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Backlog refinement/grooming – This activity occurs on a regular basis with the product owner and the some of the team members (or whole team) to achieve the following objectives:1. Identify any new user stories that needs to be created based on the customer requirements2. Writing acceptance criteria for those stories that do not yet haveContinue reading “What are the ceremonies in agile scrum?”

Inadaptive or inflexible when there is a change in the requirement. Requirements have been defined in the earlier phase so if there are any changes to the requirement especially during the development phase then it becomes very time-consuming and expensive. Customer feedback only occurs after all the development and testing has been carried out. ThisContinue reading “Disadvantages of waterfall?”

Smoke testing is done to test the health of a software build. It is a test that gets performed before moving onto carrying out a more intensive testing ie. for the initial stage of the build. Smoke testing is done by both developers and testers.Sanity testing is done to verify that the affected functionality stillContinue reading “Difference between smoke testing and sanity testing?”

System testing involves the testing of the entire application as per the requirements. It validates that the system is complete and will work as expected.System integration testing focuses on testing the communications and interactions between different systems.

Functional testing involves tests that evaluate functions that system should perform as per customer and business requirements.Non-functional testing evaluates characteristics of system such as usability, performance and security. It is essentially the testing of “how well” the system behaves in other words, it is concerned with the user experience.

Black box testing is based on an analysis of the specification/requirements or models. It concentrates on the inputs and outputs of the test object without reference to its internal structure.White box testing is based on an analysis of the architecture, detailed design or the code of the test object. It concentrates on the structure andContinue reading “What is the difference between white box and black box testing?”

Alpha testing is carried out at the developer’s testing environment by potential or existing customers or an independent testing team.Beta testing, on the other hand is carried out by potential or existing customers at their own locations.

Defect triage is a process where QA lead, project manager and development lead come together to categorise, prioritise and track defects.

A defect may be rejected by the developer if it turns out to be a false positives, not an actual failure due to defect.For example, when the user is taken to an error page while searching for an item in the e-commerce website. If it turns out that this occurred not because of the badContinue reading “When does a defect get rejected by the developer?”

Usually a cosmetic or UI defects tend to have high priority and low severity. An example of this would be wrong location of the field.