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Web Application Testing Best Practices

Web Application Testing Best Practices

The rise of mobile apps and decline of desktop browsing have made it essential for enterprises to build mobile-friendly websites. Also, the enterprises must deploy skilled testers to evaluate all aspects of the website across browsers, platforms, and devices. The testers must evaluate the web application’s accessibility, functionality, performance, usability, and security to produce more accurate…

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Find out JS Error on Firefox using Selenium Webdriver

Find out JS Error on Firefox using Selenium Webdriver

We need to add a JSERROR Collector jar to our project. We need to add the below dependency to the POM to download the jar file: -

<dependency> <groupId>net.jsourcerer.webdriver</groupId> <artifactId>JSErrorCollector</artifactId> <version>0.5-atlassian-2</version> </dependency>

Also we need to add a firefox addon to firefox profile which we will be using to automate. Click to DownloadBelo…

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Error 80070012: Unexpected error launching spoon based internet explorer

Error 80070012: Unexpected error launching spoon based internet explorer

“Unexpected error launching internet explorer IELaunchURL error returned 80070012″ while running Selenium Scripts in IE spoon browsers:

Problem/Issue: ——————————————-

I was facing a very critical/weird issue(very easy after it got resolved :)) while running Selenium script in IE spoon browsers.. I was opening the Spoon browser through the Selenium standalone server in port 5555 and the server was…

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How Critical and Urgent is your Defect ? What is it ?

How Critical and Urgent is your Defect ? What is it ? #BugTriage

How Critical and Urgent is your Defect ?

What is it ?

We Testers often find it difficult to define Priority and Severity of a bug. The terms ‘Critical’ and ‘Urgent’ means the same as the terms ‘Severity’ and ‘Priority’ which are very much used in Bug Tracking System. The former terms are just listed under the later terms as options in the drop down, as simple :)

On a further note many of the…

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Agile: experiences and learning from testing perspective

Agile: experiences and learning from testing perspective

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

- What is agile methodology – Sprint related processes – Release related processes – Other related processes – Tools used – Conclusion

What is agile methodology? Agile has become the trend in the software business since the last decade. Everyone wants to go agile. So let’s have a look at what agile is, literally agile means to be able to move quickly and easily. Similarly, agile…

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Do we Need Testcases?

Do we Need Testcases?

I was writing test cases meekly for one of my projects on a busy day at my office. A notion clung my mind why am I doing so. Is this necessary? Is it indispensable?

I tried getting inputs from my fellow colleagues, despite it was vague to question about such an imperative thing.  Every one answered in a similar fashion. It was about its benefits namely repeatability, re-usability, can be used for…

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Is “only” Automation annihilating manual tester within...

Is “only” Automation annihilating manual tester within…

Client: Can we automate our test cases

Service Provider: Yeah,we can do it!

  Client: What team size do you own and what time will it take?

Service Provider: We have got sufficient team size dedicated only for automation…

Client: Sounds great!

  Nowadays every software product that is being developed quality is always a high priority, so as to make it useful for end users. For a proper quality…

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A Proposed Model for ETL Process and Testing

A Proposed Model for ETL Process and Testing

ETL refers as Extract, Transform and load. Comprehensive testing of a data warehouse at every point throughout the ETL process is becoming increasingly important as more data is being collected and used for strategic decision-making. In ETL process data is extracted from OLTP (Online transaction processing) database, transformed to match the data warehouse schema and loaded into the data…

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Breaking The Parallel Execution Jinx Using Selenium Grid

Breaking The Parallel Execution Jinx Using Selenium Grid

We know that automation is cumbersome task and selenium grids come in handy when we talk about parallel test script execution. It supports execution of same code at same time in multiple browsers.

  Here we will be using “VisGrid”; it’s a GUI for selenium Grid. You can start hub, create and attach a selenium node very easily and quickly.

  Let’s see how to execute our test automation scripts in…

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Checkpoint in QTP

A checkpoint used as Verification and compares the actual Results from the   expected results in a test plan. If two values in a checkpoint gets matched then the checkpoint passes or else it will get fail .This enables you to identify whether your Web site or application is functioning correctly.   Checkpoints are stored in Local Object Repository.

Bitmap Checkpoint:

It is nothing but  checking …

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Native Mobile Application [Android] Testing Manual For Beginners

Native Mobile Application [Android] Testing Manual For Beginners

Hey All… I want to share some of the challenges I faced and learned when I started testing an android native app. I believe it will help you guys who are beginners.

1. Know the OS which your app will support.

There are few versions of android available and you need to know which one is the app is made for.  Say for example, an app is made for 4.1 and above versions.

The versions available are:

Al…

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Taking Screenshots Using Selenium Webdriver

Taking Screenshots Using Selenium Webdriver

This article shows how to take screenshot using Webdriver during test execution and highlight the necessary Web Element using JavascriptExecutor.

While running tests using Selenium Webdriver, the tester needs to take screenshot for the failed test steps to ensure the proper error reporting. The screenshot can be taken depending on the way designed in the Test Framework, either for all important…

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Text Checkpoint in QTP

Text Checkpoint in QTP

A checkpoint used as Verification and compares the actual Results from the expected results in a test plan.If two values in a checkpoint gets matched then the checkpoint passes or else it will get fail .This enables you to identify whether your Web site or application is functioning correctly.   Checkpoints are stored in Local Object Repository.

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Why Slow...Y Slow!!!

Why Slow…Y Slow!!!

When we test a web page then we test for the functionality, UI, usability and other things but the goal we have in our mind is how the user is going to see the site and how user will accept it and what will be they looking for, should be available for them…In these contexts performance of the site also matters a lot. So when a user is accessing the site then he may raise this “Why is this Slow?”…

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How to Automate Cross Browser Testing Using TestNG

How to Automate Cross Browser Testing Using TestNG

Following is the way by which we can execute tests in multiple browsers simultaneously. See the example below:

1. First step is to a new java project (File->New->Java project) and then create a TestNG XML (Right Click on Project –> Click On New–> others–> Pop up would appear–> Click on XML –> Select XML File –> Click on Next –> New XML File pop up would appear–> Enter the name of XML and click on…

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Cookie Testing

Cookie is small information stored at user’s end in a text file. This information stored in cookies is used by browsers to retrieve information from that machine. It contains personalized user data that is used by websites to deliver proper content. They act as unique identifier and help the site to remember a particular user.

Use of cookies

Cookies are used to store users identity and track down…

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Performance Testing

Performance testing is typically done to help identify bottlenecks in a system, establish a baseline for future testing, support a performance tuning effort, determine compliance with performance goals and requirements, and/or collect other performance-related data to help stakeholders make informed decisions related to the overall quality of the application being tested. In addition, the results…

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