IT Blog I have just set up a test environment using virtualbox by Sun. this is a free Vitualization platform. I created two VM's that are both running Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008. I will use this setup to test things like mirroring, replication, and just other generall testing. I am sure I will be doing...
IT Blog In an organization engaged in software development, usually each software goes through testing process by a separate set of team in the organization know as Testers meant exclusively for the purpose of testing. It matters most what this process is being thought as by the development team, project l...
software development, software testing process, software IT Blog As in a software project, the complete project lifecycle comprises of different phases. Similarly the performance testing lifecycle also comprises of various phases. Performance testing is usually, as the name suggests, is done to evaluate or examine the performance of the software product with the ...
performance testing, software testing, testing IT Blog A business comprises of different software. These software applications comprise of two business streams business critical application and business supporting application. Usually business critical applications cover ERP like main stream application. Business support applications may comprise of...
testing, tester, Project Management IT Blog As we all know excess of anything is bad. The same applies to test automation too. Blindly going to automation for whatever comes for testing is not at all a wise activity. The important questions that you should ask yourself as Test Head can be What to Automate?, How much to ...
testing, tester, application IT Blog TDD is test driven development in which the developers coding efforts become manifold. It is not only the development coding that developer has to write. Along with the requirements coding, the developer has to write code for the testing of each of the logic he has built in the product. It is more o...
• TDD, Test Driven Development, developer IT Blog Is beta testing an MMPORG your idea of fun? I have to confess, this is the first time I have signed up to beta test a game and I don't know if I'll actually be invited. However, I'm really looking forward to the opportunity to do some testing on a different kind of software. The software I develop...
career development, training, Development IT Blog If we go by quality standards the sizing of software testing effort has to be done before the tester(s) start writing the test cases for the purpose. The estimate will clearly draw out of the functional specifications signed off between the customer and vendor. Without sizing the Testing manager can...
software testing effort estimation, software testing, testing effort IT Blog Here is a segregated list of my blogs on testing mainly for the purpose of people enthusiast in testing, testers, QA, QC, bug management; and software Quality: What stops a Good Programmer from being a Good Tester? 8 Reasons Knock! Knock! it is tester here! Linear Approach of Cost Esti...
software testing, software quality, Bug IT Blog Which Server: Where is the load testing intended to be performed? Is it the test server, production server or staging server where load testing is to be performed? If it is being performed on Production Server, it is ok. Otherwise if it is to be performed on test or staging server, be careful that i...
load testing, testing, quality IT Blog For test and development systems, one practice over the years to allow developers to build test systems or applications has been to use network address translation or NAT. NAT basically puts some device in front of other systems. Development teams can use NAT a number of ways. These include running ...
IT Blog A newly built Software application has to pass through one very interesting testing phase known as Usability Testing. This testing is more focused on finding non functional issues related to the application. The focus is more towards the end user who is going to use the application and not the manag...
Software Project, Software application, Project Management IT Blog So we have what sounds to be a great idea for our SQL Server DR. We are doing block level replication between datacenters and so we thought it might be a good idea to joust mount up our disk on another server that is in the DR Datacenter in case of a disaster. We want to do that with the disk that h...
IT Blog Regression testing comes into picture in re-testing of a product. The purpose is very clear a thorough testing. Regression testing has to be as rigorous as possible, for this reason. And regression testing never happens once, it has to happen again and again till the product reaches at a m...
Regression Testing, testing, tester IT Blog I'm here at the Software Test Professionals Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. Yesterday, I had the opportunity to participate in a panel discussion on "How to Reduce the Cost of Testing." It was fun. Cutting the costs of testing So here's the problem: American business has a mandate for growth in...
IT Blog Yes, dear reader, while by day Matt Heusser is software tester for Socialtext by day, at night he is a mild-mannered instructor of information systems at Calvin College. In neither case do I wear a cape, mask, or colorful outfit, but I have been learning a thing or two about teaching database progr...
IT Blog We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be and our attitudes and behaviours grow out of these assumptions.. This quote is from the author of the famous book Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey. In terms of softwa...
Software Project, Project Management, business requirement IT Blog Sometimes it is necessary to test connectivity outside of your private company network. There are several resources I use. I will share a couple of those with you in this posting. One of my favorite and most frequently used sites is Network-Tools. This website allows you to test Traceroute, PIng, D...
IT Blog No. I dont think so. If you have to identify the bottlenecks in your newly built software application, you are bound to adhere to this approach. Use a progressive bottleneck identification approach for performance testing of the application. The testing approach should be to apply holistic load o...
Progressive approach, incremental approach, performance testing IT Blog It's been an amazing week here in Boston while attending the Software Test&Performance Conference. Friday morning, we ran SpeedGeeking; in the afternoon, I gave my testing Web 2.0 talk, then it was time for dinner and some amazing conversation, and, eventually, sleep. Similar to lightning tal...
IT Blog I really enjoy like doing small projects where I get to put hands on a keyboard and execute tests. Ideally for me when I'm doing this, I'm either doing exploratory testing or performance testing. There's a challenge that comes with doing this however. For these small projects to work well for both m...
IT Blog 1.Purpose: The main purpose of the application for which it is built need to be defined. 2.Load Test goals: Identify what you want to achieve by load testing, what are your primary goals to go for load testing. Define all your goals. One example could be login time for 100 concurrent users sh...
load testing, Software application, test goals IT Blog Tester is not the part of package of a team going for software product implementation. Probably that is wrong on part of project manager if he decided to send a technical team member along with implementation team with a sanction of development and requirement changes onsite. Well actually there ar...
tester, developer, testing IT Blog I attend a variety of software and quality user group meetings in the Denver area. One of my favorites is the monthly SQuAD (Software Quality Association of Denver) meeting. There's always a lot of energy and networking opportunities and great speakers! This month was no exception. Scott Allman, a s...
IT Blog Support comes after project completion. Project lifecycle but must treat support phase as a component of it. Prior to support the major project phases include project initiation, requirement collection and freezing (though freezing is not actually freezing till the handover and sign off), produc...
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