New trainees came on board and we had a training class to learn software testing concepts. After seeing those enthusiastic faces with their almost blank-slate minds (professionally), I decided to take a detour to my routine training. After a brief introduction, instead of talking about software testing like I normally do, I threw a question…
CMMI Appraisal Personal Note: It’s a great opportunity for any QA/Tester to be a CMMI Appraisal Team Member (ATM). ATM gets an extensive exposure to a complete CMMI model. If your organization is going for appraisal and if you get an opportunity to be an ATM, grab it. It’s an achievement that you will like…
Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is a Risk Management technique. If implemented properly, this can be a great addition to the best Quality Assurance processes to be followed. In this article, our goal is to introduce you to this Risk Analysis technique which in the end, is very useful for improving the software quality.
We want to wish a Happy and Healthy New Year to all our readers! The last year has been a wonderful year for STH – why wouldn’t it be? We had the best of the readers and followers behind us. Back in December 2006, I started this blog with an intention to help software testers and…
Dynamic Testing Techniques – Cause and Effect Graph. Test case writing forms an integral part of testing, whether it is Manual or Automation. Every project is exclusive and has a <n> number of test conditions that need to be covered. We should focus on two points whenever we write test cases. These are: Mitigating the…
By now, we all know that for a tester, Documentation is an integral part of his daily life. There is an overload of testing artifacts that are created, reviewed, approved, used, maintained and distributed. We always have clear-cut processes laid out for how to create a document, how to use it, who should it go…
Software Engineering is a discipline that aims at producing high-quality software through a systematic, well-planned approach to software development. It contains many good practices, following the standards to achieve the quality product. The three main phases of Software Development are Analysis – Design – Implementation. To accomplish high-quality software, it is essential to produce a…
This tutorial explains what are CMM levels and how to achieve these CMM levels for QA processes – explained with the best examples. For any process, whether it is a QA process, development process or any non-technical process, there are levels of its maturity. By levels of maturity, we mean that the level of formality…
Are you developing any Test plan or Test strategy for your project? Have you addressed all the risks properly in your Test plan or Test strategy? As testing is the last part of the project, it’s always under pressure and time constraint. To save time and money you should be able to prioritize your testing…
What is Regression Testing? Regression Testing is a type of testing that is done to verify that a code change in the software does not impact the existing functionality of the product. This is to ensure that the product works fine with new functionality, bug fixes or any changes to the existing feature. Previously executed…