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| How to test software requirements specification (SRS)? |
| 2008-07-09 08:23:35 |
Do you know “Most of the bugs in software are due to incomplete or inaccurate functional requirements?” The software code, doesn’t matter how well it’s written, can’t do anything if there are ambiguities in requirements.
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| Career options for Software Test Professionals |
| 2008-06-24 12:45:34 |
This is a guest post from author Gunasekaran Veerapillai, Bangalore
Over the last one decade the profile of software tester has undergone tremendous changes. Testing has become show-stopper for several application/product implementations and business has realized the importance of structured...
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| How to keep good testers in testing positions? |
| 2008-06-14 23:10:15 |
Today, I will answer one interesting reader’s question "how to keep good testers in testing positions?" Nowadays due to high compensation packages it's really hard to keep good testers in testing. Many of the really skilled testers are always looking for switch. Here are some ideas on how to keep...
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| Software Testing Help crossed 4000 subscriber count. Thanks to everyone |
| 2008-06-08 01:03:59 |
Let me first explain what is site subscriber number?
I am using feedburner free RSS and email subscription service for registering users to this site. For registering you just need to enter your email address, and verify it once from your email inbox.
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| Smoke testing and sanity testing - Quick and simple differences |
| 2008-05-31 09:28:19 |
Despite of hundreds of web articles on Smoke and sanity testing, many people still have confusion between these terms and keep on asking to me. Here is a simple and understandable difference that can clear your confusion between smoke testing and sanity testing.
Here are the differences you can see:
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| Sample bug report |
| 2008-05-03 21:40:11 |
Writing a good bug report is very necessary in order to get your bug resolved. Developer should be able to reproduce the bug easily using your bug reproduce steps. Here is a sample bug report that will guide you on how to write a good bug report.
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| How to ask for promotion and salary raise in this appraisal |
| 2008-04-24 06:14:52 |
Yearly performance appraisal review is the key process to major employee performance and reward him/her by promotion or salary raise based on the performance. If you think you are eligible for this reward then read this article to know on what basis your performance is majored and how to put your...
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| How to crack the GD (Group Discussion). 10 simple ways with ppt on GD |
| 2008-04-21 06:22:23 |
Software tester needs to communicate with project members like team members, developers, managers and customer. For an effective team player you should have command over communication and interpersonal skill. Group discussion for freshers and team meetings, client communication for professionals...
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| Manual and Automation testing Challenges |
| 2008-04-04 07:25:41 |
Software testing is full of challenges. Testers face many challenges in manual as well as automation testing. Tester who manages to address these challenges effectively can become successful tester. In this article I have included most of the testing challenges created due to testing staff,...
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| What you need to know about BVT (Build Verification Testing) |
| 2008-03-02 09:02:37 |
Build Verification test is a set of tests run on every new build to verify that build is testable before it is released to test team for further testing. These test cases are core functionality test cases that ensure application is stable and can be tested thoroughly. Typically BVT process is...
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| Soft Skill for Testers: Advanced Unix commands with examples |
| 2008-02-28 01:22:17 |
This article will guide you on some advanced Unix commands. Also comprehensive guide is provided for each command for its use giving examples. The topics covered in this article includes advanced Unix commands with examples, Difference between symbolic and hard links and Unix variables guide
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| Soft Skill for testers: How to improve communication skill |
| 2008-02-14 07:23:32 |
Good communication skill is a must for software testers. You might have seen this line in every job requirements especially openings in QA and testing field. As testers require communicating with different project team members including clients, communication skill plays important role.
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| Now get paid to find software bugs. uTest is paying testers to find bugs |
| 2008-02-12 02:59:59 |
In spite of some obstacles, uTest is now offering some decent cash to testers to find flaws in customer applications. They are going to pay to testers for every approved bug.Anyone can sign up with uTest to test software’s and make cash for finding bugs. Testers can earn from few hundred to few...
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| Software testing questions and answers |
| 2008-02-07 06:19:58 |
This article is the part software testing question and answer series. Here I will answer some reader’s questions asked to me in comments or using contact form. If you have queries on software testing, quality assurance or career in testing then you can ask me these questions in comment section ...
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| Unix basics for software testers |
| 2008-02-02 11:16:31 |
This article on Unix is basically covering important Unix commands that are used while interacting with Unix servers. Most of the time you might be interacting with Unix OS through remote windows machine using softwares like 'Putty'. In such testing environment this article is very useful.
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| Tips to design test data before executing your test cases |
| 2008-01-29 02:04:46 |
I have mentioned importance of proper test data in many of my previous articles. Tester should check and update the test data before execution of any test case. In this article I will provide tips on how to prepare test environment so that any important test case will not be missed by improper test...
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| Web Terminologies: Useful for web application testers |
| 2008-01-25 06:57:17 |
This article basically covers following terminologies:
What is: Internet, www, TCP/IP, HTTP protocol, SSL (Secure socket layer), HTTPS, HTML, Web servers, Web client, Proxy server, Caching, Cookies, Application server, Thin client, Thick client, Daemon, Client side scripting, Server side scripting,...
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| How to get your all bugs resolved without any ‘Invalid bug’ label? |
| 2008-01-23 03:26:42 |
I hate "Invalid bug" label from developers for the bugs reported by me, do you? I think every tester should try to get his/her 100% bugs resolved. This requires bug reporting skill. Check out this article to know what troubleshooting you need to do before reporting any bug.
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| How to build a successful QA team? |
| 2008-01-16 02:09:49 |
There are plenty of things to be considered while building successful software testing team. After reading this article look at your team and question yourself “Are you working in great test team” or “ Will you make every effort to build great test team”. Then don’t wait,try next second to build...
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| How to prepare for software testing interview |
| 2008-01-14 02:04:33 |
This article will help for preparation of software testing interview for freshers as well as working testing professional who want to switch their current job. Know the key areas you need to prepare and how to keep yourself updated on testing methodologies. Testing concepts, understanding of...
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| Software Testing Help: Best software testing articles of 2007 |
| 2008-01-07 06:10:28 |
Year 2007 was a great success for Software Testing Help blog. This blog grown tremendously in this year in terms of daily readers and email newsletter subscribers. We switched to our own softwaretestinghelp.com domain in around July 2007. In merely six months I can proudly show you a big list of...
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| Types of Risks in Software Projects |
| 2007-12-17 06:16:36 |
Risk identification and management are the main concerns in every software project. Effective analysis of software risks will help to effective planning and assignments of work.
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| CSTE software testing certification exam question pattern |
| 2007-12-05 05:23:50 |
This article will give you general idea about CSTE certification exam paper pattern. I have included some sample questions and answers for the CSTE mock test paper. You can refer these questions and can judge the pattern of descriptive answer paper. If you need objective type questions from CSTE...
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| QuickTest Pro - QTP Functional testing tool review |
| 2007-11-27 04:30:36 |
I am getting more and more questions on QTP. So I have approached some QTP experts to answer all our readers questions. If you have any query related to QTP implementation or execution you can comment those questions. All questions will be answered in coming posts.
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| Should companies charge the clients on the basis of number of bugs? |
| 2007-11-21 06:00:03 |
I came across an interesting software testing outsourcing technique here based on pay per bug approach. This testing consultancy is offering testing services and clients will be charged on the basis of number of bugs found in the application.Why outsourcing?
Many companies are outsourcing software...
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| 10 Tips you should read before automating your testing work |
| 2007-10-26 08:49:43 |
See the risks to be considered before automating your testing work. Instead of relying 100% on either manual or automation use the best combination of manual and automation testing. This is the best solution for every project. Automation suite will not find all the bugs and cannot be a replacement...
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| Some Interesting software testing resources |
| 2007-10-23 01:26:58 |
To keep our readers updated on Software-Testing">software testing events and activities, I will compile a weekly list of the online resources found. No doubt these resources are quality resources on software testing and you will get insight of software testing industry.
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| How Domain knowledge is Important for testers? |
| 2007-10-09 07:52:58 |
What is the advantage of having domain knowledge in testing? Do companies prefer candidates having good domain knowledge? There are three main categories in testing career: What are those three skill categories? Testing skill, Domain knowledge and Technical expertise. See more on how you can...
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| WinRunner Interview Questions with answers |
| 2007-10-07 07:52:57 |
Frequently asked WinRunner interview questions with answers. Most of the questions are based on Test Script Language (TSL), recording scripts in WinRunner and introduction to some important basic WinRunner most used commands. Comment out your doubts if you are unclear of any answer.
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| Test your Software Testing knowledge. Take this mock test |
| 2007-10-01 05:15:02 |
If you are preparing for CSTE testing certification exam or thinking to give the exam in coming days then this question series will help you for preparation. Here I have included some questions from CSTE objective type question papers.
The software testing/Quality assurance professionals can also...
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| Website Cookie Testing, Test cases for testing web application cookies? |
| 2007-09-27 02:37:00 |
We will first focus on what exactly cookies are and how they work. It would be easy for you to understand the test cases for testing cookies when you have clear understanding of how cookies work? How cookies stored on hard drive? And how can we edit cookie settings?
What is Cookie?
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| How to write a good bug report? Tips and Tricks |
| 2007-09-18 02:18:46 |
Why good Bug report?
If your bug report is effective, chances are higher that it will get fixed. So fixing a bug depends on how effectively you report it. Reporting a bug is nothing but a skill and I will tell you how to achieve this skill.
“The point of writing problem report(bug report) is...
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| Bug life cycle |
| 2007-09-05 11:08:25 |
What is Bug/Defect?
Simple Wikipedia definition of Bug is: “A computer bug is an error, flaw, mistake, failure, or fault in a computer program that prevents it from working correctly or produces an incorrect result. Bugs arise from mistakes and errors, made by people, in either a...
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