Testing Excellence

How to Test Functional Design

On the web content is king and design is queen, we are also taught that design should always support the content we deliver. That is all very nice (and true), but it is important to realize there is more to the web than just simple content. There are situations where design deserves a more prominent [...]

10 Excellent Tools for Testing Your Site on Mobile Devices

With the ever-increasing sales of smartphones and the burgeoning tablet market starting to skyrocket, coupled with far greater access to more robust mobile data networks, the internet is now being accessed by our users in a multitude of new ways. The huge range of mobile devices used to browse the web now means you really [...]

Can Exploratory Testing Be Automated?

If we take this defintion of exploratory testing, we see that it’s not a thing that a person does, so much as a way that a person does it. An exploratory approach emphasizes the individual tester, and his/her freedom and responsibility. The definition identifies design, interpretation, and learning as key elements of an exploratory approach. [...]

Software Development Testing – An Important Step in Assuring the Quality of Software Products

Software development testing is one of the important steps used by software engineers for successful development of any software product. With this, software engineers would have to perform tests or quality assurance manually or used the automated software to make the software bugs free. Software testing is a service that will test your software product [...]

Selenium and SSL Certificates

Selenium is a very efficient tool for testing web sites. The Selenium-IDE, that comes as a plugin to Firefox, makes it easy to record the required steps of a test. And to achieve real test automation Selenium is often integrated with some agile testing tool like the Robot Framework that comes with its own implementation [...]

What testing frameworks and processes do you use?

Q: What testing frameworks and processes do you use? A: It’s really interesting that it’s such a common question, testing frameworks as opposed to many other tool choices you could make. I’m not sure why that is. It might be because it’s such an aesthetic choice and also such an unimportant choice. Ultimately, it’s that [...]

Encouraging Programmers to be Testers

A colleague wrote to me recently and asked about a problem that he’s had in hiring. He says… The kind of test engineers we’re looking for are ones that can think their way around a system and look for all the ways that things can go wrong (pretty standard, so far), and then code up [...]

Make JUnit testing Java applications easier with Grester

Grester, which is an Apache Maven wrapper around Jester, alleviates the burden of dealing with the annoyances of constructing a Java classpath from project dependencies so you can test your execution points more easily, using Jester. Grester also tries to promote some of the benefits of using Maven, which is at the heart of its [...]

Fish baking story …

Feed from shrinik.blogspot.com This was a story that came to my mail box. A little girl was watching her mother prepare a fish for dinner. Her mother cut the head and tail off the fish and then placed it into a baking pan. The little girl asked her mother why she cut the Shead and [...]

Unit testing with Selenium

Selenium runs in Internet Explorer, Mozilla and Firefox on Windows, Linux, and Macintosh, Safari on the Mac, with plans to support Safari on iPhone soon. Selenium test scripts are portable, can be run from browsers (using Selenium IDE) or from JUnit(using Selenium RC) etc. For example, test scripts written using Selenium IDE in Firefox on [...]

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