SQA: Q&A- by Hossain Mahmood Tuhin

Differences between Smoke Testing and Sanity Testing are as follows: Topic Smoke Testing Sanity Testing Purpose To verify the BASIC or CRITICAL existing functionality of an Application- before starting rigorous testing. To verify NEWLY ADDED/UPDATED functionality or BUG FIXES. Who does these testing? Performed by both TESTERS and DEVELOPERS Performed only by TESTERS Can these tests be automated? Can be automated Can’t be automated In technical terms Exercises the ENTIRE system from END-TO-END Exercises only a particular COMPONENT of the entire system In general terms SHALLOW and WIDE range of testing. More like a GENERAL HEALTH CHECKUP Narrow and DEEP approach of testing. More like a SPECIALIZED HEALTH CHECKUP

GitHub: GitHub is a platform for hosting and collaborating on projects. We don’t have to worry about losing data on our hard drive or managing a project across multiple computers — sync from anywhere. GitHub Essentials:   Repositories ,   Branches , Commits ,   Issues   and   Pull Requests . A   repository   is the basic unit of GitHub, most commonly a single project.  Repositories can contain folders and files, including images – anything our project needs. Repository = single project = single folder which contains subfolders and files. Sometimes GitHub users shorten this to “repo.” Branching   is the way to work on different parts of a repository at one time. When we are working on a project, we are going to have a bunch of different features or ideas in progress at any given time – some of which are ready to go, and others which are not. Branching exists to help we manage this workflow. When we create ...

            Quality Assurance             Quality Control Definition:    QA is a set of activities for ensuring quality in the processes by which products are developed. QC is a set of activities for ensuring quality in products. The activities focus on identifying defects in the actual products produced. Focus on:    QA aims to prevent defects with a focus on the process used to make the product. It is a proactive quality process. QC aims to identify (and correct) defects in the finished product. Quality control, therefore, is a reactive process. Goal:   The goal of QA is to improve development and test processes so that defects do not arise when the product is being developed. The goal of QC is to identify defects after a product is developed and before it's released. How:   Establish a good quality management system and the assessment of its adequacy. Periodic conforman...

Verification: It focuses on PROCESS related activities to ensure that the Products and deliverables meet a specific requirement before the final testing. Can be done through: A. Technical review B. Business review C. Management review Simply: Are we building the product in the right way?  that is, does the software conform to its specification verification  is the process of checking that the software meets the specification. Verification is an example of QA Validation: It focuses on PRODUCT related activities, that attempt to determine if the system or project deliverables meet the customer or client's expectations. Will be done by: Testing. Simply: Did we build the right product?  that is, is the software doing what the user really requires. Validation  is the process of checking whether the specification captures the customer's needs. According to the Capability Maturity Model(CMMI-SW v1.1) we can also define validation as The process ...

Overview: The Daily Scrum Meeting is held every day through the sprint. At the meeting, the Scrum team gathers to review and synchronize about the project status. In theory, each team member should provide his/her status based on three (03) Q: What did you do yesterday? What do you intend to do today? Is there any issues that blocks your work? # The participants should come prepared: Stop participants that don't come prepared and waste the meeting time. The team members should come prepared to share their updates. You should describe how to answer these questions effectively to increase the synchronization among the team members. The team members should know what is your expectations from them while answering these questions. # Validate that each individual describe the full picture: Validate that each individual can answer the 3 questions (Do not continue until you get the answers or the reasons for why he can't provide them). Validate that each tea...

Unit testing: Focuses on the module, program or object level to determine whether specific functions work properly. Black box testing: Tests the program against specific requirements or functionalities. White box testing: Examines paths of logic or the structure inside a program Gray box testing:  Gray-box testing  (International English spelling:  grey-box testing ) is a combination of  white-box testing  and  black-box testing . The aim of this testing is to search for the defects if any due to improper structure or improper usage of applications http://www.careerride.com/Testing-white-box-black-box-gray-box.aspx https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_box_testing Integration testing: Tests whether a set of logically related units (functions, modules, programs etc.) WORK TOGETHER PROPERLY after unit testing is done. System testing: Tests the system as a whole in an OPERATING ENVIRONMENT verifying FUNCTIONALITY and FITNESS for use. Ma...