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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 Google Docs caused some documents to be shared with

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 date in the log book was 9 September 19

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 > Clear Formats. This will get back your description.

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 available? 6.        General set of input which can be given are a.        A-Z b.       a-z c.        0-9 d.       {      [              (       

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.        Number of requirements free zed b.       Number of critical functionalities c.        Types of testing done – User interface testing, cross browser testing, localization testing and ma