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Browser Compatibility testing OR Cross Browser testing

Browser compatibility testing which is also called as cross browser testing, multi browser testing , in simple words, is testing a application in different browsers and also in different versions of browsers. This task is mostly automated because it is very difficult to perform it manually. But here I’m going to provide a series of steps which will help you give more test coverage by performing the cross browser testing manually. At the same time there are many hurdles when you start testing a application in different browsers. For example chrome will not let you install different versions of it in your system, similarly with Firefox. So here we go for a quick round up of how to test a web application in different browsers with different versions without struggling. Points to be remembered before performing such testing Note down all the browsers along with their versions in which application needs to be tested. Check the minor versions in them and reduce the count by removing

Scrum Methodology - Quick Info

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It is one of the unique methodologies of agile methodology. Scrum  It is an   iterative, incremental   framework for project management . It   is a loose set of guidelines that govern the development process of a product, from its design stages to its completion. It aims to cure some common failures of the typical development process like a. chaos due to changing requirements, unrealistic estimates of time, cost and quality of the product. Meetings 1.      Daily Scrum meeting or daily stand up meeting: agenda:  what is done, what is planned for today, what are the problems in accomplishing the goal? 2.      Sprint planning meeting : Before each sprint cycle (7-30 days)starts, prepare sprint backlog, timelines, 3.      Sprint review meeting: done at the end of sprint cycle, review work completed and not completed, demo the work completed, do not demo incomplete work, 4 hour time will be allocated. 4.      Sprint retrospective meeting: done at the end o

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.

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.

Tips for testing multi-lingual web sites

This is a article by: Inder P Singh(picked from a site) These days a number of web sites are deployed in multiple languages. As companies perform more and more business in other countries, the number of such global multi-lingual web applications will continue to increase. Testing web sites supporting multiple languages has its own fair share of challenges. In this article, I will share seven tips with you that will enable you to test the multi-lingual browser-based applications in a complete way: Tip # 1 – Prepare and use the required test environment If a web site is hosted in English and Japanese languages, it is not enough to simply change the default browser language and perform identical tests in both the languages. Depending on its implementation, a web site may figure out the correct language for its interface from the browser language setting, the regional and language settings of the machine, a configuration in the web application or other factors. Therefore, in

IE6 countdown started

Many do not like using IE6, for such there is a news IE6 countdown is coming to 1% from 6%. Do your bit by joining the cause in http://www.theie6countdown.com You also have a new and a great looking IE9 released. Enjoy working on it.

Extract all URLs in a web page

Excellent way of extracting all URLs from a web page. If you have a web page and you want to extract the URLs in complete web application, there is a way. Go to http://www.web-max.ca/PHP/misc_23.php, enter the URL in the text box given at the end of the php code. It crawls the entire web page and extracts all the URLs in the web pages and provides the list. Copy and paste it in the excel. Thanks for the Cool code.

Factors for link testing

Link testing Many feel its just clicking the links, but it is not so. It has many factors which are supposed to be checked when testing the links in any web application. Factors for link testing 1. Check the link style- color,font,color when already visited 2. Check the tool tip for the link 3. Check the navigation of the link - Navigating to a web page in same window - Navigating to a web page in different window - Opening a document in same page - Opening a document in different window - opening an image or video 4. Check the parameters saved in cookie if the application is localized 5. Any identification if it is an external link. 6. Performance of the link 7. Time taken for navigation of the link There are many tools or link checkers which navigate through the complete web application and provide the list of breaking URLs. I suggest Xenu link checker. Observe these key factors when using link checker for testing links 1. Link checkers can take web page as in

Google helps you search and receive search results through email

To search and receive google search results through email. Just send an email to google@capeclear.com and enter the text of your query in the "Subject" line. You will receive the search results as email to your mail id. Once you get the result for the searches... u can get the contents of a URL using the below feature!! To receive the web content of a url send email to web@pagegetter.com and subject should contain the URL whose content has to be fetched. Thanks to the No-Internet and only MAILING community.

Check external links in excel

I thought Testing or checking the hyperlinks which are navigating to external web page is a tedious task. Searched for a tool very seriously which can test all the hyperlinks in excel and produce a report of the broken links. Did not found any tool which can take excel with hyperlinks as the input and produce report. Requirement was - An excel is available with many hyperlinks. I need to check each link and prepare a report of which one is working and which one is not working. Finally got a solution 1. Copy only links from the excel which are to be tested to new excel sheet. 2. New excel sheet should not have any labels or any cells containing values other than hyperlinks type. 3. Save the excel as web page. 4. It will be saved as .html page. 5. Input this html page to any link checker which takes the web page as input. 6. See that "checking local links" option is set in the link checker. 7. This HTML page should be given as a file input to