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What is Fuzz Testing?

10.03.2011

Note: the article was updated in June 2018. First of all, fuzz is a random input of valid and invalid data generated for software testing. Fuzz testing or simply fuzzing

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

Running Selenium Server Using Custom Firefox Profile

07.03.2011

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

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

5 Simple Ways to Reproduce Not Reproducible Bug

There are often situations in the daily work of a software tester when it is impossible to give precise instructions how to reproduce the bug for developers or other team

Software Testing Techniques : Positive vs Negative

Positive Software Testing Techniques Positive software testing techniques focus on validating a predefined expectation. In other words, these techniques help you verify that what is supposed to happen actually does

Software Testing Techniques

01.03.2011

Introduction Because of the fallibility of its human designers and its own abstract, complex nature, software development must be accompanied by quality assurance activities. It is not unusual for developers