Software QA Articles
Exploratory testing - creation or disorder motion of the ideas?
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- Created on Tuesday, 20 October 2009 11:07
When you first meet the concept of the exploratory testing you can think that its name fully exposes the sense of this sort of activity. But if you get a little bit deeper – this confidence weakens and disappears. Especially clear it can be seen when balancing between the concepts of the exploratory and wild testing, which in one hand are synonyms in QA industry, and in another (from the good sense point of view) – contrary one to another. It’s because what can have in common the exploration – serious, responsible and well-organized process – and something wild and chaotic, that is wild testing?
Practical recommendations for testing applications working with NTFS and FAT file systems
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- Created on Friday, 31 July 2009 14:08
In this article we will talk about the file systems and files, but the most attention will be focused on the key points of testing of software that works with NTFS and FAT file systems.
At the end we will give our check list for testing of software, working with the FAT and NTFS file systems - we hope that it will help you in development of testing plan for your software.
GUI Testing: Basic tips
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- Created on Saturday, 20 June 2009 11:43
This article will be useful for those specialists who are not indifferent to the GUI problems and are interested in getting good GUI. It’s hard to give clear and full definition for the good GUI. So let’s at the moment agree that we’ll understand good GUI as the GUI which helps user to perform his tasks effectively and provide software product with commercial success. Further in this article we’ll extend this definition.
Peculiarity of terminal session applications testing
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- Created on Wednesday, 10 June 2009 11:38
In this article, we will try to help those who are going to test client-server application that uses terminal sessions. Not only QA specialists but also developers will find some useful information in this article – at least there are some details that should be taken into account when developing in order not to be in the testers black list of “Bug makers”.
To perform such testing one should know RDP and MSTSC – the brief review of them is given in the appendix. More detailed information can be found by links mentioned in the end of the article and by asking a question to the Mr. Google.
Testing of Windows Drivers
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- Created on Friday, 04 May 2007 14:29
Today our QA Specialist in drivers reveals the secrets of testing this type of software. Practices for testing different types of Windows drivers are presented in the article below.
