Software Testing Exam Study Blog For The BCS ISEB-ISTQB Certification

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...

With the fierce competition in the business sphere, it's paramount to have strategic advantage. However, the task apparently seems to be big challenge since an enterprise often grapples with countless core & non-core business objectives. It has been observed that in order to meet the product release date, often testing time is considerably reduced; this greatly hampers the quality of the product. To ensure good-quality product release, most companies today prefer to outsource their software testing assignments offshore.             Software Quality Assurance is indeed a positive way to accomplish the ultimate goal of customer satisfaction. Every due care must be taken to locate the bugs in the product and fix the same. Sometimes, a bug is located beneath several functional layers of the product and its effect is minimal on the performance of the product. However, there are certain bugs, which are present on the surface and...