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Beyond ISEB ISTQB-BCS: User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for Software Systems Part 2

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Beyond ISEB ISTQB-BCS: User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for Software Systems Part 2 Test Environment The test environment must be as similar to the production environment as possible. This is simple to accomplish when the application or system is installed on a user's computer but a little more difficult in a client server or hosted environment. The environment should have the same software, hardware, and network configuration as the production environment. The environment should have all the common or shared data from the production environment. It may be possible to simply port this data from QA to UAT. The UAT environment should also have sufficient privately owned data to enable testing. This may be done by selecting one customer to test on, or one product, and to port this data from the production environment where the new system replaces an existing one, or to create the data manually where a manual system is being replaced. Another approach is to simply port all the data i...

How to Build a Test Case?

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How to Build a Test Case? Software testing training is definitely the best process for a novice learner to get a detailed idea of what actually is the testing process all about, how is it done and what are the requirements for conducting testing of software and much more. Software Testing is an important component of SDLC process and is very necessary to find out the reliability of the software in yielding the desired performance for user satisfaction. During the software testing training, the learners are given better understanding of how better software products can be given to the market through accurate testing methodologies and how to apply different strategies for variant software testing needs. One of the essential requirements for a testing process is the input which is defined as test case in software testing terminology. What is Test Case? Test case defines the set of test inputs and execution conditions that a tester adopts to exercise evaluation process on the s...

Beyond ISEB ISTQB-BCS: User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for Software Systems Part 1

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 Beyond ISEB ISTQB-BCS: User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for Software Systems Part 1 This is the first part of a 2 part article on User Acceptance Testing (UAT) of software systems. It follows my previous articles on Quality Management topics. Up to this point no-one outside the development and QA teams have test driven your new software system. You've proven that there are no glitches in the software by thoroughly unit and function testing it, you've proven that it is well integrated with integration testing, and you've even proven that it meets the requirements specified for it (or at least the QA groups interpretation of those requirements), but you still haven't passed the ultimate test: do the users like the system? Customer acceptance is critical when building a commercial product and still important when building an in-house system. New software systems are usually introduced to replace existing systems that users have become accustomed to. Changing the way the...

Using the right Testing Tools

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Using the right Testing Tools The main use of software testing tools is that it helps in dramatically simplify testing procedures. It normally increases the defect find rate and this in turn ultimately achieves a higher release quality. It also leads to much improvement in the reliability of the much desired and delivered solutions which really make them more effective and productive from the view of the potential customer perspectives. There are a several variety of software test tools which address different aspects of the testing process. These can be applied to any type of software, programming languages and kind of testing. The actual scope and desired quality of these types of tools vary much and provides a different degree of assistance.                     Many of these tools can be downloaded free and tried out with no commitment and of charge. ...

Emerging trends in Software Testing

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Like all sectors, the IT sector is also growing by leaps and bounds due to the technological advancements that are occurring with each passing day. With that the software testing landscape has faced evolution as well which has resulted in several new aspects to be considered. In fact, with time testing has become one of the mainstream activities in the life cycle of software development, playing a huge role in the entire process.  With that, industry experts as well as analysts are predicting that the current year will be an extremely important year for this service. The mix of evolution of methods, high customer expectations, competitive pressure, etc. has resulted in the emergence of new trends. Here are some emerging trends that almost all good testers worth their salt are adopting this year.                   Rising mobile usage- The market is se...