Test Analyst Guide

There are 3 different environments in a software development team are shown below: 1. Development environment:  This is the workspace where developer’s program and test code.. It's often local to each developer's machine, where they have the necessary tools and libraries installed. An integrated development environment (IDE) — a software package with extensive functions for authoring, building, testing, and debugging a program which is commonly used by software developers. Some programming software tools such as Microsoft Visual Studio, Eclipse, NetBeans, and other integrated development environments. 2. Testing environment:  The test environment program helps to identify and fix bugs and prevent the application to deviate from the defined set of requirements. The testing environment is used for various types of testing, including integration testing, regression testing and user acceptance testing (UAT). 3. Production environment:  The production Environment is the live e...

  What is a Use case? Use Cases are used to capture the requirements of a system and ensure that all necessary functionality is included. They describe the interactions between a user (called an “actor”) and the system in order to achieve a specific goal. Use case should identify a few key components. The most important ones include: • Actor: anything exhibiting behavior that interacts with a system (For an e-commerce website an actor can be a buyer, Distributors or sellers, etc.) • System: The product or service with defined functionality. • Goal: the purpose or objective users reach with a system’s features. • Stakeholder(s): someone with a stake or interest in a system’s performance. Actors are always stakeholders, but many stakeholders are not actors. • Primary actor: the actor who initiates a system’s function to reach a goal. • Preconditions: underlying factors required for the use case to happen. Imagine building a website for an e-commerce website. Some of the use case migh...

  Client:  Clients are devices (like computers, smartphones, tablets) or software applications that are capable of connecting to a network and initiating requests for data or services and then wait for the server to respond. Client sends a request to the server using the network medium. The request can be a query, a command, or a message.   Server:  The server is the application in charge of processing requests, sending responses, or completing actions. Servers are designed to listen for incoming requests from clients, process those requests, and respond accordingly. The response from the server can be data, an acknowledgement, or an error message.  The client sends a request for data from a computer or other device, and the server accepts and accommodates the request and then sends the data back to the user or performs further actions based on it. Clients and servers communicate using predefined protocols and standards, such as HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Pro...

  What is Cloud Based Software?  Cloud has been one of the most promising solutions which has been adopted by many. Cloud has come to the rescue and solution to many problems across various domains.  Cloud software refers to any software application or service that is hosted, accessed, and managed remotely via the internet, rather than being installed on a local computer or server which operates on cloud computing infrastructure. Cloud computing is the delivery of computing services—including servers, storage, databases, networking, software, analytics, and intelligence—over the internet (“the cloud”) to offer faster innovation, flexible resources, and economies of scale. You typically pay only for cloud services you use, helping you lower your operating costs, run your infrastructure more efficiently, and scale as your business needs change. Examples of cloud software include systems like Salesforce, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Slack and Microsoft Teams etc. Cloud s...