, what features it will have, what benefits it will bring to its users, etc. When planning the software the first point is to generate requirements for […] Read More
The problem report is passed to the project manager When organizations outsource qa demands of theirs they manage to achieve a number of intended goals: testing and quality assurance work is done by independent highly experienced staff; a variety of vital resources become accessible; world-class consulting services are available; costs […] Read More
Question: How should I do when the wrong behaviors of the program are absolutely similar in the two different situations? Creating a dozen of reports on the same issue is clearly an unacceptable waste of time and efforts of programmer and project manager. If it can be avoided, you should […] Read More
On identifying the critical step, you should thoroughly test its effects Assume that if the user performs steps A, B, C and at step C something is going wrong. You manage to find out that the problem was caused by step B. Try to change the sequence of the steps, […] Read More
Hardware configuration It is very important that the program successfully works on computers with a large number of different configurations. Even if the program is focused on a specific processor model, anyway it will have to work in the systems, where the peripheral devices will be different. So you need […] Read More
