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Whats the difference between usecase,testcase,testplan,and scenario and their templates.

Asked By: sravanthi naidu | Asked On: Nov 18th, 2005

Answered by: sushma srihari on: May 23rd, 2012

Use Case :use case is a document which explains the purpose and use of a particular functionality in the way the end user use the functionality in business. Test Case :Test cases are the set of cond...

Answered by: srinivasulub1981 on: May 20th, 2009

Usecase: Usecase is prepared by BA in the Functional Requirement Specification (FRS) which are nothing but a steps which are given by the customer.TestCase: It is prepared by the Test Engineer based o...

How to raise defect ?

Asked By: kuldeepc08 | Asked On: May 10th, 2012

How tp raise defect for for I am feeling lucky button on google page if button not appear on the page?

Remove duplicate bugs

Asked By: subbareddy | Asked On: Oct 16th, 2007

If at all 3 testers of a teem found same defect how to remove duplicate bugs

Answered by: Suma on: Apr 22nd, 2012

First of all we should not raise the defects again, which already raised by other tester. Before raising any defect we should check other defects in that particular module, release is any other tester...

Answered by: vlaxmanrao on: Oct 29th, 2011

Before submitting the bug in defect tracking tool, check the whether same defect is submitted other person in defect tracking tool ,this is one way of remove duplicate bugs or Before submitting t...

How to convince the interviewer for "how many bugs in ur project?"

Asked By: Dhannjay | Asked On: Sep 24th, 2006

How many bugs in ur project? What will the correct answer of this question, how we convince the interviewer regarding numbers of bugs

Answered by: Suma on: Apr 21st, 2012

When we are working on new functionality of the application, obviously we will get more defects. We can't say particularly these many numbers, that depends on developers and complexity of the project,...

Answered by: ntirukku on: Mar 4th, 2012

It is very common question that Interviewer can ask..before answer to this question we should clarify what type of defects that interviewer asking? defects can be product defects and process defects t...

Duplicate bugs

Asked By: rk_pradheep | Asked On: Nov 30th, 2007

Explain what a duplicate bug is ?

Answered by: shivam on: Jan 5th, 2012

Duplicate bug -> is that bug which has already been reported and functionality is same as the reported one.
but sometimes developer also treat the bug occurred in different scenarios as duplicate bug, but it is different because there steps reproduction is different.

Answered by: mfsi_chinmayb on: Jan 4th, 2012

Hi Duplicate bug can be termed as following issues: *It can be like same defect we found in different scenario or attempt and reporting them in the bug tracking tool with different bug id.It might c...

What is difference between bug and defect ?

Asked By: GPPRAKASH51 | Asked On: Sep 18th, 2011

Answered by: priti on: Dec 28th, 2011

Bug: Bug is a fault in a program or application which is found when the actual result diverts from the expected result.

Defect: A flaw in a component or system which causes the component or system to fail to perform its required function. e.g. an incorrect statement or data definition.



Answered by: nitesh484 on: Dec 27th, 2011

Logically both are same.

Suppose a bug was found by the customer, as a testing what is your comments on this issue?

Asked By: avssri | Asked On: May 13th, 2007

Answered by: thebobblogs on: Nov 20th, 2011

Review the bug to see the root cause. Then, plan and do preventive action.

Answered by: thebobblogs on: Nov 20th, 2011

Review and analyze that bug. If testers are missing, we should consider what is the gap and see how to prevent it.

Remote execution of selenium scripts

Asked By: Saurabh Sharma | Asked On: Nov 13th, 2011

I want to execute my test case scripts kept in quality center test plan on my local machine to be executed on a different machine which only have the qc ota client using runmanager on c#. How can I transfer my test data and the other information on that remote machine through qc for the execution process...

How is traceability of bug follow?

Asked By: k.k.kishore | Asked On: Dec 20th, 2005

Answered by: prathyusha on: Nov 2nd, 2011

It is adoc ensure that each and every low level req holds a minimum of at least one single test case

The flow of Traceability Matrix

s.no->Module name->high level req->low level req->req id->date of creation->revised by->test cases->author name->attachments->test scripts->defects

Answered by: srinivasulub1981 on: May 20th, 2009

We can trace the bugs using above said ways, but most of the cases we followed the test case document ie just leave all the cases which are passed, logged the defects which are failed.

Bug status

Asked By: soniya2484 | Asked On: Jun 10th, 2008

What more status can you give to a test case other than pass, fail, not run & blocked?

Answered by: Prathyusha on: Nov 2nd, 2011

The defect status are: '->WILL N'T TO BE FIX ' '->DEFFERED '->DUPLICATE '->RFE NEW '->ASSIGNED--->FIXED->CLOSE/REOPEN '->REJECT '->NEED MORE INFO ...

Answered by: rohit9625 on: Oct 21st, 2011

Status:
1. new bug
2. open bug
3. review bug.
4. not bug (.close bug)
5. Duplicate bug (.close bug)
6. Not important(.deferred)
7. is it bug. (.assigned to developer)
8.retest
9. Close.

Defect rejection

Asked By: tester582 | Asked On: Jan 7th, 2011

What will you do when developer rejects your defect?

Answered by: prathyusha on: Nov 2nd, 2011

1.if the T.E understand the req wrongly and have this issue is communicated with dev.team ex:the req is 1+1=2 but the t.e understand 1+1=11. 2. if the dev understand the req(defect) wrongly and hav...

Answered by: gsrmohan on: Feb 21st, 2011

When a developer rejects a defect then we (testers) have to check on which reason he rejected the defect.The developer may reject the bug if it is "Non Repro" or  "Known issue"...

Describe error handling in the frd

Asked By: katepinch | Asked On: Nov 21st, 2005

Answered by: mithr17 on: Nov 3rd, 2011

@ sudhakar2068 I see that you had copy/pasted the content from else where. If it is your own paper, a link to that paper would be appreciated. Perhaps, we all can read it BUT, but if the paper isn'...

Answered by: mithr17 on: Oct 31st, 2011

FRD : functional requirements document Error handling means application should throw error messages when user forget to enter data in some fields; or user enters wrong data. Example: user enters wron...

If the customer requirements are changing continuously as a tester how you are going to manage the situation?Suppose you have prepared test cases but still some more time is required to receive the build...

Asked By: venki_k_msc | Asked On: Apr 19th, 2007

Answered by: mithr17 on: Oct 31st, 2011

Welcome to Agile testing!

/sorry you are throwing different things into the mix - test cases, bugs. Can you be more elaborate and clear so that other people who are interested in knowing the question and answers can understand things clearly.

Answered by: srinivasulub1981 on: May 2nd, 2007

If the customer changing the reqs ...  : If the change came in between the testing time of previous requirement ( change) then i can stop testing and intimated to my TL... if the change came afte...

How to import foriegn keys and user keys in EIm,and how to write ifb file.

Asked By: suresh | Asked On: Oct 18th, 2006

Answered by: mithr17 on: Oct 31st, 2011

WRONG forum!
Please post in correct forum to get quick answers

How do you measure the injected defects?

Asked By: ather | Asked On: Sep 12th, 2011

One way to reduce the escaped defects (defects discovered by end users) is to reduce the injected defects (defects introduced by the project team). How do you measure the injected defects?

Answered by: rohit9625 on: Oct 21st, 2011

By acceptance testing n beta testing

Bug in black box testing

Asked By: abhinav pal | Asked On: Sep 18th, 2011

One example where you could not find the bug in black box testing but you can find in white box testing?

Answered by: rohit9625 on: Oct 21st, 2011

Memory leak, as it will effect functionality but will effect performance

Answered by: ankit sharma on: Sep 24th, 2011

Memory leak, memory leak will not affect the functionality but it will affect the performance, if you are not using any specific tool to test this then it will not be caught by a black box tester. there could be some other examples also

What are the different types of bugs we normally see in any of the project? Include the severity as well.

Asked By: Interview Candidate | Asked On: Sep 6th, 2005

1. User interface defects -------------------------------- low 2. Boundary related defects ------------------------------- medium3. Error handling defects --------------------------------- medium4. Calculation defects ------------------------------------ high5. Improper service levels (control flow defects)...

Answered by: rohit9625 on: Oct 21st, 2011

Raaj sorry to say but in ur bug life cycle dev doesnt reassigned to tester its the test manager

Answered by: raghuramsuravarapu on: May 20th, 2009

Severity varies between scanrio to scenario.

Different types of bugs :

User Interface Bugs

Input Domain Bugs

Error Message Bugs

Calculation Bugs

Critical Bugs

Hardware Bugs

Load Scenario Bugs

Source Bugs

Version Control Bugs

ID Bugs

What is defect life cycle in manual testing?

Asked By: Deepa | Asked On: Jun 7th, 2006

Answered by: rohit9625 on: Oct 21st, 2011

It is the process of fixing the bugs which tester or any of the team member found in the development phase,

Answered by: SONICA on: Sep 26th, 2011

Defect Cycle is :--

1)new
2)open
3)Fix/Deferred/Not a Fault/
4)Restest if it is a fix.
5)Reopen or close accordingly.

Is it possible to have a defect with high severity and low priority and vice-versa i.E high priority and low severity?Justify,if possible?

Asked By: raghuramsuravarapu | Asked On: Jun 10th, 2006

Answered by: rohit9625 on: Oct 21st, 2011

Yes definitely if the bug is of high severity it needs to be fixed even if has low priority if the end user will find it will cost huge for company and can also effect on company status

Answered by: mithr17 on: Oct 20th, 2011

To answer you question in simple terms: YES it is possible to have a bug with high severity and low priority and vice-verse. Priority is from the view-point business, and severity is from the techn...

Closure action taken by tester

Asked By: mathan_vel | Asked On: Sep 30th, 2010

As a tester you found lot of defects/bugs in the entire test cycle. As the release date is near (within a week), you found many of the defect (24) is not yet closed. What are the closure action you will take?

Answered by: mithr17 on: Oct 20th, 2011

Action items: 1. Determine how many are Priority 1 (P1), 2 (P2) and 3 (P3) bugs. 2. Send an email to all the project stake holders - BA, PM, Dev lead, QA manager, QA lead) with the # P1, P2, P3 out...

Answered by: TumuPavan on: Feb 16th, 2011

Some pieces of the puzzle are missing but let me attempt to answer What is the length of the test cycle? At which stage of the Test Cycle are these bugs reported? What are the Priorities / Sever...

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