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16 Characteristics of a Great Software Tester
What Makes a Good Software Tester to a Great Software Tester? As a tester you should continuously strive to become better and better. To be a great software tester, you need to develop following 16 characteristics within you: http://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/software-tester/...Submitted by Vijay | Rated +1
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Common Web Application Vulnerabilities (Top 5 Vulnerabilities) --- Web Security Testing
1) Authentication & Authorization ===================== One of the biggest web application weaknesses is the failure to provide a means of strong authentication to verify the end user is who they claim. Prior to accessing a web application, a server may require the end user to authenticate themselves to identify the user or to determine the user`s access privileges. Without such authentication employed, attackers could access to another user`s account, view sensitive information or perfor...Submitted by Kaushik | Rated 0
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12 Best Cross Browser Testing Tools to Ease Your Browser Compatibility Testing Efforts
Cross Browser Testing can be the biggest pain for Software testers. But thanks to all cross browser testing tools available online which help to minimize testing efforts. I’ve written this post mainly for software testers but designers can also refer crossbrowser testing methods and tools mentioned in this post. Here’s a handy cross browser testing checklist you can refer while testing your web project on different browsers and operating systems: 1) CSS validation 2) HTML or XHTML ...Submitted by Raj | Rated 0
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UK is short on software testing skills
The combination of a shortage of software testers in the UK and businesses` reluctance to spend money on testing is causing financial and reputational loss, research has shown. A survey carried out by software testing company Sogeti at TestExpo last month revealed that 73% of the 300 people interviewed said there is a shortage of software testing skills in the UK. More than half of them added that businesses do not spend enough on testing. Although businesses value software testing, they d...Submitted by Rohit | Rated 0
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Back To Basics: Automated Testing
Automating parts of testing has always existed since people have tested software. In my early days of testing the concept of separating testing into manual and automated testing never really existed. Well not where I worked anyhow. We tested, and sometimes we used tools to help us test. In conformance testing we used protocol analysers and executable test scripts to verify conformance to ETSI protocols. When testing Intelligent networks we used call generators and created SQL scripts to load...Submitted by Rohit | Rated +1
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Capgemini: Significant investment in application development expected in 2010
Capgemini together with Sogeti, its French professional services division, has released the findings of the 2009 World Quality Report. This in-depth study of enterprise application quality assurance testing and emerging trends in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), sponsored with HP, reveals that significant investment in new application development projects is expected in 2010. The majority of respondents – 88 percent – expect more investment from business leaders in this area over the ...Submitted by Rohit | Rated 0
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Domestic market to drive hiring in 2010
BANGALORE: The domestic market is expected to spearhead hiring activities in 2010, unlike in recent years when recruitment was led by Hiring outsourcing requirements. With domestic companies getting their act together to cash in on the "recovering market" opportunities , there is already a significant amount of buoyancy reported in hiring. Bhanushree R, director in TMG Talent Management Group, says there was a 50% increase in recruitment billing revenues during the October-December quart...Submitted by Rohit | Rated 0
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Testing market to reach heights in 2010
Software Testing is one of the emerging area in IT industry which is rapidly growing. Increased competition and customer demand has made software testing a key operation which demands nowadays top talents and pay packets. As software users become "certificate-conscious", developers are queuing up to use the services of independent software testing (IST) service firms. S Janardhanan, vice president - Technology and Quality, ITC Infotech talks to Divya Girish of CIOL, about the testing domain, ...Submitted by Rohit | Rated 0
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Silk Test
Silk Test is a tool specifically designed for doing Regression and Functionality testing. It is developed by Segue Software Inc. Silk Test is the industry’s leading functional testing product for e-business applications , whether Window based, Web, Java, or traditional client/server-based. Silk Test also offers test planning, management, direct database access and validation, the flexible and robust 4Test scripting language, a built in recovery system for unattended testing, and the abilit...Published about 01-12-2009 | Rated 0
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Selenium tip - Handling windows
Testing web application is always fun and if you are automating your web application testing with Selenium, its even more fun. Unfortunately, like any other tool selenium has few limitations. One of the most annoying limitation of selenium is its inability to handle browser windows (Or any other expected or unexpected windows). When we automate any application which launches these windows (For example security warning windows, certifications windows and so on), we get stuck by the inability of s...Published about 01-12-2009 | Rated 0