What is meant by formal and informal testing? Under which
category it comes?

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What is meant by formal and informal testing? Under which category it comes?..

Answer / gunjan

Informal testing is done by a coder before he gives files to
the testing team.The coder himself tests his codes in an
informal way.there is no procedure of informal testing.the
coder also uses automation tools for unit testing and
integration testing.
On the other hand formal testing is done by the testing
team.The testing team follows the formal procedure of
testing the files.They make test cases,run tests and then
log the bugs in the bug tracking tools.

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What is meant by formal and informal testing? Under which category it comes?..

Answer / anand

formal and informal testing comes under smoke testing........
formal testing:
1.test lead sends a mail to team members saying that take
the application and test the basic features.....
2.Here communication takes place between devoloppers,test
lead and test engineers...
informal testing:
1.In this,even though test engineers testing the basic
features of the apllication but they will not come to know
that we are doing smoke testing......
2.no comm...takes place here

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What is meant by formal and informal testing? Under which category it comes?..

Answer / kamal tekumatla

Formal testing: performing smoke testing and sending the report to test lead is known as formal testing

Informal testing: performing smoke testing without any intimation from test lead after the build is ready from dev team is called informal testing.

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What is meant by formal and informal testing? Under which category it comes?..

Answer / jaiganesh

Formal represent, conducting the proper meeting with in the
team members and other team members(development), proper
documentation, logging the bug etc...

Informal represents not doing these things...

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What is meant by formal and informal testing? Under which category it comes?..

Answer / dilip

formal and informal comes under smoke test ing
formal:if your lead ask u to do smoke teting and ask u to send report it is called formal
Informal:with out asking also you did smoke testing is called informal

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What is meant by formal and informal testing? Under which category it comes?..

Answer / m.ramani chandra

After smoke testing we are sending reporting bugs to manager
or developer,so they can fix the bugs called formal testing.

After smoke testing we may forgot to send bugs report to
either manager or developer, so they couldn't fix the bugs
called informal testing.

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