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Questions tagged [manual-testing]

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Do we need test data or can we rely on unit tests and manual testing?

We're currently working on a medium/large PHP/MySQL project. We're doing unit testing with PHPUnit & QUnit and we have two full time testers that are manually testing the application. Our test (mock) data is currently created with SQL scripts. We…
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Can a unit test replace works-on-my-machine when completing work?

I've made a small change to an integration component and have prepared unit tests to cover my work. All new and existing unit tests are passing. It will take a substantial amount of time to configure and run the component locally as I will need to…
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How much detail is in a good UI regression test?

We use a detailed step-by-step user-interface regression test for our commercial web application. It has a "backbone" test for the most used / most important parts of the system, with optional tests for specific areas of functionality. Using this…
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Does Unit Test increase productivity?

Possible Duplicate: TDD vs. Productivity In most computer science books such as Clean Code we are told to write good Unit Tests in order to increase productivity when updating project or writing new modules (or refactoring). Most of my project…
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Post-Condition in test cases

Is it fine not have any post-condition in a test case? For example, there is an employee information system or module and an employee can login into the system and views his/her profile and logs out. If I write a test case for it, I can't think of…
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Managing manual test protocols

We have to organize a very long list of manually running tests. Currently we use Word documents, print them out check them off etc. Ugh-ly but works, with problems. Problems with the current solution Requesting and executing subsets, depending on…
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How to provide test code for manual testing?

I have written a class that implements some BLE scanning functionality. I have also written some test code that helped me to manually verify my scanner works as intended. Now I want to somehow preserve that test code for future use. But I find…
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Software Quality - preventing regressions with documentation

I lead a small but growing team of developers on an iOS application with a server backend. We have comprehensive unit and integration tests on both ends. As the product grows, I want the onus of "quality assurance" to fall on all team members --…
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What do I call "unit tests" that are specifically developed during tinkering?

When developing a new section of code functionality with modules I'm not familiar, I'll often create a set of unit tests that are for "tinkering" and interactively analyzing the results in the debugger. These tests are not good "unit tests" because…
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Testing interaction with large CRM database

In our company we have two large systems, basically they are scoring and CRM. Both have large SQL Server databases running on Windows servers on the intranet. These two databases are managed by other department, which we have a direct contact…
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Is is worth the time to create a list of manual regression tests for a legacy application?

I am part of a new dev team that is assigned to work on a legacy app. The app currently has no regression or automated unit, integration and system tests. Due to technical debt and convoluted architecture, automated unit tests would be difficult…
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Testing an underwriting engine

I made a post in relation to this question on the SQA here but thought I would post on this board as it's more active. I'm testing an underwriting engine with a front-end interface that asks a series of questions that either evaluate the input…
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Problems in QA Environment

At least few times a week I have to track down a bug that would not occur in a production\client environment. 95% of the time I can tell that its a QA configuration\environment problem just by looking at the ticket. But, many times Im asked to track…
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Defects Review and Management

The doubt or question i have is something every developer might be facing time to time. it is related to testing and development team and their perspective. I have observed that most of the Defects which are getting logged are purely based on…
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Domain analysis for discrete values - ON and OFF points in these cases

Following my previous question (with great answer from Bart van Ingen Schenau), I noticed a discrepancy I could not wrap my head around: Bart mentioned that: The point ON the boundary is by definition the closest you can get. For a closed domain,…
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