RE: Quality Assurance testing
- From: <Nick.Adamson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 09:05:44 +0100
Hi Robbie.
It depends on what is meant by QA testing. I've found that in different
places it can mean different things.
If it's independent black box testing, Where you have a set of product
requirements and you have to devise a set of tests and run them to
ensure the product meets the requirements, or white box testing, where
you generally have the design and source code and have to go in and test
the individual components.
I've done a bit of both although mostly I'm a developer so don't do much
of the independent test stuff. Depending on how rigorous the process you
have to follow is will depend on the type of tools you use. On some of
the safety critical stuff we work on here we try to automate as much as
we can so the tests can be ran over and over again.
In the past I've used test director. This was a web front end so was
mostly accessible. This tool allows you to document your test procedure
and then input your results. We use this for black box testing.
I've used LDRA Testbed. This is for white box testing, mostly at the
unit and class level. This was pretty accessible to, although not the
most user friendly of tools.
I've also used IBM rational purify which tests code for memory leaks and
dynamic code type testing. That's pretty accessible too.
A lot of this stuff also depends on weather its just software or
software and hardware your testing.
It sounds like you need to gather a little more information on exactly
what you'll be doing before we can give you any real advice.
Hope this gives you some ideas.
Nick.
-----Original Message-----
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Robbie
Miller
Sent: 07 April 2009 18:11
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Quality Assurance testing
Chris, I have no idea how they intend to have me do the QA testing. I
have no idea what tools they will have me to use or how they want me to
use them.
I know it sounds crazy, but they are pushing this at me.
I'm not sure what to do.
Robbie
millerrobbie@xxxxxxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
From: Chris Hofstader <mailto:cdh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 4:57 PM
Subject: Re: Quality Assurance testing
For whom will you be testing? What testing tools do they use?
Will you be doing invasive tests that insert test code into the program
itself or will you be doing user side testing where you run the program
through a formal set of tests that hope to find every code path?
Lastly, will you be using automated testing tools and working to analyze
the results?
cdh
On Apr 6, 2009, at 3:57 PM, Robbie Miller wrote:
Listers, I'm being offered theopportunity to do Quality
Assurance testing (QA testing).
Has anyone on this list done this kind of work before?
Are the testing tools accessible?
Any advice on this matter would be greatly appreciated.
Robbie
millerrobbie@xxxxxxxxxxx
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