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What is Security testing? What are the six basic concepts that need to be covered under it?

Security testing is a process to determine that an information systems protects data and maintains functionality as intended. Security testing is concerned with checking that the system and its data are protected from accidental or malicious damage. The system must be secure against unanticipated as well as anticipated attacks. Security testing may be carried out [...]

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What is SEI, CMM,ISO, IEEE and ANSI?

 SEI = ‘Software Engineering Institute’ at Carnegie-Mellon University; initiated by the U.S. Defense Department to help improve software development processes. CMM = ‘Capability Maturity Model’, developed by the SEI. It’s a model of 5 levels of organizational ‘maturity’ that determine effectiveness in delivering quality software. It is geared to large organizations such as large U.S. [...]

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What are the advantages of Scrum methodology

Below are the advantages of Scrum : 1. Completely developed and tested features in short iterations 2. Simplicity of the process 3. Clearly defined rules 4. Increasing productivity 5. Self-organizing 6. Each team member carries a lot of responsibility 7. Improved communication 8. Combination with Extreme Programming  

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Briefly explain Scrum methodology?

Scrum is an agile process that allows us to focus on delivering the highest business value in the shortest time. It allows us to rapidly and repeatedly inspect actual working software (every two weeks to one month). The business sets the priorities. Our teams self-manage to determine the best way to deliver the highest priority [...]

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What are the advantages of Agile methodologies?

Agile methods are considered 1. light weight  2. They are people based rather than plan based 3. It promotes interactions between individuals over processes and tools 4. Developes working software rather than comprehensive documentation 5. Customer colloboration over contract negotiation 6. Responding to change over following a plan  

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How to review a testcase?

Following are the important steps to review a testcase : 1. Check whether the test case Id is as per the standard IEEE 829 format 2. Spell check the entire testcase 3. Check whether summary of the test case is understandable and whether the preconditions are well defined or not 4. Check whether the calling [...]

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