Quality Assurance

☛ Quality Assurance (QA) QA refers to the planned and systematic way of monitoring the quality of process which is followed to produce a quality product. QA tracks the outcomes and adjusts the process to meet the expectation.

☛ Quality Control (QC) Concern with the quality of the product. QC finds the defects and suggests improvements. The process set by QA is implemented by QC. The QC is the responsibility of the tester.

☛ Software Testing is the process of ensuring that product which is developed by the developer meets the user requirement. The motive to perform testing is to find the bugs and make sure that they get fixed.

☛ Load Testing: Testing an application under heavy but expected load is known as Load Testing. Here, the load refers to the large volume of users, messages, requests, data, etc.

☛ Stress Testing: When the load placed on the system is raised or accelerated beyond the normal range then it is known as Stress Testing.

☛ Volume Testing: The process of checking the system, whether the system can handle the required amounts of data, user requests, etc. is known as Volume Testing.

Through years of working at very different careers, knowing that the quality department is where I belong and the happiest.

QA testing document should include

☛ List the number of defects detected as per severity level

☛ Explain each requirement or business function in detail

☛ Inspection reports

☛ Configurations

☛ Test plans and test cases

☛ Bug reports

☛ User manuals

☛ Prepare separate reports for managers and users

There is always something to learn, something to share with workers and/or managers, Quality is important to ensure the company prospers and the customers want to give you there business.

I call them on it, if they are not following simple rules now they will make more short cuts again, and I'l most likely have to fix it.

PP is a procedure that presents the systematic controls to be implemented and identifies the responsibilities and authorities such as to ensure that the specified requirements are followed .

Retesting is carried out to check the defects fixes, while regression testing is performed to check whether the defect fix have any impact on other functionality.

A test matrix is used to verify the test scripts per specified requirements of test cases.

XX has a rep for quality, I want quality things in my life. My past positions has taught me the little things matter in very part of your work XX would want someone like me to watch over what they sell to others to ensure quality is not lost.

I would see myself as working in as a senior inspector and mentoring newly joined inspectors and probably be in a position where I can be promoted to quality manager.

Materials inspection as per approved spec material, type and size installation as per hook-up, check line route to avoid any obstruction check tube support, compression fitting of ferrules, and then pressure test (hydrostatic test) shall be done.

In software testing, Test Metric is referred to standard of test measurement. They are the statistics narrating the structure or content of a program. It contains information like

☛ Total test

☛ Test run

☛ Test passed

☛ Test failed

☛ Tests deferred

☛ Test passed the first time

I have been trained to take temperature of dairy deli deliveries and frozen deliveries. I also have been trained to look at the shape, smell and color of produce and meat to tell if it has spoiled or went bad.

ITP: This is procedure informs about the kinds of quality check (surveillance inspection witness or hold points) means quality of works is being done in proper sequences.

QCP: This is procedure addresses the activities and requirement in details.

☛ The stub is called from the software component to be tested, it is used in top down approach

☛ The driver calls a component to be tested, it is used in bottom up approach

☛ It is required when we need to test the interface between modules X and Y and we have developed only module X. So we cannot just test module X but if there is any dummy module we can use that dummy module to test module X

☛ Now module B cannot receive or send data from module A directly, so in these case we have to transmit data from one module to another module by some external features. This external feature is referred as Driver

I have always enjoyed all that is involved with quality so I would say there is nothing that I like least.

Making sure all products meet the Quality standards for the company and have a hand in continuous improvement.

☛ Selenium

☛ Firebug

☛ OpenSTA

☛ WinSCP

☛ YSlow for FireBug

☛ Web Developer toolbar for firebox