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Google search can now search for snapshot

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.

Do you know which is the first bug found

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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

CMMi and TMMi

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

Strip off Html tags from excel

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.

How to test search functionality

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 of the test effort

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

Want to spell check and grammar check your complete web application

Excellent tool to check spelling errors, grammar and broken links in complete web application. If you want to crawl the entire web application and check for spelling mistakes, typo errors you  do not need to check each page manually. Let your application be multi-lingual web application, but it can check for the spellings. Here is a super tool for it      Inspyder Software Features at its best –         Check the spellings of the complete web application            Check the grammar mistakes of the complete web application            Check for the broken links            Lets you select any language as the dictionary against which spellings are compared.            Provides you to create a custom dictionary which contains a set of words which are not actually spelling mistakes in your application.            Provides good report based on your preferences. Check the site http://www.inspyder.com for more features and tools of it.