Ask Me Anything: Test Reporting

The Power Hour Elizabeth mentioned Power Hour - Exploratory Testing

Questions we didn’t get to

  • Do you have experience in having to keep around reports for specific releases that happen quite frequently? Any good practices for leaving results documented for posterity?
  • What about reporting on trends in test execution. Any approach/tools you recommend for analytics?
  • Do you have any suggestions on how to also highlight what went Well in the Test report.
  • Do you find that regularly providing good test reports contributes to meaningful change in the Product Development process as a whole?
  • Is there a good accessibility testing training that you would recommend?
  • Have you used a testing report tool like qa touch? whay do you think about it?
  • how do you deal with client reported bugs? they usually log critical bugs for minor issues. Do you add them in a separate section in your report?
  • What type of graph format need to use to indicate issues ?
  • What are the criteria that need to decide on test status : Pass/Fail/Conditional Go
  • Should we be providing just metrics for our reports or should we look at providing information that answers key questions?
  • How can exploratory testers create their portfolios?
  • What do your reports look like? How do you organise within your reports?
  • What tools (or strategy?) do you prefer to use for test reporting? Or if no preference, how do you decide what is the best tool/strategy to use?
  • Should a Test report be pushed to the version of the code it relates (for that specific environment)?
  • how long does it take you to work on each test report?
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