Software Testing – Career Training, Portnov School – 1

April 12, 2010

Software Testing (Software QA) class at Portnov Computer School – part 1. Software testing as profession. Software testing as Career Change opportunity. Career training in software testing offered by Portnov Computer School.

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Javascript Testing and Validation Tools

April 11, 2010

JavaScript is a powerful client-side scripting language used in modern web sites and web applications. In the hands of a skilled Web developers, JavaScript can enhance the user experience and web site provide interactive and feature-rich components.

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How to improve your skills as a software tester?

April 11, 2010

If you test software, you have likely considered improving your software testing skills. The answer to this important question is not limited to reading some articles, following some blogs and joining some forums. You should first be aware of the different actions you can take to develop your software testing skills. Then include these actions [...]

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What are the responsibilities of a Software Test Lead?

April 11, 2010

This post is the second one in continuation to the earlier one, What are the responsibilities of a Software Test Engineer?
Common responsibilities of a Software Test Lead include the ones given below.
1. Be updated on the latest testing techniques, strategies, testing tools/ test frameworks and so on
2. Be aware of the current and upcoming [...]

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A testers view: Revision control

April 11, 2010

A hot item in the development life cycle is software versioning and/or revision control. According to Wikipedia software versioning is “the process of assigning either unique version names or unique version numbers to unique states of computer software”. And revision control is “the management of changes to documents, programs, and other information stored as computer

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API Testing vs. Unit Testing: What’s the difference?

April 11, 2010

With the emergence of extreme programming, test-driven development and other agile methods, unit testing has become an important part of almost every development effort. At the same time, many applications provide application programming interfaces (APIs) to allow code-level access to the functionality. These APIs, just like any other interface into [...]

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Exploratory Testing and Interviews

April 11, 2010

I’m going to be interviewed on April 19 by Gil Broza, an expert Agile coach who is a colleague and friend here in Toronto.
Gil’s request for an interview reminded me of an experience I had a few weeks ago. I received an email from a couple of researchers in Sweden who are studying exploratory [...]

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Testing Clichés Part III: “We can’t test those requirements”

April 11, 2010

It is good to strive for better requirements by critical analysis (and looking for what’s missing), but there is a danger in complaining about untestable requirements.
If those vague requirements are changed (made too specific) or removed, the words in the requirements document have less meaning, and less chance of guiding towards great software.
And there are [...]

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Old and New (test) Heroes

April 11, 2010

What do you think, are there any real heroes in the field of software testing? Are there people you admire as an expert in testing? I think that everybody has his own examples, a (rol) model he or she will look up to. Are there people you follow via Twitter for these reasons? This can [...]

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Black Box Web Testing with HttpUnit

April 8, 2010

HttpUnit is a set of Libraries to facilitate the automation testing of web applications.
In contrast to the Selenium Testing Framework, which is an in-browser web automation testing tool, HttpUnit can run tests without requiring a browser.
Written in Java, HttpUnit emulates the relevant portions of browser behavior, including form submission, JavaScript, basic http authentication, cookies and [...]

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