Performance testing tool

This is in fact most crucial test for time critical applications such as stock management systems which gets refreshed every minute creating huge load on web site as there are thousands of users accessing the web site at the same moment. For such applications stress testing with more than 10,000 users is a basic test. The WAPT Pro comes with default “Load Agents” functionality to test average load on any web site. But...

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Story of how a hang becomes a crash (because testers love reporting crashes)

I am doing my first exploratory testing workshop for 2011 and first from Moolya Software Testing Pvt Ltd. and I am excited about it. You can find the details by clicking on this link . If you are in India and plan to attend it, please do it quickly. I usually don't take a lot of participants although I know I'd gain more money out of more participants. Ever since I announced it yesterday, there are 4 seats that got...

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Technology that failed in India ( Testing Bowl of the world )

Once while at work I was getting my test cases reviewed about a project/domain which I was new to and one of my colleague gave a strong comment "Pradeep , please think of more cases". I was a bit dissapointed because already there were enough test cases that it will take 3 days to complete a cycle and I thought "should I further shoot at my own legs ?" ( the more cases I write , more I have to test , its painful , isnt...

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TASTRO – Tester’s Astro – What do your test signs foretell?

TASTRO – Tester’s Astro – What do your test signs foretell? Aries Your stars look good for coming week however you might face an environment downtime. Why not make a quick checklist on how to set it up? Taurus Avoid calls during Rahu Kaal. Those who have calls with your on-site coordinators...

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Does Quality Assurance Remove Need for Quality Control?

“If QA (Quality Assurance) is done then why do we need to perform QC (Quality Control)?”, this thought may come to our mind some times and looks a valid point too.  This means if we have followed all the pre-defined processes, policies and standards correctly and completely then why do we need to perform a round of QC? In my opinion QC is required after QA is done. While in ‘QA’ we define the processes, policies,...

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Google's Record Playback Framework

At GTAC, folks asked how well the Record/Playback (RPF) works in the Browser Integrated Test Environment (BITE). We were originally skeptical ourselves, but figured somebody should try. Here is some anecdotal data and some background on how we started measuring the quality of RPF.The idea is to just let users use the application in the browser, record their actions, and save them as a javascript to play back as a regression...

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From the mailbox: selecting test automation tools

From the mailbox: selecting test automation tools A long time ago, all the way back in 1999, I wrote an article on selecting GUI test automation tools. Someone recently found it and wrote me an email to ask about getting help with evaluating tools. I decided my response might be useful for other people trying to choose tools, so I turned it into a blog post. By the way, so much has changed since my article on...

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Static Methods

Static MethodsStatic methods are procedural in nature and they have no place in OO world. I can already hear the screams, so let me explain why, but first we need to agree that global variables and state is evil. If you agree with previous statement than for a static method to do something interesting it needs to have some arguments, otherwise it will always return a constant. Call to a staticMethod() must always return...

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