What’s the role of documentation in QA?
Filed Under Benefits, Document, QA, QE, Software, Testing | Posted on February 12, 2009
Sometimes, for people who are new to the software line (and specifically new to the testing business), there are questions about how important documentation would be to regular Quality work. After all, the major work is about testing some software and getting the bugs resolved, how important could testing be ? Well, the role of [...]
Changing requirements and implications on testing
Filed Under Analysis, Change, Impact, Requirements, Testing | Posted on February 4, 2009
An ideal software development cycle involves a process whereby the requirements are frozen pretty early and the entire cycle happens with those frozen requirements. And if requirements do need to change, then a major impact analysis needs to happen, and the change is thoroughly studied before any change is taken. However, in the real world [...]
Properties of a test / QA / QE Manager
Filed Under Manager, QA, QE, Testing | Posted on January 28, 2009
Testing is a vital and critical part of the overall software development process, and is very important that the overall testing environment have the right mix of aggression and thoroughness. A large amount of this attitude comes from the person who leads the testing team. So, what makes a good QA or Test manager? There [...]
Details (sub-parts) of a test plan !!
Filed Under Document, Testing | Posted on January 13, 2009
A software test plan is a document that is critical to any software project. This is the document that is the proper reference to the process that QE follows during the testing process. Having a software test plan is a critical requirement of quality processes, and the document by itself takes some time to prepare [...]
