QA Basics

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

5 Simple Ways to Reproduce Not Reproducible Bug

02.03.2011

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

Difference Between White Box, Black Box, and Gray Box Testing

Note: the article was updated in September 2018. In this article, we are going to talk about three common approaches to software testing: white-box, black-box, and grey-box testing. We will

4 Steps For Successful UI Prototyping

28.02.2011

Note: this article was updated in October 2019. One of the most important steps in creating something new is prototyping. If the mistake was made at this stage, it would

Pareto Principle in Software Testing

25.02.2011

Note: The article was updated in February 2021. The Pareto Principle states that 20% of efforts bring 80% of results, and the other 80% of efforts bring only 20% of