What Is Coverage-Based Testing?
23.01.2012
The majority of generally accepted testing techniques, it doesn’t matter if it is functional testing (black-box testing) or structural testing (white-box testing), use different ways of test coverage as the
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What Is Usage-Based Statistical Testing?
20.01.2012
Actual client usage of software may be considered as a form of usage-based testing. In the case if defects are detected by clients, some information about them can be reported
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Black-Box Testing vs White-Box Testing
16.01.2012
The main differences between black-box testing (BBT) and white-box testing (WBT) are in such aspects: Objects The tested objects may overlap sometimes. WBT is commonly used to test not very
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Direct And Indirect Quality Measures
02.01.2012
To reach the quality assurance objects it is necessary to identify where we are and what we should do to reach these objects. To get such information, objective assessment using
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Planning Of Quality Assurance Activities
28.12.2011
Note: the article was updated in August 2018. Planning is not just to write documents and to match terms. Planning is the first step toward achieving the set goals. Quality
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Comparison of Verification & Validation and QA View Points
23.12.2011
Most quality assurance activities that are carried out directly in the software development process can be classified as verification activities, while quality assurance activities which are associated with the technical
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Quality Assurance Activities In Software Processes
21.12.2011
In incremental and iterative processes the overall process can be considered as consisting of some increments or iterations, with each of them following equal mini phases corresponding to those in
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Significance of Education and Training During Software Development
19.12.2011
Teaching and training provide people-based solutions to eliminate the source of software bugs. Software practitioners notice for a long time that the human factor is the most important indicator in
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Classification: Quality Assurance alternatives
16.12.2011
An accurate survey of how various quality assurance alternatives deal with errors can help to make general schemes of classification. This classification can be used in assisting how to choose,
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Software Bug Handling Process And Tools
13.12.2011
Software bug handling is a significant area of quality assurance activities. At the time of software testing the developers who correct identified software bugs are generally not the identical as
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Safety Assurance And Failure Scope
12.12.2011
Note: the article was updated in September 2018. Safety-critical systems are those, that can cause injury or even loss of user’s life in case of failure. Such systems can damage
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