Software QA/Testing Technical FAQs

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What's requitrement of Bug tracking tool?

1. Should maintain version history
2. File attachement
3. Controlled access (user's Level)
4. Bug History
5. Reports and Metrics
6.Track bugs and code changes
7.Communicate with teammates
8.Submit and review patches
9. Manage quality assurance (QA)
10.lexible workflow management, defect and change tracking across the application life cycle
Bug tracking tool:
Rational ClearQuest -- expensive
Bugzilla is Free and better!!
Mantis - opensource

When do you choose automated testing?
For larger projects, or ongoing long-term projects, automated testing can be valuable. But for small projects, the time needed to learn and implement the automated testing tools is usually not worthwhile. Automated testing tools sometimes do not make testing easier. One problem with automated testing tools is that if there are continual changes to the product being tested, the recordings have to be changed so often, that it becomes a very time-consuming task to continuously update the scripts. Another problem with such tools is that the interpretation of the results (screens, data, logs, etc.) can be a time-consuming task.

What a Coverage Matrix is? or What is a traceability matrix?

Answer1:
It is a mapping of one baselined object to another. For testers, the most common documents to be linked in the manner are a requirements document and the written test cases for that document.
In order to facilitate this, testers can add an extra column to their test cases listing the requirement being tested.
The requirements matrix is usually stored in a spreadsheet. It contains the test ids down the left side and the requirements ids across the top. For each test, you place a mark in the cell under the heading for that requirement it is designed to test. The goal is to find out which requirements are under-tested and which are either over tested or which are so large that too many tests have to be written to adequately test it.

Answer2:
The traceability matrix means mapping of all the work products (various design docs, testing docs) to requirements.

Is white box testing different from unit testing?

Unit testing is one element of white box testing.

Do automated testing tools make testing easier?
Yes and no.
For larger projects, or ongoing long-term projects, they can be valuable. But for small projects, the time needed to learn and implement them is usually not worthwhile.
A common type of automated tool is the record/playback type. For example, a test engineer clicks through all combinations of menu choices, dialog box choices, buttons, etc. in a GUI and has an automated testing tool record and log the results. The recording is typically in the form of text, based on a scripting language that the testing tool can interpret.
If a change is made (e.g. new buttons are added, or some underlying code in the application is changed), the application is then re-tested by just playing back the recorded actions and compared to the logged results in order to check effects of the change.
One problem with such tools is that if there are continual changes to the product being tested, the recordings have to be changed so often that it becomes a very time-consuming task to continuously update the scripts.
Another problem with such tools is the interpretation of the results (screens, data, logs, etc.) that can be a time-consuming task.

Ho to write Software Requirement Sepcification (SRS) document for Grade Card System?

SRS document is very important to give information what the project is going to do and what it is assuming in advance.
below is some idea about it.
in SRS document following points should be included.
1. Project aim.
2. Project objectives.
3. Project scope
4. Process to be followed.
5. Project Deliverables- it includes documents to be submitted and other plans or project prototypes.
6. Requirements in short.

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