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How to authenticate an archive
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I have a updator feature in my program which will downloads updates to a directory specified be the user. Then user can install these updates whenever he/she wants by just opening them. ...
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Creating an account to receive sensitive information on a mobile device
I am developing an Android application for my final year project which allows the holder of a mobile device to receive a text notification containing potentially sensitive information from a server.
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Is asking for control totals on a file an outdated means of verifying a file?
I'm in a new position where I need to process a flat files on a regular basis. The last time I did this was 5 or 6 years ago but as part of the file layout I received control totals. It gave me ...
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Quality Assurance activities [duplicate]
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Verification of requirements question
Having asked but deleted the question as it was a bit misunderstood. If Quality Control is the actual testing, what are the ...
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Inspection, code review - is it really testing?
ISTQB, Wikipedia or other sources classify verification acitivities (reviews etc.) as a static testing, yet other do not. If we can say that peer reviews and inspections are actually a kind of a ...
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ISO 12207: Verification of integration and Unit test validation
I have received comments from the supervisor reviewing my thesis. He asked two questions I cannot answer right now:
If ISO 12207 says under "Integration verification" that it "checks that components ...
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Why some consider static analysis a testing and some do not?
Preparing myself also to ISTQB certification, I found they call static analysis actually as a static testing, while some engineering book distinct between static analysis and testing, which is the ...
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Why is it said that V-model introduces QA?
In several articles and books I learnt that "V-model introduced QA into SW development".
I would like to understand the point of such statement, as from my understanding, V model activities ...
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System testing - making sure the system conforms to specification. Validation? [closed]
After weeks of research I have nearly completed my thesis, yet I am unable to clear up my confusion contained in all previous threads here (and in many books):
During system testing, we check the ...
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Verification as QA - makes sense?
Preparing my thesis, I found another interesting discrepancy. While some books say verification it terms of static analysis of work products is quality control (looking for defects), other say it is ...
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Validation and Verification explanation (Boehm) - I cannot understand its point
Hopefully my last thread about V&V as I found the B.Boehm is text which I just do not understand well (likely my technical English is not that good).
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Are Verification and Validation both Quality Assurance and Quality Control?
Having read a book I found a note that verification and validation can be both quality assurance and quality control. I cannot see how it can be quality assurance because both just provide evidence ...
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How to apply verification and validation on the following example
I have been following verification and validation questions here with my colleagues, yet we are unable to see the slight differences, probably caused by language barrier in technical English.
An ...
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Verfication vs validation again, does testing belong to verification? If so, which?
I have asked before and created a lot of controversy so I tried to collect some data and ask similar question again. E.g. V&V where all testing is only validation: ...
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What is the aim of software testing?
Having read many books, there is a basic contradiction:
Some say, "the goal of testing is to find bugs" while other say "the goal of the testing is to equalize the quality of the product", meaning ...
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Is verification and validation part of testing process?
Based on many sources I do not believe the simple definition that aim of testing is to find as many bugs as possible - we test to ensure that it works or that it does not. E.g. followint are goals of ...
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Simple Architecture Verification [closed]
I just made an architecture for an application with the function of scoring, saving and loading tennis games. The architecture has 2 kinds of elements:
Components: Standalone elements that can be ...
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Verification of requirements question
Doing a lot of reading about V&V, I would need to clarify the following.
A lot of definitions (less formal ones found in books) define verification like that:
Verification: The software should ...
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Functional testing in the verification
Yesterday my question How come verification does not include actual testing? created a lot of controversy, yet did not reveal the answer for related and very important question: does black box ...
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How come verification does not include actual testing?
Having read a lot about this topic --- such as on this Software Testing Fundamentals site on verification and validation and Software Testing and Quality Assurance: Theory and Practice by Naik and ...
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How to verify that all files are intact prior to install?
I'm working on my CMS (in PHP platform) for a long time now. The main program is done and I'm currently developing the Installer part. Installation itself will be fairly simple:
Upload all files
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Difference between software inspection and verification
I was reading about software inspection in Software Engineering by Ian Summerville and I came across the term Software inspection and I started reading about it on Wikipedia. I am unable to understand ...
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Ensure data entered by users adjusts to what actually is
This is more of a usability issue I'd say, looking of suggestions on it.
I have a system that depends on the data entered by the users to be correct, as in the address exists, the name is correct, ...
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Verification & Validation books
So I need some help with Verification & Validation of software. So I know the definitions of both but ... I can't really find any real entry level books about the process from setting up the ...
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How can we verify that software meets specifications meets requirements?
So we're pretty good at eliciting requirements from our end customers, business division and sales/marketing. We plan projects to add/enhance features to meet those requests and prioritize tasks to ...
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why is it easy to break verification images if they are not distorted to the extent that humans can get them wrong too?
I don't understand why people like to say "Images had to be distorted otherwise they would be easily cracked". I'm talking about those verification images that we had to type to identify that we are ...
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If your team does code review, to what extent do you verify that review fixes are carried out?
On my team, we carry out code reviews (without the use of external tools). The reviewer produces a list of items which the developer should address or consider and then essentially leave them to it ...
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Is Software Testing Really Needed?
I'm a student working on my B.E(CS) and my question is the following:
Is testing in the software field needed?
If we create a software with great care, then why should we test?
After testing can ...
