Quality Assurance

Selenium IDE stands for Selenium Integrated Development Environment. It is a Firefox plugin which helps testers to recorded their actions and then export them as a reusable script in one of many programming languages. Selenium IDE has a recording feature, that provides an easy-to-use interface for developing automated tests. Selenium IDE was developed by Shinya Kasatani. Selenium IDE became a part of Selenium Package in the year 2006. Then tool becomes a great value and potential to the community.

Selenium IDE is an Automation testing tool that provide Record/Playback tool for testing website. IDE stands for Integrated Development Environment. It is implemented as Firefox Add-On and allows recording, editing and debugging test. Usually Screenshot are taken for all type of application testing such as Web based, Product base etc.

Selenium IDE is an Automation testing tool that provide Record/Playback tool for testing website. IDE stands for Integrated Development Environment. It is implemented as Firefox Add-On and allows recording, editing and debugging test. Suppose you have Drupal website where user can purchase ticket through online platform.

Suppose you have Drupal website where user can purchase ticket through online ticket platform. It allows two types of users such as Registered user and guest user. System will automatically create an account for guest user using email address. Registered users have the permission to manage personal profile.

The first apparent analyse situation is to analyse if your program is writing cookies effectively on disk. You can use the Cookie Tester application also if you do not have any web program to test but you want to comprehend the cookie idea for testing.

Smoke testing, the preliminary level of testing is done to ensure whether the major functionalities of a build/software is functioning properly. In simpler words, we can say that it is an entry criteria for ensuring that a software is ready for further testing. Confidence testing, Build Verification Testing are other names for smoke testing. In this type of testing, testers execute test cases based upon the requirement mainly the positive cases. The main functionalities, work flows etc will be tested first.

The terms validation and verification is little bit confusing for most of us. Oftentimes most of us think the terms are same but in reality the terms are different. So to avoid these confusion, here I am giving a brief note for these terms.

Spike testing is usually done to estimate the weakness of an application and see the dramatic behavior of the system when a sudden increment or decrements in the load by a user. Spike testing is mainly done to see how the system reacts with unexpected rise and fall of the load. It is also called Data volume testing.

CSV the Comma-Separated Value or the Character-Separated Value is a highly useful format frequently used to save data from websites. Any spreadsheet program like MS Excel or even an ASCII text-editing application can be used to import the data. In one of my recent projects, there was a requirement to provide an Export link, which should export the report to a CSV file. The report had three fields ( product, quantity and amount). It also had a 'from date' and 'to date' field for sorting the report between a period. Following are the test cases I executed for this case.

Are you looking for a method to measure your test coverage? Are you finding it difficult to give an exact percentage of your testing? If so here is a simple template for you to calculate the test coverage. As we know, test coverage is the amount of testing performed. It could be calculated as below: (Number of test cases executed/Total number of test cases) X 100%

The testing tool selenium IDE is usually used to develop test cases. It is a Firefox plugin So Our first step is, to install Selenium IDE. For that you can download it from the following place http://seleniumhq.org/download/. After that 'Selenium IDE' add-on to be installed. You should restart the fire fox browser.

We all are familiar with the drop-downs on website. It is used to list a series of items under a box/menu. Suppose we have a page which lists apparels. And in apparels we have categories like shirts, t-shirts, trousers etc. We can sort these categories with the help of a drop-down (select tool). The working of drop-down is in such a way that, by default the drop-down will list only one item. When user clicks the down arrow which is displayed near to the menu, the drop-down will be dropped down and will list all the choices below. The drop-down may have pretty large list of items. So in order to select the down most items, there will option for users to scroll down. These are the primary things about a drop-down. Now lets see the test cases for testing the drop-down.

With the coming of broadband the importance and relevance of audio/video streaming has increased to a pretty impressive level on the internet. Almost all media related websites contain video/audio streaming in one form or the other. Streaming videos is a good choice when you don't want people to download your videos and share with others. Here are some quick steps to test video/audio streaming.

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While using websites with numerous web pages, you might feel confused like which page you are currently in or from which page you reached the current page. For tracking this navigation, websites often use breadcrumbs or breadcrumb trail. Breadcrumbs are usually seen at the top of site pages. It is nothing but listing of website links separated by a greater-than sign (>). Here what user should do is just click the links and navigate to corresponding pages. Each link on breadcrumbs are termed as Levels. The main advantage of these links is helping users navigate to higher level pages of the site. Following are some of the test cases that can be referred while testing breadcrumbs in a site.

Quality is an important factor when it comes to any product or service. In order to maintain or enhance the quality, manufacturers use two techniques, Quality Control and Quality Assurance. They are closely related, but they are different concepts. They have strong interdependence, Quality Assurance relies mostly on the Quality Control feedback and both work to deliver good quality products/services, but they are different processes.