When to Apply Exploratory Testing?
22.08.2013
Note: the article was updated in September 2018. James Bach, a famous tester and a proponent of exploratory testing called it “scientific thinking in real-time”. Performing exploratory testing, QA engineers
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Security Testing Using Vulnerability Scanners
29.04.2013
Security testing of web applications is not as easy process as it seems to be. It can appear very exhaustive if it is performed manually. That is why this kind
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Unit Testing Overview: What Is a Software Component?
27.11.2012
To one of the stated types belong unit testing, which is testing of separate software components. But what actually are software components? And are these notions the same for software
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What is Comparison Testing?
01.10.2012
When Is Comparison Testing Performed? This type of software testing belongs to no particular phase of software development. On the early phases of software development software testing company may implement
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Validation & Verification Testing
24.09.2012
When Is Validation & Verification Testing Conducted? This type of software testing is usually performed at the last stages of software development, right before its release. Software testing company may
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Post-Release Support and Regression Testing
20.03.2012
For effective post-release software product support, defects reported by clients should be analyzed to correct the underlying software bugs. Diagnosis testing is generally used to recreate the defect scenario and
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General Standards for Component Testing
19.03.2012
BS 7925-2 is a software test standard that defines the overall process of testing, techniques of test cases creation and other activities that are used in component testing. The main
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Overall Component Testing Process
16.03.2012
Component Test Planning The main ideas of Component Test Planning are: Determination of the expected test results for each test case Determination of the overall strategy of component testing, test
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Acceptance Testing and Software Release
12.03.2012
Acceptance testing is often conducted as the finish sub-stage of software testing to define whether the product should be released. For successful release you also should clarify: What are the
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Designing a Performance Test Environment
08.02.2012
There are a lot of projects where all performance testing are conducted on the live environment. On the other hand, we can say that this is rather uncommon and adds
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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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