BugHuntress QA Lab software testing methodology and expertise (manual and automated software testing)

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	BugHuntress Testing Methodology

To provide a customer with comprehensive conclusions regarding software quality the BugHuntress team performs the following testing activities. Each of them can be executed as an integral part of software development life-cycle or as a separate independent service at planning, development or beta-testing stages.

1. Test planning

It includes

Collecting of requirements, their analysis and specification;

Test strategy, test plan preparation and approval;

Automated testing tools appropriateness assessment and tools selection (if necessary).

Test planning is carried out on the basis of IEEE Standard for Software Test Documentation (IEEE Std 829-1998) and other industry specifications.

2. Tests development. Automated testing environment preparation

Test scenarios, test cases development;

Test automation framework design and development;

Test scripts creation.

There is a large set of testing equipment, system software, Web middleware, mobile / wireless devices at BugHuntress QA Lab. This ensures creation of proper testing environment and essentially decreases the time for testing configurations deployment.

3. Test execution

Manual and automated software testing:

Functional

Bug and functional regression

Load / Performance / Stress

Usability (GUI)

Compatibility

Configuration

Localization

Documentation
(see in more detail in the section "BugHuntress Software testing technologies").

For each of these types of testing we have established approaches, proven testing tools, and adjusted reporting documents templates. Testing techniques applied:

Black Box / Gray Box / White Box testing

Ad Hoc / Exploratory testing

Scripted testing

For automated testing BugHuntress team can use the industry standard testing tools like Mercury Quick Test Professional and Load Runner, AutomatedQA TestComplete, Selenium, etc.

When off-the-shelf tools are insufficient, our own automation tools/Add-Ins are created and utilized. It is especially important in the case of mobile and wireless applications because these technologies are developing very fast and a lot of different devices need to be tested.

3a. Test reporting. Bug fixing. Retesting the defects

Test reporting and bug fixing management;

Metrics generation and analysis.

We use the industry recognized bug tracking tools like Mantis, Jira, BugZilla. Online mode allows both parts (the managers and IT specialists on a customer's side as well as BugHuntress testers) to work as a single team and ensures the comprehensive customer's control.
Software testing metrics

An example of software testing project statistics. More about this project

4. Final reporting and analysis

Final report preparation and project metrics generation.

Defects analysis and recommendations regarding improvement of the tested software and the software development process in whole.

Testing activities can be provided as an external independent service or by a Dedicated testing team which works as your remote employees. See also BugHuntress basic principles of testing services rendering and software testing services pricing.

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