From the category archives:

QA

Mobile apps are here to stay but the challenges to test these remain the same. We have already gone through the list of challenges when testing a mobile app – OS and device fragmentation, form factor variations, bandwidth issues, network speeds, recording user actions and load requirements which are varied in mobile. Testing web apps [...]

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The quality engineering has gained the popularity as same way as software design and development and sometime more than some of the development technologies; as it is required for most of the application /systems. As being most recognized company in Quality engineering, we observed that most of the companies will have quality engineering department of their [...]

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Before the introduction of iPhone App Store, mobile phone applications were limited to native applications offered by handset manufacturers.  Users had a very limited choice and had no control on customization. The evolution of Android and iOS ecosystems since 2007 has made mobile applications very popular. It has allowed developers to write and sell their [...]

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Hundreds of QA professionals descended on Anaheim for the 2011 Starwest Conference & Expo (and for other things, such as networking and maybe just a wee bit of Disneyland rides), which has been billed as “the world’s largest conference on Software Quality Assurance.” It was my first time attending this conference, which is the largest [...]

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JMeter mode setting : Helps in optimizing the load generation

by Patel Akhilkumar on October 3, 2011

Preface: Oftentimes, we have observed that the Jmeter samples of load scenarios don’t match with previous runs or don’t match among different servers in standalone and client server environment (distributed) etc. The results/samples depend on the many parameters like SUT version, time of execution, data in back end, pacing of requests, think time between requests and [...]

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Mobile Web Application Test Automation – IV

by Chirag Jayswal on September 6, 2011

I hope you found the first 3 parts of the blogs on Mobile Web Application Test Automation informative and helpful. While Part 1 provides an introduction to mobile web automation, Part 2 talks about the testing methodology and how browser simulations will work and Part 3 focuses on browser simulation tools. Continuing the sequence, in [...]

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“Why We Make Mistakes” in Test Automation

by jlucas on August 29, 2011

Test automation in general, and specifically scripted automation, is an essential component of any software testing effort. Advocating the appropriate use of automation in testing has been a major focus of mine since I started software testing over eight years ago. Recently, I have been reading the book “Why We Make Mistakes” by Joseph T. [...]

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The Million Dollar Bug: Discover it before it discovers you!

by durgesh.kaushik on August 24, 2011

Every CEO, CIO, QA manager, designer and developer wants to build a perfect software application; a robust application that performs under all circumstances and all times. Absolutely no lapse in quality is tolerated by end-users or by other stake holders. In most cases, the buck stops at Quality Assurance manager’s desk. QA leaders need to [...]

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Preface: I hope you may have enjoyed the first part of this series “Performance Monitoring of ASP.Net Application”. Now as we have got basic information about the performance monitoring of the ASP.Net application using performance counters, you may have found the problamatic areas of application and now it is time to dig more into the application [...]

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WordPress Security

by Ankit Mehta on August 3, 2011

WordPress Security: Any CMS like WordPress can be affected by two major factors when it is in public or protected environment. Environmental Issues (Hosting Environment) Configuration Issues (Plugins, Modules) Environmental Issues: 1.       Threat: Fuzzing attack Countermeasure: Implement IPS Attackers try to attack on any server using fuzzing. Fuzzing will increase number of user request on [...]

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