Systems Testing and Quality Assurance Techniques
Checklist: Additional Testing Concerns
- Memory: availability, high, low, virtual, swapping, page size
- Resource competition on the system
- Processing: batch, on-line, multiple input sources
- Conflicts: anti-viral software, automated test tools, TSR’s, security
software, IRQs - Backup: disaster recovery, backups, rerun capability
- Connectivity: band width, interoperability, modem speed, ISDN lines,
distributed applications - Security: passwords, fire walls
- CD-Rom access and speed
- File conversions
- Design of client server architecture
- Version Controls
- Display issues: graphics, monitor size, graphic cards
- Printer: type, speed, color, resolution, paper weight, paper size,
envelopes, multiple printers - Platform: mainframe, minicomputer, microcomputer, number of platforms
- Multiple operating systems
- Transactions: size, quantity, rate
- Error processing: message source, location, timing, acknowledgements