Testing

Automating the Testing of Checkout Process in Drupal Ubercart

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Testing | 1 min read
Zyxware as an organization is trying to introduce cost-effective measures that can save time, resources and bring value to clients, as part of that we have introduced automation of checkout process in Drupal Ubercart. On the analysis made in many eCommerce websites, we have concluded that the checkout process is the main functional flow that is critical to the client and it was to be automated to keep a check on the stability of the checkout process flow.
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Checklist for Cross Browser Testing

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Quality Assurance | 1 min read
Cross browser testing is the type of testing in which testers ensure that the application is compatible to latest versions of the commonly used browsers (commonly used browsers list can be obtained from browser statistics). Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Internet Explorer are some of them. This article includes a checklist that can be referred while performing the cross browser testing.
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Testing Using API Endpoints

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Quality Assurance | 3 min read
In API testing there is no front end available for testing. A logic layer will be build for the application on which we perform testing. Here emphasis will be on functional flow. It is basically a black box testing of various functionalities based on the response generated for an API call. These Responses for the API calls are used to validate the interactions.
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Basics of Developer tools for Testers

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Technical Solution | 2 min read
Developer tool is an add-on of Mozilla which helps to debug the elements in a web page. You can get the tool from Add-ons (go to Add-ons and install web developer Tools (Add-ons > install web developer tools). On complete installing the Add-on, you can see a menu bar with items like disable, cookies, images, miscellaneous etc. You can use these items to measure, re-size, disable images, view source code, responsive view etc.
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Check list for UI testing?

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Quality Assurance | 2 min read
User Interface testing comes under Non Functional Testing type. In UI testing, our intention is to validate user interface which is designed professionally or not. Here is the basic check list for UI testing :
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[solved] How to manage HTTP authentication in Selenium?

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Testing | 2 min read
Whenever you play back the recorded test cases in Selenium, the http secured websites will displayed an authentication popup window and it prompt you to enter the http user name and the password and it will not allow to perform any further operations until you provide username and password. Lets checkout the solution.
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Basics of firebug for software testers

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Testing | 3 min read
Firebug, an extension of Mozilla browser is a very helpful tool to find the spacing between elements, padding, border and margin, font, font size and color of the text and many other things in a webpage. This article talks about the basic things we can perform using firebug in a tester's point of view.
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An introduction to V model in testing

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Testing | 2 min read
V - Model of testing means Verification and Validation Model. Like the Waterfall Model, the V-Shaped life cycle is a sequential path of execution of processes. Each phase should be completed before the next phase begins. Testing of the product is done in parallel with a corresponding phase of development and this type of model finds its use in projects with no rapid requirement change.
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What are the different type of testings used in different Wireless Devices?

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Quality Assurance | 3 min read
The devices which make use of wireless technology is now becoming a part of our life due to higher customer satisfaction. Wireless technology is nothing but the transfer of information between two or more points which are not in physical contact with each other. Since there are no wires running out from the devices , the mobility and installation of these devices are much easy. Mobile phones, desktops, monitors, keyboards, routers, remote controls etc are some of the devices we often use. Bluetooth and Wi-Fi are wireless technologies which are widely using now a days.
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What is Thread Testing?

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Testing | 3 min read
It is a testing technique which is performed at the early stage of integration testing phase to verify the key functional capabilities of a specific task. This technique is very useful for client server architecture.
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What are the different types of Beta testing?

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Quality Assurance | 2 min read
Beta testing is formally performed by real user of the software application in the user environment. Beta version of the application will be released to limited number of end-users to in order to get feedback regarding the quality. There are different types of Beta testing available at present. So before moving to the type of beta testing you have to build an idea about what beta testing is.
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[Testing ] A short note on Adhoc testing

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Testing | 3 min read
Adhoc testing is the type of testing performed without proper planning and it does not involve any formal documentation. It is relatively easy compared to other methods of testing but it is difficult to reproduce defects using this technique.
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A Short Note on Selenium Framework

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Testing | 3 min read
Selenium is a free and open-source automated software testing tool for testing web applications. Selenium is a set of tools that helps testers automate web-based applications more efficiently. The main advantage of selenium is that it will operate across different browsers and operating systems.
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Why should we use Automation testing?

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Testing | 3 min read
As we all know current IT industry trend is to moving towards automation testing. Automation testing means using a software tool to run repeatable tests against the application to be tested. Automated Testing can perform regression testing quickly. It will be useful to execute the set of test cases frequently. Automation testing can also be done on different machine with different OS platform combination, simultaneously.
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Relevance of Penetration Testing

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Testing | 3 min read
Penetration testing is a type of security testing. It is mainly used to find all the vulnerability that are present in the system being tested. Vulnerabilities usually occurs during software development and implementation phase. Usually Vulnerabilities will be design errors, configuration errors, bugs etc.
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How to test API?

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Testing | 4 min read
API, Application Programming Interface is used for interacting the components in a software. A website uses different API's for communicating the software components. As user, we can see only the interfaces and not the working of API's behind those interfaces. This article focus on how we can ensure the API we implement works or not. Websites provide different extensions for testing API.
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