Quality Assurance and Project Management:

functional testing

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December 11, 2009  10:00 AM

Twelve Core Qualities of a Business Analyst



Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
business analysis, business analyst, business expectation, business need, business process, business requirement, business skill, client relationship, documentation, functional issue, functional testing, integration testing, process flow, project management, project skill, requirement analysis, requirement gathering, Software Project, system analysis, technical issue, Test Plan, test strategy, UAT, user acceptance test

Business Analysis is the core of project management. It is the first major activity starting after project initiation requiring multifaceted skills. Some of the skills or qualities required are prime than the other. The prime qualities are those which make a...

November 26, 2009  10:00 AM

Product Version should match with Feedback by Development Team



Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
Bug, development team, functional testing, load testing, performance testing, product development, product release, QC, Regression Testing, software, software build, software development, software product, testing

Development Team has finished with a new version of the software product. The product is ready for testing before releasing it to production team provide QC approves it after testing that no severe bugs are there. Test environment is prepared for QC team to perform the complete...


September 16, 2009  12:00 PM

Five ways to workout ‘testing effort”



Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
business rule, business specification, customer requirement, customer specification, development phase, development plan, functional testing, load testing, performance testing, QC, QC head, software development, software product, Software Project, team size, test case, test effort, Test Plan, tester, testing effort, testing effort estimation, testing phase, testing plan

A new project, a new product development – as a QC head how do you estimate your testing effort? Well, some quick steps for this: 1. Customer requirements: Customer specifications or requirements captured at the time of initial study period would be a quick reference guide for estimating...


August 10, 2009  10:00 AM

Two approaches in defining testing scope of an application



Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
Application development, application quality, functional testing, functionality, new feature, QA, QC, quality, software testing

There is no end to an application. It always asks for a new feature, alter in functionality, addition/ change of business rule etc. With any change in the existing application running in a live environment, the change needs to be tested for all aspects of quality before putting it live. The...


August 5, 2009  10:00 AM

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)



Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
appearance testing, bug fixing, business process, business rule, customer specification, defect fixing, functional requirement, functional specification, functional testing, integration test, interfacing, product testing, software bug, software build, software defect, software development, software product, software testing, testing lifecycle, UAT, user acceptance test, validation testing

UAT or user acceptance testing comes as the last exercise in software testing lifecycle. It is probably the first phase or beginning of customer preparing to takeover the charge of the product. Actually this is a sort of test drive by a perspective buyer who has studied well about a car, has made...


July 6, 2009  10:00 AM

Five stages in a project when Software Tester becomes Quality Analyst



Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
analysis, customer requirement analysis, functional testing, functionality, load testing, performance testing, product analysis, product functionality, Project Planning, QA, QC, quality analyst, security testing, software, software build, software document, software documentation, software functionality, software performance, Software tester, software testing, test case, test coverage, test performance, Test Plan, test result, testing process

A software tester evaluates software based on certain parameters. These parameters are set as per product, customer and organization requirements. Testing could be just of functional features or include load, performance and security. For any parameters a tester has to work as quality analyst to...


November 24, 2008  10:14 AM

Challenges of Development/Testing and Open Source Test (OST) Tools



Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
.OST files, AJAX, Bug Control Management, functional testing, HTMLUnit, load testing, Open Source Testing Tools, performance testing, PushToTest, RIA, Selenium, SOA, software qa, software quality, software quality assurance, Software testers, software testing, Software testing methodologies, TestGen4Web, testing tools, testingtool, Traditional Testing Tools, volume testing, Web2.0

In today’s scenario when the schedules are tight, budgets are low and different technologies being used, software developers and testers are having great challenges of building/testing/releasing bug-free software by meeting all criterions. The question arises here is – how to cover all the...


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