Posts From Nataliia Vasylyna

What is Zombie Testing?

24.03.2011

Note: This article was updated in November 2020. “Zombie testing” is a routine test execution using predetermined patterns and methods. In software testing, zombies are mostly concentrated on fulfilling their

Automated Acceptance Testing or FitNesse to Improve the Quality of Software

23.03.2011

The quality of the product is not in the least dependent on the actual documentation and thorough testing. I would like to highlight the issue of developing and testing software

What is the Main Aim of Software Tester?

22.03.2011

“The main activity of testers is that they provide to the project participants of development software negative feedback on the quality of the product.” D. Spolsky recently described the same

Best practices for “Best practices”

Note: the article was updated in September 2018. We face the “best practices” definition quite often. But what does “best practice” mean? Who defines what practice is the best one?

Aggressive and Passive Testing

I’ve been thinking about how I *bucket* testing. Here is what I mean. I see testing as aggressive and passive. Aggressive testing, to me, is the art of asking the product

Non-Regression testing, what is it?

20.03.2011

The article was updated in May 2018. Making code changes, a developer may affect the proper work of the software. Even a small tweak can cause unexpected consequences or provoke

Selenium Auto Accept Self Signed SSL Certificates and Basic Authentication

19.03.2011

One of my biggest annoyances and unresolved issues with Selenium is the self-signed SSL certificates. This was a huge issue for me on the last project when we had dozen

JavaScript Testing Beginner’s Guide

18.03.2011

JavaScript is an important part of web development in today’s Web 2.0 world. While there are many JavaScript frameworks in the market, learning to write, test, and debug JavaScript without

Software Testing Checklist – 5 Steps to Success

Note: this article was updated in April 2019. Nowadays, any ordinary actions, important events or the entire working year are easy to control with a proper checklist. Numerous procedures that

Negative Test Cases for Functional Testing

Negative testing is a testing technique when invalid input data are used for software quality assessment. Its purpose is to check the software behavior in case of invalid input. In

Unit Testing SharePoint with TypeMock (Part I)

17.03.2011

As a developer testing isn’t necessarily fun but it is an essential aspect of what we do. I find it’s always a challenge to find the best approach that balances