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What is the difference between QA and testing?
deepashu varma
- Apr 9th, 2010
Quality Assurance makes sure the project will be completed based on the previously agreed specifications, standards and functionality required without defects and possible problems. It monitors and tr...
kurtz182
- Dec 5th, 2009
Quality Assurance (QA) serves to prevent problems while Testing serves to identify and report defects. In the software industry, much of the QA effort occurs before the initial build of the soft...
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What is quality assurance?
Answer posted by Radhika on 2005-05-23 17:51:42: An integrated system of management activities involving planning, implementation, assessment, reporting, and quality improvement to ensure that a process, item, or service is of the type and quality needed and expected by the client.
kurtz182
- Dec 29th, 2009
Quality assurance refers to a program that attempts to improve and stablilize processes by systematically monitoring and evaluating various aspects of a project to ensure quality standards are being m...
tester612
- Aug 20th, 2009
QA involves the complete process of software development , monitoring and improving the process, making sure any agreed upon standards and procedures are followed and ensuring that problems are found ...
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What is the purpose of the testing?
Answer posted by Radhika on 2005-05-23 17:50:13: The purpose of testing can be quality assurance, verification and validation, or reliability estimation. Testing can be used as a generic metric as well. Correctness testing and reliability testing are two major areas of testing. Software testing is a trade-off between budget, time and quality.
siri
- May 29th, 2019
The main purpose of testing is to find the defects and to deliver a quality product.
qptopm
- Jun 17th, 2016
Finding defects which may get created by the programmer while developing the software.
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What do you include in a test plan?
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kurtz182- Member Since Nov-2009 | Dec 5th, 2009
The content of a test plan varies widely between industry, company and project. Nevertheless, I often include the following:
1) Introduction
- Purpose
- Product description
- System architecture
2) Scope
- Test coverage
- Features to be tested (in scope)
- Features not to be tested (out of scope)
- Compatibility matrix
- Assumptions
- Risks
3) Approach
- Test objectives
- Test strategies
- Test environment
- System dependencies
- Test tools
4) Process
- Test process and guidelines
- Priority and Severity definitions
- Pass/fail criteria
- Test entry/exit criteria
- Test resources
- Deliverables required for testing
- Roles and responsibilities
- Approvals and sign offprabhakar.kasturi
- Mar 12th, 2010
A Plan enables you in advance to decide up on1. How the objectives can be met2. With the resources available3. With the Time scale required.4. To the Quality desired5. While controlling the risks.A Te...
kurtz182
- Dec 5th, 2009
The content of a test plan varies widely between industry, company and project. Nevertheless, I often include the following:1) Introduction - Purpose - Product descriptio...
