A Tester's Journey

  As the year 2021 marks the continuation of tremendous changes in technology and the digital world, it is a must the organizations to continuously innovate and revamp themselves in order to long-term survival. With this never ending rapid process, specially the IT organizations all over the world need to make sure the quality of their products according to the speed of these changes. According to the statistics, roughly 30% of the total project effort, software testing is an important focus for changes and improvements. Hence software testing practices and tools need to evolve to cope up with the rapidly changing technology in order to achieve the “Quality at Speed” concept. Based on the top trends of the software testing and which have already emerged over the past few years, AGILE AND DEVOPS is one of the most noticeable trend among others where software development industry has embraced for their betterment and the long term survival. Agile and DevOps “ Dev Ops is not jus...

Importance of the defect management process in software development teams Provide developers and other parties with feedback about the problem to enable identification, isolation and correction as necessary; Provide test leaders means of tracking the quality of the system under test and the progress of the testing; Provide ideas for test process improvement Fields in a bug report Bug ID: A bug number or an identification number makes bug reporting and referring to a bug much easier Bug Title: A bug title is read more often than any other part of the bug report. It should say all about what comes in the bug. Also, the bug title should be suggestive enough that the reader can understand it. Priority: Based on the severity of the bug, a priority can be set for it. A bug can be a Blocker, Critical, Major, Minor, Trivial, or a suggestion. A bug priority from P1 to P5 can be given so that the important ones are viewed first. Platform/ Environment: The OS and browser configuration is nece...

  Software Testing Life Cycle defines the various phases in the testing of software. In this, each activity is carried out in a planned and a systematic way. Each phase has different goals and deliverables. Below are the phases of STLC Requirement Analysis Test Planning Test Case Development Test Environment set up Test Execution Test Reporting/ Test Cycle Closure Phases and activities in STLC Phase   Entry Criteria Activities Performed Deliverable Requirement Analysis Software Requirement  Design Document User Acceptance Criteria Brainstorming of requirements Understand the feasibility of the requirements Do automation of feasibility study Testing Feasibility Report Test Planning Updated requirement document Test Feasibility Report Define the scope of the project Identify the risks of the project Determine the test approach, techniques, covera...

  The different stake holders involved in different phases of SDLC: Clients/Customers Business Analysts Architects Project Managers Developers Testers Customer Support Officers   Role of Business Analyst in different phase of SDLC Requirements Analysis and Planning: Makes appointments with the clients and start interviewing about the requirements of the project which is called Requirement Gathering or Requirement Elicitation. Interviewed information is documented using documented prepare Use Cases, Use case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Data Flow Diagram Designing Review the solution documents and wok closely with designer and architects to ensure requirements are clear Manage the changes to requirements both from the business and from the designer’s point of view through the change control process. Developing Conductus frequent meetings with development team in case of clarifications to e=make sure the project is in the right track. Testing Makes an appointment with clien...

  What is a Use Case In Software Development Environment Use Case is identified as the list of actions or steps typically defining the interactions between actors and the system in order to perform a feature of the software. The actor can be a human or an external system.  What is a Test Case A Test Case is a document which consists of a set of conditions or actions which needs to perform on the software in order to verify expected functionality of the feature. When comparing these two terms we can see a few clear differences between these two as below Use Case   Test Case Components - Use Case name, Actors, Pre Conditions, Assumptions, Post Conditions, Business Rules, Normal Process flow, Alternative process flow Components - Test Case ID, Test Case Title, Pre-Conditions, Test Case Description, Expected Results, Actual Results, Priority, Complexity, Bug ID Describes the overview of the software functio...

  Software Development Life Cycle is a process used by software development industry to develop high quality software. This consists of a detailed plan describing how to develop, maintain, replace and enhance specific software. The following figure is a graphical representation of the stages of a typical SDLC. Requirement Analysis Phase: This is the most important and the fundamental stage of the SDLC, performed by the most senior members (Project Manager, Business Analyst, Designer, Test Lead, Subject Matter expert) of the team with inputs from the customers, market surveys and domain experts in the industry. This information is then used to plan the basic project approach and to conduct product feasibility study in the economical, operational and technical areas. Requirement Analysis phase completes when the client signs of the SRS - Software Requirement Specification. Design Phase: Based on the requirements specified in SRS design approach for the product architectur...