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Test Strategy

March 6th 2012

Test Strategy is the plan for how you are going to approachWhy do a Test Strategy? The testing. It is like a project charter that tells the world how you are going to approach the project. You may have it all in your head, and if you are the only person doing the work it [...]

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White Box Testing

February 21st 2012

So, What is a White Box Testing? White Box Testing is the testing of a software solution’s internal coding and infrastructure. It focuses primarily on strengthening security, the flow of inputs and outputs through the application, design and usability. White box testing is also known as clear, open, structural, and glass box testing. It is [...]

Whats Test Case

February 20th 2012

A test case describes an input, action, or event and an expected response, to determine if a feature of a software application is working correctly. A test case may contain particulars such as test case identifier, test case name, objective, test conditions/setup, input data requirements, steps, and expected results. The level of detail may vary [...]

Software Testing Techniques

February 20th 2012

Black box testing – not based on any knowledge of internal design or code. Tests are based on requirements and functionality. White box testing – based on knowledge of the internal logic of an application’s code. Tests are based on coverage of code statements, branches, paths, conditions. unit testing – the most ‘micro’ scale of [...]

Testing Web Application Essentials

February 20th 2012

Web sites are essentially client/server applications – with web servers and ‘browser’ clients. Consideration should be given to the interactions between html pages, TCP/IP communications, Internet connections, firewalls, applications that run in web pages (such as applets, javascript, plug-in applications), and applications that run on the server side (such as cgi scripts, database interfaces, logging [...]

QA Test Plan

February 20th 2012

A software project test plan is a document that describes the objectives, scope, approach, and focus of a software testing effort. The process of preparing a test plan is a useful way to think through the efforts needed to validate the acceptability of a software product. The completed document will help people outside the test [...]

Quality Assurance, Quality Control, or Testing?

February 20th 2012

Many people and organizations are confused about the difference between quality assurance (QA), quality control (QC), and testing. They are closely related, but they are different concepts. But all these three are useful to manage risks of developing and managing software. Quality Assurance: A set of activities designed to ensure that the development and/or maintenance [...]

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Black Box Testing

February 16th 2012

So what’s Black Box Testing? Black box testing is a software testing techniques in which functionality of the software under test (SUT) is tested without looking at the internal code structure, implementation details and knowledge of internal paths of the software. This type of testing is based entirely on the software requirements and specifications. In Black Box Testing we [...]

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Using Social Bookmarks

September 26th 2011

Why Do we Need to Use Social Bookmarks? Every time we add a bookmark to one of our pages we create a backlink. If we bookmark every piece of content this becomes a lot overtime. But goal here is to make sure that the bookmarking sites provide a real, do-follow link. People debate as to [...]

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15 Open Source Performance Testing Tools

August 13th 2011

In software engineering, performance testing is testing that is performed, to determine how fast a system performs under a particular workload. It is also used to verify other quality attributes of the system, such as scalability, reliability and resource usage. Performance testing can serve different purposes. It can demonstrate that the system meets performance criteria. [...]