#TestCoverage

[anusha-g]

What is the importance of test data in automation testing?

Test data is crucial in automation testing for several reasons:

Repeatability and Consistency: Automation tests need consistent and repeatable data to ensure that test cases produce the same results each time they are executed. Having predefined test data allows testers to achieve this consistency.

Coverage: Test data helps ensure that various scenarios are covered during testing. By providing different sets of data, testers can validate different paths and conditions within the application, improving the overall test coverage.

Boundary Testing: Test data often includes boundary values that help in testing the extremes of input ranges. This is important for identifying potential issues at the edges of acceptable input, such as minimum and maximum values.

Error Handling: Automation tests need to verify how the system handles different types of data, including erroneous or invalid input. Test data can include intentionally incorrect or unexpected values to test error handling and recovery mechanisms.

Performance Testing: In some cases, test data is used to simulate real-world scenarios and loads, helping in performance testing. For example, data representing peak loads can be used to evaluate system performance under stress.

Regression Testing: When updates or changes are made to the application, having a set of predefined test data allows for easy regression testing. Testers can quickly rerun tests with the same data to ensure that new changes do not introduce unexpected behavior or regressions.

Data-Driven Testing: Automation frameworks often support data-driven testing, where test scripts are executed with different sets of input data. Test data drives these tests, allowing for efficient testing of multiple scenarios without duplicating test code.

Security Testing: Test data can also include sensitive information like passwords, user credentials, or personal data. Automation tests can verify the security of the system by testing how it handles and protects such sensitive data.

[waltervills]

A frequently asked interview question : When do you stop testing? | SDET UNICORNS

Discover the perfect answer to the common interview question: "When do you stop testing?" With SDET UNICORNS, gain insights into testing strategies, criteria, and best practices to determine when testing should be concluded. Learn about test coverage, quality thresholds, and decision-making factors. Prepare yourself to tackle this critical question with confidence and impress your interviewers!

[testcompass]

Testing complex products no longer has to be difficult. With the ‘early Model Based Testing’ (eMBT) tool TestCompass you can automate the visualization of mental models and immediately gain more control over your testing processes.

👉 Early Exploration

In TestCompass you can easily and intuitively create a visual model of your requirements/SUT, allowing you to quickly learn about the functionality, structure, and dependencies of the product.

👉 Model Validation

TestCompass highlights areas where your model may fall short. This gives you the opportunity to critically evaluate and continuously improve your model.

👉 New Test Ideas

The visualizations from TestCompass intuitively help you discover new test ideas. As you create or study the model, you’ll naturally encounter areas that require further investigation.

👉 Shared Understanding

Use the automated visualizations to discuss the model with the business or team. By reviewing the model together, you uncover blind spots, gain new insights, respond to feedback, and create a shared understanding.

👉 Risk-Based

Based on the visualized model, TestCompass automatically generates test cases, aligned with a pre-selected test coverage level (from high to low). This allows for targeted and effective testing exactly where it’s needed.

👉 Impact After Changes

If there are changes in the requirements, no problem. TestCompass analyzes the potential impact on the model/test cases and shows where adjustments may be required.

With TestCompass you can design, improve, and visualize your tests faster and more accurately. Maximize your Model Based Testing and stay one step ahead of issues!

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[davidtimes]

When to Stop Testing: A Crucial Question in Software QA Interviews | SDET Unicorns

Join SDET Unicorns as we explore the crucial question of "When to stop testing?" in software QA interviews. Discover expert insights, industry best practices, and decision-making strategies to determine the optimal point to conclude testing cycles. Stay tuned to gain a deeper understanding of test coverage, risk assessment, exit criteria, and more. Ace your software QA interviews with confidence! 💼🎯

#SDETUnicorns #SoftwareQAInterviews #TestingStrategies #TestCompletionCriteria #RiskAssessment #TestCoverage #QualityAssurance #DecisionMaking #InterviewPreparation #TestingInsights

[rkvalidate11]

Everything you need to know about code coverage tools and its advantages ,its disadvantage . How to to select code coverage tool ?

[codegrip-blog]

Test Coverage v/s Code Coverage

A product is not successful unless it serves the purpose of a business. How can you determine its viability then? A well-documented coding and techniques are not immune to human errors, thus leading to the rejection of the product. As a result, it wastes your efforts, time, and resources and above all glaring from clients.

However, thorough testing methodologies can do the tricks and ensure the effectiveness of coding. Unit testing does not always come up to your expectations and offer better testing of a product. Instead of regarding this, go with Test Coverage and Code Coverage. These two are the most comprehensive and popular testing techniques to ensure the efficacy of codes and high product quality. Let’s understand these two coding phenomena by combing their differences and specifications.          

Overview: Test Coverage and Code Coverage

Test Coverage and Code coverage are measurement metrics to ease the assessment of the quality of application codes. Code coverage is used during the application is run to determine the exercise of application code. Test coverage applies to the overall test. But, both these metrics are useful and significant for developers to ensure the quality of the application efficiently.

Definition:

What is Code Coverage?

It refers to both manual and automation testing for test cases that cover the number of codes. The metrics of this type of test aims at measuring the total lines of codes and also a number of lines. The primary objective of this metric is to reduce the probabilities of bug attacks through increased length of code coverage.

To run this test, you either use the Selenium framework or any other automated framework.

What is Test Coverage?

This is a test type to ensure the functional quality of a product involving software requirement specifications and other required documents. So, test coverage is something beyond codes, rather it is concentrated on user requirements or purpose-built for expected functionality.

Ways You Can Perform Code Coverage

There are different ways you can run code coverage. You can focus on the following subtypes.

Branch coverage:

Referred to as decision coverage, it makes use of logical branches to be assessed in your code for decision-making with every existing branch. For example, if you use some variables for cross browsing compatibility testing, it is critical to ensuring you use all of the variables using adequate inputs.

Statement coverage:

This includes corner or boundary cases. These codes are the smallest units to be executable only once.

Function coverage:

It refers to a number of functions that are susceptible to be tested, for say exported functions/APIs.

Line coverage:

This is simple. It means a number of lines your code coverage has evaluated.

Ways To Perform Test Coverage

Like code coverage, Test coverage also includes several testing mechanisms. However, which test coverage is important is based upon business propositions.

Unit Testing:

This is referred to as unit testing since it is carried out at a module or unit level. This aims at assessing bug encounters which may differ from the mechanism executed during the integration level.

Functional Testing:

This metric is undertaken to comply with the Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS).

Integration Testing:

Also referred to as a system testing for software is tested on a system level. During the integration of all the necessary modules, this testing is executed.

Acceptance Testing  

This is what confirms the acceptability of the final product by end-users. Acceptance testing is kind of a green signal for developers that accelerates the product launch prior to making the final code changes.

Other than these subtypes, some important test coverage is Features Coverage, Risks Coverage, and Requirement Coverage.

Pros of Code Coverage

It improves the effectiveness of test code and provides you ways to enhance the performance of coverage

Regardless of what tool is being used (open-source or something else), implementing the code coverage tool takes less time

Detects bugs in the program flow, thus improving the code quality

Pros Of Test Coverage

Part of black-box testing techniques, it does not interact much with code itself. Yet, it tests software features and maintains compliance with the requirement specifications of the product results. Hence, the isolation between tests and codes offers a straightforward testing approach.

It measures software performance and capability, thus fitting well into acceptance tests.

Characterized by black-box, it does not require much expertise to execute.

Shortcomings of Test Coverage

It is a manual approach rather than being an automated methodology. It takes time and effort to assess and build test cases.

No concrete tool is available to measure its coverage. It is a manual task that requires testing coverage against the number of tests. Hence, it is vulnerable to judgmental errors.

Shortcomings of Code Coverage

Tools used in this methodology apply to Unit test only. It necessitates checking with every test type.

No easy availability of improved code coverage tools

It is tough to comply with the available tool with your project even it is a good coverage tool

Conclusion

Software development looks for a systematic approach these days to ensure the viability and accessibility of the product. This ensures testing completeness and effectiveness of the product in the release stage.

And here test coverage and code coverage seem to be valuable for organizations. With code coverage being a white-box approach while test code being a black-box approach, you need to determine your testing requirement depending on your product specifications. Before you assign with any of the testing methodologies, forget not to decide upon your resources and tentative deadline. After all, it is indeed crucial how you can maximize your effort and resources while achieving a higher level of product satisfaction.

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Feature/22 testcoverage (#opensource GitHub repo cs-util-com/cscore) Details at https://t.co/2ShPHbXwa1 pic.twitter.com/bV36khr0VE

— CsUtil.com (@csutil_com) August 11, 2019

From http://twitter.com/csutil_com/status/1160473961878175744

[qathoughtleaders]

How Are You Managing Your Test Debt?

How Are You Managing Your Test Debt? As testers, how do we create a balance and stay at the right test-debt quotient? With short sprints sometimes spanning just a few days.. read more at: https://www.techwell.com/techwell-insights/2018/10/how-are-you-managing-your-test-debt @QAInfoTech #Testing #QualityAssurance #TestManagement #TestAutomation #TestCoverage

[waltervills]

The Testing Pyramid Demystified: Conquer Test Automation Today #shorts

In this engaging #shorts session, we demystify the Testing Pyramid and provide practical guidance on test automation. Learn how to strike the right balance between unit tests, integration tests, and end-to-end tests. Explore strategies for faster feedback cycles and improved test coverage. Conquer test automation challenges and elevate your software quality assurance process today!

[testcompass]

Would you like to know more about 'Model Based Testing'? Are you curious about how you can automatically support the BDD requirements discovery practices 'Discovery' and 'Formulation'?

Do you want to know how 'collaborative modeling' can optimize your testing process or how you can automate your test design in a structured way and gain insight into the achieved test coverage?

Do you want to quickly and easily gain insight into the impact on your tests after a change in the test basis? Are you looking for a way to quickly explore and test your requirements from the start or to communicate clearly about the automatically generated test ideas, etc?

Discover TestCompass's very easy to use 'early Model Based Testing' (eMBT) and Behavior Driven Development (BDD) supported solution and follow the page of TestCompass here on Linkedin for the latest updates and innovations!

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[davidtimes]

When to Stop Testing: A Crucial Question in Software QA Interviews

When to stop testing?" - It's a crucial question often asked in software QA interviews. Dive into this insightful discussion where experts shed light on the factors to consider when determining the end of testing cycles. Learn about risk-based testing, test coverage, exit criteria, and other key indicators that help make informed decisions. Enhance your understanding and be prepared to tackle this question confidently in your next interview!

#SoftwareTesting #QAInterviews #TestingStrategies #TestCompletionCriteria #RiskBasedTesting #TestCoverage #QualityAssurance #TestingDecisions #InterviewPreparation #TestingInsights

[kodefuguru]

The Value of Test Coverage

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[testcompass]

👉 In TestCompass you can draw a graphical model in a very user-friendly and intuitive way. The used model has a high level of abstraction and is readable for both business and technical stakeholders. This stimulates communication and collaboration, the key to a shared understanding. From there you can generate the minimum set of tests fully automatically based on a pre-selected test coverage, from weak to strong.

💡 And if the model is incomplete (open ends, missing nodes, wrong sequence, missing connections, etc), you will automatically receive a notification. This makes this entire process in TestCompass a real exploration of the proposed requirements.

Curious how this works? Try it yourself with the free trial version👇

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[testcompass]

👉 In TestCompass you can draw a graphical model in a very user-friendly and intuitive way. The used model has a high level of abstraction and is readable for both business and technical stakeholders. This stimulates communication and collaboration, the key to a shared understanding. From there you can generate the minimum required set of scripted algorithmic tests fully automatically based on a pre-selected test coverage, from weak to strong.

💡 And if the model is incomplete (open ends, incomplete, missing connections, etc), you will automatically receive a notification. This makes this entire modeling process in TestCompass a real exploration of the proposed requirements.

Curious how this works? Try it yourself with the free trial version👇

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#exploratory #earlyfeedback #testdesign #testcoverage #easytouse #freetrial #testmodel #requirements #collaboration #communication #testing #collaborativemodeling #modelchecking #sharedunderstanding

[testcompass]

👉 In TestCompass you can draw a graphical model in a very user-friendly and intuitive way. The used model has a high level of abstraction and is readable for both business and technical stakeholders. This stimulates communication and collaboration, the key to a shared understanding. From there you can generate the minimum set of test procedures fully automatically based on a pre-selected test coverage, from weak to strong.

💡 And if the model is incomplete (open ends, missing nodes, wrong sequence, missing connections, etc), you will automatically receive a notification. This makes this entire process in TestCompass a real exploration of the proposed requirements.

Curious how this works? Try it yourself with the free trial version👇

🕸️ https://lnkd.in/gEq7XUZ

#exploratory #earlyfeedback #testdesign #testcoverage #easytouse #freetrial #testmodel #requirements #collaboration #communication #testing #collaborativemodeling #modelchecking #sharedunderstanding