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How to overcome drawbacks and enjoy the job of a software tester?

Dear all, One notion that has been prevalent mostly as rumours for many aspiring programmers is that the testing phase of the SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) is not that challenging and interesting as one’s job as a tester after a period of time becomes monotonous because a person does the same thing repeatedly over [...]

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Qualities of a Good Software Tester

In the past, companies would recruit anyone in the company with some extra time on their hands to help with the testing process. This unstructured approach backfired and management has come to the realization that software testing should be done by qualified testers. This has resulted in management acknowledging the need for structured software testing [...]

How to Download and Save Images with Selenium RC

By Amir Ghahrai In this tutorial we will take a look at how we can download and save images from a website using Selenium RC and Java. While Selenium is an excellent tool to run automated tests, it can also be used for information gathering from other websites and to download available materials. Normally when [...]

AppLabs to hire more than 100 experienced Test Professionals in the UK in the next 6 months

London, UK; Philadelphia, USA; Hyderabad, India; November 3, 2010: AppLabs, the world’s largest software testing and quality management company, today announced its plans to hire over 100 professionals in the UK during the next 6 months. The hiring plan is backed by the surge in demand for the firm’s software testing services in the region [...]

Seven Key Ideas of Real Quality Assurance

Tom Gilb spoke today at the Next Generation testing conference in London, arguing that testing is only part of the larger area of quality assurance. Gilb said that “real quality assurance” consists of seven ideas which are all clearly lean. “They are frugal, effective, non wasteful and early, which are all corner stones of lean”, [...]

Agile Testing – Incremental Functional Test Approach

Software development is all about incremental functional development. However when we talk about development and testing synchronisation, we find a great impedance mismatch there. Mostly it happens that though we talk about continuous functional development and verification, most of these user stories come for verification only at the end of sprint only which raises a [...]

Conventional Software Testing on an Extreme Programming Team

For a conventional software tester, an Extreme Programming project may be an intimidating challenge. Testers often find that they’re not welcome on XP projects, but Jonathan Kohl shares how skilled testing can overcome such difficulties. Jonathan discusses lessons he learned from working on two different XP project teams, only one of which initially welcomed his [...]

Google extends bounty program for Web application bugs

Search giant Google Inc. Monday extended its Google bug bounty program, adding rewards for bug hunters who find serious Web application flaws in Blogger, Orkut and YouTube. The move is an expansion of Google’s current bounty program, which was launched in February to reward security researchers who reported Chrome browser flaws. Google said it would [...]

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