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Integration Testing, Video Tutorial Below is a useful video explaining integration testing, and it's practical implementations. Very useful information for students studying ISEB ISTQB as it'll help put the theory into practical when you're in the workplace.

Senior Test Analyst / QA Engineer, Job in Bedfordshire UK I found this position on Monster.co.uk . Thought it would be useful for my readers whom have completed ISEB ISTQB and are looking for work. You can apply here We are looking for a Senior QA Engineer / Test Analyst with experience of designing, developing and executing test plans in an Agile environment for a market leader and expanding software solutions company in Bedford, Bedfordshire. Any experience of Jira, Wiki and/or Zephyr would be ideal but not essential.   As the successful Senior Test Analyst / QA Engineer you will be responsible for designing, developing and executing test plans as well as providing team and technical leadership across an Agile environment involving solution design, test planning, functional testing, defect management and process improvements.   As a Senior QA Engineer / Test Analyst you are likely to understand client server and web based applications as well as expo...

10 Best Practices to Enhance Software Testing Efficiency Software testing comes in many forms. From functional testing to regression testing to usability testing, there are literally dozens of iterations of software testing techniques out there. But no matter which form of testing you specialize in, there are several best practices that can help improve the efficiency and effectiveness of your efforts. Without further ado, here is the list of top-10 best practices, in no particular order. Institute Defined Entry and Exit Criteria The concept here is that every step in the testing process should have specific entry and exit criteria. The criteria dictate when each step in the process begins and ends. The main benefit of this approach is that it tends to reduce testing gaps, because it drastically reduces the ambiguity that is often inherent in the process and also allows management to have more visibility into the process. Test on a Variety of Platforms Thanks to t...

Beyond ISEB ISTQB-BCS: Top 20 Software Testing Practical Tips For the Workplace. I hope all testers will browse these software testing sensible practices. Browse all points rigorously and inspect to implement them in your day-to-day QA activities. Usually this can be often what I expect from this article; if you are doing not understand any QA apply, rise for lots of clarification in comments below. After all, you may learn of those testing practices by experience. But then why not attempt to learn of those things before making any mistake? Since passing ISEB-ISTQB I've came across a variety of effective testing practices I learned from experience in the workplace: 1) Learn to analysis your results totally. Don't ignore the result. the last word take a glance at result might even be 'pass' or 'fail' but troubleshooting the inspiration reason behind 'fail' will lead you to the solution of the matter. Testers are revered if they not solely log the b...

Beyond ISEB ISTQB-BCS: Enterprise Software Testing Nowadays many companies face new challenges while designing effective and efficient testing strategies for enterprise applications. Incomplete or flawed test data means inaccurate testing, which can lead to application failure and business disruption. The basic approaches to build test environments include cloning application production environments and writing custom extract programs. These testing methods can be labour intensive, error prone and costly. None of the client would like to risk losing customers, market share, brand equity or revenue by delivering applications that have not been thoroughly tested. For this reason, looking for a dedicated enterprise application testing company is a must. Ensuring Both End-User and System-Wide Quality for Enterprise Applications, dedicated performance testing companies, use industry leading tools to perform most complete and collaborative Enterprise Software Testing solutions. Mindfire...

Senior Test Role An established customer facing service provider is seeking a Senior Tester. This Senior Test Role will manage and deliver test strategy and take responsibility for the entire testing process from requirement gathering through to test execution. The Key Responsibilities Include: Hands on test script preparation and execution Support for User Acceptance Testing / co-ordination with business test leads Designing and executing Test strategies appropriate to the size and potential impact of change Delivering test reports to Project Managers and stakeholders Take accountability for improving the testing efficiency of the department Necessary Experience required: Previous experience of taking lead responsibility for delivering and implementing test strategies Ex ISTQB/ISEB qualification or equivalent experience of testing customer facing websites Understanding of structured test methods and processes Experience of using testing tools such as Jmeter or Vi...

Test Engineer (Financial Services) - City of London - up to £45,000 A highly respected international software house operating in the Financial Services industry sector has a new opportunity for a Test Engineer to join their growing team. The Test Engineer will assist in developing, implementing and adapting test plans and schedules. Working closely with the Test Lead to understand test goals, risks and priorities, the successful candidate will help contribute ideas on testing standards, and processes. Solid skills in all or most of the following areas is essential: • Following test plans and schedules in undertaking test analysis, design and execution • Ability to seek out critical defects • Logging defects and issues and regularly reporting on progress to the test lead • Prioritising personal work load - Identifying and showing awareness of risks • Agile, Waterfall and V-Model methodologies • Contributing to test planning and risk workshops Domain experien...

About the Job To provide system test support to IT releases and projects across the Group. Accepts responsibility for creation of test cases using own in-depth technical analysis of both functional and non-functional specifications (such as reliability, efficiency, usability, maintainability and portability). Creates traceability records, from test cases back to requirements. Produces test scripts to test new and amended software or services. Specifies requirements for environment, data, resources and tools. Interprets, executes and documents complex test scripts using agreed methods and standards. Records and analyses actions and results, and maintains a defect register. Reviews test results and modifies tests if necessary. Provides reports on progress, anomalies, risks and issues associated with the overall project. Reports on system quality and collects metrics on test cases. Provides specialist advice to support others.   Responsibilities: Perform a Test Lead role on a...

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...

ASTQB is the country board for ISTQB Software Tester Certification in the U.S. These board members are a group of highly experienced experts in software testing who volunteer their time to the development, maintenance, and promotion of the certification in this country. ISTQB is the International Software Testing Qualifications Board that is composed of representatives from each national board, such as the ASTQB. The ISTQB decides on the global standards for certification. The result is that you are able to earn a truly global software tester certification, but do so via a country board that understands the language and logistics needs of your country. What is ASTQB? ASTQB was founded in 2003 as the American Testing Board. In April 2005, the name was changed to the American Software Testing Qualifications Board. Through the involvement of the world’s foremost experts in software testing, the program was developed for software professionals who want to prepare today’s professionals...

Software Testing Industry in China The China's Computer Market 2008 Forecast Report has been released recently. It showed that in the first three quarters of 2007, the software industry in China has registered sales revenue of $50 billion, up 23.6% on pcp, accounting for 10.95% of the entire electronics and information industry' sales revenue. As the software market matures, people have higher and higher expectations over software features, quality and reliability. In October 2005, Ministry of Labour and Social Security formally listed computer software product tester (software test engineer) as one of the new professions. In only two years' time, software testing has become a powerful dark horse in the software industry. Steadily rising status "In the early 1990s, software industry was still at an infant stage in China. Most software projects were very simple, the whole code writing and development process could be handled by one person. As industry ...

Finding the Right Software Testing Strategy for your Business. Software testing is an important process that is all part of the process of developing software. Any companies that neglect this process and the quality control standards that are involved can destroy the reputation of your company and your brand. It can also result in the waste of the entire amount of money that you spent on your project costs. Having a test plan is a necessary aspect of project documentation. The different goals and needs of a particular software application are covered by a particular project plan. Test documentations are also created in order to create test scenarios that determine how best the application copes in different scenarios and in different working environments. Most of the required test requirements for determining functionality of a particular type of software are used in the later parts of software compilation. Both the developers and various development teams will place th...

Software Testing: An ISTQB ISEB Foundation Guide Second Edition Book by Brian Hambling   Book Description:   This practical guide provides insight into software testing, explaining the basic steps of the process and how to perform effective tests. It provides an overview of different techniques, both dynamic and static. The book is ideal for those with a little experience of software testing who wish to cement their knowledge with industry-recognised techniques and theory. It supports the revised ISTQB - ISEB Foundation Certificate in Software Testing providing self assessment exercises, guidance notes on the syllabus topics with worked examples and sample examination questions. This 2nd edition covers the 2010 update to the exam syllabus. "Succinctly and clearly written with no non-sense. An unreserved 5 for value for money" IT Training Magazine (referring to 1st edition). ISBN 1906124760, 978-1906124762. Show More Show Less ...

Unit Testing Explained. Below is a useful video explaining unit testing, and it's practical implementations. Very useful information for students studying ISEB ISTQB as it'll help put the theory into practical when you're in the workplace.

Important of Documentation in Software Testing Software testing is an integral part of software development life cycle. With the type of innovative solution expected from software developers, the frequency of bugs appearing in the products developed has also increased. Bugs, as commonly known are the errors in software code that prevent the software to run aptly. It's the work of software tester to apply manual software testing or automated software testing to make software error free. The tester is expected to maintain a cooperative relationship with the software developer and the non-technical (management, clients) as both the parties are involved and necessary for project completion. The software tester has to adopt a tactful and diplomatic approach for issues raised and should have the ability to communicate with both technical and non-technical people in most professional manner.   Software tester is responsible for designing of test plan , test cases, preparing t...

Software Testing in Agile Development The latest evolution in software development process is agile. It's the philosophy adhering to Agile Manifesto or its core principles. The agile manifesto does not say about any particular methodology or process which should be followed to be called as agile. Rather it's the definition or end goal of your process. It defines agile but doesn't say what or how to be agile. So different organizations or individuals advocate different ways of agile development. In general it's an evolutionary approach of continuous, iterative and incremental integration of code where all the stake holders, i.e. Developer, QA and business (or customer) work very closely producing a very qualitative product in a short development life cycle. One of the most popular agile methodologies is Test Driven Development (TDD). In TDD greater importance is given to white box testing than black box testing (in my personal opinion both white box and black b...

The Future of Software Testing The future scene for work opportunities and career development are bright for the software testers and the industry. The large services companies are already hiring students on campus and there seems to be an ever growing demand for those in software testing and mobile testing. An increasing number of students are seeking education from leading institutions like SQA Group to get complete and advanced education to become a successful SQA tester. Get access to leading QA Courses like ISTQB, QTP, JIRA as well as get to work on live projects here. It is true that the generation that is going the change the way software is built and consequently change the way the world functions are these software testers. Those students passing out from colleges and universities as software testers are going to have a major role in how the software is going to get developed. Already there are any industries and companies looking for software testers, and analysts. ...