HP quality center or other testing tool
Can we download HP Quality Center for free? I wish to use HP Quality center in my project for requirement and test management.

Answer Question   |  February 1, 2011  5:52 AM
HP Quality Center, Software testing tools, Web application testing

QA Skill upgradation?
Hi, I am a Software Quality Analyst by profession and have expertise in Financial Software manual testing. Please let me know, how to upgrade my skills in this profession? Which scripting language should i learn to upgrade my skill, also Database , automation testing tools should be added to my expertise?  Looking eagerly for a [...]

Answer Question   |  July 14, 2010  9:29 AM
Certified Software Quality Analyst, Quality Assurance Careers, Scripting languages, Software Testing Certification, Software testing tools

How to predict the number of defects releases to QA? Is any estimation technique available?
To know how we are performing testing on the current build, we can match the current number of found defects with the predicted data and then take decisions of – Are we in the right direction? Are we missing anything, why there is a difference? etc Is there any estimation techniques available to do this? [...]

Answer Question   |  July 9, 2010  5:50 AM
Quality assurance managers, Quality assurance staff, Quality assurance testing, Quality Assurance Trends, Quality control, Quality Software Management, Software testing tools

Auto tool for load/perform testing Oracle10g applic.
Financ. appl (client/server) based on Oracle6i must be migrated to Oracle10g (Web). Now at stage of analysing/estimating the proper auto tool for load/performance testing. Any advices or sources, please. Thanks in advance.

Answer Question   |  October 6, 2009  4:08 PM
Oracle 10g, Oracle 6i, Software testing, Software testing tools

Software QA career
Sir, I am a software professional in testing field for 1.5 Yrs. I have a basic understanding of QA process. To develop further what step should i prefer? Basically intersted in QA tools. I work on Functional testing of a product, and Learing QTP by external. Please suggest me some steps??

Answer Question   |  June 30, 2009  1:15 AM
Careers, QTP, Software QA, Software testing, Software testing jobs, Software testing tools

seeking formal definitions of the software ‘ilities’
anyone where I can source a definitive list of defintions for the software ‘ilities’ e.g. scabaility, reliability, availability, stability, security, performance thanks

Answer Question   |  August 27, 2009  12:30 PM
Availability, Reliability, Security, Software performance metrics, Software scalability testing, Software testing models, Software testing tools, Stability

QA tool for JavaScript heavy load application
Hello, Could you guys recommend me a qa tool for automated regression/functional testing (open source or free tools are preferred) for testing a web application that contains a lot of javascript for opening pop-up windows, redirects etc. I’m using HTTPUnit ans Selenium but these tools are not handling well pop-up windows and redirects. Thanks!

Answer Question   |  March 19, 2009  10:44 PM
Functional testing, HttpUnit, JavaScript testing, Open source testing tools, Regression testing, Selenium, Software QA, Software Quality Assurance, Software testing, Software testing tools

Software Tester’s Life Cycle
We have disciplines like SDLC, STLC (Software Testing Life Cycle) to develop the Quality product. On Similar lines, what can be the life cycle for Successful Testing career?

Answer Question   |  December 29, 2008  12:38 PM
Functional testing, Software Break Points, Software Quality, Software testing, Software testing tools

Is Functional Testing sufficient to determine the Code Coverage?
Is Functional Testing (User acceptance tests (business transaction flows), +ve input tests, -ve input tests) sufficient to determine the Code Coverage? Do we see any additional coverage when we do non-functional testing (example: load testing with the same inputs used in functional testing)? If so, How?

Answer Question   |  February 4, 2011  4:55 AM
Break Testing, Functional testing, Software Break Points, Software load testing, Software Quality, Software testing, Software testing tools

How to gauge performance of software testing tools?
How to gauge performance of software automation testing tool

Answer Question   |  January 6, 2011  11:09 AM
Performance indicators, Software Quality, Software Quality Assurance, Software testing, Software testing methodologies, Software testing tools

Security testing tools and techniques
Hi, We would like to do security testing to our current project which is developed in JAVA, can you please share some information about how to start security testing, related websites, tools, techniques and any documents related to it. Thanks in Advance Regards Harish Malvi

Answer Question   |  December 17, 2008  6:45 AM
Java, Software development, Software Quality, Software Quality Assurance, Software security testing, Software testing, Software testing methodologies, Software testing tools

How to test Application Robustness?
What are the factors that need to be considered to test the Robustness of the system? How do we ensure our application is Robust?

Answer Question   |  December 2, 2008  9:37 AM
Software performance testing, Software quality management, Software test design, Software testing, Software testing methodologies, Software testing tools

How to test Application scalability?
What are the factors that need to be considered to test the scalability of the system? How do we ensure our application is scalable?

Answer Question   |  December 2, 2008  9:24 AM
Software performance testing, Software Quality Assurance, Software quality management, Software scalability testing, Software test design, Software testing, Software testing methodologies, Software testing tools

Software testing – Can anyone help me in this?
I’m in search of a system that can handle the tasks, for instance, of a manager or a tester equally well. Can anyone help me in this?

Answer Question   |  February 2, 2009  8:11 AM
Software quality management, Software testing, Software testing tools, Test management, Test management system

How to identify creative test cases which finds unique bugs and accelerates the quality product releases to the market?
100% testing is time consuming. Also we can’t spend our time & effort on test cases that are finding the bugs that are already found by other test cases. So, we need to come up with only creative test cases which finds UNIQUE bugs and helps in accelerating the quality product in time to the [...]

Answer Question   |  August 9, 2011  2:56 PM
Functional testing, Software Break Points, Software load testing, Software Quality, Software testing, Software testing tools

What is BREAK Testing?
Frequently i am hearing that we need to do perform Break testing before product goes to customers UAT. I want to understand break testing and use it efficiently. What exactly break testing means? I heard it is forced-error testing where we build dummy stubs simulating our servers product server, DB server, etc) which will take [...]

Answer Question   |  December 9, 2008  1:23 PM
Break Testing, Software Quality, Software testing, Software testing tools

Front end GUI support for Test Management & Execution.
GUI development for Test Management is time consuming, so i want to know is there any downloadable front end GUI support in the internet that can be used. So that i can integrate the front end GUI support with my back end database schema. At Backend: I am designing a DB schema to store the [...]

Answer Question   |  November 20, 2008  8:50 AM
Automation, Functional testing, Software Quality, Software testing, Software testing tools

Suggestions for software load testing tools?
I am working as a software testing engineer. We follow manual testing in our company and now we are going to handle new project where we need to test the load and accuracy with lots of users. What tool do you suggest we use for load testing?

Answer Question   |  November 18, 2008  6:23 PM
Software load testing, Software performance, Software performance metrics, Software performance testing, Software Quality Assurance, Software test design, Software testing tools

How to use functional automated test client to perform better load testing?
We have an automation test client which is written for Functional Testing. This client takes inputs like what are the APIS to be called and the inputs, expected outputs, server ip, etc. This helped in our functional testing and is stable. Now to do load testing, We have added just 2 more parameters (Number of [...]

Answer Question   |  November 19, 2008  7:04 AM
Functional testing, Software Break Points, Software load testing, Software Quality, Software testing, Software testing tools

How to perform efficient testing of the Data Base Fail over (DBFO) mechanism?
We have Server connected to Primary, Secondary DB instance. If any of these DB instance is shutdown, forced to shutdown, network disconnected etc, then server will failover to the secondary db and viceversa. We want to test the ‘DB Connection Pooling’ feature involved in the DBFO mechanism. Also, what measurements can we consider? like Connections [...]

Answer Question   |  November 13, 2008  1:18 PM
Database Failover, DB Connection Pooling, DBFO, Functional testing, Software Quality, Software Quality Assurance, Software security testing, Software testing, Software testing tools