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Michael Jackson’s “This is it”.

“This is it“. The much wanted movie for Michael Jackson fans. I finally saw it on November 7, 2009. It held me spellbound. Amazing is what I can say. It has been filmed by the few set of cameras during the period from March to the day until his demise and gives insights into the human nature of the King of Pop.

QTP Database Testing : Connecting to an Access database and executing a query

QTP Database Testing : Connecting to an Access database and executing a query

One of the most intriguing and challenging tasks for a tester is to conduct a Database test and verify the query and the related outcome. It surely needs extensive knowledge on executing the underlying queries and verifying its correctness based on a host of parameters. The most important aspect is the correctness of the query and the optimized nature. This requires good knowledge in query writing, understanding the intricacies of the Database.

Tips to Testers – Relevance of Test Data (Part I)

Tips to Testers – Relevance of Test Data 

To understand the relevance of Test Data for effective testing,  we need to know the following.
(a) Testing
(b) Test cases
(c) Test Data.

Testing : A typical definition for testing goes like this. “Testing is the process of executing a program with the intent of finding errors“.

Creating an Effective Test Case Format

Creating an effective test case format

Time and again, the testing folks have to go about creating a test case set for the project at hand. As we are all aware that the test cases can be generalized with some basic fields.

 

The mandatory fields are

-          Test Case Title (It is best indicated to have a title which clearly indicates the functionality of the product under test).

-          Test Case Version (when you have multiple enhancements/ changes in the product and thereby the test case too).

Dedication to Michael Jackson – A tribute

This is a poem dedicated to the King of Pop – Michael Jackson. His songs brought the world closer no matter which country, which class, creed you belong to.

 

To MJ, A tribute.

You came into this world, our loving MICHAEL
and reached in the world of music, the PINNACLE
You, we love as “The King of POP”
Without you, the music world is a Full STOP.

Your songs ‘n’ dance to millions, CAPTIVATED
and to equally millions, your videos, MOTIVATED
To learn and pick the dance style that’s UNIQUE
To us, you are our own and truely UNIQUE

A love poem called “Esctasy”

Esctasy

My Love, Thou’re to me, My loving beloved
My darling dear, you deserve to be loved,
Close to me, in my arms, I wish to hold you
and all my life, love you, only you.

Performance Testing – How to measure and optimize PageLoad

Performance Testing – PageLoad Time.

With every business wanting to make their presence felt on the web, it is a rush for having an application on the web. It could include simple one page applications, complex applications, applications to reap in users and thereby profits, applications rich in embedded images and so on.

With so many applications on the Net, it is equally important to have them optimized and efficient. Every user logs onto the net, hoping to spend less time with maximum and fruitful search yields. It is therefore essential that your website, web application, webpage loads within a realistic time period. This will enable the user to stay onto your site and know more about your products and services.

Converting the Excel date time format to Date only format.

Converting the Excel date time format to Date only format.

There are number of times when we encounter Date in the form “date and time”.

E.g.

Typically when a user extracts data from a tool to calculate metrics, the date fields “Created Date” and “Updated Date” are in the format DATE and TIME. For some reason, we would like to have these date fields converted to DATE ONLY fields.

How can we do convert this DATE TIME field value to DATE only value?

Using HP – Quality Center for Effective Testing

 Using Quality Center for effective testing.

 

What is Testing?

In the software development life cycle, we find that testing is an important and integral part. Most people are of the view that testing phase can only be initiated for testing once the code is ready. They are wrong!!!

 

Testing will in fact be initiated from the requirements gathering phase until the stage when the product goes live. i.e. into production.

 

Phases in Software Development

Let’s see the set of documents that aid testing during the various phases of software development.

 

 

With the onus on testing to deliver quality products, it became necessary to have a set of documents that are manageable and make sense to the development community. In comes various tools that will aid the testing and development community to track these documents. These tools manage all the testing activities and provide different kinds of reports.

 

Writing Test Cases for Security Test (Role Based).

Writing Test Cases for Security Test (Role Based).

 
What is a test case?

In software engineering, a product/ application is to be tested by exercising all possible combinations of features and inputs. In order to define a test case, we can say “It is a set of conditions or combination of variables under which a tester/ engineer will identify whether the application under test is working correctly or not”.

A single test case will not however verify that the application is working as desired. It will take numerous test cases for execution before we say that the application features are working correctly.

The typical set of test cases that are commonly used to test a particular application are