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I have already discussed what to check when we are testing the design of a web application. That post is design and usability testing  . Here I'm going to tell the tools which help us in design testing. Color Check For checking the color in RGB or Hexacode format Colorzilla Add-On in Firefox Color picker/Eye Dropper Extensions of chrome Color Picker in Windows Size To check the size (in pixels) of different sections of web page Measure It Add On in Firefox and chrome Font Check Font finder for checking the font style and complete details of text position in the web page. Font finder in firefox ContextFont Add Ons in Firefox. Select the text whose font needs to be checked then right click. Its font will be shown there. Font editor in Chrome helps in editing the font in the web page to check which font will work and look better. Check for below image containing F after installing Font editor in Chrome. Check this link for different convers...

If you have a web application which has many links and you want to test all the links in the same browser and also in another browser. What would be the default thing which you would do? You will copy the URL and open another browser and paste it. Then check whether that link will open properly or not. This is fine until you have only few easily countable links to do. What if there are many hyperlinks and copy paste work of them is very tedious. You just drop out doing such things and give up because you don’t want to do it. Here are the solutions for it. If you have to open a link in another browser Use Firefox. Firefox has an Add On “Browser View Plus”. Install the Add on. Then go to Tools ">" AddOns And select Options in “Browser View Plus” section. Enter the browsers in which you want to open the links. That’s it. Go to any link and right click on it. You will find “Open With” option which has the browsers list which you have mentioned in the Option dial...

When you go to meet a person for some purpose…. and if he has got a scary and unfriendly appearance. What would be your next step? Dropping the idea of meeting him and searching for another person, who can receive you properly and serve your purpose perfectly with good responses. Am I Right? Now in above statement, think that you are a customer and you visited a web site. And website is the another person who is not so approachable. Here the approach of the web site is design and performance of the site. Visitor will switch to another web site if he is not pleased by its appearance, its performance, its usability. Visitors will explore the site more if they are satisfied. After all this, user tries to check if his purpose is solved or not. Testing functionality, end to end flow, performance is normally done for all web applications. But, what about design and usability testing? In this post I’m going to explain factors to be considered to test a design of an application. Con...

Browser compatibility testing which is also called as cross browser testing, multi browser testing , in simple words, is testing a application in different browsers and also in different versions of browsers. This task is mostly automated because it is very difficult to perform it manually. But here I’m going to provide a series of steps which will help you give more test coverage by performing the cross browser testing manually. At the same time there are many hurdles when you start testing a application in different browsers. For example chrome will not let you install different versions of it in your system, similarly with Firefox. So here we go for a quick round up of how to test a web application in different browsers with different versions without struggling. Points to be remembered before performing such testing Note down all the browsers along with their versions in which application needs to be tested. Check the minor versions in them and reduce the count by removing...

It is one of the unique methodologies of agile methodology. Scrum  It is an   iterative, incremental   framework for project management . It   is a loose set of guidelines that govern the development process of a product, from its design stages to its completion. It aims to cure some common failures of the typical development process like a. chaos due to changing requirements, unrealistic estimates of time, cost and quality of the product. Meetings 1.      Daily Scrum meeting or daily stand up meeting: agenda:  what is done, what is planned for today, what are the problems in accomplishing the goal? 2.      Sprint planning meeting : Before each sprint cycle (7-30 days)starts, prepare sprint backlog, timelines, 3.      Sprint review meeting: done at the end of sprint cycle, review work completed and not completed, demo the work completed, do not demo incomplete work, 4 ho...

Every web application is expected have at least one submit form. Data entered in form is transferred as input to database or to any other application and will decide the output. So, input data plays a very important role in retrieving the output data. Such data needs to be validated by the code. And tester has the responsibility of validating such data. At this point tester thinks about how can the validations be done and what type of data should be provided to validate the input field. Test data needs to be created and passed to the form through the automation tool or manually. Here are few steps or guide lines to validate the data. Let’s consider a sample form which acts as input to signing in as new member in a social networking site like facebook. It contains different types of input fields – Numeric, String, Alpha Numeric, date, preset values (from drop downs or check boxes), file uploads and Email addresses. Name: String input field Password : Alphanumeri...

Lets celebrate Bloggers day on August 31st. Get ready with the 5 new blogs which you like to recommend to others. Why is August 31st selected as bloggers day? August 31st means '3108' which resembles 'Blog'. For more details of it visit the site  http://www.blogday.org/

Testing it is just not a word but it is that act which gives value to the product developed by the developers. It is given more significance in present days but that value needs to be enhanced. Why, let’s see few examples of apps which were not tested perfectly and are in market with defect. These points are based on an excellent article “Perhaps they should have tested more” presented by Joe in his blog. Thanks Joe. 1.     Apple Iphones : Have IPhones failed to make the Daylight Saving Time transition yet again?   iOS 4.1 users in Europe reported that their alarm clocks failed to account for the time change due to the end of Daylight Savings, which shifted their clocks back an hour at 2 am this morning. As a result, their alarms went off an hour too late. 2.     Skype : Supernodes not so super? Skype once again had a worldwide outage related to software problems in their supernodes 3.     Google Docs : A recently-introduced bug in Go...

New feature of snapshot search is coming up in Google search. See this link http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/14/google-search-by-image-use-a-snapshot-as-your-search-query/ Check for the camera icon in Google search page, which indicates that this feature is available for use. Waiting for the plug-in to be available.

The invention of the term "bug" is often erroneously attributed to Grace Hopper, who publicized the cause of a malfunction in an early electromechanical computer.  A typical version of the story is given by this quote: “ In 1946, when Hopper was released from active duty, she joined the Harvard Faculty at the Computation Laboratory where she continued her work on the Mark-II and Mark-III ( The   Harvard Mark II   was an electromechanical computer built at Harvard University   under the direction of   Howard and was finished in 1947. It was financed by the United States navy ) . Operators traced an error in the Mark II to a moth trapped in a relay, coining the term bug. This bug was carefully removed and taped to the log book. Stemming from the first bug, today we call errors or glitch's in a program a bug . ” Hopper was not actually the one who found the insect, as she readily acknowledged. The...

Many heard about CMMI (Capability Maturity Model Integration) But that subsets all points of development and testing. Focus is more on development rather than quality activities. What about the quality which actually adds value to the project. Here comes TMMi (Test Maturity Model Integration) Quality and testing which is given low preference sometimes than development, needs a change. And here is this foundation which actually created TMMi and I guess IT industries need to start creating a space for TMMI along with CMMi. Please check the site of TMMi foundation here http://www.tmmifoundation.org/html/tmmiorg.html To know its impact read these articles

When data is exported from any web page into excel or from any other sources into excel. It gets copied with html tags. This is making it difficult to read it. If there are few rows then we can remove them manually but if we there are more number of rows then we can go for below steps. Follow these steps: 1.     Open up the VBE with Alt+F11. 2.     Locate your workbook in the top left Project Explorer window. Right-click on your workbook and choose Insert>Module. 3.     Paste the below given code in to the code module that will open. 4.     Go back to Excel, select the cells you want to clean and activate the macro with Tools>Macro>Macros. (Macro can also be activated by clicking Run icon in Visual Basic). 5.     All the html tags will be replaced. 6.     But sometimes some cells will be displayed as hashes. In such cases, select the Description column again and select Home > Clear ...

Every web application by default will contain search feature in it. Many search engines’ main functionality is search feature. The parameters to be considered while developing this feature or testing this feature are not limited. There are many factors which should be looked in when checking the coverage and usability of the search text box in the application. Preparation before testing the search functionality 1.        Note down the valid input details for the search feature. 2.        Find out the minimum and maximum range. 3.        Find out the depth of the search – document search, word in a document, image search 4.        Should document search display the size of the document also? Similarly for image? 5.        Any advanced search features like document or image type selection to refine the search are availa...

Estimation is the base step of any project. If it is not strong then the whole project and sometimes the client itself will be out of our hands. It is not an easy task and not a difficult one too. Not every estimation is successful. Too much of estimation will lose the client and less estimation will scare the employee. Balancing both and winning the project is what needs to be learned. Here are the factors which should be considered before making estimation 1.        Technical a.        Experience and Knowledge of test team in the technology which is used. b.       Type of application – web application, executable file, games or any other. c.        Technical dependencies (if development and testing team is not at one location). d.       Tools used and their flexibility 2.        Functional a.    ...