Software Testing
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In the previous post, I discussed the views of various testing experts in favour of Schools of Testing. But not everyone feels that way! There are some experts, who are against the concept of schools of testing. There are still others, who find the subject fine, but not for dividing the testers into groups. There
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The last couple of days have been quite tough, as I had to read a lot of stuff on blogs, discussion groups and websites. But all for good! I have consolidated the views from different experts in three categories – Views in Favour, Views Against and the views which I found to be neutral in
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This is the fourth post in the series of “The Big Fight – Schools of Testing”. For my previous posts on Schools of Testing, you can check the posts under the Schools of Testing Category. I had not thought to include this topic as a separate post as per the plan of posts and contents.
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I introduced this series of posts on Schools of Testing and talked about the origin of this concept, in the previous posts. Now, it’s time to discuss that going by the definition of a school of testing, into how many and what schools of testing, the proponents of this concept have categorized the testing community.
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The first important thing to discuss about a concept is always its origin. There are always several questions about the origin of a concept, which can be classified at a high level as “Who”, “Why”, “How”, apart from the first one – “What”! I will dedicate this post to the discussion of the mentioned questions,
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It has not been long that I heard about the concept of “Schools of Testing”. But in the past few months, I could see a lot of debate regarding this concept on some web sites, blogs and discussion groups. In other words, before I could understand the concept fully, I was bewildered by multiple opinions
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When we talk about LoadRunner, we generally hear the term Correlation (which is nothing but capturing dynamic data from the server response to be used as input in further requests). LoadRunner is good at auto-correlation capabilities, but sometimes we come across situations, where only your scripting capabilities and the correct use of some advanced features
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Last week, on 27th April, I presented at Yahoo! Bangalore as an Invited Speaker (Thanks to Nirmala, who is one of the key persons behind QA activities at Yahoo! Bangalore). The topic was “Building the Performance Engineering CoE”. It was a part of QE Conference 2007, in which different speakers are invited to present at
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An essential part of the performance testing projects is developing scripts which simulate the user actions (VUser scripts in LoadRunner). In the scripting phase, an important part is debugging of the scripts in case you run into some issues. Mostly people talk about enabling the Extended Log feature in the Run-time Settings GUI, and then
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One of the famous Urdu poets once pointed out that “Democracy is a form of government in which people are counted, not weighed”. I do not want to go into the trap of discussing on the topic of democracy, rather I have something to say very specific on software testing. We as software testers do
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