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3 Forms of Acceptance Testing and their Application

09.03.2011

Any application has to be tested. One highly respected programmer said: “programs that are not tested, are not working.” Acceptance testing is performed based on a set of common test

Types of Video Game Testers

07.03.2011

Game developing companies in order to generate more revenues are hiring video game testers. So finding the correct source of the companies whichever is hiring is a must. There are

Test Automation Authoring Is Harder Than It sounds

I’ve got a test automation engineer and a bunch of manual testers. The plan, of course, is to teach the manual testers to write automated tests were appropriate; a plan

Running Selenium Server Using Custom Firefox Profile

Let’s create custom firefox profile at first: 1. Close all running copies of firefox 2. Start => Run 3. Type firefox.exe -ProfileManager -no-remote, other often offer to run command firefox.exe

Interview Questions of Selenium

05.03.2011

1.    What is the difference between an assert and a verify with Selenium commands? 2.    What Selenese commands can be used to help debug a regexp? 3.    What is one

3 Goals of Usability Testing

The study of user behaviour on the Web shows that they do not perceive the slow sites and sites with complex designs. People do not want to wait. Also, they

27% of QA Teams Don’t Use a Bug Tracker

04.03.2011

Note: the article was updated in June 2018. According to a Data Research conducted by Testuff, a provider of solution for test management activities, 27% of test management tool users

Apache JMeter Basis

03.03.2011

I’ve been doing some self-training for a few weeks. This time the choice fell on performance testing and specifically on a very interesting and useful open-source tool from Apache. I

How automation testing can help your software development process

There is no piece of software in the world that’s not tested before release for mass adoption. Yet we see many applications fail to reach the target audience. One of

Key Steps in Automated Testing

Even though every piece of software undergoes thorough testing, when it is delivered software almost always has defects. Test engineers strive to catch them before the product is released but

Benefits of Outsourcing to Ukraine

02.03.2011

Today, the movement of IT-services in offshore zones, in part or in whole, is becoming a global trend for many businesses. So, already a significant number of companies around the