CSTE & Software Testing

Want to know about CSTE certification, its requirements, eligibility criteria, Study plan, exam format and passing grades. Check this PPT for details

http://msqaa.org/CSTE_Planning/CSTECertificationTrainingProcess_Presenta...

After you register on the website for CSTE you can download your copy of CSTE CBoK, so dont worry about that

After you have read the CBOK for CSTE, you can also checkout this pdf file which is "CSTE CBOK Refined". Its like quick memory mnemonics and lot of notes and definitions

http://www.4shared.com/office/9PRKEWI4/cbokdef-cste.html

Test Case Generation

To generate a ‘good’ set of test cases, the test designer must be certain that their suite covers all the functionality of the system and also has to be sure that the suite fully exercises the GUI itself. The difficulty in accomplishing this task is twofold: one has to deal with domain size and then one has to deal with sequences. In addition, the tester faces more difficulty when they have to do regression testing.

The size problem can be easily illustrated. Unlike a CLI (command line interface) system, a GUI has many operations that need to be tested. A very small program such as Microsoft WordPad has 325 possible GUI operations [1]. In a large program, the number of operations can easily be an order of magnitude larger.

Inspection in software engineering, refers to peer review of any work product by trained individuals who look for defects using a well defined process. An inspection might also be referred to as a Fagan inspection after Michael Fagan, the inventor of the process.

An inspection is one of the most common sorts of review practices found in software projects. The goal of the inspection is for all of the inspectors to reach consensus on a work product and approve it for use in the project. Commonly inspected work products include software requirements specifications and test plans. In an inspection, a work product is selected for review and a team is gathered for an inspection meeting to review the work product. A moderator is chosen to moderate the meeting. Each inspector prepares for the meeting by reading the work product and noting each defect. The goal of the inspection is to identify and repair defects. In an inspection, a defect is any part of the work product that will keep an inspector from approving it. For example, if the team is inspecting a software requirements specification, each defect will be text in the document which an inspector disagrees with.