Thursday 13 March 2014

All Later Phase Testing Now On Tools- List Of All Platform Web Application Software Testing Tools

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Application Software Testing
Application software testing tools are available in plenty these days and tools like Agileload provide all platform testing. Similarly, there are so many free testing tools like Load Tester LTE that low cost load testing tool. You can run test cases on around 1, 00,000 virtual users using the above mentioned free testing tool. There is Load Zen that can ensure emulation of more than 1, 00,000 virtual users at one time. You can change traffic pattern, user behavior and schedule testing according to your requirement. Load Zen can be used for free for about 25 users. There is multi protocol load performance testing tools. These days HTTP, SOAP, POSTgre SQL, MySQL, LDAP, Jabber/XMPP servers are being used in bulk. You can use them for different amount of loads. Let us have a list of web application software testing categories that are common in Web development world right now.

There is load and performance test tools, website security test tools, lick checkers, external site monitoring testing tools, Validators for HTML, Management based testing tools for website development, validators and Link checkers, Log analysis tools, testing tools for performance of websites, web applications on various browsers, functional and regression based tools, Java testing tools, various validators and checkers for various programming languages etc. you have numerous number of testing tools now and all of them are quite great for testing.


Now manual testing tools like Test Link are seldom used and testing tools like selenium testing tools have become quite popular. You can find number of cross browser testing tools and similarly numerous testing tools for each category that we have discussed above. We have various cross browser testing tools like BrowserStack, DOMReactor, TestingBot, Litmus, IETester etc. All of them are quite great and can help you to testing all browser issues related to your web application or website that is being made.


All of these require various test cases to be written. For browser you can check resolution, screen size compatibility, landing page issue and many more of them. However, in each case you will have to identify the test cases. The fundamental is quite simple that all test cases should be prepared under the test suite and all test suites should be included in a test plan. Once the test plan is being made then the test build is being developed and finally it is being executed. 


There are so many regression testing tools that you can think of and there are so many other testing tools for each category that you can think of. There is AlertFox that is an external site monitoring service.  There is Sentinel that is another external site monitoring service. You can use Alertsite, 1stMonitor and similar testing tools though you need to figure out all external site monitoring service. 

There are numerous testing tools that you can think of but you need to find out and analyze your requirement first. Most of the companies prefer manual testing during first few phases and believe it’s good to test early and test often. Though, they opt for automated testing during later phases like maintenance.
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Friday 7 March 2014

QA Testing Services And Their Employees-What They Need

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QA Testing Services
QA is now at least 30 years old in software engineering arena. However, undoubtedly, it has been present in various fields since the oldest civilization existed. Either you talk of Egyptian civilization or the Harappa culture or Roman culture; you are going to find the existence of quality assurance in all such civilization. QA testing has been used in developing monuments and better similar monuments have been made with previous experiences. You can look back into history and you will find that most of the time QA has come out to be one of the best definitely for the management and they have been using it for a long period of time.  You need to look at defect prevention, reduction and containment. All this is a part of quality assurance.  Defect analysis is one of the most important parts of the quality assurance. 

There are so many defect prevention techniques that you need to look at. We have education and training as one of the methods and we do have formal methods. We have default reduction that requires testing and inspection. There is then defect containment for which we have fault tolerance. There is a chance for safety assurance and failure containment. QA activity involves defect handling and that’s a must definitely. 


Top QA testing services now days provides services only to companies that are working under OOPS concept. They also select specific software development life cycle. Most of the small software development companies use the agile software development life cycle. Most of them use these QA services. Top QA testing services deal in water melon model to least and hence you will find an extensive use of varied life cycles according to project requirement. Sometimes you will find that requirement specification is not available and sometimes the requirement specification is possible. Hence you will find QA services asking the company for details about the project and they then verify which software development life cycle is being followed by that company.


According to the life cycle used by the software development company, the QA testing services make sure which testing policy they are going to be using. Hence, it does depend upon the QA Testing services as well as the life cycle and only then the software testing process is finalized. Undoubtedly, you need to understand that most of the QA testing services are now looking at quality assurance as well as testing. Hence, you can understand the importance of such companies and why they are important. There is no hesitation at all that most of the companies does look now at QA testing services. There is no hesitation that defect analysis requires prevention, reduction and containment. All these three are quite important and you just cannot neglect any one of them. As a tester or employee in good QA testing services, you need to have all these knowledge or else you are not going to find any of the other methods that are going to make your life easier. Get your basics cleared and then you can enjoy your daily work schedule.
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Wednesday 5 March 2014

Ways To Become The Best And Effective Software Tester

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Effective Software Tester
As an individual desires all to be better and do his best in every profession that they are successful and prosper. When it comes to the IT field must be abreast with the latest technologies, skills, have knowledge in the field. To achieve this many follow different methodologies and strategies and they come in the life of paving a way for those who want to ride. Here we will discuss the Profession Software Testing in the software industry.

Software Testing is a vast field and one who opts for this area also practice some principles to become a good tester. Most often people acquire knowledge through various articles on the internet, experiences, stories of those who are more successful and many others. With this everyone gets to a common conclusion that for any success there are some methods or strategy to follow.

Anyone coming fresh in testing many questions about software testing, it is all about and the actual work they will perform. As fresh in this field, you should be aware of certain facts in the profession of software testing as an individual. The common information or advice generally referred below will definitely help you advance in your career testing software. These are not only fresher, but also for experienced professionals also test. The application of these in your career, you move forward in your career and you will not regret for what you do.

Software Testing is a very demanding job because you have to be careful varies logic and come up with different logic than those common ideas. Testers should think differently and do things in a different way to see the bugs do not go unnoticed and always try to break the system.
  • What do you do if you are given a new gadget that you have not seen at all and this is the first time you see it. Probably we would be tempted to play with it to understand and get used to it. What if we told you to test if it works correctly. You might not be able to fully test. You can go through the basic functions, but not entirely. The reason is that you are ignorant of the features of the gadget. There is not sufficient knowledge of the product. If you do not know what the product is then as a tester, we can justify that the product is fully tested and is free of defects.
  • Clear understanding of the needs before starting the tests is a must for any tester and responsibility of the advance is to ensure that the tester had sufficient knowledge of the system under test. It is always said that prevention is better than cure and it is also true in software development it is best to know the missing numbers and attach that to find these issues during testing and correct.
  • Be well versed in the field will help you give good suggestions and also solutions for all issues due to bugs. It is always appreciated by the test manager / project manager for your suggestions which have an impact on demand and even if some functions may be refined
  • Most of the time, we as testers believe that our responsibility is to connect the bugs, but it is appreciated if solutions are planned and will earn respect among colleagues. Good knowledge of the area will also help you develop test cases with better coverage of maximum test.
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