The Good, The Bad and Test Automation
Software testing is not a new field but is changing at an extremely fast pace that requires QA engineers to update constantly with new technologies, methods and best practices. Online resources, books, papers unfortunately don’t hold impressive information, even prestigious certifications aren’t that useful as some people suggest them to be. After working in this industry for five years now I came across many concepts and interesting theories that are, simply put, not true or implementations that do more harm than good, starting with but not limited to: trainings, agile methods , testing methods, measurements , zero defect demonstration, test automation, exhaustive testing and many more. Read the rest of this entry »
Airline Pilots Gripe sheets
After every flight, pilots fill out a form, called a gripe sheet which tells mechanics about problems with the aircraft. The mechanics correct the problems, document their repairs on the form, and then pilots review the gripe sheets before the next flight. Never let it be said that ground crews lack a sense of humor. Here are some maintenance complaints submitted by pilots and the solutions recorded by maintenance engineers. By the way, the airline these came from is the only major airline that has never, ever, had an accident. Read the rest of this entry »
105 Types of Software Testing
A list of 100 types of Software Testing Types along with definitions. A must read for any QA professional.
1. Acceptance Testing: Formal testing conducted to determine whether or not a system satisfies its acceptance criteria and to enable the customer to determine whether or not to accept the system. It is usually performed by the customer.
2. Accessibility Testing: Type of testing which determines the usability of a product to the people having disabilities (deaf, blind, mentally disabled etc). The evaluation process is conducted by persons having disabilities. Read the rest of this entry »
Computer errors allow violent California prisoners to be released unsupervised
A computer system that lacked key information about inmates factored in the release of an estimated 450 prisoners with a “high risk of violence,” according to the California inspector general.
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Worst software defects in history
A software bug is the common term used to describe an error, flaw, mistake, failure, or fault in a computer program or system that produces an incorrect or unexpected result, or causes it to behave in unintended ways.
So what are the worst software defects in history ? Read the rest of this entry »
Introduction to Test Automation Framework
A test automation framework is a set of assumptions, concepts and tools that provide support for automated software testing. The main advantage of such a framework is the low cost for maintenance which can improve ROI by reducing the development and maintenance costs. Read the rest of this entry »
Integrating Rational Functional Tester and Rational Quality Manager
Rational Functional Tester (RFT) is IBM Rational’s tool for handling functional test automation and Rational Quality Manager (RQM) is IBM Rational’s tool for test management. This two tools work great hand in hand , RQM managing the test plan, test cases,manual test scripts and results while RFT is used for creating and executing automated test scripts.
This article will take you step by step on how you can set up the RFT execution adapter to use with RQM
First off you need to have at least one RFT test script, a test cases already created and the RQM server must be running.
