Software Testing Status Reporting “The agreement that a certain information, in a certain format, will be sent by a certain team/individual, at certain intervals of time, to certain members – is like a handshake- an acknowledgement that no matter what the outcome of a task at hand, you would be kept posted about it, sooner…
Every day I keep on getting several requests for a Test Case Template. I’m surprised that many testers are still documenting test cases with Word docs or Excel files. Most of them prefer excel spreadsheets because they can easily group test cases by test types and most importantly they can easily get test metrics with…
Learn To Write Test Strategy Document Efficiently A strategy plan for defining the testing approach, what you want to accomplish and how you are going to achieve it. This document removes all uncertainty or vague requirement statements with a clear plan of approach for achieving the test objectives. Test Strategy is one of the most…
Are you aware that “Most of the Bugs in software are due to incomplete or inaccurate functional requirements?” However well it is written, the software code does not matter and nothing can be done if there are any ambiguities in the requirements. This tutorial on Software Requirements Specification (SRS) states that Requirements must be clear,…
The Sample, Bug/Defect Report given below will give you an exact idea of how to report a Bug in the Bug Tracking Tool? Here is an Example scenario that caused a Bug: Let’s assume that in your application under test you want to create a new user with user information, for that you need to…
Do you wish to learn & download the Sample Test Plan? This tutorial is in response to those who have requested a Test Plan example. In our previous tutorial, we have outlined the Test Plan Index. In this tutorial, we will elaborate on that index with more details. A Test Plan reflects your entire test…
This in-depth hands-on tutorial on How to Write Test Cases covers the details of what a Test Case is along with its standard definition and Test Case Design techniques. What is a Test case? A test case has components that describe input, action, and an expected response, in order to determine if a feature of…
In today’s article we are going to learn all about the “Incident Tracking and management” Process – How to track and manage incidents in Software Testing with sample templates. Are you thinking- “STH has published a lot of content on defect/bug tracking, so how is this going to be different”? That is exactly the reason…
Writing an Effective Status Report is as important as the actual work you did! How to write an effective status report of your Weekly Work at the end of each week? This tutorial will offer you some tips on this. A weekly report is important to track the important project issues, accomplishments of the projects,…
Let’s see the typical process involved in delivering software from ‘development phase’ to the ‘testing phase’ for a successful bug-free software release to production/client. These processes are either overlooked or skipped by software companies, which results in poor test management and thereby’ a “buggy” software releases to the client, which leads to “unsatisfied customers”.