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Software Test Automation has surely changed the way software testing used to happen in the industry. Earlier, the tester is supposed to test what developer has developed – No questions asked. However, with the changing trend, testers have started taking the rope in their hand. Now, developers and testers are at par or we should say ahead and more responsible in project management. Now, the testers have to not only just check the functionality, but also need to check the performance and compatibility.Quality has become the center point now. The competition has moved from quantity to quality. But, even after ... Read More

When we are talking about test automation, we automatically think about the tools, which are available to ease the testing task. These tools can be categorized under two major categories – freeware and licensed tools. The freeware tools are the open source tools available free of cost over the internet. The reliability of such tools is pretty less. However, when we talk about licensed tools, these tools are paid tools which have licensed versions. If you want to use these tools, then you have to pay the price for the license.Here, in this article, we are going to discuss about ... Read More

HP ALM is an Application Lifecycle Management software by Hewlett Pawkward. It is a test management tool which covers almost everything which is a part of Test Management Process. The tool has gracefully upgraded itself within the due course of time. It has covered a long journey from being a Test Director to HP ALM, today. It is currently the best tool to cover most of the testing activities and provides a report on almost everything.Over time, this tool has been renamed multiple times, from “Test Director” to Quality Center (QC) and now to HP ALM (for Application Lifecycle Management). ... Read More

A test strategy document is a test outline document that explains the testing approach of the software development cycle. It is created by the test managers to inform clients, project managers, testers, and developers about some key issues and decisions of the testing process. This includes the testing objective, methods of testing new functions, total time and resources required for the project, and the testing environment. It is a strategy plan for defining testing approach, what you want to accomplish and how you are going to achieve it.It helps in evading all unclear and uncertain requirements and creating a basic ... Read More

Isn’t it costly to buy mobile devices each time a new version comes up, to test your mobile applications? Off course, it is certainly a costly affair to keep acquiring those mobile devices physically as the new versions and operating systems are kept on releasing in regular intervals.But you cannot just stop purchasing the devices and restricts your testing to a certain limits, which surely gives your competitors an advantage to have a better functioning application than yours.Worried! No worries, every dark cloud have a silver lining You can test your mobile applications on as many devices of different versions ... Read More

You can cross a busy road of the street just by rushing from one side to the other side without following any rules. But that can be dangerous for you, chances of you being hit by a car or any other vehicles are very high. But at the same time, if you follow the simple traffic rules to look both the sides of the road before crossing it can save you from falling victims of road accidents. Isn’t it?Similarly, you can perform the automation testing without implementing any framework, just buy an automation tool and start doing the testing. That’s ... Read More

“Do it today, tomorrow may be too late” is the mantra of today’s corporate world to win the race against time, and multiplies their chances to win more new opportunities. There is immense pressure on the project team to complete the work on and before the D-Day, and then launch the highest quality product to the market before the competitors can do that. Therefore, the biggest challenge for the team is to complete the work in a short span of time without compromising the quality of the product. This cannot be achieved only by doing the work manually or in ... Read More

It’s been more than a decade since Selenium automation tool is here to automate our testing needs. As a free to use tool with dedicated community, it has lot of features to make our automation testing more reliable and comfortable. Seeing the growing popularity of Selenium webdriver, let’s revisit some of the important features of it, which proves why Selenium webdriver still stand out in the crowd.Key Features – Selenium WebDriverCompatibility with Many Web BrowsersSelenium WebDriver supports wide range of web browsers available in the market such as Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari and many more. Unless the other ... Read More

Yahoo! recently confirmed that a massive data breach occurred to their system in late 2014 and due to that at least 500 million users account information may have been hacked. The statement by Yahoo spokes-person states that the account information may have included names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, hashed passwords and, in some cases, encrypted or unencrypted security questions and answers.Another news from the USA, the American security agencies recently found that hackers are trying hard to penetrate the voter registry database to get the confidential information, as the election is round the corner. Though they are ... Read More

The backbone of any project lies with requirements. The requirements identified, collected and documented at the initial stages, are generally designed, coded, tested, and takes the shapes of a product or an application to be used by the customers later. Those requirements are referred at any point of time by the team and other stakeholders to check whether the current project requirements are being met. And tracking back those bulk of requirements at the later stage of the project by manually examining the relationship between them is a cumbersome affair.Business Scenario – Case StudiesLet’s discuss a scenario, Mr. A is ... Read More