utest Bug battle results are out
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Last day bug battle Q4 results of utest were out. and know what? I was there in the honored list. See the results in here.
Live -Release – Software Testing Exit Criteria
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What is exit Criteria of testing?
Exit criteria of testing is a set of rules defined so that the product can come out of testing and be released.
This can be some thing like.
1. No critical/show stopper bugs.
2. No major bugs.
3. No bugs that are visible to the customer.
4. Allowed limit of ...
What is Software Reliability?
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Software Reliability is the major component of Software Quality. More reliable software is, better is its Quality. Reliability of software tells us about the failure-free period of the software .It can also be denoted as the probability of performance of software over a given period.
It is assumed that the ...
Sanity and Smoke tests
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There are difference between smoke testing and sanity testing here are four points to get insight into them.
1. Smoke testing was actually referred in hard ware industry where the machine or motor is started / operated and confirms that it doesn’t smoke or burn. Here in Software testing smoke testing ...
Software Quality Assurance
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Software Quality Assurance consists of means of monitoring the software engineering process and methods to evaluate the quality(- wikipedia). unlike software testing, SQA comprises of all the stages in software engineering, from software design, coding, Source code and versioning control, code reviews, change and configuration management and release management. ...
Acceptance testing Vs Accessibility testing
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Acceptance testing is a type of testing to determine whether to accept a software product or not(in end user/ Customer point of view). This is done by validating the software with a set of agreed acceptance criteria or requirement.
Accessibility testing verifies that the product is usable even with people of ...
Bug and debug : Software Context
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Common usage of Bug refers to an insect(hemiptra) or anthropod or a bacterium. The bug in the software context referes to the errors or flaws that happens in a program. This error may be due to the error in coding ...
What is Cyclomatic Complexity?
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Cyclomatic Complexity was developed in 1970's by Thomas J. McCabe, It is a software Metric to find out the number of decisions that can be taken in a piece of source code / software
Cyclomatic Complexity(in control Flow diagram) = the number of edges - Number of nodes + 2x(no: of ...
Software as a Service (SaaS)
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The software is provided on demand, as a service. The provider issues the licence for the application to the users
as an ondemand service.
Advantages
1. Reuced investment.
2. less fee on licence
3. Easy maintance by the provider (as it is hosted in the providers host)
4. Faster releases and updates.
5. Scalable, Multi user ...
What is Computer Software
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Written programs, procedures or rules and its associated documentations pertaining to the operation of a computer system and that are stored and retreived from the read or write memory of the computer
Types of software
1. System software
2. Programming Software
3. Application Software
References
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