Software Testing Complete Guide

I am glad to share “Manual Testing Help” eBook prepared by one of our readers. The content of this eBook is very useful to understand manual testing concepts, testing methodologies and preparing for software testing interviews.

Here are some of the topics covered in this book:

• Fundamentals of software testing
• When defects gets introduced in SDLC?
• Why does software have defects?
• What is Verification?
• What is Validation?
• Software Testing Techniques
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A couple of months ago, I wrote about database testing strategies. It covered the aspect that is entirely related to the execution of test cases. It was all about black-box testing of a database. There is another important aspect of DB testing activity which we will cover in this article.

As a tester, you have to test the ‘Examination Results’ module of the website of a university. Consider the whole application has been integrated and it is in ‘Ready for Testing’ state. ‘Examination Module’ is linked with ‘Registration’, ‘Courses’ and ‘Finance’ modules. Assume that you have adequate information of Continue reading →

In previous article we discussed on how WAPT pro performance testing tool can be used for website performance testing. But if you want to generate much higher load on web site you must use the latest x64 Load Engine release from WAPT team. This article and ultimately the testing tool is very useful for performance testers.

This is in fact most crucial test for time critical applications such as stock management systems which gets refreshed every minute creating huge load on Continue reading →

We’ve reached 10000 Facebook fans!! I’m so excited about reaching the 10,000 Facebook fans milestone and thankful to all of you because you are the ones that helped us to be here.

To celebrate this achievement I’m giving away a software testing book and one best book of the year (see details below). This giveaway will be open for a week starting from today 20th Nov 2011.

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What is loadUI?
LoadUI is a free and open source load testing tool that allows you to do complex load tests and test the performance by simply dragging the different components around. LoadUI lets you to create and update test cases while you run them. What is making loadUI powerful is the focus on usability through its visual interface and intuitive design combined with the flexibility that comes from the possibility of making changes during the test.

How loadUI works:

LoadUI consist of building blocks called Components that you drag from the Continue reading →

This is a guest post by Meenal Balajiwale.

“If QA (Quality Assurance) is done then why do we need to perform QC (Quality Control)?”, this thought may come to our mind some times and looks a valid point too.  This means if we have followed all the pre-defined processes, policies and standards correctly and completely then why do we need to perform a round of QC?

In my opinion QC is required after QA is done. While in ‘QA’ we define the processes, policies, strategies, establish standards, developing checklists etc. to be used and followed through out the life cycle of a project. And while in QC we follow all those defined processes, standards and policies to make sure Continue reading →