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Quality assurance using IBM Ignite Quality Platform

IBM Ignite Platform

QA is a vital phase in the software development lifecycle, verifying that software fulfills quality standards before release. QA is a systematic approach of discovering, preventing, and correcting issues throughout the development process.

But there are a number of issues in the QA field that impact defect volume, test case automation, and test case inventory. The huge number of test cases might make managing the inventory difficult and result in inefficiencies and resource shortages. Test case automation is useful, but it may also present difficulties when it comes to choosing the right instances, ensuring adequate upkeep, and obtaining thorough coverage. Software quality and release schedules are impacted by defect volume, which is a constant source of worry.

To overcome these obstacles, a careful and proactive strategy is needed to reduce the number of errors in the QA process, maximize the efficacy of automation, and simplify test cases. Delivering high-quality software solutions that satisfy user expectations and industry requirements requires striking a balance between these factors.

IBM Ignite testing Test case optimization must be the main priority if test case volume is to be decreased. In order to cover different situations, this method entails finding duplicate or overlapping test cases and unifying them. It’s crucial to prioritize test cases according to crucial features and possible hazards in order to maximize testing efficiency. By maximizing coverage without sacrificing quality, teams may also direct resources where they are most needed by using risk-based testing. Careful design and ongoing maintenance may improve the efficacy of test case automation.

Another approach is to carefully choose the test cases for automation, emphasizing crucial, time-consuming, and repeated circumstances. Automated test scripts must also be updated on a regular basis to ensure their relevance and dependability in the face of application changes. Implementing strong testing approaches, such as shift-left testing, where testing activities are started earlier in the development process, is a proactive response to faults. To find and fix bugs early, development and testing teams should emphasize cooperation, use tools for static analysis, and conduct comprehensive code reviews.

All of this is provided by IBM via The IBM IGNITE Quality Platform (IQP), a DevOps-enabled single sign-on platform that optimizes testing using proprietary techniques and AI capabilities. The platform introduces shift left strategies that support an organization’s end-to-end testing lifecycle by accelerating automation with healing capabilities and predicting and preventing problems. These approaches also lead to high-quality delivery.

IBM Ignite tool Handle: Supported by an integrated platform that centrally and in one location controls several tenants, users, apps, projects, and all the functional and technical settings required for the testing process. It also encourages the quality plan journey, which lowers faults as its goal. Additionally, it incorporates several third-party connectors, including top git-based repositories, test and defect tools, and cloud-based web and mobile testing tools, as well as quality suggestions that come from other components.

Optimize: Aimed to bring in a shift left in revealing faults early and provide the best possible collection of testcases with 100% coverage.

Requirement analytics (RA): A natural language processing (NLP) tool for requirements analysis that drives in shift left, finds ambiguities, and assesses complexity. Additionally, it helps identify important features for the optimization journey in a semi-automated manner.

Search Tag & Model (STAM) Using a text-based analytics tool called Search Tag & Model (STAM), users may quickly analyze a large number of pre-existing tests to find redundancies and pinpoint important characteristics for the optimization process.

Optimization (TO): A tool based on the Combinatorial Test Design Methodology that facilitates the creation of an optimized test plan with the greatest possible coverage using YAML, relational data, existing tests, and current requirements. incorporates ideas of functional context modeling and attribute pooling for reusability.

IBM Ignite test automation The goal was to swiftly create, automate, and run many unattended tests on a range of platforms, data, and settings.

Assists in producing TO model-based and nonmodel-based tests that are prepared for both automated and manual testing (Test Generation, TG). Additionally, it facilitates the rapid conversion of bespoke Selenium-based frameworks to IQP-specific automation, automated BDD script development using recording mechanisms, and custom BDD generation for client-based frameworks. Optimized Test Flow Automation (OTFA) is a scriptless test automation framework based on Cucumber that supports the automation of Web, Mobile, REST, and SOAP-based applications. It integrates Jmeter-based performance testing with visual testing and has an integrated test healing feature.

Analyze Skilled in comprehending the defect patterns of a client, cognitive test components facilitate speedier defect resolution, provide insight, and forecast potential issues. These predictions lead to preventative advice that may be used to both Agile and conventional engagements. Better planning and fewer test cycles are also facilitated by its failure prediction capacity.

Defect Classify (IDC) is a plug-in solution that enables automated defect assignment and categorization while on the move, facilitating quicker defect analysis and resolution. Defect Analytics (IDA): Designed with the defect reduction approach in mind, this tool comprehends the flaws’ semantics and offers preventive advice to further minimize them. In order to improve test management and planning, Defect Predict (IDP) evaluates and forecasts the trend of defects in a test cycle. IBM’s unique methods to automation

IBM is prioritize optimization over automation as part of their multiple shift-left methodology approach to reduce the waste snowball effect. IBM make use of a contemporary framework that integrates low-code techniques and supports behavior-driven development (BDD). IBM methodology encompasses a thorough automation of Web, Mobile, API, and SOAP-based applications, which is smoothly combined with performance testing.

Their approach is to carefully integrate every function into the DevOps pipeline, encouraging a unified and effective development lifecycle, all while adhering to the continuous testing concept. Beyond this, they also support Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions and cloud deployment, promoting scalability, flexibility, and accessibility in a quickly changing technological environment.

Proof of the effectiveness of the IGNITE Quality and Test IBM’s main goal is to provide their customers with measurable value by strategically minimizing testing requirements and while fostering client trust. IBM’s multi-technical experience allows them to provide a full and adaptable solution that fulfills their clients’ needs. IBM consistent results and client trust have reinforced their market leadership and dedication to meaningful solutions.

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Did you know that with our 'early Model Based Testing (eMBT) solution TestCompass you can enrich the details of each node and test idea in your graphical model with specific test data and preconditions?

Now, the automatically generated test cases also include input values, defining different scenarios for testing edges, boundaries, and more! Plus, these details, like test data and preconditions, can be seamlessly exported to the Excel test design.

Are you curious how this works? Then ask for our free demo, and we'll demonstrate how it works using practical examples. After all, we use TestCompass ourselves as well, of course.

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[mindfiresolutions-blog]

SOFTWARE TESTING OF A CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Executive Summary

The CMS being one of the most powerful content management systems on the market today, is now available as a cloud-based, SaaS CMS. Designed for maximum ease of use, the application Cloud offers all the sophisticated features prized by leading organizations and delivers them to you through the cloud. That means there’s no hardware to install or product updates to download. It’s seamlessly handled for you in an infrastructure-free environment.

The initial engagement started the product development, laying the foundation for a long-term relationship including development of next versions in the software product roadmap, along with the development or establishment of supportive and extending tools, solutions, & related services with a motto in mind to simplify Web site development and authoring since its introduction.

About our Client

Client: CMS Solution provider

Location: MA, USA

Industry: Publishing, Print industry

Business Situation

The US firm set out to achieve its primary goal –testing of its internet/web based, workflow-driven content management software through which enterprises could easily perform web content management operations. Although multiple software service providers proposed solutions, Our Software QA testing team’s excellent QA testing solution(s) and strategy stood out, fulfilling the core requirement of Manual Testing in a SaaS-based implementation, and providing a definitive roadmap to deliver various Bug Free product versions.

Our Solution & Customer Benefits

With the client’s intent keeping in mind, Mindfire re-validated all the Wireframes and designed a set of business rules and added the change request in the architecture of the product which opened the gates to update the existing testcases to be more functional than the testcases which the client initially had. Mindfire’s QA team regularly monitored the test cases to track the changes in the functionality of the application and then simultaneously changed it in the test cases as well. Test cases were put on VSS server so that any person involved in the project can easily check-out and check-in the updated testcase at any point of time. QA team also added all fixed issues as part of the test cases which enhanced the test script in uncovering more scenarios. Some important issues were also uncovered when the testers performed functionality/ bug regression/installation and compatibility testing.

Technologies

Languages: ColdFusion, Java, JavaScript, AJAX, XML. Database:  My SQL, MS SQL, Oracle. Mechanisms: – Shared Database, Replication Database And Static Content Generation. Automation: Test Library Automation Framework exposed by XML based interface. Servers: Windows 2003, Linux, Solaris, Railo

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A Beginner’s Guide About: UVM Tutorial

With digital systems becoming complex, verification methodologies are crucial. Earlier, experts could verify digital designs by analysing waveforms and performing manual checks. However, today’s complexity does not allow the same kind of verification. Therefore, the designers are trying to find the best way to automate the process.

The System Verilog language came as a boon for most engineers. It features certain mechanisms like classes, constraints, and cover groups that ease a few aspects of the verification of digital designs. Soon there were inventions of verification methodologies. UVM is one of those methodologies created for automated verification.

What Is UVM?

Released by Accellera, a Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) refers to a standardized methodology that enables faster development and reuse of verification environments and verification IP across the industry. Designers created UVM based on OVM, abbreviated as Open Verification Methodology version 2.1.1, the roots of which lie in the application of the languages IEEE 1800.

UVM is a set of class libraries that designers define using the syntax and semantics of System Verilog (IEEE 1800) and is now an IEEE standard. UVM tutorials help companies develop modular, reusable, and scalable testbench structures through an API framework that organizations deploy across multiple projects. 

UVM verification follows a specific set of verification guidelines when creating a testbench. Through this approach, any verification engineer can develop verification components that are uniform and portable from one project to another. It reduces the effort to develop a new environment and easily modifies any components when required.

UVM Testbench Structure

Enlisted are the components and objects of the UVM testbench.

Test: The class derived from uvm_test represents a testcase that checks the various features of DUT (design-under-test)

Environment: Connected with DUT through the test interface, the uvm_env acts as a model controlling the test environment. 

Driver: It fetches transactions from the sequencer and drives them to DUT via the physical interface.

Agent: It encapsulates everything required to generate the stimulus and monitor any logical connection with DUT. 

Sequencer: It randomizes sequence items and sends them to the driver via TLM exports. It is useful for both sequencers and virtual sequencers.

Sequence Item: It refers to the basic user-defined transactions within a sequence. During the execution of sequences, they generate one or more sequence items passed by the sequencer to the driver’s boundary.

Interface: The interface keeps the communication between DUT and testbench.

Monitor: It detects the transactions on a physical interface and makes them available to other parts of the testbench via an analysis port.

Scoreboard: The UVM scoreboard compares the expected and actual values of various inputs of the DUT signals.

Coverage: Engineers collect the coverage information from the monitor via the analysis port. The component covers the design’s tested and untested scenarios based on design specifications.

Advantages of UVM

The primary advantages of UVM are the following:

·       It separates the test environment from the testbench, making the environment reusable.

·       UVM follows a standard approach in developing a testbench that makes the verification flow consistent.

·       Support transaction level communication using TLM connections.

·       The methodology uses a set of uvm_root library classes that customizes objects and components according to a specific requirement.

Why Choose Maven Silicon for learning UVM?

Maven Silicon emerged as the leading VLSI training centre, offering high-class industry standard VLSI training to novice and experienced engineers across the nation. The industry experts designed the course based on the semiconductor industry's job opportunities and career growth. Candidates choosing these courses can train themselves in design and verification methodologies like RTL design and UVM methodologies, evolving as experts in their fields. Moreover, their unique training procedure helps learners quickly learn the most complex technologies.

[pparn]

Google Drive flags nearly empty files for 'copyright infringement'

Users were left startled as Google Drive's automated detection systems flagged a nearly empty file for copyright infringement.

The file, according to one Drive user, contained nothing other than just the digit "1" within.

Is digit '1' copyrighted? This week, Assistant Professor at Michigan State University, Dr. Emily Dolson, Ph.D. reported seeing some odd behavior when using Google Drive.

One of the files in Dolson's Google Drive, 'output04.txt' was nearly empty—with nothing other than the digit '1' inside it.

But according to Google, this file violated the company's "Copyright Infringement policy" and was hence flagged.

And what's worse is, the warning sent to the professor ended with "A review cannot be requeste for this restriction."

Dolson's file 'output04.txt' was stored at path 'CSE 830 Spring 2022/Testcases/Homework3/Q3/output' in Drive which led the professor to wonder if the file path possibly contributed to the false alarm.

Present on Dolson's "non-educational Google account," the file was among a batch of TXTs containing output generated as part of a homework assignment.

One too many digits A pseudonymous user also shared screenshots of their Google Drive account where files containing just the digit "1"—with or without newline characters, were flagged.

"The 1 byte files contain just '1', the 2-byte file is '1\n', and the 3-byte (not flagged yet) file has '1\r\n'," wrote the user.

google drive copyright violation Files with '1' also flagged by Google Drive for copyright violation (Imgur) And, it turns out the behavior isn't limited to just files containing the digit "1."

Dr. Chris Jefferson, Ph.D., an AI and mathematics researcher at the University of St Andrews, was also able to reproduce the issue when uploading multiple computer-generated files to Drive.

Jefferson generated over 2,000 files, each containing just a number between -1000 and 1000.

The files containing the digits 173, 174, 186, 266, 285, 302, 336, 451, 500, and 833 were shortly flagged by Google Drive for copyright infringement.

Some allege that should the file contain just the digit "0," Google would permanently disable your account, although the outcome more likely applies to users that Google deems to be repeat infringers.

"I deleted the experiment, just in case I got my account deleted for too many naughty numbers," writes Jefferson.

Mikko Ohtamaa, founder of Defi company Capitalgram, alleged that Google's automated style of flagging suspected copyright infringement candidates could be problematic with parts of the GDPR legislation.

Note, however, the GDPR Article 22 aka "automated individual decision-making, including profiling," more specifically refers to making automated decisions about individuals by profiling their online behavior, such as before granting a loan or when making hiring decisions, as explained by UK's ICO.

"I'd have more sympathy if it weren't 'A review cannot be requested for this restriction,'" writes HackerNews user OneLeggedCat. "It's designed to be as brutal and draconian as possible. They chose this. It is guilty until proven innocent, with no recourse."

It isn't known yet what causes this behavior, and BleepingComputer has been unable to reproduce the issue at the time of writing.

In 2018, Google published a detailed document explaining how the company fights piracy. But when specifically talking about Google Drive, the report states a "full-time abuse engineering team" was set up by Google for tackling illegal streams served on Google Drive. As such, not much information is available on how Google's algorithms process non-video content stored on Drive.

BleepingComputer reached out to Google well in advance of publishing with specific questions—such as, whether Google relied on checksums to keep track of copyrighted content and if this behavior rose from a possible hash-collision between copyrighted files and a benign ones sharing the same hash.

We have not heard back from Google at this time. สล็อต pg

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IT---Technical-Test-Lead-|-Automated-Testing-|-Test-automation-framework-design

+Must Have Skills: Selenium, Automation testing, Bigdata testing, Nice to have skills: Agile Cloud testing Detailed Job Description: Selenium automation testing Selenium Automation testing Bigdata testing Agile Cloud testing Able to automate using Selenium Able to coordinate with Client during daily stand up Prepare test scenarios and testcases Minimum years of experience: 8 - 10 years Certifications Needed: No Top 3 responsibilities you would expect the Subcon to shoulder and execute: Able to automate using Selenium Able to coordinate with Client during daily stand up Prepare test scenarios and testcases Interview Process (Is face to face required?) No Does thi... from Job Portal https://jobportals.website/jobdetail.html?id=1506-IT---Technical-Test-Lead-|-Automated-Testing-|-Test-automation-framework-design

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TEST AUTOMATION Job For 4-8 Year Exp In Live Connections Pune - 2153240

TEST AUTOMATION Job For 4-8 Year Exp In Live Connections Pune – 2153240

* Understandthe manual test cases and design/develop automation based on testcases. * Extendand enhance functional, regression, integration, and load/stressautomated test suites. Help define software requirements from theperspective of Hyderabad / Secunderabad , India 0 – 50 Years Apply for the job now! #TEST #AUTOMATION #Job #Year #Exp #Live #Connections #Pune

[testcompass]

TestCompass supports the 'early Model Based Testing' (eMBT) aporoach. This can help you, for example:

✅ To stimulate and improve communication and collaboration between business and IT to achieve a shared understanding of the requirements in an early stage of the SDLC.

✅ To fully automate your test design phase and increase the test coverage.

✅ To give you clear insight into the impact on test cases after a change in the test basis.

✅ To automatically generate coverage based Gherkin feature files from a readable and graphical test model.

Are you curious about where eMBT and TestCompass can make the real difference for you? Why not activate the trial version today!

#keepitsimple #eMBT #communication #collaboration #gherkin #featurefile #checking #testcase #testcoverage #testdesign #requirements #TestCompass #easytouse #testmodel #mbt #freetrial #freedemo

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[finderfox739]

Selenium Xpath Cheat Sheet

Selenium Xpath Cheat Sheet Pdf

Selenium Xpath Cheat Sheet

Selenium Testcase with Nose in Python; Agile Testing Interview Questions and Answers; 4 Mindset Principles That Will Help You Thrive In 2021 as QA/ Software Tester. Selenium Grid Tutorial For Beginners (Step By Step) The Ultimate Cheat Sheet on XPath in Python. In this page you will get some basic explanation about function, statement and steps to work with selenium webdriver. Load the webpage using chrome driver. Java selenium commands cheat sheet - Selenium Blog says: May 11, 2018 at 11:32 am Previous: Previous post: Execute Python Selenium tests in Selenium GridNext: Next post: Python selenium commands cheat sheet. CSS and XPath can both be used to denote locations in an XML document. These 2 syntaxes help guide your Selenium tests and allow automation to follow your well thought out test strategy. CSS is native to all browsers and specifically built for rendering in browsers, while XPath can give your Selenium test an exactness that is sometimes lacking.

CSS and XPath can both be used to denote locations in an XML document. These 2 syntaxes help guide your Selenium tests and allow automation to follow your well thought out test strategy. CSS is native to all browsers and specifically built for rendering in browsers, while XPath can give your Selenium test an exactness that is sometimes lacking in CSS. We put together a few tables to help translate XPath to CSS and vice versa. For browser testing, this translation can be especially effective for designers, developers and testers working together during the development and testing phase.

General:What It DoesXPathCSSAll HTML/htmlhtmlBody of Page/html/bodybodyElement box absolute reference/body/…/boxbody > … > .boxAny element matching boxboxboxAny element in the document**ID of an element(@id='green-background')#green-backgroundClass of an element(@class='Box').boxAny element matching title that is a descendant of boxbox//titlebox > titleAny element matching title that is a child of boxbox/ title.box .titleAny element matching title immediately preceded by box elementbox/following-sibling::*(1)/self::title.box + .titleImage element//imgimg

Selenium Xpath Cheat Sheet Pdf

PredicatesWhat It DoesXPathCSSSelects first child element/box/title(1).box .title:first-childSelects the last child element/box/title(last()).box .title:last-childSelects the second to last child element/box/title(last()-1).box .title:nth-last-child(2)

See Also

Selenium Xpath Cheat Sheet

Selenium Best Practices Selenium and Ruby

[akank]

Nokia Recruitment Drive 2021 | Freshers

Positions: Verification/ Integration Engineer

Job Location: Bangalore

Salary: Best In Industry

Experience: Freshers

Qualification for Nokia Recruitment Drive 2021:

BE/ B.Tech – CSE/ IT/ ECE/ EEE/ Telecom Engineering; MCA

Job Description:

Define Transport Test environment, Test cases, Robot Test scripts for assigned BTS Transport features

Design and Implement Test Strategy for the features assigned

Automate testcases and execute in daily batch run’s

Responsibilities:

0 – 2 years experience of automation with python/any scripting language

Experience in telecom/networking Domain

Manual testing

For more details 

https://mechomotive.com/nokia-recruitment-drive-2021-freshers/

[mannavasivaaditya]

What is Testcase?

What is Testcase? Here we shall try to understand What is Testcase? An Test case is a set of conditions under which a tester shall deterine whether the application under test satisfies the given requirements or the application works fine! The process of developing test cases can also help find problems in the requirements or design of an application. In short term an test case is nothing but different conditions which are going to test our applicaion with specified in a formatted way is nothing but called Test Case. Example:- if you want to testing the login funcitonality, Like Testing the login funcitonality with first condition is by giving a correct user name and correct password. Then we are suppose to login into the application. Giving correct user name and incorrect password. In this case it should not login. Giving incorrect user name and correct password. In this case it should not login. Giving the correct user name and keeping the password black. In this case it should not login. Giving the right password with empty username, it should not login. The point of here is we are testing with different conditions, if we are going to go with different conditions for our testcase is called specified in a formatted way is called an TEST CASE. Writing Good Test Cases To write test cases in such a way that you test only one thing at a time. Do not complicate test cases. Attempt to make your test cases ‘ATOMIC’. Ensure that all Positive AND Negative sce Read the full article

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Test Lead

https://ift.tt/2QnLgvM - Hiểu và phân tích yêu cầu của khách hàng. - Thiết kế test plan, test design và testcases. - Thiết lập môi trường kiểm thử, thực thi và báo cáo kết quả. - Quản lý, phân tích và theo dõi kết quả test, báo cáo kết quả và đánh giá chất lượng sản phẩm trước khi golive. - Thực hiện review testcases, kết quả test của các thành viên trong nhóm. - Tham gia đào tạo về quy trình, kỹ năng testing cho các thành viên. - Nghiên cứu, ứng dụng các công cụ test phục vụ cho việc kiểm thử. #timviec #timvieconline #cv #cvxinviec #cvonlinetimviec #cv.timviec.com.vn #tuyendung

[taleofomni]

The Oracles first words - a DADIU reflection

Hey all. I think it is about time to have a proper introduction of yours truly, the Oracle. Though I have been mentioned in earlier blogposts, this is the first time speaking my own words. Here is the basics: I’m 24; studying Digital Design with the Architect and the Artist; have a terrible sense of humour; and love to play games!

As earlier mentioned, majority of the team have been attending DADIU (The National Academy of Digital Interactive Entertainment) this semester, where I had the role of Lead Quality Assurance (QA) & User Research (UR) Manager in Copenhagen. (For the rest of this article QA & UR Managers will be shortened to QA’s).

As a total newbie to the QA role, I was quite excited to start at DADIU, since I at the time had just joined the team. I have always wanted to be a part of the Tale of Omni project since the beginning, but I couldn’t figure out how I could contribute to the team. When the Architect asked me to join with the focus on QA and UR I jumped in immediately. I therefore wanted to learn as much as possible from this semester to help the Tale of Omni be the best it can be.

Though I also was assigned to a team at DADIU, just as the Architect, I also had to manage the other QA’s in Copenhagen in cooperation with another Lead in Aalborg. I remember early in the semester I spent a lot time on this issue, but as we all got more worked into the whole QA & UR role, the other QA’s became more independent, and thus not in the need of an overall managing from my side.

When we were first introduced to the QA part of it, we were told that we had to have a certain distance to the project we were assigned to. This was due to keep an objective sight upon the project. If we are too attached to it, we could easily miss out bugs and issues during testing, this means that a lot of effort must be put in into documentation from the production teams side, but as the Architect previously wrote: “Aint nobody got time for that”. During the semester it was therefore a general problem getting the needed information from the teams to do proper testing. So many found it easier to get this information by spending time at the productions teams, instead of the QA office, with the only reason to get needed information faster. Thus making us closer to the production and therefore obscuring some of the objectiveness towards the production. It is a tightrope walking to be a QA. I will try my best to keep a certain distance to the Tale of Omni project, so I can help improve it as much as possible, but it is going to be hard.  

Another aspect of being a QA is that you are always behind. When the team deliver a build, you’ll have to set up the test, go through documentations to test it right, write testcases, book other QA’s for testing, do the test, write down issues, document it, and finally deliver a report to the team. By the end of this round-a-bout the team has already moved on to new things, and some of the issues may already be resolved. Some may already be known, but has been forgotten to be send to the QA’s before the test. The testing therefore must be done quickly but you must keep quality in mind. Like what type of test is needed now? What adds most value to the project? What are the request from the team? Etc.

What it all comes down to is communication. It need to be short, clear and fast, since everything moves so quickly during the process. Information needs to be distributed through the right channels, and you need to follow up on those information’s. Just to make sure. On of our teaches used to say: “Check, check, double check.”. This clearly goes for everyone, but regarding my own process, I often realized that my reports and information often wasn’t delivered to the right persons at the right time because of a bottleneck in the communications pipeline, if even at all. A lot of work was therefore not being used to its potential. I don’t think this will be an issue here on the OMNI project, since we are not a big team, but is still something that need to be in our consciousness.

In regards to User Research I have got a better insight both in terms of recruiting and testing methods. I hope to use some of this on you in the future when the OMNI project develops further. Like the QA it is always a question about what adds the most value to the production. Different kind of playtesting is really useful, but is something that is often forgotten in these kinds of projects. I will do my best to include you guys into the project as much possible, whenever it is meaningful in the process. I may even push it forward if I see the need for it!

I have talked with the Architect about how we can do the QA and UR process as best as possible for the OMNI project, and since we both now have an insight into its realm, we believe, we have found an excellent work process for it.

I hope that I in the future can share some of the funny bugs, that I know for sure will come, with you. Then we can all have a laugh! I expect to share this both on Instagram and Twitter.

In any case, I’m very excited to start working on the project again after our long break from it!

Sincerely

The Oracle

[testcompass]

⁉️Are you looking for a simple way to stimulate and improve communication and collaboration between business and IT to achieve a shared understanding of the requirements in an early stage of the SDLC? Do you want to fully automate your test design phase and increase the test coverage? Do you want to get insight into the impact on test cases after a change in the test basis? Do you want to automatically generate the Gherkin feature files from a readable and graphical test model?

💡We introduced the easy to use and practical test approach 'early Model Based Testing' (eMBT) and developed the TestCompass tool ourselves. TestCompass supports the entire eMBT process from A to Z.

➡️ Are you curious about where eMBT and TestCompass can make the real difference for you? Just let us know and we will happy tell you all about it and demo you how this works in practice.

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[kairostechinc]

End-to-End Testing in Agile: All You Need to Know

Most applications today are designed with a service-oriented architecture structure. So the application is interconnected with many subsystems that can be outside of the application environment.

If there’s a failure in any of the subsystems, it can cause the entire application to crash.

So to make sure everything is working fine, we need to test the entire flow of an application from start to finish (or end-to-end).

E2E testing mainly serves two purposes:

To test the entire application for major business components such as communicating with the other systems, interfaces, databases, networks, and other applications.

To create a complete production-like scenario and test happy flow, so that we can simulate real-time settings and environment and avoid any application crash.

Why do we need End-to-End testing in Agile?

In each sprint, both the dev and test teams focus on a single service out of all the integrated services used in an application. But there are chances that they missed out on the sub-systems or services that could potentially break.

Therefore, the QA team must make sure that specific changes in a single service don’t affect the entire workflow.

How is E2E testing different from traditional testing?

Traditional testing comprises Unit, Integration, System, and UAT. But End-to-end testing is started after System testing.

Sometimes we get confused between System/Unit/Integration testing and end-to-end testing. But these are quite different.

Here’s a short example for some clarity — let’s assume we have an application with three subsystems:

Search

Order

Payment

In the current sprint, requirement specification changes in the payment subsystem are: Adding new payment options should be visible to the customers.

So as per the requirement, System testing will take care of the functionality related only to the newly added payments option.

But end-to-end testing will have the scenarios starting from Search to Payment (with newly added payment option) with the Order confirmation.

The scope, complexity, and maintenance of E2E testing are higher than that of the Unit and Integration testings.

So while preparing test cases and automation scripts, it’s always better to first understand the application architecture with the complete happy flow so that it will be easy to define the coverage.

Who can perform E2E Testing?

E2E testing should be performed by someone who has in-depth knowledge of application and aware of the product architecture. So apart from QA, a business analyst, client, product owner or even technical manager are good candidates to perform E2E testing.

End-to-end Testing Methods:

Horizontal E2E testing

It works through every phase of business workflow and ensures that the functional requirement document maps with the developed application.

A horizontal end-to-end test verifies each and every workflow through individual applications from start to finish ensuring that each interrelated process works correctly. In general this type of testing takes place at the end of release cycle and in a stable environment setup. So with this approach we can get more coverage on the functional part but it cannot be performed until all release changes are fully implemented.

Vertical E2E testing

This method refers to testing in layers, tests happen in sequential, hierarchical order. Vertical testing used to test each component separately and thoroughly, and it is more part of SDLC. Most common approach to perform this is BDD, TDD and CI-CD.

The best way to achieve it by performing unit tests for each component and then perform testing on network infrastructure, API integration and UI layers. So by using this we can get high coverage of testing for the core code. As it can be implemented in stages so easy to find defects respective to each stage.

Steps for End to End Testing Process

These are the steps essential to E2E testing:

Requirements Analysis: Analyze the requirement thoroughly and cover major business components in the E2E workflow.

Environment Set-Up: Set up a test environment keeping the production environment details in mind. Try to make it as similar to the production in terms of software and hardware requirements.

Sub-Systems: Make sure that all the sub-systems are part of E2E flow.

TestCase Design: Design test cases with maximum coverage and add test data to test common user scenarios. Focus on functionality of high priority, and design more elaborate test cases to verify it.

Execution: Execute the entire E2E test suite and then analyze the results. Never forget to run a suite in the proper sequence. If required, execute the E2E scenario in multiple browsers.

Maintain Order: Since E2E testing comprises the entire application, test cases are more complex than functional test cases. Each component of the system has to be tested, which increases failure percentage. Structure and sequence of execution are very crucial in E2E testing. Conduct unit tests and integration tests first to resolve the initial level of errors. Once end to end testing begins, simultaneously run the smoke and sanity tests with high-risk user scenarios.

How to make E2E testing in Agile more efficient:

Try to automate the E2E test cases with maximum coverage.

Keep the E2E automation suite separate from Smoke, Sanity, and BVT.

Execute E2E suite before any sprint release to make sure that the happy flow of the application is working as expected and new changes don’t have any impact on subsystems of the product.

Integrate the E2E suite with CI/CD pipeline using any tool like Jenkins.

As E2E suites take time to execute so create Jenkins job and schedule it at night so that all the failed test cases can be analyzed in the working hours.

Every so often, E2E does contain some cross-browser and parallel testing too, so in that case, try to take advantage of Selenium Grid with Docker. Use Docker containers for different browsers and execute the test cases in parallel using TestNG.

While running the E2E automation suite, it is required to create an environment similar to production and need to avoid any environment level issue, so to achieve this, you can use Docker containers.

E2E Test Deliverables

The E2E test team will create the following work products:

Test cases with detailed steps for the E2E test suite.

Enterprise test automation framework configured for the application.

Automated test execution reports and defects encountered during the End-to-End test suite.

The requirement traceability matrix will ensure that the entire requirement on the E2E workflow.

Transactional test data generated during test execution.

Documentation and manuals.

Script coding and management standards.

Script Development/Execution tracker.

Functional Issue log tracker.

Workflow diagram of the application.

Ensure maximum coverage with data, process, and logic behind the functional workflow.

Benefits of end-to-end testing:

Ensures stability and quality of product

Since the application is tested at different layers like data, business, integration, and presentation, it ensures the stability and quality of the application.

Increases Confidence on E2E Business workflow

End-to-end testing increases the confidence in the functional flow and performance before its release as the application is validated across all endpoints for different devices, browsers, platforms.

Frequent Testing Reduces Risks

As the application is tested in every iteration and sprints, it reduces the chances of any major bugs.

Reduces Repetitive Testing Efforts

End-to-end testing reduces the occurrences of frequent breakdowns and thus reduces repetitive testing efforts.

Costs Effective & Less Time

Implementing E2E testing reduces error recurrence in the later stage of product development, so fixing those issues during the early phase of the SDLC saves lots of budgets. As in E2E we make sure of the major business flows so by performing it we can avoid all major issues which can be a blockage for sprint release. Automation of the end-to-end test allows quickly adapt changing business requirements and enhance agility to the testing project.

Conclusion

The objective of end-to-end is to verify system integration with the functional flow. Thus, while testing any application, it is important to note that the user interface or presentation layer is not the only area to be focused but the underlying data, processes, and logic behind the application’s behavior need to be verified too. The connected systems and integrations are equally relevant to assure the quality of the application in terms of frontend, backend, functional flow, and integration.

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