Software test tool

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Product Type: Automated software testing

Target User: QA Tester/Developer

IT Problem: TestComplete is a comprehensive test automation solution for functional, regression, unit and load testing. Includes visual and scripted test generation and robust test management. Tests Windows 98-Vista, .NET, WPF, Delphi, Java, and Web applications.
IT Download Description: This IT download offers a complete solution, known as TestComplete, for automated functional, regression, unit, distributed and HTTP performance testing. Designed for use by developers and non-developers alike, TestComplete offers visual as well as programmatic ways to create robust automated software testing projects in any of 5 object-oriented scripting languages. It includes built-in data-driven, white-box testing and robust test management and supports testing of Win32, .NET, WPF, Java and Web applications on all versions of Windows from 98 to Vista.

Software test tools

Test strategy questions

Interesting article on InformIT about the value of test strategies. Worth taking a look at. The extract below looks at the questions a test strategy should answer.

At the beginning of a software project, there are usually more questions and unknowns than answers. A long list of questions comes to mind at this stage, and working through the strategy helps to answer such questions. The test strategy should address at least the following major areas:

• Scope. What do you need to test? It can be just as important to communicate what won’t be tested as what will be tested. Sometimes scope can help to answer the question, "To what extent do we test?"
• Resources. Who is on the test team? Who is available to test? This information defines the testing resources. Sometimes the resources are unknown at the planning stage; perhaps resources are yet to be hired or will be outsourced. In these cases, it’s important to identify where resources are needed.
• Skill set. What testing skills are needed for each component (or functional area) to be tested? Instead of planning testing based on who you have on staff, consider what skills the project needs, and determine from that information whether you need to add different skill sets and resources to your team.
• Test environment. What environment will you use to test? Sometimes a test environment already exists, so the question seems extraneous. But sometimes this is one of the most difficult questions to resolve because the environment doesn’t exist, or the current environment isn’t adequate for the project.
• Test data. What data will you use to test? Do you need a sampling of production data? (Can you even get your hands on a sampling of production data?) Sometimes a snapshot of production data is the normal fare for the test environment. Sometimes getting test data into the environment is one of the largest challenges for the project.
• Volume. Do you need a volume of data? Planning for volume data often gets pushed aside until later in the project. But if this volume data is overlooked, resources and testing might be planned without appropriately considering volume and variety of test data.
• Timeframes. When do you expect to get the first build to the test team? Timeline questions can be complicated to resolve early in the planning. High-level first-pass estimates are sometimes the best you can do. The advantage of early estimations isn’t focusing on specific dates, but rather planning ideas about how and what prerequisites might be needed to accomplish testing.
• Defect process. What’s the process for reporting defects? Do you have a defect-reporting tool? Who can report a defect? You may have a well-established process but need to change it for this specific project. You may not have a process at all. If you need to build a new process or tool, I recommend referencing the process or tool in your test strategy document, but writing a separate document to address the defect process details.
• Risk. What areas hold the most risk? When you peel back a product and investigate its core components, each component evolves into its own intriguing story, in which the number and types of tests begin to unfold in your mind. And with those test ideas, associated risks and impact come to light, which feeds back into the strategic planning.

Software testing UK market

Test manager job

If you're a test manager and you are looking for statistics about test management jobs then you could visit the Jobs Watch site

As well as lots of information about trends in number of test manager job vacancies advertised (which is slightly down on the same period last year) and average test management job salaries (which is slightly up on the same period last year) there is more detailed data. Did you know that nearly half (48.02%) of all jobs listed were for test management roles in the UK were in London? Or that ISEB was mentioned in nearly a third (29.67%) of jobs for test managers.

It also covers other attributes in the descriptions of the job vacancies posted, such as methods and processes, vendors, system software, applications, development technologies, compliance and QA, programming languages (?) and qualifications. I was not surprised to see that only 0.027% of all test manager roles cited a need for MiFID experience whereas Sarbanes Oxley was mentioned in 0.43% of jobs. That's 16 times as many. Either way its good to see regulation is still a fringe area in test management.

Quality Assurance and Testing

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