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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