What Is the Difference Between QA and Testing?

There are two basic breakdowns for the profession: Quality Assurance (QA) and Testing Quality Assurance (QA) QA tends to be focused on measuring and examining quality and improving the software through process improvements, thereby guiding the release to customers. Although testing activities usually do...

7 Ways to Measure Test Coverage

Test coverage is a measure of the degree to which a test exercises some feature(s) or code. Test Coverage Relates the Tests Test coverage relates the tests produced to the software or features under test such that we can estimate: 1. The degree to which a test exercises the software or features. 2. The...

Purpose of an Independent QA Audit

The Software Engineering Institute/Capability Maturity Model (SEI CMM) describes periodic independent audits of the QA activities and work products of an organization’s QA group.  This is specifically stated in the SQA key process area of CMM under verification. The intent of the Independent QA Audit is...

Testing Delay – Headache of Test Managers

When the testing and development are clearly laid out and executed strictly according to plan and schedule, then the product is released in time and with appropriate level of quality. What do the test managers to achieve such results? Software testing is usually very critical part of software development. A...

4 Attributes of Qualitative and Well-Written Test-Case

Software Testing as a Skill This can be a revelation for some people, but not everybody can test. For any system you can find an enormous number of possible tests and at the same time, practically we have usually time to run only a very small amount of tests. Efforts to select test cases are very important...