Test Team Responsibilities
- 1. Quality Assurance / Software Testing Training Test Team Responsibilities
- 2. Page 2Classification: Restricted Agenda • Defect/Bugs in Software Testing • Quality Team Roles and Responsibilities • Career options available for a Test Engineer • Testing documentation • Testing Fundamentals • Testing Certification
- 3. Page 3Classification: Restricted Defect/Bugs in Software Testing Bug: A bug is a fault in a program which causes it to behave abruptly. Bugs are usually found either during unit testing done by developer of module testing by testers. Defect: A defect is found when the application does not conform to the requirement specification. A defect can also be found when the client or user is testing. Example: According to newspaper stories in mid-2001, a major systems development contractor was fired and sued over problems with a large retirement plan management system. According to the reports, the client claimed that system deliveries were late, the software had excessive defects, and it caused other systems to crash. Bugs in software supporting a large commercial high-speed data network affected 70,000 business customers over a period of 8 days in August of 1999. Among those affected was the electronic trading system of the largest U.S. futures exchange, which was shut down for most of a week as a result of the outages.
- 5. Page 5Classification: Restricted Quality Team Roles and Responsibilities Quality Manager Provides leadership and is responsible for overseeing day-to-day test preparation and execution activities, including resource scheduling, team communications and status reporting as well as promoting and overseeing use of established best practices, policies, and procedures. Liaison between Test Team and the Business Stakeholder(s). Quality Lead Responsible for the results of Testing and the use of good testing practices for their assigned focus area as well as coordinating the testing effort including scripted and functional testing and managing the setup and assignment of the tests using Testing Management tools. Tester(s) Responsible for validating the test basis, designing and developing test cases/scripts and data sets, executing tests, and reporting and diagnosing defects as well as quality assurance of the tests cases and test execution.
- 6. Page 6Classification: Restricted Career options available for a Test Engineer
- 8. Page 8Classification: Restricted Testing documentation • Test Plan • Test Scenario • Test Case • Traceability Matrix • Test Report
- 9. Page 9Classification: Restricted Testing Fundamentals Testing objectives include • Testing is a process of executing a program with the intent of finding an error. • A good test case is one that has a high probability of finding an as yet undiscovered error. • A successful test is one that uncovers an as yet undiscovered error
- 10. Page 10Classification: Restricted Testing Certification Testing –Certification • Certified Software Test Professional (CSTP) certification • CSTE-Certified Software Test Engineer • ISTQB(International Testing Qualifications Board) • ISEB( Information Systems Examinations Board) • Certified Software Quality Analyst (CSQA) QTP –Certification • QTP Certification • Certification Préparation for HP Quick Test Professional Loadrunner –Certification • HP LoadRunner Certification Testing Management Process –Certification • Certified Software Process Engineer • Certified Quantitative Software Process Engineer
- 12. Page 12Classification: Restricted Assignment - 1 • What is testing and why it is important • Is Testing and QA are same • What is different between Project and Product • Is QA is equivalent to Verification, Why? • Is QC is equivalent to Validation, Why? • If we release product in the market or to customer having issues then what will happened • Quality control activities are focused on identifying defects in the actual products produced; however your boss wants you to identify and define processes that would prevent defects. How would you explain to him to distinguish between QA and QC responsibilities? • What are the categories of defects? • What is the difference between a defect and a failure • Does an increase in testing always improve the project?