Database testing

Database testing Points: – Test data integrity – Test data type – Test data size – Test Event driven functionality – Input item verification – Test Stored procedure functionality Data integrity: While performing actions on DB, respective changes should be reflected in DB. – ensure that the available tables are as per design. – ensure [...]

What is Threat Modeling?

What is Threat Modeling? Threat modeling is an engineering technique you can use to help you identify threats, attacks, vulnerabilities, and countermeasures that could affect your application. You can use threat modeling to shape your application’s design, meet your company’s security objectives, and reduce risk.

Security Testing

Security Testing: (The) Process to determine that an IS (Information System) protects data and maintains functionality as intended. The six basic security concepts that need to be covered by security testing are: confidentiality, integrity, authentication, authorization, availability and non-repudiation. Confidentiality A security measure which protects against the disclosure of information to parties other than the [...]

Difference between QA & QC

Difference b/w  QA & QC QA 1. QA is Process validation. 2. It Identifies the weakness in the process & improve them.                                            3. It is the Management responsibility                                                                                                                                 4. QA helps to establish process. QC 1. It is Product Validation. 2. It identify that particular attributes or IN or OUT in the Product or services.                                                                               [...]

What is a function point?

Function Points measure software size by quantifying the functionality provided to the user based solely on logical design and functional specifications. With this in mind, the objectives of FP counting are to: – measure functionality that the user requests and receives; – measure software development and maintenance rates and size independently of the technology used [...]

FUNCTION POINT ANALYSIS

Function Point Analysis (FPA)It is a sizing measure of clear business significance. First made public by Allan Albrecht of IBM in 1979, the FPA technique quantifies the functions contained within software in terms that are meaningful to the software users.    The measure relates directly to the business requirements that the software is intended to [...]

Test Plan v/s Test Strategy

Difference b/w  TP & TS Test Plan 1. Project Specific 2. Dynamic Document, changes with the project release 3. The Test Plan, on the other hand, actually provides a plan for the testing period itself. It includes who will test what and when. 4. Uses test strategy to develop, at subsequently laters stages 5. Prepared by [...]

What is Test Plan ??

Test Plan is the detail or micro level description of operations that performed in test level. It defines scope, approach, strategy, scheduling, etc. in details. TP is a document, that is dynamic & project specific. Test plan document formats can be as varied as the products and organizations to which they apply, but there are [...]

What is Test Strategy ??

Test strategy is a high-level description of the test levels to be performed and the testing within those levels for an organization. In the test strategy, we described 1. How the product risks of the stakeholders are mitigated in the test levels, 2. Which test types are performed in the test levels, and 3. Which [...]

What is QA ??

QA is planned and systematic set of activities necessary to provide adequate confidence that products and services will confirm to specified requirements and meet user needs .