1. What is Software Testing? Software Testing is the process of evaluating a software application to ensure that it meets the specified requirements and fit for its purpose. The primary goals of software testing are identifying defects, validate that the software meets user expectations and enhance its overall quality. It ensures that the software functions as intended and delivers a positive user experience. Software testing is an essential part of software development life cycle (SDLC), as it helps to prevent defects from reaching end-users, reduces the risk of software failures and contribu ..read more

Writing an effective bug report is essential for providing software developers with all the necessary information to understand, reproduce and resolve the issue. A well-documented bug report saves time and ensures a smoother debugging process. Writing a comprehensive bug report helps software developers quickly understand the issue and reduces back-and-forth communication. It's a key practice for effective bug tracking and issue resolution in software development. In many organizations, there is a formal process for reporting and managing defects using bug tracking tools or issue tracking syst ..read more

Exit criteria in software testing are a set of predefined conditions or requirements that must be met before a software testing phase or software testing project can be considered complete and the software can move on to the next stage of development or release. Defining Exit Criteria for Software Testing: In software testing, exit criteria are typically defined by the software testing team in collaboration with project stakeholders, including software developers, product managers and software quality assurance managers. To define appropriate exit criteria, the software testing team needs to h ..read more

Entry criteria in software testing refer to the prerequisites that must be met before testing activities can commence in a software development project. Entry criteria typically vary depending on the specific testing phase or level. The specific entry criteria may vary from one project to another, depending on factors like the development methodology (e.g., Agile, Waterfall), project size and organizational processes. Entry criteria in software testing are typically defined by the project or testing team in collaboration with stakeholders, including the product owner, business analysts, develo ..read more

Overview: Ever wondered, how do you measure testing productivity or testing effectiveness? When to say testing is complete? In all such questions, QA metrics come to the rescue. QA metrics allow test leads or managers to take decisions on various situations encountered in the project life cycle. Tricky part is that QA metrics make sense only in the given context. For example, for one project 95% pass percentage is good to go live but for a safety-critical application anything less than 100% is life-threatening. So, let’s first find out why we need metrics and how they can be useful for the pro ..read more

In this article, we will cover questions, which can help you prepare well for an interview for software testing jobs. What is difference between Test Scenario and Test case? In layman terms, Test scenario is any functionality which can be tested. It is a high-level condition or a set of conditions which need to be tested to verify a functionality. It might result into one or many test cases. The test cases which need to be created to fulfill the test scenario might be positive or negative. While Test scenario is a high-level condition, test case gives us a set of actions which need to be done ..read more

  What is difference between Test Scenario and Test case? In layman terms, Test scenario is any functionality which can be tested. It is a high-level condition or a set of conditions which need to be tested to verify a functionality. It might result into one or many test cases. The test cases which need to be created to fulfill the test scenario might be positive or negative. While Test scenario is a high-level condition, test case gives us a set of actions which need to be done in a sequential manner to test the condition in the application. A Test Case contains test steps, test data, pr ..read more

Introduction: Automation testing is the buzzword everyone is talking about in software industry. Most IT companies and clients are trying to automate their tests as much as possible to reduce the efforts in a longer run. With all the projected and actual benefits, many people think that manual testing is going to go away in near future. However, the reality is far away from this. Manual testing and manual testing jobs are necessary and going to stay. Scope and Importance of Manual Testing: Testing is a necessary evil. To get a quality product, we need testing of product- whether it is manual t ..read more

The exact procedure to do a performance test varies between projects and organizations. It depends what parameters are most important to the business or application under test. However, the general goals largely fall under the same broad category. Below are the steps which are followed to conduct a performance test- 1. Identify Test Environment First step before conducting a performance test (or any test) is to identify the environment. Performance test requires an environment which is scaled to match production to get a good assessment of performance issues which might occur. We should docume ..read more

A defect, in simple language, is a flaw in a system i.e., a system is not working as it should. Defects are also called bugs or faults. In case of software, when the software code has been built, it is executed and then any defects may cause the system to fail to do what it should do (or do something it shouldn't), causing a failure. However, not all defects result in failures. Some defects stay in system as dormant, and we may never catch them as the conditions for them to occur probably do not occur in the real time environment. In a typical project, a defect or bug gets identified and then ..read more