Thursday, June 7, 2012

How to determine Flagpole’s height

A group of managers were given the assignment to measure the height of a flagpole. So they go out to the flagpole with ladders and tape measures, and they're falling off the ladders, dropping the tape measures - the whole thing is just a mess.

A Software Tester comes that way and sees what they(managers) are trying to do; walks over, pulls the flagpole out of the ground, lays it flat, measures it from end to end & gives the measurement to one of the managers and walks away.

After the tester's depart from that place, one manager turns to another and both starts laughing. "He prove that, he is just a software tester! We're looking for the height and he gives us the length! How illogically he understands our necessity".



Courtesy for the initial 2 paragraphs : Jokemasters | last paragraph I modified.

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Impact Analysis?

Assume once the complete application is been ready for testing from the development side; If one more module is to be added, then we (software testers) need to test the new module as well as the impacted area which might be affected by adding a new module.

Impact Analysis will be done to locate the impact region of the application by adding a new module. Usually a team lead will kick off for this analysis and prepare the Impact analysis document which generally has the variation/deviation stuffs.

When the “Impact analysis” will be essential?
* New module is added.
* Testing the Upgraded application which has a new edition (or) after Bug fixing.


All the cases are better to discuss with development team for detail Impact analysis. If developer is not available then check the design document and functional diagram for the data flow and find the dependency with the fixed or supplementary modules.

Monday, June 4, 2012

Test comrade in "Google" Search

Searching on "Google" for “Test comrade”, it goes for “You Failed Your Math Test, Comrade Einstein”. I’m happy to see Einstein’s name when my blog name was searched.



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