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Static testing after dynamic testing.

Asked By: nitap | Asked On: Oct 15th, 2010

Is it useful to do static testing after dynamic testing?

Answered by: gsrmohan on: Feb 4th, 2011

Static testing is the process in which we verify the code, algorithm or documents.So it comes early in the SDLC (Ex: Test Plan review, Test Case Review etc,...)Where as Dynamic Testing is the process ...

Answered by: vaibhavst on: Dec 13th, 2010

We should not do Static testing after Dynamic testing because Static testing comes early in STLC. and the whole idea behind testing is to reduce the defects at later stage which will not be solved by doing the things other way round.

Can any one write test cases on uid & pwd filed.

Asked By: yogesh hattekar | Asked On: Oct 7th, 2010

Field uid:pwd: & ok buttonsrequirement: uid should accept alphanumeric value only with special char such as @ and periods(.) only, length 4 to 8 char pwd : length 4 to 8 char.

Answered by: sowjanya g on: Sep 19th, 2011

for example for user id field is taking alphanumerics in lower case from 4-16 characters long and the password field is taking alphabets in lower case from 4-8 characters long.so now we have to prepar...

Answered by: phani reddy on: Jan 13th, 2011

You missed numeric values in your test data

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...

Change defect status

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

A defect is deferred/suspended state and stated the comment as "the defect wont be no longer in next release" by developer. On next deployment you retested the defect and noticed that the defect is still there.Now question is, who is responsible to reopen the defect? Tester or developer?

Answered by: vaibhavst on: Dec 11th, 2010

In this case Tester is the one who is responsible for opening the defect. Since in QC "Deferred" is end status after which the status cannot be modified (local admin can modify the end statu...

Bug weightage

Asked By: hariprasad85 | Asked On: Sep 28th, 2010

What are different weightages given for a bug?

Answered by: TumuPavan on: Feb 16th, 2011

Severity (Severity is Absolute )  Severity 1: Bug causes system crash or data loss.Severity 2: Bug causes major functionality or other severe problems; product crashes in obscure cases.Severity 3...

Answered by: vaibhavst on: Dec 11th, 2010

Severity 1 -  Show stopper issue. In which case testing cannot be continued.Severity 2 - Not a show stopper but can considerably damage the system which is under testSeverity 3 - Minor functional...

Website and web application

Asked By: poojamangal | Asked On: Aug 5th, 2010

What is the difference between website and web application with reference to testing?

Answered by: vaibhavst on: Dec 13th, 2010

What is the difference between website and web application with reference to testing?A web application is a website. web applications are subset of the word website. Definition of website is "A c...

Connect toad for Oracle 9i to qc

Asked By: kishore12345 | Asked On: Mar 29th, 2010

How to connect toad for Oracle 9i to quality centre?

Answered by: vaibhavst on: Dec 13th, 2010

Excuse me if i am wrong. But as per my information we have no such option called "Connect TOAD for Oracle 9i to QC" in QC 10. We can connect to a Oracle 9i database using ADODB connection st...

Database migration test scenario

Asked By: bharathi.peddibhotla | Asked On: Mar 5th, 2010

What are the test scenarios to test a database migrated from SQL server 2005 to SQL server 2008

Answered by: nicel007 on: Mar 4th, 2011

1. No of tables in both old and new should be same2. Table structures in both old and new should be same.3. If it's a Data nmigration to , then ned to compare the no of records in all the tables i...

Answered by: vaibhavst on: Mar 23rd, 2010

We need to check out what was all the enhancement the SQL Server 2008 has in it.  We need to design our testcase considering the following points.1.      Data type used2....

Bug in production environment

Asked By: test_good | Asked On: Jan 6th, 2010

If a bug is not found in the testing environment and found in production environment, how will you deal with it?

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Member Since Dec-2009 | Answered On : Jan 13th, 2010

We need to check 1st whether it was within our testing scope or not. If Yes then we have to do a RCA ( Root Cause Analysis). RCA report must be delivered to all the stake holders. 

Answered by: Yallappa on: Sep 23rd, 2012

we make sure that while inserting application into production server we go for user acceptance testing that is easy step to prevent the bugs in the production server.

Answered by: Tusharbhate1 on: Mar 31st, 2010

The action taken would be differ as per the conditions.  First of all need to confirm whether the raised production bug is from your testing scope.  If yes then we need to know whether it co...

Automated regression test

Asked By: kurtz182 | Asked On: Dec 15th, 2009

Do automated regression tests find the majority of defects? Explain your answer.

Answered by: saritha1406 on: Nov 1st, 2010

Regression Testing itself mean to verify whether the existing functionality is broken with changes in other areas of project.

Automated Regression Test verify the quality of software and it wont find any additional bugs in software.

Automated Regression Test wont find major bugs in the software.

Answered by: vaibhavst on: Mar 20th, 2010

Answer is No Following are the major points why automated regression tests do not find the majority of defects 1. Automated regression test cases are executed just to make sure that new function...

Limitations of software automation

Asked By: mathan_vel | Asked On: Dec 12th, 2009

What are the limitations of software automation?

Answered by: vaibhavst on: Mar 23rd, 2010

Impossible to plan all scenarios Can be used mainly to test GUI based applicationNot useful when test cases require some data setup before actually executing them(E.g. schedule...

Answered by: felix_ada on: Jan 25th, 2010

1) Easy to get affected by the change (requirement change, design chanage etc).
2) Cannot find too many bugs.
3) Depend on the quality of the tested system.

Risk / contingency / mitigation plan

Asked By: chandru.hb | Asked On: Oct 14th, 2009

What is meant by risk / contingency / mitigation in test plan?

Answered by: rohit kumar on: Aug 22nd, 2012

1.) Going with max speed say 100Km/hr on bike on Indian road is always RISK
2.) Cut down the speed to 20 to 30 Km/hr, we can say to mitigate the risk or mitigation plan
3.) No options to cut down the speed less then 100Km/hr, but with proper safety precautions we could say Contingency plan.

Answered by: Mani on: Sep 3rd, 2011

I'll share my view.

Risk: its simply chances/probability of getting loss.

Mitigation: Lessen the Severity/minimization of potential impact

Contigency: A chance, accident, or possibility conditional on something uncertain:Eg. He was prepared for every contingency

Establishing SQL connectivity

Asked By: vijay3080 | Asked On: Oct 12th, 2009

How to establish SQL connection other than using QTP wizard for SQL connectivity?

Answered by: vaibhavst on: Nov 3rd, 2009

You can use the following code'Creating objects of type ADODB Set DBConn = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")Set RecordSet = CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")' setting up conne...

Identifying HTML elements with same name

Asked By: darshanp | Asked On: Jun 4th, 2009

In an HTML page, if there are three checkboxes and all are having same names internally and externally, then while recording how it would be distinguished?

Answered by: vaibhavst on: Dec 11th, 2010

In case of QTP you can use Index as one of proprties of the object.

Answered by: ashishks on: Aug 21st, 2009

You can use xpath or class name associated with check box or label associated with checkbox to identifiy same name elements.

Soap testing

Asked By: vk1978 | Asked On: Apr 1st, 2009

What does soap testing consists of? How is it related to XML testing?

Answered by: vaibhavst on: Aug 14th, 2009

SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) is a protocol specification for exchanging structured information in the implementation of Web Services in computer networks. Basically all web service reques...

Object-oriented testing

Asked By: juniorQA | Asked On: Mar 28th, 2008

Why should you care about objects and object-oriented testing?

Answered by: vaibhavst on: Dec 11th, 2010

Object Oriented approach is allways better than the age old method of testing.In testing we call object oriented testing as component based testing. here we create multiple components which can be use...

I have a good knowledge on testing,SQL server and Oracle databases.I am interested in database testing.Can any one suggest me about how to launch myself into database testing.Thanks in advance.

Asked By: satya999 | Asked On: Jul 25th, 2006

Answered by: vaibhavst on: Dec 13th, 2010

To get into database testing you need to have the following basic requirement.1) Good understanding of complex queries2) Good understanding of stored procedures3) you should be efficiently able to use...

Define searchability matrix used in application testing?

Asked By: Sheraz Sattar | Asked On: Mar 24th, 2006

Answered by: vaibhavst on: Dec 11th, 2010

Definition of Searchability MatrixThe notion of searchability for a given matrix P, source and destination nodes s and t, and a number d, we say that G(n,P) is dsearchable using a deterministic memory...

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