Software Testing Magazine

Adventures in Exploratory Software Testing

stmag — Wed, 22 May 2013 13:03:31 +0000

Exploratory testing is an approach to software testing that is defined as doing in the same activity application learning, test cases and test design and execution. In this article, Martin Jansson and Greger Nolmark propose to perform exploratory testing using a storytelling game format. This is a game where two or more persons collaborate on telling a spontaneous story. When you use storytelling for exploratory testing, the storyteller role is filled by the test lead, coach or similar function. The other software testers are the players. Software developers and business analysts ...

HP LoadRunner Mobile Testing Capabilities Enhanced by Shunra

stmag — Wed, 22 May 2013 12:35:23 +0000

Shunra Software, a network virtualization for software testing company, has announced new features to its Shunra NV for HP Software. These features provide greater mobile testing capabilities and dramatically improve ease of use. Shunra NV for HP Software is the only HP-certified solution specifically designed to accelerate and optimize application performance testing across WAN, web, mobile and Cloud networks. Shunra NV for HP Software integrates seamlessly into HP LoadRunner and Performance Center, enhancing the accuracy of testing by incorporating real-world network conditions into the load and performance test environment. Shunra NV ...

Lessons Learned from Managing Software Testing Teams

stmag — Fri, 17 May 2013 15:23:09 +0000

Johanna Rothman first started managing a software testing group in 1988. Since then, she managed software testers, coached testers or coached project managers and managers in what they should—and should not—expect from testers. She learned how to separate project success from release criteria, how to hire outstanding testers, how to explain the value of testing to the rest of the organization, and how to show that testers are just as smart as developers, but that they tend to be more crafty, devious and evil towards the product under test. Video Producer: ...

First Funding Round for Appvance Software Testing Tool

stmag — Fri, 17 May 2013 11:26:39 +0000

Appvance, Inc has announced it has closed its first ever outside round of financing. The $1.05M round was led by Staenberg Ventures, Social Internet Fund and FundersClub. In addition to validating Web, Mobile Web, HTML5, Ajax and RIA apps, Appvance Enterprise builds and runs test suites in a 100% graphical environment for SOAP and REST services for up to millions of concurrent requests. Customers by themselves, or alongside Appvance experts, may develop single tests and re-use them for functional, performance, and production monitoring. The company’s deep expertise in complex performance bottlenecks ...

Sauce Labs Now Supports Android, iOS and Mobile Apps

stmag — Tue, 14 May 2013 14:47:24 +0000

Sauce Labs has announced that it has expanded its Appium on Sauce mobile application test cloud, making it generally available and adding support for the Android OS. Based on the open source mobile testing framework Appium, Sauce Labs’ Appium on Sauce is a powerful cloud-based, testing platform that automates cross-browser testing for native iOS apps, mobile web hybrid apps and now native Android apps. The solution provides software developers a comprehensive, cost-effective and easy-to-use solution for ensuring the quality and integrity of software they’re releasing to consumers. “Appium on Sauce solves a ...

Testing Android Apps with Robotium and JBehave

stmag — Mon, 13 May 2013 15:50:06 +0000

The purpose of the article is to implement a Behavior Driver Development (BDD) infrastructure for Android applications with the JBehave open source BDD tool and Robotium open source Android testing software. We will go through complete architectural understandings and try to set-up the framework. Author: Naveed Saleem Introduction Behavior Driven Development is easiest way to ensure that all stakeholders are on same page. The software tester is sure about testing the application designed exactly as expected by the product owner, the business analyst and developer. To create a BDD architecture to test Android ...

Test First and Test Driven Development Difference

stmag — Tue, 07 May 2013 18:44:50 +0000

What is the difference between “Test First” software development and “Test Driven Development (TDD)”? In this blog post, Daniel Lindner provides his opinion about this topic and discusses his issues with Test Driven Development and how he thought he could train to apply it properly. He defines “Test First” as “write a failing test first and make it green by writing exactly enough production code to do so.” “Test Driven Development” is defined as “apply a Test First approach to a problem using baby steps, letting the tests drive the production ...

Architecting Your JavaScript Application for Testability

stmag — Tue, 07 May 2013 05:01:20 +0000

Testable JavaScript is a process. Whether starting with a blank slate or an already implemented application (or somewhere in-between) being able to test your JavaScript code simply, cleanly, and effectively is a necessary feature. Code that cannot be tested will be rewritten. While JavaScript is unique due to the myriad of environments within which it runs, there are several tried and true ‘testable’ methodologies from other languages which also hold true for JavaScript. And of course there remain the unique challenges that JavaScript developers must face while writing and testing their ...

Bad Software Testing, Good Software Testing

stmag — Thu, 02 May 2013 10:00:08 +0000

Writing tests looks simple and every kid could write few lines of JUnit code. Writing valuable tests is more challenging. Everyone have seen (or written himself!) tests, which are hard to understand, hard to maintain, and do not verify anything really important (or maybe they do, but it is too hard to deduce)! Some tests are simply a burden. I want to present few examples of bad tests and show the ways of improving them. Along the way, I plan to discuss some general issues related to writing tests, present few ...

Commercial Version of WebLoadUI Launched

stmag — Wed, 01 May 2013 16:52:35 +0000

SmartBear Software is redefining large-scale Web optimization with WebLoadUI Pro, its new Web performance testing tool. This new commercial version, released a few weeks after strong interest in the free WebLoadUI tool, addresses the needs of enterprise and large website teams with advanced capabilities and support at an affordable cost. “WebLoadUI Pro marks the completion of an ambitious project to establish a freeware model for Web load testing with the same product structure as the very successful LoadUI for API load testing,” said Niclas Reimertz, Managing Director, SmartBear. “This new Pro ...

The Testing Pyramid: Bringing Software Testers and Developers Together

stmag — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 20:56:37 +0000

By working together to create the set of tests and then determining where that testing belongs, we can increase efficiency, reliability and reduce debugging time for failures in the future. The test pyramid is an idea explained by Mike Cohn in his book “Succeeding with Agile”. Its main point is that you should have more low-level unit tests than high level end-to-end tests running through a GUI. Video Producer: http://aceconf.com/

Parasoft Provides Virtualized Mobile App Performance Testing

stmag — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 05:58:42 +0000

Parasoft has announced a new offering that unites Service Virtualization and Network Virtualization to enable more thorough and accurate mobile application testing. The solution enables enterprises to rapidly and cost-effectively establish test environments that accurately represent the production environment,ensuring that test results are reliably predictive of how applications will perform once deployed. Service Virtualization enables organizations to emulate the behavior of the myriad dependencies involved in end-to-end mobile application transactions in order to test earlier, faster and more completely. Network Virtualization adds the ability to accurately emulate the performance of telecommunications ...

Automated Analysis of Load Testing Logs

stmag — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:25:48 +0000

Now that a lot of software applications are directly visible from customers and that a failure has broader consequences, load testing has gained an increase importance in the software testing domain. In this Phd thesis, Zhen Ming Jiang propose an approache for the automated and systematic analysis of load testing logs. For those who fears that the content might be too much theoretical, many of the techniques in this thesis were developed to address the daily challenges faced by software testers at Research In Motion (RIM). Load testing execution logs are ...

Cigniti Rated CMMI–SVC v1.3 Maturity Level 3 for Software Testing Services

stmag — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:46:39 +0000

Cigniti Technologies has announced that it has been rated at CMMI–SVC v1.3 Maturity Level 3 of the CMMI Institute (Powered by Carnegie Mellon University) Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI). The decision to operate at SVC v1.3 model is more relevant in today’s market and the markets of the future as well, since it adds more value to the services business that Cigniti is into. Acknowledging the achievement, Raj Neravati, Chief Operating Officer, Cigniti said, “This appraisal reflects Cigniti’s position as a mature, trusted partner for our existing clients and will help ...

Vector Software and Polarion Software Partner in Software Verification and Validation

stmag — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:45:17 +0000

Vector Software and Polarion Software announced a strategic partnership to develop solutions that improve software Verification and Validation in regulated environments. Polarion Software develops and markets competitively-priced fully integrated, web-based solutions for Requirements Management, Test Management/Quality Assurance (QA), and ALM that provide full traceability and transparency throughout the product lifecycle. Polarion Software’s browser-based solutions improve the efficiency of product development and help organizations identify and mitigate risks, improve quality, and achieve compliance with safety, risk, and quality standards in record time. Vector Software solutions provide development organizations the most complete and cost ...

QF-Test version 3.5.0 Released

stmag — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:41:10 +0000

Quality First Software GmbH has released the new branch of their professional test automation tool for Web and Java GUIs in feature-complete version 3.5.0. The most notable features added since the release start of the previous 3.4 branch in May 2011 are the concept of grouping and managing test-suites in projects, Daemon communication now secured via SSL, new support for AJAX toolkit Vaadin, full sub-item support for several AJAX toolkits, integration with test management tool QMetry, updated support for Firefox up to current 20, updated support up to Eclipse versions 4.2.2 ...

How Good Acceptance Test Can Make Your Team Happier

stmag — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 20:57:07 +0000

Tools like Selenium make writing automated browser tests dead easy. Many teams never look further than this, and are satisfied with just replacing their laborious manual testing efforts with reliable Selenium scripts. They’ve missed a big opportunity. If your test scripts talk in terms of button clicks and form interactions, they are hiding what’s interesting about your tests: the language of your domain. These tests are also brittle, breaking easily as the site’s design evolves. This video shows some very bad examples of browser automation scripts, and explains how using a ...

Unit Testing Python Code

stmag — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 18:08:53 +0000

This chapter from the “Hitchhiker’s Guide to Python” provides recommendations on how to perform unit tests in Python and presents the unitest and doctest modules. It also lists the tools that are available to perform unit testing in Python. Amongst the general rules of testing that are provided for Python, you can find: * A testing unit should focus on one tiny bit of functionality and prove it correct. * Each test unit must be fully independent. Each of them must be able to run alone, and also within the test suite, regardless ...

Coverity and NT OBJECTives Partner for Application Security Testing

stmag — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:45:55 +0000

Coverity and NT OBJECTives announced the companies have formed a partnership to enable the industry’s first “developer-ready” Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST) solution. The IAST solution combines and correlates security defects identified by Coverity’s highly-accurate Static Application Security Testing (SAST) software and NTO’s Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) software, providing even more accurate testing results across a broader range of coverage, earlier in the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). As organizations expand security testing into earlier stages of the SDLC, developers need testing solutions that reduce the time they waste with false ...

Ascension Suite 3.0 Helps Load Testing Oracle Hyperion

stmag — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 16:53:40 +0000

Accelatis, provider of Application Performance Management (APM) solutions for Oracle Hyperion and other enterprise software systems, today announced revolutionary new simulation capabilities for its Ascension Suite. A comprehensive APM software solution for Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) systems, Ascension Suite 3.0 continually monitors a wide array of events that affect Oracle Hyperion and IBM Cognos BI performance. Ascension Suite has the most robust, Hyperion centric, easy to use, cost effective way to simulate user activity and test system performance. Ascension Suite 3.0 not only tests systems before initial deployments, but also constantly ...