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Defect Migration
"Defect Migration" means that error is early project documents lead to errors in later documents. For example, an incorrect requirement leads to an incorrect set of speacifications, which leads to design errors, which leads to coding errors, which lead to failures when we test against user expectations.a. How will you prevent Defect Migration?b. Why do you think preventing Defect Migration is important?
kurtz182
- Dec 5th, 2009
The term "defect migration" represents the concept that errors introduced in early phases of projects are perpetuated in later phases of projects and as these errors migrate to later phases,...
mathan_vel
- May 26th, 2009
a) Reviews are the best way to uncover defects early in SDLC, though it is costly. Project Manager failing to justify the review that needs to be scheduled allows the defects to get migrated.b...
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Appropriate Bug Value
How many bugs occured will be considerd appropriate over 1000 steps when inspecting software? Describle an approriate Bug value.
kurtz182
- Dec 1st, 2009
This is a useful metric to consider when assessing the quality of software development. In the book "Code Complete" by Steve McConnell, there is a section that describes industry avera...
mathan_vel
- Mar 14th, 2009
Bug Rate or Bug Value are not be Constant. Its depend full and fully on the overall quality basis. If the Quality is bad the bug rate is more. If the Quality is good and high, the bug rate is very low...
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Legacy Retirement Initiative
What are precautions to be observed while replacing legacy system with updated environment?
jimmy_vaswani
- Sep 21st, 2009
While changing from OLD sys to new one, we need to perform some testings:Parallel testing: Both the sys are run parallel and results of both of them are matched, if the results are same and appropriate of the old and new system, old is taken over by new.
smita_jain78
- Jan 22nd, 2009
Enure the hardware compalibility of the new installations.The staff has undergone for the proper training about new system to take them into confidence.To check the ROI study with the new setup
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What is your experience with change control? Our development team has only 10 members. Do you think managing change is such a big deal for us?
goksn
- Aug 28th, 2009
For change control, we need to see two sidesImpact within the project (among the modules within the project)Impact within the other projects of the organization (If applicable).For any change control ...
Neha_Varshneya
- Oct 8th, 2007
If you have a proper change management control process planned for your project it shouldn't be a big deal then. This process should be planned at the very beginning of the project itself. So, if ...
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How do you go about going into a new organization? How do you assimilate?
goksn
- Aug 28th, 2009
My assimilation is two fold-Organizationwise-ProjectwiseOrganization:-I will learn the organizational culture and try to merge with it.Project:-I will learn the project, so that I can be productive as soon as possible.
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Do you support automated testing? Why?
goksn
- Aug 28th, 2009
The question is very generic. The answer is "It depends upon the context and the nature of the project".Automation of the test execution is possible if- If it is really a value addition by s...
sandy
- Jun 4th, 2005
Yes i support automation because it simulates user actions.
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Our software designers use UML for modeling applications. Based on their use cases, we would like to plan a test strategy. Do you agree with this approach or would this mean more effort for the testers.
goksn
- Aug 28th, 2009
I agree with this approach. Based on UML diagrams, deriving test plan, ensuring test coverage is easier than w/o any diagram.But the pre-requisite for this, is to make sure that the UML diagrams are valid according to use cases (requirements).
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What do you like about computers?
ashishks
- Aug 26th, 2009
I like computer because of the follwing reasons:1. Innovative2. Dynamic3. Flexible4. Usable
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What problem you have right now or in the past? How you solved it?
ashishks
- Aug 26th, 2009
First of all, what kind of problem you are talking about?Anyways, what i can tell you is that you always believe in the fact "IMPOSSIBLE IS NOTHING" and "NOTHING IS PERMANENT".So do your best and give your 100%, at profession and person life.
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Aspects of Code Review
Define and explain any three aspects of code review?
mathan_vel
- Aug 14th, 2009
Code review is systematic examination (often as peer review) of computer source code intended to find and fix mistakes overlooked in the initial development phase, improving both the overall quality o...
goksn
- Aug 13th, 2009
Code review should be unbiased (should not be against the programmer)Code review should cover the following aspects also, -Security -Perform...
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Are systems or applications available to manage software testing?
It's commonly known that software testing is an important part of software development process. Lot of team members could be involved in the testing process and team members could be spread across different locations... may be different countries. In such cases how is the show managed? How do team members keep track of bugs and corrections and reports and progress made? Do companies use special softwares...
goksn
- Aug 13th, 2009
There are many commercial and open source tools (both client server based and web based) are available @ market.For e.g. Bugzilla, a web based bug tracking tool when we deploy @ at one app server , ca...
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Testing Text Tabular File
In a text tabular file, how would you check that the second column contains only even numbers?
goksn
- Aug 13th, 2009
This can be achieved by using any one of the following scripting language likeJava scriptVB ScriptPerletc.A generalized algorithm can be,-Open file-Set the delimeter as tab-Take the second column using the delimeter-Check the value
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What is Clear Quest?
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What is the role of the test group vis-a-vis documentation, tech support, and so forth?
mathan_vel
- Jun 20th, 2009
The role of Test Group is nothing but the role of the Testing Team The Test Lead / Manager is responsible for: Defining and implementing the role testing plays within the organizational structure.Defi...
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Have you done exploratory or specification-driven testing?
mathan_vel
- Jun 10th, 2009
Yes, i done both the Exploratory and Specification-Driven Testing in my careerI assigned for a project, which is a new Technology "Cold Fusion", Testing methodology is same but the technolog...
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How do you get programmers to build testability support into their code?
mathan_vel
- Jun 9th, 2009
This can be done by Initial checking of the Build (Sanity & smoke Testing).Sanity test is a very brief run-through of the functionality of a computer program, system, calculation, or other analysis, t...
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Should every business test its software the same way?
mathan_vel
- Jun 9th, 2009
No, According to the different business rules and model, the tester approach would differ.
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What are some of the typical bugs you encountered in your last assignment?
mathan_vel
- Jun 9th, 2009
1. Password Validation (Force Password, supplied space in field accepted)2. Vulnerability Assessment (Child Window not closed after the parent window Closed/logoff)3. SQL Injection (Page shows the cod...
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Do you know of metrics that help you estimate the size of the testing effort?
mathan_vel
- Jun 5th, 2009
Metrics-Based Approach:A useful approach is to track past experience of an organization's various projects and the associated test effort that worked well for projects. Once there is a set of data...
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What is the criteria used for selecting tools
What is the criteria used for selecting tools is.....1)Management aspect 2) Quick fix solution3)Sop gap management 4)Reduction in staff level
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