Defect Life Cycle / Bug Life Cycle

So What is Defect Life Cycle ? New : Tester found new bug and report it to test lead . Open : Team Lead open this bug and assign to the developer . Assign : Developer has three choices after assigning the big. 1. Reject : He can say that this is not a bug because of some hardware or other...

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Priority and Severity

What is Severity ? The degree of impact casted by the bug on an application . Or  Severity is the seriousness of the problem . Severity: It is totally related to the quality standard or devotion to standard.  Severity means how severe it is affecting the functionality.  Severity...

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White Box Testing

So What is White Box Testing ? White Box Testing is the testing of a software solution's internal coding and infrastructure.It focuses primarily on strengthening security, the flow of inputs and outputs through the application, and improving design and usability.White box testing is also known...

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Black Box Testing

So What is Black Box Testing ? Black box testing is a software testing techniques in which functionality of the software under test (SUT) is tested without looking at the internal code structure, implementation details and knowledge of internal paths of the software.This type of...

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Adhoc Testing / Informal Testing

So What is Ad-hoc Testing ? It is also called Informal testing . In general ,every testing team conducts planned testing , but testing team adopts informal testing sometimes due to some challenges or risks . Eg . Lack of time , Lack of resources , Lack of team size , Lack of skills etc. There...

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User Acceptance Testing / Alpha Beta Testing

So What is User Acceptance Testing ? Both testers and developers are involved . After completion of system testing , the project management concentrates on UAT to collect feedback from real customer or model customer . There are two ways to conduct UAT . . Alpha Testing  . Beta Testing  What...

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Regression Testing

What is Regression Testing ? Ensuring that a bug is fixed without any side effect is called Regression Testing . Or Testing the functionality of unchanged feature to make sure that it is not broken because of the changes . The Re-execution of selected test cases on modified build to...

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Progression Testing and Retesting

So What is Progression Testing ? Execute the test cases for the first time, it is called Progression Testing . What is Retesting ? Re-executing all the failed test cases to check fixing done by development team is really fixed or not as called as retesting . or  We can check whether...

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Mutation Testing

SO What is Mutation Testing ? Introducing the known defects in the software to check the effectiveness of  testing process. Mutation means a change in a program. Programmers are performing changes in tested program to estimate completeness and correctness of that program testing . Mutation...

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Non Functional Testing

Testing Team Concentrates on characteristics of S/W . - Recovery Testing - Compatibility Testing - Configuration Testing - Inter System Testing - Installation Testing - Performance Testing - Load Testing - Stress Testing - Volume Testing - Parallel Testing - Security Testi...

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Security Testing / Penetration Testing

What is Security Testing ?  Also know as Penetration testing . During this the testing team is validating for : Authorization : Access to the valid user and deny to invalid user . Access control : Giving access permissions to the valid users to use specific services like features or functionalities...

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Parallel Testing

What is Parallel testing ? It is also called as comparative  or competitive testing . Comparison of two different systems.(Old version Vs New version ) . Compare with the competitive software in market to estimate competitiveness. Applicable to software product only . Parallel testing is...

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Volume Testing

What is Volume Testing ? Its also known as storage testing or memory testing . Find weakness in the system with respect to its handling of large amount of data during short time periods. Example : This kind of testing ensures that the system will process data across physical and logical boundaries...

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Performance Testing

What is Performance Testing ? . Check the response time of application . . Performance means that speed of the processing . Performance testing, a non-functional testing technique performed to determine the system parameters in terms of responsiveness and stability under various workload. Performance...

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Stress Testing / Endurance testing

What is Stress Testing ? Also called Endurance testing . The execution of our software build under customer expected configuration and various load levels to estimate stability or continuity is called Stress testing . Check how the system can behave under extreme such as insufficient memory , inadequate...

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Load Testing / Scalability Testing

What is Load Testing ? Also called as scalability testing . Test the performance of an application on loading the system with maximum user at the same time . Example  : Websites Yahoo , G-mail . It is the simplest form of testing conducted to understand the behavior of the system under...

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Installation Testing

What is Installation Testing ? Checks the installing and uninstalling of the software in customer site. Installation Testing: It is performed to verify if the software has been installed with all the necessary components and the application is working as expected. This is very important as installation...

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Inter System Testing

  What is Inter systems Testing? Many a times, an application is hosted across locations; however, all data needs to be deployed over a central location. The process of testing the integration points for single application hosted at different locations and then ensuring correct data flow...

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Configuration Testing

  What is Configuration Testing? Configuration testing is the process of testing the system with each one of the supported software and hardware configurations. The Execution area supports configuration testing by allowing reuse of the created tests. Executing Tests with Various Configurations: Operating...

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Compatibility Testing

  What is Compatibility testing in software testing? It is a type of non-functional testing. Compatibility testing is a type of software testing used to ensure compatibility of the system/application/website built with various other objects such as other web browsers, hardware platforms,...

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Recovery Testing

  What is Recovery testing in software? It is a type of non-functional testing. Recovery testing is done in order to check how fast and better the application can recover after it has gone through any type of crash or hardware failure etc. Recovery testing is the forced failure of the...

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