What are you going to do if there is no Functional Spec or any documents related to the system and developer who wrote the code does not work in the company anymore, but you have system and need to test?

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Priya

  • Oct 10th, 2005
 

I faced this situation in one of my projects. When testing, I need to follow the test cases. So I found the testcase not relevant and raised a defect that the application is not as per the test case. Then the developer came up with resolution step by step. But evertime he finds the actual functionality we made sure all the steps are documented in the defect. So when the developer left, I did'nt have a problem preparing a actual functional document, get approval from business and updating the test set.

SohanKarim

  • Oct 25th, 2005
 

First of all, when a developer left then another one in or someone assigned to take care of the responsibilities.Most of the functional testing needs more knowledge about the product then the code. Be familiarize with the code. Research similar product in the market. Increase communication with related person. Customer support person can be a source of knowledge and of course developer.

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Pankaja

  • Feb 27th, 2006
 

At this stage i would perform somethg called as "Exploratory testing". Just explore the system, find out the approximate funtionality of the system.

This can be done in the initial stag, 1ce this is approved by the Team lead, we can continue xploring the system indepth.

Also we can take feedback from the existing developers, who work on the module closely related with this module.

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BujjiRaji

  • Jun 24th, 2006
 

Hai to u all,

               If have no Functional Spec's from the client.No need to Test the application.That's it.

Mns:- 1.We will prepare the Test cases according to the Spec's Only.With out having those how we could come to know conditions specified byclient.

So,no need to test the application...

                                     Bye Raji

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pavanswapna

  • Sep 15th, 2006
 

1.Testers job is to test the application. So when Functional and related documents are not there, we should do 'Exploratory Testing' means explore the application, try to understand the applications functionality by giving all valid, invalid conditions. Then write the test cases. Have discussions with Tl and developers, send it for review. Modify the Test cases according to the review comments.

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