QA
testing a evolving codebase
We are all fans of automated testing. In our adoption of this principle over the last three years using selenium, we have come across a few pertinent challenges and a few ways to get around them. This blog narrates some of these experiences, starting with the challenges and then our solutions. Problems Common Steps Every [...]
Delivering again and again!
Delivering value again and again Business needs to optimize their spending and still get greater value over time with the money they spend on services. ISV’s venturing into offshore development has to evaluate their vendors with parameters that measure the value of the vendor more quantitatively. They could also use empirical methods to determine the [...]
Automating SOAP API tests with SOAPUI
SOAP UI is a powerful and easy to use open source tool for automating different types of web services like SOAP, REST etc. It provides a UI for creating test cases,assertions making it easier to develop test cases rapidly. SOAP UI caters to the needs of functional, regression, load testing and provides features like Mock [...]
Setting up Svn Repository over apache2 easy and quick:
Step1>Downloading and Installing Svn modules and dependencies : Download the most recent distribution tarball from here : Subversion depends on a number of third party tools and libraries.The Subversion has a package containing the minimal prerequisite libraries (Apache Portable Runtime, serf,neon,sqlite-amalgamation and Zlib) called the “dependency package” tarball or zipfile. You can simply unpack the [...]
Making a Spring bean Applicationcontext aware
Suppose we have a webapplication with spring, and we are initializing spring’s WebApplicationContext by configuring ContextLoaderListener in web.xml. How can we get an instance of spring’s applicationContext object? Possible solutions: While configuring spring through web.xml the spring ApplicationContext object is set in the ServletContext. To get ApplicationContext we say ApplicationContext applicationContext = (ApplicationContext)servletContext.getAttribute(WebApplicationContext.ROOT_WEB_APPLICATION_CONTEXT_ATTRIBUTE); So we [...]
testing software product interoperability
I have been trying to write on product interoperability for quite sometime. So here it goes. What do we mean by product interoperability? In my opinion, interoperability of a product is its ability to function while different variables of its environment – software as well as hardware – are changed. Testing software interoperability assumes more [...]
Reproducing a bug ….the eternal quest
There are some really cliched problems which software testers and consqeuently software developers face as part of their job. Reproducing a bug comes right there among the top of that list. Recently, I faced one such instance where I was at my wits end to reproduce a bug – needless to say, it wasted precious [...]
Setting up TestLink on Linux
I was assigned the responsibility of setting up Test Link (TL) on my network and import test cases from another instance of TL running elsewhere. It was quite simple but I would still like to put it down just in case someone runs into issues or better still if someone has suggestions – More than welcome. [...]
FaceBook Apps Testing
Facebook Apps Testing: Does it sound surprising or does it sound interesting. When i got to look at this area as a potential offerable service line i had both the reactions to myself. But as i spent some quality time, understanding how these cool apps are built and more importantly how these apps should satisfy [...]