Quality assurance and acceptance testing: responsibilities and practical exercise
Describe expected behaviors, reproduce anomalies and verify corrections.
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All job descriptionsAn exercise to practice
Establish functional validation of a form successfully, errors, duplicates and recovery.
Work on a copy or demo environment. Define the data used and the expected result before you begin. Keep your decisions and the difficulties encountered in order to be able to explain the process.
- Transform needs into expected steps and outcomes.
- Choose test data that covers useful limit cases.
- Document each anomaly with context and reproduction.
- Retest the correction and routes that could be affected.
Deliverable and verifications
A functional validation plan, reproducible anomalies and retest results.
Another person can reproduce the control and understand why the result is accepted.
For each check, note the context, the action, the expected result and what has been observed. Distinguish a successful verification from a remaining hypothesis. Another person must be able to understand the deliverable without attending all its manufacture.
Use the Functional Validation BookPoints of vigilance and teamwork
A long list of controls does not replace an accurate expected result. A closed fault without retest can remain present in the actual course.
Collaboration to explore: Project management.
Specify the sharing of responsibilities: who provides the information, who decides, who checks and maintains the result. A good handover retains the constraints and decisions, not just the final file.
Employment, trades and trainingFrequently asked questions
Does this exercise prove a professional qualification?
It allows you to show an approach and its limits. It is neither a diploma, nor a certification, nor proof of a production experience.
How to present the work in a portfolio?
Specify that this is an exercise, your role, constraints, decisions and checks. Use test data and media whose rights are established.
How to assess the quality of the deliverable?
Another person can reproduce the control and understand why the result is accepted. Add the difficulties encountered and what remains to be verified rather than presenting absolute validation.