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difference between installation testing and compatibility testing?
What is the difference between Installation Testing and Compatibility Testing in context of software Testing ?
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Strategies for automating testing on features that are only on certain environments
Say we have a dev environment, an integration, a pre-production and a production environment.
We have features A-G that are on everything, while new feature H is on dev+int only, so far.
We want to ...
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How to test data migration procedure?
We are migrating our production data (DB and filesystem) from a fairly complex data model to another fairly complex data model. Migration process is given by the specification as a set of mapping ...
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CKeditor Recording Problem Selenium IDE
I cannot record CKeditor actions in Selenium IDE. I have added following commands in my test case, but my problem is that on my page I have a button to save/send some data (from ckeditor too) and when ...
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Drag and drop using Selenium IDE
How do I drag and drop an object from one grid to another in the same page using Selenium IDE. This is a web page, and it is designed in ExtJS. Please help me out doing this using the IDE.
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Testing Server/Workstation Hardware specs recommendations?
I wanted to reach out and get some opinions of Testing hardware. Should I use VMs or a stand-alone tower? If I use VMs, what would be some recommended hardware specs for the hosting server? If a ...
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Required Selenium Test Cases for Yahoo Login Form
I am new to selenium. Anybody can please write down Selenium Test Cases for yahoo login form. It will be really appreciated, if someone help me.
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Search functionality failed in Selenium ide
I am failed to filter records using selenium ide. Ide captures search field and value displays on the field. But records are not filtered as per the search criteria.
Please provide which commands ...
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Selenium Tests run in the background when TeamCity CI is run as a Windows service
Our test suite is written in Python and makes use of the WebDriver Python bindings. We are looking into moving to TeamCity for continuous integration.
The setup I have in mind is a build triggered for ...
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Can exploratory testing replace executing manual functional tests?
After a feature is delivered, we have recently started to perform exploratory testing on the feature before we execute manual functional tests. We find 95% of the defects during exploratory testing so ...
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manual tester wanting to get into automation
So its been a year since I have been studying python, and just recently I started picking up webdriver. It was a long journey, and I am still pretty noob, but I finally understand how to use it lol. I ...
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Is it necessary to test third party tools?
I have a question about best practices for writing test cases. At my job, I am using a closed source, third party tool that parses files into a database. Since this is a third party tool, is it ...
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Watir WebDriver in conjunction with Java
Is it possible to use Watir WebDriver in conjunction with Java? I have to execute some Java methods for dealing with data in DB in order to simulate different situations and test website UI using ...
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Estimation for Test Automation
Are there separate Estimation models to effective guage the accuracy of testing efforts?
Keyword-driven based estimation model
Data-driven based
Modular-driven
Hybrid-driven
Component-based
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Recommended Generic profiling techniques for quality assurance on HTML integration
All of our software projects are web based and many include the production of HTML templates (example pages) that then need to be integrated into a working software system or website.
Are there ...
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Suitalbe Automated Testing tools for POS Systems
This is not duplicate of following question since it was accepted by the asked person with a different answer
Automating tests in EPOS systems
We are developing a Big POS System with several Desktop ...
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How to configure HtmlUnit Driver
I clearly missed a step trying to get HtmlUnit driver working with my app. I am getting the following exception.
OpenQA.Selenium.WebDriverException was unhandled
HResult=-2146233088
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How to extract the Safari extension from the base code?
I got the developer certificate from Apple and running Selenium 2.23.1 jar. I checked out the base code from Selenium website and when I ran the command " go Safari", I am getting the following error ...
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Is Selenium the right tool for browser compatibility testing?
I have been seeing a lot of customers pushing for browser compatibility testing using Selenium. Was wondering whether this is really necessary. The push is mostly due to Selenium grid supporting multi ...
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Can someone offer suggestions for client based cross browser testing tools
I am looking for a tool that might allow my company to test a number of internal/private sites for browser compatability. I am particularly interested in being able to test IE, Firefox, Chrome and ...
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Use Android VirtualBox Instead of Emulator for Jenkins
I want to configure my Android Jenkins projects to run a Virtualbox AndroVM instance. I have the Virtualbox/Jenkins plugin but I don't see how to run the the VBox instance in the job, only have ...
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Free tool(s) to test both Windows desktop apps and Web apps, interconnected
I have found this question here on SQA. However I'd like to make my question more specific with hope that someone could point me to something relevant rather than just wasting hours on learning the ...
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Load testing web service with SoapUI to confirm android app's slowness
The AUT is on Android platform which has experienced slowness or long time loading a section's contents (more than 17s).
I can notice the app only has long time loading the first time I enter that ...
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Unit Testing: Windows Forms using MS Visual Studio 2008
I've created unit tests of my WinForms using MS Visual Studio 2008. None of my tests have been approved. All of them (0/42 tests) resulted into some kind of failure described as follows:-
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Using a variable in the filename textfield of CSV dataset config in JMeter
I want to parameterize the filename textfield of CSV dataset config. I am writing into different files for every user that I'm using in JMeter, hence I need to parameterize the filename option in the ...
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Why LR tool is not able to capture browser rendering time?
How can I capture the browser rendering time?
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JMeter test for Cas Log into AJAX application
I am trying to load test an AJAX application with cas log in.
I recorded and played back the script; I saw user info in log just after recording it and playing back, but as soon as I closed HNX and ...
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Occasional no response from Selenium Grid server - any theories?
While locally we're having no problems, on a virtual server we're running Jenkins which kicks off Selenium Grid to execute some of our tests.
Every so often, usually on a click event, I get a test ...
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How have Guava unit tests been generated automatically?
Guava library for Java has unit test cases automatically generated:
Guava has staggering numbers of unit tests: as of July 2012, the
guava-tests package includes over 286,000 individual test ...
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What is the general opinion H2K information systems?
My mom has recently signed up for a QA training course with http://www.h2kinfosys.com, and I'm not sure if this center would be respected by the industry. They say that the center will help with job ...
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Problem in First soapUI Project
I have download SoapUI trial from SoapUI site,
went go to following page:
http://www.soapui.org/Getting-Started/your-first-soapui-project.html
created a soapUI project;
added following WSDL:
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Shortcut key to move the cursor from Expected to Actual in QC
What is the shortcut key to move the cursor from Expected to Actual during test execution in test lab?
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What is high-level software QA?
I've read the following in a job advertisement:
Experience with high level software QA [...]
What is it or what could it be?
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QA Methodology: Do you retest every change on a new build or only changed code?
I am leading a new QA team at my company and we are small (Myself and one other person). We are currently testing releases compiled by over 10 developers, so the ratio of developers to QA is skewed. ...
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Where to start with introducing a testing framework
This I hope won't come across too broad of a question.
If you've been tasked with introducing testing process' for a web application developed in an 'agile' environment, released in 2 weekly cycles. ...
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How much coding do you do in building automated tests
I come out of quite a few years as a software engineering, but now I'm completely focused on testing. Our team has been trying to expand our automated tests and, to me, this means a lot of coding. I ...
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Test Automation in Agile?
Since Agile is iterative and many test-last tools are record and playback-style, and therefore can't really be applied in an Agile environment, this brings up a few issues.
the target for test is ...
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Tools similar to Google BITE = Browser Integrated Testing Environment and in browser manual testing aids?
I read through How Google Tests Software and was quite curious about the BITE project. The main idea is to reduce friction in manual testing by allowing the following to be done without leaving the ...
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Mantis or RedMine
For our small business and team, I am researching a decent bugtracking system. I have narrowed it down to two that seem to fit our needs (easy to set up, easy to post bugs for non-programmers, SVN ...
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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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What tools are available for testing client/server software in various network topologies?
For testing a client/server platform that communicates over TCP/IP, is there a tool available to mimic various types of interposed network component, such a firewall with NAT or a SOCKS5 server.
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Use case testing tools and methods
Is use case testing standard practice and if so could people point me towards some methodology and perhaps some tools.
I was thinking that my Test cases could easily be represented via some type of ...
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Open source Projects for Performance/Load/Stress Testing
I am a Software Testing Enthusiast and i have mostly worked on Functional Testing(Manual). I am interested in performance testing and i have worked on a very small project where i used LoadRunner.
I ...
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Testing SMS apps [closed]
I am currently involved in development of mobile app. The application sends SMS and is for Android (2.2 and higher) and iPhone (iOS 6). I want to summarize test cases for functionality of sending SMS ...
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whats your favorite bug you have encountered? [closed]
in our testing experience we have identified several issues , kindly share your favorite bug which you found during your testing carrer, it will help us to learn from the general scenario's where we ...
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Differences between: QA, QC, Software Testing, Verification, Validation, Prevention and Detection
I've trouble understand the differences between these terms:
"Quality Assurance", "Quality Control", "Software Testing", "Verification", "Validation", "Prevention" and "Detection".
Here is what I ...
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Runtime exception at selenium.start() - Could not start Selenium session: Failed to start new browser session: Error while launching browser
Followed this post -
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1414934/selenium-could-not-start-selenium-session-failed-to-start-new-browser-session
Error comes up at selenium.start(). I am using Selenium ...
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Open source code to upload test results into HP QC/ALM?
Is there some open source code, available to upload test results into HP QC via their api, or will I need to write something myself?
Ideally via REST, so it can be done from non-windows machines.
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Level of detail in a Scenario - when to stop
Scenario: Installer Link
When user enters "product.company.com" into a web browser
Then a hyperlink is presented to 'ProductSetup.exe'
TODO: There is nothing here about presentation, ...
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Downloading resource from HP Quality Center REST API
Do you know if there's a way to download the contents of test resources (files) using RESTful API?
I can see the contents of the resources:
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