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Has anyone used Parasoft's SOATest Tool? [closed]
Has anyone used Parasoft's SOATest Tool for API Testing of XML and JSON?
http://www.parasoft.com/jsp/products/soatest.jsp?itemId=101
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API Automated Testing Tool XML & JSON
I was hoping you could help me...I am looking for an automated test tool that can:
MUST HAVE:
Ability to connect to a server endpoint that returns JSON or XML based data
Ability to fully parse and ...
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Recommend issue tracker to be used with Basecamp
Background
In my company we started to use Basecamp for managing the project (mainly assigning work to developers). But unfortunately Basecamp on it's own doesn't have sufficient tools to track the ...
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Can you trigger a credit card declined message through the PayPal Sandbox interface?
Can you somehow configure a test account in the PayPal Sandbox testing environment to return a credit card declined failure message when that user tries to submit a payment or trigger a failure ...
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Web Application Quality Metrics
Is there a defined list of web application quality metrics?
I'm looking for a list of metrics like performance, reliability, usability, ... with a reliable source (w3c, ...).
I want to describe how ...
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Why should I have a “closed beta”?
I am running a test on a new Rails app and am doing an open beta from the start. You see these companies with private betas, and I'm wondering, what is the exact point of a private beta. If you inform ...
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What are the options for automated testing of screen reader in Web apps?
Our team's resources are limited, still we need to make sure our site is accessible (government site, EU). Manual testing includes a lot of fiddling around with JAWS, sometimes other screen readers, ...
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Converting emoticons to images in chatroom: how to test this?
I'm testing an application which has chatrooms, where the users will input emoticons while chatting each other. The user will input the various types of smiley/emoticons in it.
How can I write a ...
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How can I test a chatroom in a webpage? [closed]
I have a Web app which has built-in chatroom. The chatroom was built with Flash and it will be loaded within the webpage. Any ideas and guidance to test in this scenario?
What kind of scenarios can ...
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How to stress test this chat application
I am creating a chat application with node.js and socket.io. I want to know how many chatters my application can handle.
What I want to know is what will happen to CPU and memory on the server ...
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When should I start doing performance testing of a web-app?
Our company has started developing a new big web application. In a few months we testers will start integration testing, functional testing and regression testing both manual and automatic.
I am ...
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Where to start when testing web pages with large number of options
I have inherited a web application that has no useful requirements/specifications, and no tests. The page that I am currently looking at sets the configuration options for the application and consists ...
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How to close pop up window in Selenium webdriver?
Below is my Selenium Webdriver script. When I run this script my website is opened but the popup window is also opened. How do I close this popup window so the script can continue? Take a look on ...
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Simulating a click in web performance tests
I am working with web-test in visual studio test system, without writing a code test, is there a way to invoke a click on a link/button/submit item? I am thinking of doing this by adding a request in ...
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Does a tool for testing web applications with different bandwidths exist?
I am currently starting to develop a web-application. This application should also upload a significant amount of data.
Does a tool exist, with which I can limit the upload and download speed for ...
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One tool to rule them all
This question may have already been asked/answered in various places, and in various forms, but this is my problem. I have been in software testing for a few years now, most of this has been manual ...
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Courses for non-IT people to study testing?
I am a non-IT student, but I want to enter into the IT world. Which courses do I have to study to get job in testing? What is the difference between QA tester and ISTQB tester? Which is the best ones?
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Mirror a browser session
I am doing some regression testing (changes to underlying database structures) where I'm lucky enough to two separate environments which should contain the same data. What I'd like to do is open a ...
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What Are Some Unobvious Differences Between Testing a Web Application and a Desktop Application?
In the same flavour of this question, what are some unobvious differences between testing a web application and a desktop application? I've recently started looking at automating some GUI tests for a ...
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Plans For Testing a Web Application Before The Site Is Built
An acquaintance of mine is building a website for his (non-profit) organization. Since I'm currently an automated tester on a desktop-based application, I thought I could help him do some web testing. ...
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Web Application server migration
While testing web application migrations to newer servers, what kinds of gotchya's should I be looking out for. I think that I have a pretty good handle on most of the testing, however, I have this ...
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Less “hackish” way to do fast input (faster send_keys) in WebDriver besides JavaScript execution?
elements.send_keys() works fine in most cases, but I have a particular test case where I need to input very large strings into a textbox, and send_keys() is far too slow. (The test takes 28 minutes to ...
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How do I download a file using Selenium's WebDriver?
Basically I want to at least check that a download-able file exists / download link works, and preferably get stuff like the file size too.
Here's an example:
link = ...
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Can't click this checkbox using WebDriver / Selenium — ElementNotVisibleException
See attached image. The element is visible to me as a user, but I keep getting the ElementNotVisibleException error. It seems to locate the element via multiple methods, but the .click() fails. Is it ...
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Getting nose test runner to execute a test against multiple browsers / configurations?
Surely someone else has run into this problem. I'm trying to figure out how to loop through Firefox, Chrome, and IE in conjunction with nose.
Right now I have:
"setup.cfg" file that specifies ...
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How to read log files from Tamper Data Firefox add-on?
I have a few log files of request\response for web application and I need to analyze it somehow.
The log files have been made with the Tamper Data Firefox add-on, but I can't find any way to use ...
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How do I test an application for SQL injections?
I'm supposed to test a web application for SQL injections. I'm new to this type of security testing and I'd like to get some tips on the matter. Are there any best practices or do I simply search on ...
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Calculate peak concurrent users on a website
I am looking at setting up some website load testing scripts and need some help in finding a formula to estimate how many concurrent users are browsing a website at peak times, based on common metrics ...
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Print Stylesheets - how do you effectively test them?
We have a pain point at the moment - we are trying to implement 1 print stylesheet across many different templates/styles of websites.
The problem is that they seem to be like a waterbed - you push ...
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Accessibility Testing - Should it be considered functional testing or non functional testing?
Well, I am not going to say what falls in functional/non-functional testing as it might vary in your work place. But if you carry out a11y testing then do you have it marked as functional testing or ...
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What are the best tools available to test performance of a MVC web site
I am new to QA. I need to find best tools available to test performance of a MVC web site. Please help me.
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Performing administrative test cases in Selenium IDE
For a Drupal site, I have written a test script in Selenium IDE that logs in as the administrator, adds a new user and peforms a series of tests on the registration page.
Once this user has been ...
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Testing cloud based applications
Is there any fundmental difference in the way applications/servies hosted on a cloud are to be tested vis-a-vis a traditional web based application ? It looks essentially the same to me except the way ...
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How do you determine critical areas to test when verifying multiple browser support?
With Microsoft putting out a new version of IE every year or so, competitors like Google Chrome, Firefox, and Safari also doing the same, there are questions, frequently, as to whether a web ...
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How do you calculate the number of virtual concurrent users to use in a load test given data on actual site traffic?
When working on performance testing, one of the problems I've faced is trying to translate real-world web application traffic to simulated traffic.
A practical example is for an eCommerce site. ...
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How to plan security testing of a web application?
Security testing requires thinking out of the box, it noes not have clear test cases, and it is not repeatable, meaning running same set of actions over and over again will never assure security.
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