Tag QA for noobs

Here’s where things get a bit murky and kinky. There are two types of Security testing: Security testing Security testing, more than not, overlaps with any other testing sans UI The goal of a security test is to discover if…

UI Testing UI testing is a subset of Functional testing. It focuses on verifying and validating that the UI is rendered as expected, on different platforms, different browsers and/or devices. It ensures that the UI elements are present and do…

Functional testing is what is usually misrecognized as “manual” testing or another “favourite” bullshit “term” > “exploratory” testing. This type of testing consists of you, as QAE, acting as a user, using the system as a user would, interacting, checking,…

Performance tests are a group of tests and a Performance test is part of that group. Weird, right? Anyway… Performance test The primary goal of a performance test is to establish the maximum stable throughput (baseline) of a system for…

Scalability tests, usually have the following generic goals: Say you have one VM running your software. You have already run a Performance Test and determined that the the maximum, stable, throughput of your software is 100 operations per second. Fortunately…