Practical Tips on Software Testing

Scripted testing vs. Exploratory testing

Natalya Bosatskaya — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 10:09:16 +0000

In this post, I will attempt to compare Scripted and Exploratory styles of software testing. On the third hand, scripted testing is seemed as a strict and serious process and exploratory one is seemed free and easy. But each test style has own swings and roundabouts. Let’s look at them from different points and try defining appropriate conditions to use first one and second one.

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Tagged: exploratory testing, scripted testing, software testing, testing

Testing of the installation

Svetlana Kislaya — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 12:24:48 +0000

1. We get a list of files from the installation package builder. We need to get a list of files before, and the file list checking is performed after the installation. We can also hear the phrase: “Make a list after the installation, everything is true there” – this is a provocation! Do not give in!

Another point: the same installation package can install different file sets under different operating systems, i.e., we perform testing for each operating system separately.

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Tagged: qa, testing, tips

Usability testing methods. Focus groups, Heuristic evaluation, Feature inspection

Tatiana Pobylovskaya — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 07:49:54 +0000

In my previous article I told you about such usability testing methods as Self-reporting logs and Thinking aloud protocol. The last most popular methods are Focus groups, Heuristic evaluation and Feature inspection. Let’s consider them.

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Tagged: feature inspection, focus group, heuristic evaluation, usability, usability testing

Selenium WebDriver: Page Object Pattern and PageFactory

Vadim Chadyuk — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 06:54:58 +0000

How does it work?

Page Object Pattern is a pattern that displays user interface as a class. In addition to user interface, functionality of the page is also described in this class. This provides a bridge between page and test.

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Tagged: Automated, qa, Selenium WebDriver

Weekly Article Links #7

Vadim Chadyuk — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 07:58:47 +0000

How can we plan if there’s no sufficient information?

Natalya Bosatskaya — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 06:50:10 +0000

Some time ago I published the post “Test plan + templates”. I received many comments reflecting different views, so in this article, I decided to continue the talk about planning.

Firstly, I liked J.Hoffman’s and Hannibal’s comments very much, and at the beginning of the talk, I’d like to mention the main points of their comments.

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Tagged: adaptive planning, planning, software testing, test plan, testing

Weekly Article Links #6

Vadim Chadyuk — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 07:31:43 +0000

General

10 Commandments of Software Testing
Financial Software Testing – Best Practices
Software Testing: Evolution over the years

Automated Testing

Announcing Selenium 2.19: the Prancing Unicorn release
Ruby Trick Shots
#SFSE Meetup Video: Keeping Selenium Tests 100% Blue
API Software Testing

Usability Testing

Usability Testing Includes Users as Stakeholders
Qualitative or Quantitative Usability Testing?

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Decision tables

Svetlana Kislaya — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:41:48 +0000

Decision tables are used:
- when the output data or program behavior depends on the combinations of input data values;
- by checking the “business rules”.

Decision tables are usually divided into four parts.

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Tagged: qa, software testing, test design, testing