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

When a Test Engineer needs to be promoted? How to set the expectations at each level?
When a Test Engineer needs to be promoted? How to set the expectations for Test Engineer, Sr. Test Engineer, Test Lead, Test Architect, etc? At the appraisal time, often we see there will be expectations for promotion from a Test Engineer, but manager will not agree because of so & so reasons-which were communicated only [...]

Answer Question   |  November 24, 2008  7:13 AM
Senior Test Engineer, Software Quality, Software Test Architect, Software Test Engineer, Software Test Lead, Software testing, Software testing jobs, Test Engineer

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

Test plan, design and case specification for automated Web applications
I am new to testing and have been asked to make a test plan, design, and test case specification for testing automated Web applications. I have searched the Net, but now I am confused. Kindly give me some guidance in this regard.

Answer Question   |  November 18, 2008  6:19 PM
Software test design, Software testing, Software testing models, Web application development, Web application testing, Web applications, Web development

Any templates for documenting a test environment plan for mobile software
I am testing mobile software for couriers and I need to document a test environment plan. Are there any templates available? Thanks.

Answer Question   |  November 18, 2008  6:00 PM
Mobile development, Mobile software testing, Software Quality Assurance, Software testing

How do I identify the protocol to select in HP LoadRunner?
I believe this is a very tool-specific question, but then it might be scalable to other tools, too. I have an application that contains different technologies such as a mainframe backend, IBM UDB DB, and a .Net front end. My question is: How do I identify the protocol to select in LoadRunner, or what are [...]

Answer Question   |  November 18, 2008  5:53 PM
HP LoadRunner, Load testing, Load testing tools, LoadRunner, Performance testing, Software testing

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

Efficient way of testing multiple character set support in your application
If we need to test the localization/ internationalization support of an application (i.e, supporting ascii, german, japanese characters etc) then how to perform this testing efficiently?

Answer Question   |  November 4, 2008  9:39 AM
Character encoding, Localization, Localization testing, Software Quality, Software Quality Assurance, Software testing, Software testing tools

Database design schema for Test Data Management?
For test data analysis across the builds, platforms etc, we are thinking of storing the test execution results into the database. Please let me know if any one has already designed the db schema for test case & report management.

Answer Question   |  November 4, 2008  6:31 AM
Database design, Database schema, Software Quality, Software Quality Assurance, Software testing, Software testing tools

Is there any way to update Actual results in Quality Center from an Excel?
Is there any way to update Actual results in Quality Center from an Excel?

Answer Question   |  December 27, 2008  6:32 AM
HP Quality Center, Microsoft Excel, Quality assurance, Quality assurance testing, Software Quality Assurance, Software testing

How to perform BREAK testing under load?
We are working on providing strong authentication. After functional testing is pass. We want to conduct a systematic load testing. The objectives of load testing is long run, break testing etc. For break testing, what can be the test strategy to find out the break points and trouble-shoot? Please help me in this regard.

Answer Question   |  October 17, 2008  6:54 AM
Functional testing, Software Quality, Software Quality Assurance, Software security testing, Software testing, Software testing tools

How to conduct systematic Load tesing?
Our product is built using API’s (i.e, Client server model). We want to conduct Load testing to find out the break points. And at the same time we should be able to trouble-shoot where & why the issues are ? possibility of improving this break point level? etc The reason is we want to have [...]

Answer Question   |  October 16, 2008  1:36 PM
Load testing, Software Break Points, Software testing

What do you think would be a perfect test management tool for waterfall model?
For the smooth progress of the testing process the testing tool should fit perfectly well with the software methodology selected. What do you think would be a perfect test management tool for waterfall model?

Answer Question   |  November 3, 2008  9:09 AM
Software quality management, Software testing, Software testing methodologies, Test management tools, Waterfall models

Looking for quality test-tracking tool…..
Any quality test-tracking tool which has live & automated dashboards so that the entire team is updated at any given point of time?

Answer Question   |  July 16, 2009  9:05 AM
Defect Tracking, Quality assurance, Software Quality, Software testing, Test management, Test management system