Confused about the career path
From last 4 years i am a technical support engineer dealing with AS400 servers and bmc patrol and remedy. Well my organization is giving me an opportunity to switch to QA. I dont know what to do.. There are two options now in front of me either switch to Software Testing or learn more about [...]

Answer Question   |  March 17, 2012  8:41 PM
AS/400, BMC Patrol, QA

Post Implementation Hours for QA purposes
Is there a set industry standard that indicates the hours for Post Implementation Review?  For example, should it be 25% of your total QA hours?  I know the actual number of hours will depend on size and complexity of the project.  

Answer Question   |  March 31, 2012  7:32 PM
QA, QA manager, Quality assurance

Time of Testing in a System Implementation
Dear colleagues: Thanks for all your useful information, in this time I would like to ask about the recommended period of time to test a new system (Financial area) to be put in Production mode. I know this completely depends on the kind of system as well as the volume of data which will be [...]

Answer Question   |  March 31, 2012  8:12 PM
QA, QA testing, Quality assurance testers, Quality assurance testing

Unit Testing in QC
Has anyone set up a workflow for Unit Testing in QC and what are the things to watch out for? I’m concious that our current Defect workflow will not suit Unit testing and wondered how other organisations manage it.

Answer Question   |  May 6, 2011  10:14 PM
QA, Quality assurance, Quality assurance testing, Quality Center, Quality control

Create QA database with only some production tables
I have a large database with some tables that have largely static data. I need to make a new database on a different server with the same table structure with the static data tables intact (keys, etc.). The other tables must be empty. They’re all in the same filegroup in the original database. I’ve done [...]

Answer Question   |  December 16, 2010  1:50 PM
Clone database, Filegroup, QA, SQL scripts, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server tables

Do you use quality center or test director?
Do you use quality center or test director?

Answer Question   |  October 25, 2010  6:33 PM
HP Quality Center, QA, Quality assurance, Quality Center, Test Director

When you interview a software tester what do you look for?
When you interview a software tester what do you look for?

Answer Question   |  October 21, 2010  12:40 AM
QA, QA manager, Quality Assurance Careers, Software testers, Software testing jobs

Risks of releasing newly developed code to UAT without QA
What are the risks to releasing new developed code to UAT environment for UAT without running it in QA first?  

Answer Question   |  October 15, 2010  8:35 AM
Data warehouse, Data Warehouse Testing, QA, Quality assurance, Quality assurance managers, Testing software, UAT

Measuring successes in Quality Assurance department
[strong]How to measures successes in Quality Assurance department in software company?[/strong]

Answer Question   |  October 4, 2010  2:06 PM
QA, QA testing, Quality assurance, Quality assurance managers, Quality assurance success measures, Software testing

what is the risk behind if same person is being performed QA and UAT of same module?
what is the risk behind if same person is being performed QA and UAT of same module?

Answer Question   |  April 20, 2010  6:05 AM
QA, Quality assurance, UAT, User acceptance testing

No Question Asked on SQA for last 10 months
It is more than 10 months any question posted here on Software Quality Assurance. I could interpret few points below: 1. This is not the active forum for QA intensive Professionals. 2. People are not ‘quality‘ consceious. 3. People are quality experts and seek no opinions. 4. Quality is still not the cup of the [...]

Answer Question   |  October 11, 2010  5:42 AM
ITKE, QA, Quality assurance, Quality Assurance Careers, quality culture, Techtarget

QA training client
What is the best way or process to always have data for transactional training in a QA training client?

Answer Question   |  February 8, 2010  2:27 PM
QA, QA testing, QA Training, Quality assurance, SAP Quality Environment

Software Testing as a career option.
Hi..am an electronics engineer with no work experience.  But over a couple of months..I’ve slowly figured out that i like to work in a team,have communication with people as an essential ingredient of my work, like management as an element of work, and experiment the work i am doing. With these criteria in mind..would i enjoy software testing [...]

Answer Question   |  April 12, 2011  8:20 AM
Careers, IT careers, QA, Quality assurance, Quality Assurance Careers, Software testers, Software testing, Software Testing Certification

regression test
How do you write a regression testing? There is a running system but the system needs to be updated. Some of the updates are creating a web base system that can be accessed anytime and documents can be viewed up to one year old and doesn’t take long to bring the saved documents up. I [...]

Answer Question   |  October 30, 2009  7:38 PM
QA, Regression testing

QA Toolset (open source)?
Good morning, We are looking to (finally) automate some of our regression testing at my company and we are looking for a good QA tool. AFAIK QTP is considered the best tool out there, but comes at a fairly hefty price tag. Are there any good open source choices out there that have a fairly [...]

Answer Question   |  October 2, 2009  3:21 PM
QA, QTP, Quality assurance, Quality assurance testing

Project management or QA or Product management or People management?
Project management or QA or Product management or People management — If someone with a decade of industry experience were to choose, which of these would be a better & longer career option and why? Thanks.

Answer Question   |  August 27, 2009  5:35 AM
Careers, People management, Product management, Project management, QA, Quality assurance

What are various QA Metrics?
What are essential Metrics a QA should know? What is Rework ?What is Defect leakage? How are these calculated? You can add about the metrics you know?

Answer Question   |  July 31, 2009  9:21 AM
QA, Qa metrics, QA testing

Data Migration Project Life Cycle
What is Data Migration Project Life Cycle?

Answer Question   |  July 30, 2011  11:47 AM
Data migration, Data Migration Testing, Life cycle management, QA, Testing software

QA – Data Migration Testing
When does the Involvement of a QA in Data Migration Projects start?What role particular a QA plays at various phases ?

Answer Question   |  October 25, 2010  3:50 PM
Data migration, Data Migration Testing, QA, Quality assurance

JUnit tutorial
Can anybody recommend a good JUnit tutorial/book?

Answer Question   |  March 19, 2009  12:33 AM
JUnit, QA, Software Quality, Software testing, Test Driven Development