Course materials
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The «What? Where? When?» principle as the key to the success
05.01.2022While working with the bug-reports one must pay attention to the necessity of writing the summary clearly and shortly. The title itself must contain the information that is enough for the understanding of the essence of the bug at the first glance of it. Such a description helps to understand and reproduce the bug described.
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Types of testing overview
31.12.2021Knowledge of the types of testing is a necessary skill of the tester, it gives an understanding of approaches to software testing, helps to plan testing well, as well as to classify the errors found.
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Glossary of the Lecture 5 «Test design. Test cases» for the software testing courses
20.12.2021Glossary of the Lecture 5 «Test design. Test cases» for the software testing courses
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Facultative task for the «Software Testing: Basics and Practice» course
23.07.2021Everyone knows that the effectiveness of the learning process depends on the skills of applying the acquired knowledge in practice. For students who want to try their hand at testing on a real project and thus earn extra points, we have prepared an additional optional assignment.
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Test case Summary rules
15.01.2021A test case is a professional documentation of a tester, as well as a sequence of actions aimed at checking some functionality, describing how to cause an actual result.
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Bug-report: about using «incorrect» words
14.01.2021No doubts, a good bug report is a high quality document. Writing a bug report is an important task, because that’s the main point of communication between a tester, the developer and the project management. A well-written bug report will not only create a good relationship/relations between you and the developers, but will also save company resources to work with it.
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Main attributes of bug-reports
14.01.2021Bug report is a technical document that describes a situation or a sequence of actions that leads to an incorrect functioning of the test object with mentioning the causes and the expected result.
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How to correctly write preconditions in test cases
13.01.2021In today’s «QA tips for newbies» rubric, we’re going to talk about how to compose test cases correctly.
Test Case — is a set of steps, specific conditions and parameters which are necessary for the verification of tested functionality of its part. -
How to start writing the steps of reproducing the defect (bug)?
11.01.2021Today, in terms of the «QA tips for newbies» rubric, we will talk about how to describe the steps to reproduce a defect(bug) correctly. Basic rules for describing steps to reproduce a defect(bug) are the following: Steps to reproduce (STR) are interconnected with the result, which is formed by their means (Actual result). Steps for [...] -
Top 10 common mistakes while reporting a bug
11.01.2021Only those who do nothing do not make mistakes. However, our students do a lot in the process of studying a new professional field. Doing the task, listeners are learning on their own and on others’ mistakes. In this article, we collected the most common bug-report mistakes made by students . We hope this article will help you to understand better what to avoid and how to write a clear and complete the bug description.