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I thought that a small project does not need testing…

amirg — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:50:27 +0000

Over the last few weeks I had to write three small (1-2 days of work) applications. They were a command line utility, a Swing application that analyzes the complexity of Java methods, and a web-page–a single .html file–that lets it user extract some information from a REST server (Javascript, JQuery, Ajax). I don’t think that LOC [...]

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Improving the Maintainability of Automated Test Suites

admin — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:40:14 +0000

Article by Cem Kaner What’s the Problem? There are many pitfalls in automated regression testing. I list a few here. James Bach (one of the LAWST participants) lists plenty of others, in his paper “Test Automation Snake Oil.” [3] Problems with the basic paradigm: Here is the basic paradigm for GUI-based automated regression testing: [4] 1. Design a test case,...

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Is it a bug?

Inder P Singh — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 21:29:00 +0000

Scenario: You are a competent tester who has just joined a company and is testing on the first project there. The application you are testing is a financial web application. During test execution, you make the following observations. Rate each observation on a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being definitely not a bug and [...]

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Why Software Testers Need Interpersonal Skills

uTest — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 21:25:29 +0000

Let’s take a scenario where a tester follows the rules and reports 100 bugs. Some of these bugs were traced to non-documented requirements that are implicit in nature, such as a drop-down list not populating alphabetically and things of that nature. These bugs are quite common and usually end up in conflict, as development teams [...]

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Selenium RC: How to Upload and Submit Files Using Selenium and AutoIt

amirg — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 23:30:23 +0000

Article by Amir Ghahrai Many web applications contain HTML forms which interact with the user. The user is able to enter data in to the form fields and submit the data to a server. Selenium is able to handle form inputs such as entering text in text fields, selecting radio buttons, selecting a value from a [...]

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How to get a job in Software Testing

amirg — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:11:45 +0000

Article by Amir Ghahrai Like any other job, getting a job in software testing and choosing software testing as a career, requires passion, interest and dedication as the foremost criteria. If you lack these, chance are you will get bored very quickly which will have a negative impact on your performance at work and the quality [...]

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The Billion Dollar Industry Started By A Bug

Preena — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 13:38:41 +0000

The story goes that when Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, a pioneering computer scientist, was working on the Harvard Mark II Computer, all work stopped for no apparent reason. Hunting through the Mark II, her fellow scientists discovered a moth stuck in a relay, whereupon she ad-libbed that they were “debugging” the [...]

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How can Mathematics be the Language of Nature?

shrinik — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 18:03:47 +0000

Feed from shrinik.blogspot.com I am reading this wonderful book about Physics (and history and philosophy of Physics) “Tao of Physics” by my all time favorite Physicist and author Dr. Fritjof Capra, a contemporary of Werner Heisenberg. Incidentally, Dr. Capra’s other famous book “Turning point” has really introduced me the concept...

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Watir and Selenium: Two open-source tools for testing web applications

amirg — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 22:11:44 +0000

Two excellent open-source tools for testing web applications are under development: Watir and Selenium. I’ve been contributing to both. Why? Wouldn’t it be better to just have one good tool? Both tools run tests directly in a browser, and both do it in a way that allows the browser to be minimized while the [...]

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What is Penetration Testing?

RK Prisiami — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 10:45:38 +0000

Penetration testing is an frequently baffled term. Just what is a penetration test? Why conduct penetration testing? What can be tested? What should be tested? What do you get for the money? How to proceed to ensure the project is a success What is a penetration test? Much of the confusion surrounding penetration testing stems from the [...]

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