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Input Data Validation

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

Bloggers day

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/

Test More n more

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

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.