Questions tagged [verification]
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Is Software Testing Really Needed?
I'm a student working on my B.E(CS) and my question is the following:
Is testing in the software field needed?
If we create a software with great care, then why should we test?
After testing can we be sure that we have achieved this goal (the…
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What are best practices for testing the absence of functionality
Context: we operate in a highly regulated industry (medical), and aim to have automated test cases to cover all of our requirements - allowing us to still release quickly, but safely.
We have a requirement or acceptance criteria that reads something…
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Do test-driven and behavior-driven development belong to the "verification" category?
In university, we were introduced to the two terms "verification" and "validation". The definitions can be summarized as follows:
Validation checks that the specifications and requirements that were defined fulfill the customer's actual needs. (Do…
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Is verification and validation part of testing process?
Based on many sources I do not believe the simple definition that aim of testing is to find as many bugs as possible - we test to ensure that it works or that it does not. E.g. followint are goals of testing form ISTQB:
Determine that (software…
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What is the aim of software testing?
Having read many books, there is a basic contradiction:
Some say, "the goal of testing is to find bugs" while other say "the goal of the testing is to equalize the quality of the product", meaning that bugs are its by-products.
I would also agree…
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How come verification does not include actual testing?
Having read a lot about this topic --- such as on this Software Testing Fundamentals site on verification and validation and Software Testing and Quality Assurance: Theory and Practice by Naik and Tripathy --- I still do not get it. Verification…
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If your team does code review, to what extent do you verify that review fixes are carried out?
On my team, we carry out code reviews (without the use of external tools). The reviewer produces a list of items which the developer should address or consider and then essentially leave them to it (after discussing with them the relevant points)…
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Can I avoid more faults if I use different paradigms for the implementation and the specification/tests?
Since it is convenient for the developer, the same paradigm are often used for implementations and specifications, e.g.
for testing (e.g. Java for the implementation and unit tests, Scala for the implementation and property testing)
for model-based…
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Difference between software inspection and verification
I was reading about software inspection in Software Engineering by Ian Summerville and I came across the term Software inspection and I started reading about it on Wikipedia. I am unable to understand what is the difference between verification and…
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Implementing custom "Remember Me" with Stripe
Implementing remember me with Stripe, while not using their Checkout (not supported on PhoneGap), seems to be fine using the path:
First time:
Request token on the client side using card info.
Create customer on server side using token.
Upon…
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Is asking for control totals on a file an outdated means of verifying a file?
I'm in a new position where I need to process a flat files on a regular basis. The last time I did this was 5 or 6 years ago but as part of the file layout I received control totals. It gave me simplistic information on the file like the total…
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How can we verify that software meets specifications meets requirements?
So we're pretty good at eliciting requirements from our end customers, business division and sales/marketing. We plan projects to add/enhance features to meet those requests and prioritize tasks to meet deadlines in most profitable order.
Over time,…
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How can I obtain a CA certificate for my application if I do not own a business/company?
I have developed an application which I intend to sell. I set up a website with information and download links, advertising, payments, everything is ready to go - except the digital signature. I want to sign my application so that Windows and…
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Best way to verify that a user has completed a task on another website.
We are developing a website for students on which they first have to fulfill specific tasks in order to use our service. The problem is, that those tasks are on another website, which has nothing to do with ours and is currently placed in an iframe…
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Inspection, code review - is it really testing?
ISTQB, Wikipedia or other sources classify verification acitivities (reviews etc.) as a static testing, yet other do not. If we can say that peer reviews and inspections are actually a kind of a testing, then a lot of standards do not make sense…
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