Questions tagged [support]
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Can a moderator change the reference to "Programmers Stack Exchange" to "Software Engineering Stack Exchange" in the custom close reason?
Questions about software engineering unrelated to testing are off-topic here, but can be asked on Programmers Stack Exchange.
A couple of problems with this close reason:
Programmers Stack Exchange ...
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How do I receive a signal the question voted for closure is worth close-vote retracting
Sometimes I vote for questions closure (usually I do not post an explanation comment why I vote for closure since I consider the reasons I choose perfectly describing the issue I can see with the ...
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Are questions on yaml for testng coding on topic?
I wanted to ask a question on structuring common and test-specific data in yaml files for using with DataProviders in TestNG. However, there is no tag for yaml so I don't know if this belongs on SQA ...
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How can I see the list of the most viewed question ever?
In case I am missing it or it is biting me in the face, is there a way I can view the list of the:
most viewed question
most voted question
most answered question
I`m looking for an all time span ...
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Could someone create a tmap tag?
This Q&A is about tmap, but there is no such tag. Could someone create this?
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Winter Bash 2016 : Not Getting received 011-Hat for "Collect 11 hats" action
Not getting received 011 Hat for "Collect 11 hats" action, even though I have already collected 12 hats for SQA site.
Is this valid bug with SQA beta site or there is something new steps to collect ...
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Seems like the code preview is broken for this question
What elements should I assert for automation of my eCommerce application?
Code in my answer looks ok when posted or viewed but when you go into edit mode the preview doesn't show all as code, some is ...
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how to deal with synonymous tags?
As of now, there are 24 questions with the hp-quality-center tag and 86 questions with the hpqc tag. Is there a way to merge them or mark them as synonyms? I prefer the hp-quality-center tag, but I ...
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How should I handle more or less related spam?
A new user has posted answers to old questions so far. Most of them refer to articles on a site called OnPath Testing. The answers are mostly relevant to the question, but the user has not disclosed ...
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Edit and Close same question by same person
Is this correct to edit and raise a request to Close the question at the same time and that too by the same person.
I have seen that sometimes, same person first edits the Question and simultaneously ...
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Language hint does not have effect on SQA?
In this question, I tried to use each of the following in turn, but none had effect:
<!-- language: none -->
<!-- language: text -->
<!-- language: xml -->
The effect expected is ...
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Are LoadRunner questions on topic on SQA or on Stackoverflow?
On one hand, "Software Quality Assurance & Testing" seems to suggest that LoadRunner questions belong here:
–§– Software Quality Assurance & Testing Stack ...
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Finishing SQA reviews, counts sticks after I empty my que
How do I get my review count to zero? Currently its always above 8 even if I empty my que. Like in this screenshot its still 10.
I tried looking at the Tools link left of Review, but I can't seem to ...
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Tag "selenium-webdriver" not available at "sqa.stackexchange.com"
I have just noticed that tag called "selenium-webdriver" is not available at "sqa.stackexchange.com".
I have edited many question in sqa.stackexchange.com and not getting above tag. Same tag is ...
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Getting some already answered questions under "Unanswered" category
I just went to page : https://sqa.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=unanswered
Ex : Loading page generates exception 'Timed out waiting for page load' - This question have many answers given ...
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Can something be done to achieve fair votes in this forum? If yes, what could be done?
Today I stumbled upon this question:
Will the new ISO/IEC 29119 Software Testing standard work with agile methodologies like Scrum?
I was astonished that James Bach's answer was upvoted at least 16 ...
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Who is this person? - New user with the same name as me - my name isn't that common
Maybe I'm being overly suspicious here, but I don't have a particularly common name, so it was a bit surprising to see a new response to an old question from this profile (https://sqa.stackexchange....
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Wanting advice/feedback regarding idea for testing tools
I have an idea for my testing team to implement a utility that will allow cross-application testing simultaneously. I have a general outline of the idea and have tried to discuss it elsewhere but, ...
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Fault tolerance (reliability) in SQA
My last last question was closed as off-topic. Yet, the only thing that on-topic page ascertains is that questions are accepted from QA engeneers and must not be "too localized" and I do not ...
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This IS spam, right?
This answer is pure Spam and should be deleted, right?
it's a response to an old question
it doesn't really answer the question
it tries to get the questioner to sign up for a training program
https:...
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tag-based site statistics
I want to analyze the kinds of topics that appear in SQA questions. Questions are tagged, and you can determine how many questions are associated with each tag. I would like to know, for example, ...
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Site statistics over time
Is there a way to see SQA statistics (e.g. number of visitors and number of active participants) over time? It would be interesting to see how the site is changing ( and how or whether it is growing)....
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Is RSS an option?
I am an RSS junkie. My Google Reader has loads of RSS feeds and I actually read them. I looked but did not see an RSS feed for the questions for SQA. Since the user doesn't have to log in to view the ...
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Vote limit reached? But I haven't voted today...
So this is awkward. I just tried to upvote a question, and it said I reached my limit for the day. Only thing is, I haven't upvoted yet today!
Strangely enough, I reached my vote limit yesterday ...
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What's the most appropriate stack-exchange site to post my selenium autotest coding questions?
Hi,
I was wondering whether I should be posting questions like this one or this one, on SQA, or on StackOverflow where I originally put them?
The reason I ask, is because I see a lot of tech type ...
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Is it wrong to publicize the SQA site on Stack Exchange?
So I had a question posted here asking about how we can attract existing selenium users to post questions on SQA site
One response was (which I also marked as right response) -
"add a comment ...
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How do we promote selenium users to post questions in the form of questions?
I've noticed that there are a lot of the Selenium and Selenium 2 questions that have a title that is not in the form of the question and that, in the body, there really isn't a definitive "How do I" ...
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Are specific tool related questions appropriate for SQA?
There does not appear to be a specific stack exchange site for questions and answers for specific testing tools (like QTP, Selenium, TestComplete, etc). I know that the tools themselves have their ...
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What's up with Community Wiki
Note: I thought I saw this discussed, but couldn't find it.
We have a fair number of "what are some blogs|podcasts|web sites|books" questions that should definitely (IMO) be community wiki.
What I ...
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how do I edit a previous edit that hasn't been accepted yet?
I submitted an edit (cleaned up some grammar) on one of the posts. After doing so, I realized that I'd also inadvertently changed a technical term to something with possibly-different meaning. I'd ...
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How would we attract Selenium users to ask question on SQA site than on StackOveflow?
As we all know area51 selenium proposal was merged in to SQA forum.
And there are already selenium tags on StackOveflow.
Challenge would be to have Selenium questions coming to SQA site. So -
Will ...
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