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Some years ago many companies preferred not to have separate test engineers in the project team. But this I have not seen in past 2-3 years in my career. As now all the companies have a clear idea of the need of the QA and test engineers. Also the QA and testers rolls are now concrete and there is no confusion.

Unfortunately, still I find the perception of testing as a inferior role in some developers mind. This “anyone can do” attitude should be removed from those people’s mind. Lots of companies hiring “any” skilled personals to do this job and eventually suffering from the lost of money and time. Instead of hiring the junk of testers they should hire some gifted testers who can do there job beyond the developer’s limitations.

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As a test engineer or QA engineer it is very important to have at least one of the Software testing certifications. This will help to broaden the software testing knowledge, also helpful for testing employees to get the promotion in their respective field in large MNC’s.

Here I am listing some important software testing certifications:
See the description to know why should one go for the respective certification.

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Sometimes Tester need common sense to test a application!!!

I am saying this because most of the times it is not possible to test the whole application within the specified time. In such situations it’s better to find out the risk factors in the projects and concentrate on them.

Here are some points to be considered when you are in such a situation:
1) Find out Important functionality is your project?
2) Find out High-risk module of the project?
3) Which functionality is most visible to the user?
4) Which functionality has the largest safety impact?
5) Which functionality has the largest financial impact on users?
6) Which aspects of the application are most important to the customer?
7) Which parts of the code are most complex, and thus most subject to errors?
Which parts of the application were developed in rush or panic mode?
9) What do the developers think are the highest-risk aspects of the application?
10) What kinds of problems would cause the worst publicity?
11) What kinds of problems would cause the most customer service complaints?
12) What kinds of tests could easily cover multiple functionalities?

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If you are a tester, QA executive or want to come in testing field,
see in which of following qualities describes you.

What makes a good test engineer?

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Points to be considered while testing a Web site:

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 applications, dynamic page generators, asp, etc.).

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A million Dollar question!!!
Why does Software have bugs?

There are many reasons for Bug in software, Most are man introduced and some are machine oriented.

Here is the the broad list:

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