softwaretestingstuff

Performance testing - It is performed to evaluate the performance of components of a particular system in a specific situation. It very wide term. It includes: Load Testing, Stress Testing, capacity testing, volume testing, endurance testing, spike testing, scalability testing and reliability testing etc. This type of testing generally does not give pass or fail. It is basically done to set the benchmark & standard of the application against Concurrency / Throughput, Server response time... Read Full Story

Sometimes, testing on various browsers becomes a challenge for software test professionals & project teams. Running the test cases on all browsers makes the testing cost very high. Specially, it becomes a challenge when we do not have expert designers in the team or when we don’t have verification/validation phase at the time of screen design. This is the bad part. Now, let’s see what is good. The best thing is that there are many FREE as well as paid cross browser compatible testing tools... Read Full Story

All software engineering areas face lot of challenges during execution. So, I would say, as a tester, never ever get surprised when you face challenges in software testing. But, it is also a hard fact for tester community that most of the companies are not testing oriented. Management always do a good appraisal of development teams. Sometimes, appreciation goes to development teams only. Few points that I want highlight to management / project managers & development teams: If development... Read Full Story

Date: 02-Nov-10 There few urgent openings for software test professionals having experience from 6 months to 1 year. Location: Gurgaon If you are interested, please send your cv at jobs_india@yahoo.com with the subject line as “Testing | Years of Experience”. Kindly mention the below details: Current CTC: Expected CTC: Notice Period: Below is the job description: Experience in testing of web based applications Experience in Manual Functional and System Testing Experience in test case design... Read Full Story

Introduction: HP quality center is web-based test management tool QC is used to manage the application testing process QC is used to define releases, specifying requirements, planning tests, executing tests, tracking defects, alerting on changes, and analyzing results QC also shows you how to customize your project Defect: Anything that is extra or missing or wrong in application is termed as defect QC helps you to add defects to application when found and track the defect repair progression... Read Full Story

Working with different stake holders in a project, teams would be facing difficulty in keeping transparency on bugs because of following common problems: Lack of process for bug logging: Typical scenario like testing & development teams are not well educated on severities & priorities to be used and their importance. No clear communication to testing team on required fields as part of bug logging. Testers may skip to mention required data like reproducible steps or may skip to attached screen... Read Full Story

Test Manager/Lead has to take the responsibility of communicating the defects to the respective Dev teams and all other stake holders. The process should be defined in such a way as depending on the severity of the defect the SLA for turnaround times should exist. The bug tracking & management tools should trigger an e-mail to the assigned team when the defect is assigned. If no tool is used Test leads will be sending e-mail communication to the Dev teams. While communicating bugs, always... Read Full Story

Below is a list of major scenarios for cookies testing of a website. Multiple test cases can be generated from these scenarios by performing various combinations. Check if the application is writing cookies properly or not. Test to make sure that no personal or sensitive data is stored in the cookie. If it is there in cookies, it should be in encrypted format. If the application under test is a public website, there should not be overuse of cookies. It may result in loss of website traffic if... Read Full Story

Smoke Testing: Testing done to ensure that whether the build can be accepted for through testing or not. Basically, it is done to check the stability of the build received for testing. Sanity testing: After receiving a build with minor changes in the code or functionality, a subset of regression test cases are executed that to check whether it rectified the issues and no other bug is introduced by the changes. Sometimes, when multiple cycles of regression testing are executed, sanity testing... Read Full Story

In my various posts in this web log, I wrote about common and important Testing Types, Methods and Strategies. Below are these topics. Although this is not a complete list, but soon it will increase in size as well as in quality. Here is the list: Localization Testing Agile Testing Build Verification Testing Usability Testing Penetration Testing Installation Testing Network Protocol Testing Security Testing Regression Testing Rapid Testing Task-Based Software Testing Thread Based Integration... Read Full Story