Archive for April, 2009

QA in Agile world

I have seen a few times lately these two words together : Agile and QA.

It seems clients are still equaling QA to testing, and are pushing the testing tasks out from the the agile development team to a separate QA team. To my understanding, this is contrary to to the agile values.

I would understand, if the objective was to get an independent Verification and Validation as mandated by a nervous client or a legal requirement. But that was not the case.

My opinion is that functional and non-functional requirements (like capacity, performance, maintainability, robustness, conformance, …) should be all put in the backlog and developed according to the user’s priorities

I can see the contribution of a QA expert in helping the user, the Scrum Master and dev team elicit the non functional requirements, and maybe in setting up automated build and test environments (and quality culture). But never running a QA team separate from the dev teams. Am I wrong?

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Need suggestion for functional test over Flash (adobe)

Looking for a tool that recognizes Flash objects (not Flex)? I was researching and there is a plug in for Mercury (HP) and another for Rational (IBM) but it really is for Flex, not for Flash.

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Proving the value of Performance Testing?

I need to demonstrate the value of automated Performance Testing to the management team.
How do you prove the value of problems avoided?
You would never load test thousands of concurrent users manually, so it’s not as straightforward as functional regression testing where you can measure manual testing hours avoided though automation.
Does anybody has a case study to demonstrate the value?

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What is TEMPO standard?

The Russian TEMP partnership is really promoting GxP knowledge (in collaboration with RASP) in Russsian Federation but doesn’t seem to establish any new or modified standards. And in this site I didn’t find any mentioning of TEMPO standards or change procedures. And in the specification for the position I mentioned before it so directly required as a crucial skill: a candidate should be an expert in TEMPO change request procedure. Looks like some internal document management and/or workflow management system/methodology.

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I am looking for test case management tool

I am looking for test case management tool which is free available and should have a capacity of maintaining around 3 to 4 thousands test case easily. (Here my concern is Speed).

Please guide me if any one has any idea about it.

http://www.testingfaqs.org/

http://www.opensourcetesting.org/

http://www.qalinks.com/Tools/

http://www.aptest.com/resources.html

http://www.softwareqatest.com/qattls1.html

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Training for HP products

Founded in 2005 by a group of Software Quality Assurance Engineers, SQA Solution is your global partner in Software Quality Assurance and Release/ Configuration Management training. We offer a wide range of services that will improve the quality of your engineers and save your budget to fulfill other software/ hardware needs. We provide on site QuickTest (QTP), Quality Center, Web Application Security Assessment using WebInspect, Performance Center, LoadRunner and WinRunner trainings. We tailor our training to your needs. Our trainers are certified professionals all with at least 15 years experience teaching and consulting.

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What would be the right approach or main reasons when convincing a client to switch from the classic waterfall to Agile? What would be his main benefits (business wise)?

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Are handwritten and E-Signatures allowed on the same document??

Hello everyone, I have a question.
Is it allowed to use handwritten and E-Signatures on the same document, in terms of Part 11? Are there any restrictions? And if it is allowed, could you please provide me the answer with a reference?

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Automation ROI Calculator

http://www.aspiresys.com/testautomationroi/

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Share your expierence with FitNesse as Acceptance test tool in the Agile environment

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