Testing Basics

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software engineering

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systematic development of software

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5 stages of development

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Specifications, Design, Implementation, Testing & Maintenance

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Management Process

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to Utilize resources, time and money

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What are management processes

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Planning, Review and Monitoring

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To deliver high quality product

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Software Engineering Principle

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Time to Market

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Software Engineering Principle

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Increasing the Productivity of People

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Software Engineering Principle

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It is the testing engineers..

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who can contribute significantly to the software quality

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Many projects result in cost overrun or

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time overrun or both

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The software must meet all the quality requirements

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Criteria for the success of a project

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The software must be development within the time frame

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Criteria for the success of a project

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The software must be developed within the budget

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Criteria for the success of a project

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The relationship among the team members

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Criteria for the success of a project

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The most important requirement of a software product is that

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it should meet the requirements of a customer

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Characteristics of a software product can be divided into

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Operational Characteristics, Transition Characteristics and Revision Characteristics

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What are operational characteristics?

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Correctness, Usability, Reliability, Safety and Security

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What are transition characteristics?

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Portability, Reusability and Interoperability

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What are Revision characteristics?

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Extensibility, Scalability and Maintainability

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Test engineer needs to understand the..

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quality requirement of the software to be tested

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What are quality attributes of a software

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Operational, Transitional and Revisional characteristics of a software

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Time

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To deliver a product within the time frame without compromising on quality

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A software project is considered a success when

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software meets the quality standards within time and budget and the execution goes smoothly without affecting the human relations

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Test engineers should offer constructive criticism by suggesting how the software can be improved rather than just doing fault finding

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Managing the relation between development and testing teams

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Defines the various steps to be followed to convert the raw material into the finished product

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PROCESS

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Take the problem definition as an input and produces the software product

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Software Process

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Divided into various phases and in each phase a set of activities is carried out to arrive at the end product

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Process of software development

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Each phase in software development will have a

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defined input and a defined output

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Whether the solution considered to accomplish the requirements is practical and workable

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feasibility study

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Requirements of the client are obtained, analyzed, documented and validated

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Requirements Engineering/Requirements Gathering phase

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Inputs and Outputs of Requirements Engineering Phase

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Problem Definition and SRS document

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Input and Output of an implementation process

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design document and source code

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Metrics is also called

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quantitative measures

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SQA

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Software Quality Assurance - ensures process definitions are followed strictly by the development teams

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The effort for execution of a project is measured in

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person month

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72 PM

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6 people work on a project for 1 year

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Different CMMI Maturity Levels

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Initial, Managed, Defined, Quantitatively Managed, Optimzing

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What is the method to attain continuous improvement

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Plan your work, Track your Work and Analyze your work

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Testing the process to prove that the software doesn't work correctly

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Psychology of Testing

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To ensure that the software meets the requirements of a customer

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Validation

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To ensure that the software conforms to specifications

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Verification

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Are we building the product right

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Verification

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Are we building the right product

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Validation

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Objective of testing

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is to uncover as many bugs as possible

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Three components of cost of quality

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Failure Cost, Appraisal Cost and Prevention Cost

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When is testing complete

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When you run out of time, run out of money or when you meet the exit criteria

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Constructive criticism

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Test engineers need to provide constructive criticism to improve the quality of the software rather than finding fault with the developers

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In this testing, the structure of the program is not considered at all

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Black box testing

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Statement coverage, path coverage, branch coverage is considered in

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White box testing

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Testing that decides whether the client approve of the product or not

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Acceptance testing

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A set of input parameters for which the software will be tested

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test cases