May 23rd, 2008 — Testing News, Testing Tips and resources, Web Testing
Mozilla released its Firefox 3 release candidate internet browser to public for testing purpose only. Mozilla Firefox is the most popular internet browser after Microsoft’s Internet explorer. By releasing this Firefox 3.0 version to developers and testers community, company wants to make sure product is fully ready for final release.
Company is taking feedback from testers and web developers to improve and fix most of the bugs before advancing to next version.
February 2nd, 2008 — Testing Skill Improvement, Testing Tips and resources
No matter whether you are working on stand-alone project or web project, operating systems and networking knowledge is must for testers. Many testing activities like installation testing, performance testing are dependent on operating system knowledge. Now days most of the web servers are Unix based. So Unix knowledge is mandatory for tester.
For the beginners in Unix, learning basic Unix commands is a good start. This article explains basic Unix commands and in next article we will move on to the Unix operating system basics and advanced Unix commands.
January 29th, 2008 — Testing best practices, Testing Skill Improvement, Testing Tips and resources
I have mentioned importance of proper test data in many of my previous articles. Tester should check and update the test data before execution of any test case. In this article I will provide tips on how to prepare test environment so that any important test case will not be missed by improper test data and incomplete test environment setup.
If you are writing test case then you need input data for any kind of test. Tester may provide this input data at the time of executing the test cases or application may pick the required input data from the predefined data locations. The test data may be any kind of input to application, any kind of file that is loaded by the application or entries read from the database tables. It may be in any format like xml test data, system test data, SQL test data or stress test data.
January 25th, 2008 — Testing Tips and resources, Software Job Openings, Web Testing
This article will help you to learn basic web terminologies. While testing web applications it’s very necessary to know all web technologies. This will increase the test coverage and also the capabilities of web application tester.
This web terminology article is compiled by Meenakshi M. She is working as a Test Engineer and having 3+yrs of experience in Manual and Automation (QTP) testing.
December 5th, 2007 — Questions & answers, Testing Tips and resources, Testing Interview questions, QA certifications
This article will give you general idea about CSTE certification exam paper pattern. I have included some sample questions and answers for the CSTE mock test paper. You can refer these questions and can judge the pattern of descriptive answer paper. If you need objective type questions from CSTE paper you can refer our previous article on CSTE objective type question answers . Also you can download some more sample papers from our ‘Downloads’ section.
CSTE mock test paper - Questions and Answers:
October 23rd, 2007 — Testing Tips and resources, software testing links
To keep our readers updated on software testing events and activities, I will compile a weekly list of the online resources found. No doubt these resources are quality resources on software testing and you will get insight of software testing industry.
Microsoft last week launched software testing website - Microsoft tester center. James Whittaker Security Architect, Microsoft said “The goal of launching tester center is to provide community of software testers to share knowledge and learn from each other about software testing, day to day job work, testing tools and processes”.
