development lifecycles Questions

Weightage of Testing in IT industry
By Snehal Pailkar - December 8, 20171 Answer

A trend is observed in the IT industry, that the relative weight of testing is dramatically increasing; why?

Manual Regression Testing: End of Sprint Test Report template?
By Zena Higgin - December 5, 2017No Answers

I have a Project Test Report template but it seems to formal.  I'm looking for ideas for an End of Sprint Test Report, that only reports Manual Regression Testing results.  I need a report that helps me keep track of user stories not ready for regression in one sprint but will be in the next few sprints.

I'm using VSTS Test Hub, so I have access to charts and queries from tests I've run.

Going forward, I would like to report on Automative (and Manual) Regression Test Results.

Appreciate your expertise.  Thanks.

 

 

What is the scope and future for Appium testing?
By james lees - November 24, 20172 Answers

I am planning to learn Appium TestNG framework, is it worth to learn ?

Would anybody know a simple way of integrating Zephyr into PowerBi? Bare in mind there is an Api called ZAPI(Zephyr API)
By Parminder Kauldhar - November 1, 2017No Answers

The Zephyr Api: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.thed.zephyr.zapi/cloud/installation

Power BI: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/

Has anyone managed to actually integrate the api into Power BI? and if so how did you do it? The jira rest-api has been integrated but vital information based on test cycles is all missing.

 

Is there a free alternative to ZAPI to expose that data as well?

 

Thank you!

We're not Continuous Integration. What are we?
By Scott Seltzer - October 3, 20171 Answer

I'm trying to figure out the proper terminology for our dev/test procedure.

1. The main master codebase in bitbucket.

2. Developers make their code changes (bug fixes, feature improvements) and create pull requests/feature branches that contain their code commits. They are not saved directly into master (so not CI). Each jira issue generally has one corresponding pull request.

3. QA uses Jenkins to deploy individual (or sometimes multile) pull requests on top of the master to our test environments (each QAer has their own test server). So, we are able test the addition of just one change at a time. We do full functional testing and any regression testing we think might be relevant.

4. After QA approves the change, we merge the pull request into the master.

I've worked in QA for 23 years and I'm very very happy with the system we're using. Instead of dev giving us a full iterative version to test, we test and add the parts piece by piece. Nothing gets merged untested so we have great control and minimal risk.

I'm pretty sure it's not Continuous Integration as I've read about it. I thought of the term controlled integration since we carefully check every little thing before it gets integrated, and I see that there is such a concept but I'm not sure that we're doing that either. Or are we? Or something else?

Quality processes in Continuous Integration/Deployment
By Jeff Checkner - July 10, 20172 Answers

In traditional waterfall and agile processes we implement a test strategy to set expectations (and receive feedback) on approach for a release (multiple sprints of work) and test summary to capture results of the execution (functionl, security, and performance testing).  

In a a CI/CD model when we have a 2 week sprint and plan to deploy every 2 weeks it seems a bit cumbersome to do a strategy and summary every 2 weeks.  Ideally the summary could be pulled from an automation tool and produced to a dashboard so that should not be too bad.

Is there a different approach to the strategy?  

Are there other quality tollgates (maybe a bad choice of words) that we should consider?

From a quality process audit perspective is there anything else to consider?

Any feedack appreciated.

-Jeff

Retail Banking Interview questions in the perspective of Testing
By Karthika J - March 14, 20172 Answers

As i have worked in Retail Banking domain as a Sr.Test Engineer(6 years),What kind of technical questions be asked in interview?

What Are the Proper Phases of New Product Development Life Cycle (NPDLC)?
By Costas Chantzis - February 13, 20171 Answer

All of us have our own view of what MUST be the proper New Product Development phases. I believe those are:

1. Ideation: Come-up with an idea you think it could be a market winner.

2. Patenting: Evaluate the merit of getting Intellectual Property (IP) protection for your new product idea.

3. Design: Develop non or partially functioning models of your new product idea and start soliciting user feedback.

4. Feasibility Proof: Perform various technical/business studies to determine IF your new product idea is feasible.

5. Development: Develop a product/process to yield a number of fully functioning new product prototypes as if each of them were to be used by the final user/customer.

6. Controlled Field Use Trial: Let potential users use the new product as IF it were purchased by them and generate feedback based on a previously approved protocol.

7. Design-Verification/Validation: Fine-tune new product design/development and complete design verification/validation studies to confirm the new product meets User Requirement Specifications (URSs) per its respective Labeling Claims.

8. Regulatory Filing (if required): Prepare any required documentation and submit it to appropriate Regulatory Authorities for securing their approval to market it.

9. Full Field Use Trial: Repeat above phase 6 but using a comprehensive pool of potential users/customers.

10. Scaling-up: Scale-up your process so your new product could be manufactured in high quality/low cost conditions.

11. Technology-Transfer: Develop documents' list for new product's production in high volume.

12. Process Validation: Validate your process so it produces final product consistently meeting specifications.

13. Manufacturing: Start manufacture and ship product to market.

14. Launch: Launch product and monitor its acceptance by the user.

15. Line Maintenance/ Improvement: Compile, analyze user feedback and continuously improve product.

What is your opinion? Please explain, if you could.

Digital Services developemnt is changing testing roles and skillsets
By Horst Gnadl - November 16, 20161 Answer

Hi,

I am a test automation specialist and test manager and I am seaching for ideas in which way I have to change my mindset, my knowledge and tool expierience when beeing part of a development team or company for developping digital services and products?

Does Selenium Web Driver Support Switching Between Windows In I Phone or Andriod.
By naveen chettigari - March 4, 20163 Answers

Am using selenium Web Driver for switching between the windows.

using java script for opening the new window

((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript("window.open("http://www.gmail.com");");

After opening the new window i need to perform some actions on the newly opened window and then close it and switch back to the old window.

mentioned above works fine in Windows and Linux with all the browser combinations ,but fails in I Phone and Andriod.

Please provide what cause for this ,why this opening a new window does not work in I Phone or Android.

There are very few resources regarding this issue even they are very uncertain,please kindly provide the information regarding this issue.

Thanks in advance.

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