“LG Electronics is pleased to partner Google on the release of the Nexus 4 in India,” LG Electronics India Managing Director Soon Kwon said in a statement.

The Nexus 4 smartphone is manufactured by LG Electronics.The device runs on Google’s latest Android Jelly Bean software.

The phone is currently not available on Google’s Play Store for India. It will be sold through various retail outlets and LG Electronics outlets.

Tech Specs:

Processor and memory:

8GB or 16GB (actual formatted capacity will be less)
2 GB RAM
Qualcomm Snapdragon™ S4 Pro CPU

Operating System:
Android 4.2, Jelly Bean

Screen:

4.7″ diagonal
1280 x 768 pixel resolution (320 ppi)
WXGA IPS
Corning® Gorilla® Glass 2

Dimensions:

Size:133.9 x 68.7 x 9.1 mm
Weight:139g

Connectivity:

WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n
Bluetooth
NFC (Android Beam)
Unlocked GSM/UMTS/HSPA+
GSM/EDGE/GPRS (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)
3G (850, 900, 1700, 1900, 2100 MHz)
HSPA+ 42
Wireless charging
SlimPort (TM)

Features:

Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean)
Accelerometer
GPS
Gyroscope
Barometer
Microphone
Ambient light
Compass

Camera:

8.0MP rear / 1.3MP HD front

Amazon also launched its own digital currency, Amazon Coins, on Monday, allowing people to buy apps and games in its app store and on its Kindle Fire tablet computers.

Liquavista works on producing screens that can handle “all lighting conditions” for mobile devices such as e-readers, smartphones, GPS devices, portable media players and cameras.

Liquavista was acquired by Samsung in December 2010.

Recently amazon has acquired Goodreads, a leading site for readers and book recommendations that helps people find and share books they love and also it launched its Android appstore in China.

What is  Test Case ?

Test case is “Documentation specifying inputs, predicted results, and a set of execution conditions for a test item.” The  purpose of Test Case  is to divide the software function into small units of function that is testable with input, and producing result that is measurable.

i-e  A test case is a feature/function description that should be executed with a range of input, given certain preconditions, and the outcome measured against expected result.

These are the  fields commonly present in the Test Cases :

• Test case id
• Test Case Description
• Procedure / Test Steps
• Test data
• Expected result
• Actual result
• Status ( Pass/ Fail)
• Comments

Test cases should be simple and easy to understand for Developers.

Test Case ID :

This ID should be Unique throughout the Testing Application and not to change at any moment.

Test Case Description:

Explain the function under test. Clearly state exactly what attribute is under test and under what condition.

Prerequisites- Every test needs to follow a sequence of actions, which lead to the function under test. It could be a certain page that a user needs to be on, or certain data that should be in the system . For example  registration step should be completed before start testing login.

Procedure/Steps:

Sequence of steps to execute the specific function.

Test data:

Specify the data used for a particular test or if it is a lot of data, mention the path of a file where this data is stored.

Expected Result:

Clearly specify the expected outcome in terms of the page/ screen that should appear after the test, changes that should happen to other pages, and if possible, changes that should happen to the database..

Actual Result :

State the actual result of the function execution. Especially in case the test case fails, the information under ‘actual result’ will be very useful to the developer to analyse the cause of the defect.

Comments:

In this section you can add your reviews, suggestions and ideas to developers for the bug how we fix that.  Especially this section made to communicate with developers.

Test case writing procedure

• Get as much information about the application as possible through available documentation (requirement specs, use cases, user guides) , tutorials, or by exercising the software itself (when available)
• Determine a list of features and different user roles.

Say for example, if you are writing Test Cases for testing  this Timesheet Application.

First you should understand the features available in this timesheet application by reading the help files and other available documents about this timesheet application.

You should know about different user roles (e.g user, admin) involved in this application.

Once you gather all the details about this application, you can start writing test cases. Find below one sample, and you can show/test your test case writing skills by adding more test cases thro’ the comments section.

• Test case id – LG01 (LG refer as Log In)
• Test Case Description -Check Case sensitivity in  Log In Functionality
• Procedure

1. Load login screen by visiting http://qualitypointtech.net/timesheetdemo/index.php
2. Enter valid username and password in Upper case.
3. Click “Login button”

• Test data – Username as user || Password as USER
• Expected result – Alert box like CAPS LOCK on to warn the user
• Actual result – But its not visible and accessing with uppercase letters.
• Status ( Pass/ Fail) – Fail
• Comments –  Password is an user’s choice so we can’t restrict so we have to give the warn or alert box or format that password should be like this.

At the time crunch of any project, the testers simply go with the Adhoc Testing and Exploratory testing.

Adhoc Testing is the type of testing to do a detailed testing with proper test plans and test cases. Advantage of  this testing is that it helps to save a lot of precious time.

Exploratory Testing means testing of software without any specific plans and schedules and exploring the application which is recommended.

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Lucky Sort was founded two years ago and launched its first product called TopicWatch last February. TopicWatch let users analyze real-time trends on social media (including Twitter) as well as from other news sources.

Twitter confirmed the acquisition in a tweet.

Welcome aboard, @luckysort! luckysort.com

— Twitter (@twitter) May 13, 2013

“Today I’m very excited to announce that our journey has entered a new phase: Lucky Sort has been acquired by Twitter!
Several of us will be moving to San Francisco to join Twitter’s revenue engineering department”,Noah Pepper, CEO of Lucky Sort, wrote in a post.

Twitter has bought a number of companies like Ubalo, We are Hunted, Summify and Dasient. Lucky sot also added in this list.

Arnold  is an Austrian American former professional bodybuilder, actor, producer, director, businessman, investor, and politician.
Schwarzenegger served two terms as the 38th Governor of California from 2003 until 2011.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That’s what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens.

Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.

I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.

Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.
― Albert Einstein

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.
― Albert Einstein

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.
― Albert Einstein

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.
― Albert Einstein

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
― Albert Einstein

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
― Albert Einstein

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.
― Albert Einstein

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
― Albert Einstein

Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.
― Albert Einstein

You never fail until you stop trying.
― Albert Einstein

Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.
― Albert Einstein

What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.
― Albert Einstein

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
― Albert Einstein

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
― Albert Einstein

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
― Albert Einstein

If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts.
― Albert Einstein

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
― Albert Einstein

Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work…
― Albert Einstein

I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.
― Albert Einstein

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
― Albert Einstein

A ship is always safe at the shore – but that is NOT what it is built for.
― Albert Einstein

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
― Albert Einstein

“Hi everyone,

Closing products always involves tough choices, but we do think very hard about each decision and its implications for our users. Streamlining our services enables us to focus on creating beautiful technology that will improve people’s lives.

Thanks,
Jess”

The Google SMS service allows users to text messages to 466453 (Google) and then receive search results back in the form of a text message. The messages returned were actual answers to questions and not links to web pages. Google SMS search was often used for currency conversions, weather information and local listings.

According to our choice it will different Greeting cards for Mother’s day. You can create 27 different cards.If you want you can print the card.

Mother’s Day is a celebration honoring mothers and celebrating motherhood.It is celebrated on various days in many parts of the world, most commonly in March, April, or May. Most of the countries are celebrating Mother’s Day on Second sunday of May month.

Julia Ward Howe was the first to proclaim Mother’s Day in 1870. The modern holiday of Mother’s Day was first celebrated in 1908, when Anna Jarvis held a memorial for her mother in America.In 1912, Anna Jarvis trademarked the phrases “second Sunday in May” and “Mother’s Day”, and created the Mother’s Day International Association.

Mother’s Day Quotes

Mother’s Day Face Book Covers

Google Translate is a free statistical multilingual machine-translation service provided by Google to translate written text from one language into another.

“With the exception of Bosnian, these new languages are ‘alpha,’ meaning while the quality isn’t perfect, we will continue to test and improve them over time,” Kelman said.

Bosnian is an official language in Bosnia and Herzegovina that is spoken in regions of neighboring countries and by diaspora communities around the world.

Hmong is spoken in many countries, including China, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand and throughout the United States.

Javanese is the second most-spoken language in Indonesia (behind Indonesian), with 83 million native speakers.

Marathi is spoken in India and has 73 million native speakers. Google Translate already supports several other Indian languages including Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.

“In early 2011, we started Ubalo to make large-scale computing easier and more accessible to a technical audience,” co-founders Jacob Mattingley and Ian Downes said in the company’s Web site. “A few days ago, Twitter agreed to acquire our technology and we agreed to join their staff.”

The Palo Alto-based Ubalo was founded in 2011.According to case studies published on Ubalo’s website, the startup helped its clients perform their complex data-gathering and analysis tasks faster.

Twitter’s confirmation tweet from it’s @TwitterEng (Twitter Engineering).

Welcome to the flock. “@ubalo: We’ve got some exciting news: The Ubalo team is joining Twitter. Read more: ubalo.com.”

— Twitter Engineering (@TwitterEng) May 9, 2013

“We are very happy to offer the new Nokia Asha 501 through our subsidiaries in the continent. We are certain that this innovative device will follow the successful footprint of the Nokia Asha family, combining affordability with the best communication and Internet browsing capabilities,” said Marco Quatorze, Value Added Services Director for America Movil.

“This bundle is a great way to discover Facebook on your Nokia Asha and enjoy the experience for longer without worrying about data charges,” said Vaughn Smith, VP mobile partnerships, Facebook. “Working in close partnership with Nokia and global operators made this offer possible and we’re excited to help connect the world on Facebook.”

Product specifications and availability

The Nokia Asha 501 is available in single or EasySwap Dual SIM models. All come with WiFi and Bluetooth. Other specifications:
- Dimensions: 99.2 x 58 x 12.1 mm; 98 grams
- Camera: 3.2 MP
- Single SIM standby time: up to 48 days***
- Dual SIM standby time: up to 26 days***
- Talk time: up to 17 hours
- Additional memory of 4GB (card included in box), expandable up to 32GB
- Forty free EA Games worth €75 downloadable from Nokia Store
- Available colours: Bright Red, Bright Green, Cyan, Yellow, White and Black
- Suggested pricing is 99 USD before taxes and subsidies.

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart. – Thomas Watson, Sr.

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later. – Harold Geneen

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
- Ralph Nader

Vision without action is daydreaming and action without vision is a nightmare. – Chinese Proverb

I don’t pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages. – Robert Bosch

Read Huge Collection of Business Motivational Quotes here.

Timesheet for start-ups

Saul Bass was an American graphic designer and filmmaker.He is best known for his design of motion picture title sequences, film posters, and corporate logos.

Saul Bass was born on May 8, 1920, in the Bronx, New York, United States.He graduated from James Monroe High School in the Bronx.He studied part-time at the Art Students League in Manhattan.

He began his time in Hollywood during the 1940s doing print work for film ads.He collaborated with filmmaker Otto Preminger to design a film poster for his 1954 film Carmen Jones.Preminger was so impressed with Bass’s work that he asked him to produce the title sequence as well.

Bass was one of the first to realize the creative potential of the opening and closing credits of a movie.

Bass became widely known in the film industry after creating the title sequence for Otto Preminger’s The Man with the Golden Arm (1955).

Bass has designed so many including logos including Bell Telephone logo (1969) and successor AT&T globe (1983). Other well-known designs were Continental Airlines (1968), Dixie (1969) and United Airlines (1974). Later, he would produce logos for a number of Japanese companies also.

Saul Bass designed emblematic movie posters also.They transformed the visuals of film advertising.He created some of his best known posters for films directed by Otto Preminger, Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, and Stanley Kubrick among others.His iconic poster designs are Vertigo, Anatomy of a Murder ans so on.

In addition to movie posters, Bass designed numerous posters for film festivals, and several magazine, book, and album covers.

In 1962 he illustrated his only children’s book, Henri’s Walk to Paris, written by Lenore Klein.

“As enterprises increase their use of public, private and hybrid clouds, the need for controls, security, governance and automation becomes more critical,” said Tom Kendra, vice president and general manager, systems management, Dell Software. “Dell, together with Enstratius, is uniquely positioned to deliver differentiated, complete cloud-management solutions to enterprise customers, large and small, empowering them with the efficiency and flexibility in the allocation and use of resources.”

“We are excited to join the Dell team and bring our expertise to Dell’s rapidly growing cloud-management capabilities,” said David Bagley, CEO, Enstratius. “Together, Enstratius and Dell create new opportunities for organizations to accelerate application and IT service delivery across on-premises data centers and private clouds, combined with off-premises public cloud solutions. This capability is enhanced with powerful software for systems management, security, business intelligence and application management for customers, worldwide.”

Enstratius which was founded in 2008 and is based in Minneapolis. Enstratius offers cloud management services to hybrid and single-cloud customers as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering that sits either as a hosted service or within the network.

Enstratius currently supports more than 20 public and private cloud platforms, including OpenStack, VMware, Rackspace, Amazon Web Services and Windows Azure.

Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Dell said it will retain Enstratius’ staff and continue to invest in its engineering and sales divisions to help grow the business.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Soren Kierkegaard

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Don’t forget to love yourself.
- Soren Kierkegaard

It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Purity of heart is to will one thing.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
- Soren Kierkegaard

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.
- Soren Kierkegaard

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
- Soren Kierkegaard

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.”
- Soren Kierkegaard

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston Churchill

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
― Truman Capote

“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
― Winston Churchill

“Just because you fail once doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
― Robert F. Kennedy

Thiruvalluvar was a celebrated Tamil poet and philosopher whose contribution to Tamil literature is the Thirukkural, a work on ethics.

Thiruvalluvar is thought to have lived sometime between the 2nd century BC and the 8th century AD.
He is sometimes also called Theiva Pulavar (“Divine Poet”), Valluvar, Poyyamozhi Pulavar, Senna Pothar,Gnana Vettiyan or Ayyan.

Thirukural is the only book translated in many world languages next to Bible and Kuran.

Bible and Kuran are religious books, Thirukural is a non religious treatise on the “Art of living”.

The lotus flower rises to the level of water; Greatness of men rises with mental strength.

Those who are with high motivation , even if they lose all their possessions, will never feel desperate.

The objectives and aims should always be fixed high, Even if not achieved, those thoughts should not be changed.

The spear that missed to kill an elephant is worth holding
than the arrow that killed a hare.

Courage, Generosity, Knowledge, and Motivation are the four essential elements of a successful leader

Any task should be started after a deep thinking. Reconsidering the decision later is a disgrace.

Whatever is thought to be done will be achieved as planned, if the planners possess firmness in execution.

You May Delay the actions which are not important, but don’t Delay the actions which are urgent

A widely learned man, if cannot communicate well, All his learning is a waste

Something may not be achievable even by God or through God’s help. But the effort exerted to attain that non-achievable will yield its deserving result

The tools are divided into different categories as follows:

•  Test Management tools
•  Functional Testing Tools
•  Load Testing Tools or Performance Testing tools

Find below the list of Testing Tools  that are  Top and Best Tools in both Open Source (Free Tools) and Commercial Tools used by the Testers for testing software applications.

Open Source Tools:

a) Test Management Tools

•  Bugzilla Testopia
•  FitNesse
•  qaManager
•  RTH (open source)
•  Salome-tmf
•  Squash TM
•  Test Environment Toolkit
•  TestLink
•  Testitool
•  XQual Studio
•  Radi-testdir
•  Data Generator

b) Functional Testing Tools

•  Selenium
•  Soapui
•  Watir (Web Application Testing in Ruby)
•  WatiN (Web Application Testing in .Net)
•  Capedit
•  Canoo WebTest
•  Solex
•  Imprimatur
•  SAMIE
•  ITP
•  WET
•  WebInject

c) Load Testing Tools

•  FunkLoad
•  FWPTT load testing
•  loadUI

Commercial Testing Tools:

a) Test Management Tools

• HP Quality Center/ALM 
• QA Complete 
• T-Plan Professional
• SMARTS 
• QAS.Test Case Studio 
• PractiTest 
• SpiraTest 
• TestLog
• ApTest Manager 
• Zephyr

b) Functional Testing Tools

• QuickTest Pro 
• Rational Robot 
• Sahi 
• SoapTest 
• Test Complete 
• QA Wizard 
• Squish 
• vTest 
• Internet Macros 

c) Load Testing Tools

• HP LoadRunner
• LoadStorm
• NeoLoad
• WebLOAD Professional
• Forecast
• ANTS – Advanced .NET Testing System
• Webserver Stress Tool
• Load Impact

All-in One  Testing Tools

• Test Studio – An advanced tool for performance, load, automated testing, test management, exploratory testing

Mobile Testing Tools

• Testdroid-Automated Testing Tool for Android.

If any of the important testing Tools is missing from this list, you can mention it thro’ the comments.

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1. Stop comparing yourself to others.

2. Keep your thoughts positive.

3. Accept all compliments with thank you.

4. Feed yourself with positivity.

5. Associate with supportive people.

6. List your past successes.

7. Celebrate your qualities.

8. Do good for others.

9. Find your passion.

10. Be you – and don’t apologize.

Read below some Earth Day Slogans. And, click on the image to set as your Facebook Timeline Cover image.

Save paper, save trees, save the planet

Nurture Nature For Our Future!

Save The Earth, Win The LIFE

Protect our earth today for our children’s tomorrow

Snow is melting the Earth is crying!

It’s our world, take care of it

Keep our Earth Clean and Green

Save water, it will save you later!

Lets go green to get our globe clean.

Recycle takes little effort on your part , for a big difference to our world.

A drop of water is worth more than a sack of gold to a thirsty man

Less pollution is the best solution.

Set Earth Day Slogans as Facebook timeline Cover here.

Read Earth Day Quotes here.

And, you can watch an Inspiring Speech about saving our Environment here.

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself. ”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it’s in hot water.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say
yes.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Happiness is not a goal…it’s a by-product of a life well lived.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world”.
― Eleanor Roosevelt

In today’s technical world, most of the software engineering projects rely on manual testing only as it involves a demanding and accurate testing procedure.

Manual testing involves high-level test plan where we choose a methodology, and resources such as skilled people, computers, and software licenses are identified and acquired. Detailed test cases are written by the tester clearly and perfectly, with the expected Results.

The test cases were given to the testers should follow all the steps and record the results. At the end, the detailed test report is prepared to determine whether the software can be released or not. If not mean they asked to developers to fix the bug which impact the other main modules.

Advantages of Manual Testing :

•  Easy to learn for new people who are entered into testing field.
•  Running the test case is less cost than automation.
•  Allows the tester to perform more Ad-hoc testing .Using this more bugs are found than automation.
• Its very difficult to go for automation testing for Mobile applications
•  Manual testing cost is low but in automation it is expensive

Disadvantages of Manual Testing :

•  Regression Test cases are time consuming if it is manual testing.
•  Requires heavy investment of human resources.
•  For every build release you must re run the same set of tests which can be annoying.

Start with an Test Cases Writing:

What is a Test Case ?

Test Case is an Writing Statement which contains test data, outputs, expected and actual result of the application which is tested accord to the Client’s Requirements.

These are the fields present in the Test Cases :

Test case id
Test Case Description
Procedure
Test data
Priority
Expected result
Actual result
Status ( Pass/ Fail)
Comments

While writing test cases that all your test cases should be simple and easy to understand for Developers. Don’t give your explanations like essays.

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The tea set was all the daughter had to remind her of her mother. Only on very special occasions did she take it down and look at it, but she never used it. As she grew older and had children of her own she wrapped it up and put it away to keep it safe for her own daughter’s wedding. Eventually the day of the wedding approached and the mother went to find the tea set. When she unwrapped it she was shocked to find it had a large crack in it. How had it happened? When she examined it she saw a piece of paper was inside the tea pot. She picked it up and read it. It was from her mother.
“Use this tea set every day or it will not last. Like love, it is only through use that it survives. If you do not use it then you will lose it. But if you use it every day it will last you a lifetime. Every time you use this tea set, think of how fragile love is.”

Read more inspirational Stories here.

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Ken Myers is the founder of http://www.longhornleads.com/ & has learned over the years the importance of focusing on what the customer is looking for and literally serving it to them. He doesn’t try to create a need, instead he tries to satisfy the existing demand for information on products and services.

For any kind of project, the ultimate purpose will be delivering Quality Product on Time within Budget. It is applicable for any kind of project. Each project will be unique and therefore each project will require different approaches to achieve these things.

But, certain things will be common for any kind of project to deliver Quality Product. I am listing those common best practices in this video.

The quality of this video may not be good, as I am not having enough time to spend for creating Quality Video. But the things that I had mentioned in this video will be really useful as I came up with this list purely based on my many years of experience with various projects.

Feel free to suggest any other useful best practice thro’ the comments.

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There are many Test Management Tools available on the market, a few example of which include HP Quality Center and IBM Rational Quality Manager.

HP Quality Center is sold as a web based Tool, but in order to allow users to access it from the web browser, it needs to be installed in an in-house server. Quality Center also requires installing some ActiveX controls in the Client machines.

Setting up and using HP Quality Center requires some skill. I often get requests  asking for guidance to set up Quality Center. In fact there are a number of courses on offer aimed solely at teaching people how to use Quality Center.  Additionally, the price of Quality Center used to be high.

I used to ask myself why there is no efficient Test management Tool available at an affordable price so that small startups and companies can also use them?

Recently I got to know about a Cloud Based Software Test Management Tool  called “ReQtest“. ReQtest is be provided as a SaaS service (Software as a Service).

If you are not very familiar with Cloud computing or SaaS, you can read this post. In summary, using the Cloud you will avoid the burden of installing and setting up the software or Tool and it will make updates to the software very easy.

Though Cloud based systems have many advantages, there are few things that  need to be verified before you start using Cloud based system. The important thing is a low Downtime. The latest technologies help to have almost a full uptime. Anyway, we need to make sure that Cloud based systems are using those latest technologies to avoid any Downtime. Another important thing is taking Data Backups so that we can continue our business if something unexpected happens to the Server Data. Given that ReQtest is used by big companies such as Sony Ericsson and Thomas Cook, I believe they have an excellent Server Uptime and enough Data Backup facilities.

ReQtest is seamlessly integrated into three modules for writing the requirements, writing and sharing test cases and for bug reporting.

Requirements

ReQtest makes creating and managing requirements effortless. ReQtest supports both agile and traditional development methods and makes it easy to get an overview of all your requirements.

Using ReQtest, requirements, design documents and test documents are all stored in single place,  instead of  spreading  out over different servers, e-mail, document archives etc.  Since ReQtest is web-based, it allows various stakeholders to view the requirements.

Ranking and prioritizing requirements is  a simple task in ReQtest.  We  can prioritize requirements using any kind of scale: numeric, high/low/medium, or the MoSCoW scale (Must, Should, Could and Won’t).

Test Cases

ReQtest has a test case module in which test cases can be written and assigned to testers in a team. Test cases can be easily grouped so you can follow up on results,  for example to find test cases with status OK, failed or not run.

When you create a bug report from a test case, ReQtest automatically copies information from the test case to the bug report. This makes it easy to quickly create structured, high-quality bug reports.

You can Customize the contents of forms in ReQtest to make them fit your process even better. Some of the things you can change include the contents of lists as well as adding, reordering and removing fields.

The key features of the Test Case module of the ReQtest Tool -

• Checklists are a powerful complement to test cases, allowing you to quickly create lists of short test instructions.
• Traceability allows you to see which requirement a test case is based on, and which bug reports are linked to a particular test case.
• It is easy to attach files, for example design documents, use cases or screenshots.
• Test cases can easily be e-mailed to project members or other persons

Since ReQtest is web based, you can share test cases with both our customers and suppliers, with different access rights for each if required.

Bug Reporting

You can easily customize the contents of forms in ReQtest to make them fit your business. You can rename, add and remove fields as well as use your own scales to describe the priority and severity of bug, for example using numeric scales, letter scales, or descriptive texts. Bug reports can easily be e-mailed to project members or other persons

Starting to use ReQtest is NOT a difficult task. ReQtest is structured in a logical manner and can be easily understood by anyone who uses a computer regularly.

ReQtest has extensive statistical functions which are particularly useful when working with requirements and test cases, especially for decision-makers at various levels.

You can choose different chart types and export charts as an image or an Excel file. The traceability matrix gives a clear summary of all the links between requirements, test cases and bug reports.

ReQtest allows the users to save Frequently Used Searches so that they can be accessed easily later.

And, ReQtest give you Free support by phone, by e-mail and remote desktop.

ReQtest offers a 10 day free trial for the Tool with full access to all features. Starting your the Free Trial is easy.

You just fill this Simple Form for getting the Free Trial. Once you submit the form, you will receive the verification link to your email. The verification link will allow you to set a password for your account and you can start using the Free Trial right away.

It seems they are providing the User Interface in two languages (English and Swedish). You need to choose your preferred language when starting the Trial. I chose “English” and started exploring the various options available in ReQtest. So far it all looks good. You can share your experience of the ReQtest trial in the comments section.

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i-e If a job seeker enters his Resume details in one place, the script will automatically create User Accounts in many U.S job sites for him, and it will automatically post his Resume details in all these Job Sites.

This Kind of Script development is NOT an easy task. It involves lot of complexities. And, we haven’t started doing it properly. Initially we did similar script for one particular customer as a custom development, and later we enhanced it further to bring this Automatic Resume posting script.

Since, we are a small Team with limited budget, right now we are doing some kind of AdHoc testing only.

I am writing this post to initiate a discussion about exploring various Testing Strategies suitable for improving quality of this Automatic Resume Posting Script without requiring more Resources and Time.

Before discussing Test Strategies, let me give some details about this script development.

The important Steps involved in this kind of script development are,

- Automatic resume posting can be done in two different ways. One is, using javascript for auto filling the Forms in the job sites by accessing the DOM of the web page in the Client Side (i-e User’s browser). The other way is, posting the job seeker resume details to the Job Site using php cURL at the http protocol level. (i-e From Server where the Script is Hosted)

The second way (i-e php cURL) is involving some risks. Since the data for all job seekers are getting posted to job sites from same IP Address (i-e same server), the job sites may block that IP address if they thought that it is a DDoS attack.

But I came to know that almost all job sites are encouraging to automatically receive genuine Resume details of Job seekers to increase their customer base. That’s why, they are allowing continuous posting from particular IP. So, I decided to go with the php curl approach.

- First we created set of Function libraries for posting data in various situations (e.g GET method, POST method, with SSL, etc). Unit Testing of these functions is done by hardcoding the resume details in php files.
- Then, we did mapping of various fields of various job sites in mysql tables. (e.g The Input Resume will say experience as 3 years, but one job site will be having option for specifying experience  as “2-4 Years”, and another one will be having the option as “more than 2 years”. We need to map them manually onetime in mysql tables)

- Once after completing Function library creation and Job sites Fields mapping, we started creating php files for each job sites for getting the resume details and mapping details from db and post them to the corresponding job site. Live HTTP header firefox Add-on helped much to do this job. Some job sites will he having Captcha entry. The php script is developed to show the captcha image while doing resume posting.

- Then, created few php files for integrating posting of all job sites and for updating the status of account creation (account creation may fail if the user name already exists in particular job site) and resume posting process.

- Then, created user interface for allowing the Job Seekers to make payment, use discount codes, see reports, do Auto login into job sites, etc. And, created Admin Interface for managing users and resume posting.

I think I have given enough details about the background of this script. Now, let us start discussing about Testing this script.

The important challenge of Testing this Resume submission Script is, we can NOT have any separate Testing Environment. For testing our Time Sheet application, first we setup timesheet script in our local machine, and we will move the code to server only after completing the testing in local machine. We can do whatever we want to do testing in the local machine. But the samething can not be done for testing the Resume submission script. Even if we setup the script in local machine the script need to post the details to the external job sites only.

So, we can not Test the script with junk data as it will spam the job sites.

The Next challenge for Testing the script is, the difficulty of choosing appropriate Test data. As I specified earlier, data Mapping plays important role in this script. So, if you decide to test the script with various test data to test the script including the quality of mapping, we will end with thousands of test data. So, it is NOT feasible to test the script completely by giving Test data. The only workaround is, we need to manually check the mapping in mysql table, by going thro’ the lot of mapping data. It is really difficult task and we will be missing to find some incorrect mappings.

Almost all job sites are updating their user interface frequently. Some job sites are getting closed and some of them are acquired by huge job sites. Some jobsites change their CMS completely. So, the script needs to be updated frequently.

As part of the regression testing, we need to find some way for testing the entire script whenever we update the script. (either the coding or mapping). I think just doing adHoc Testing is NOT enough.

Right Now, I am thinking one approach for testing the script with real data. Instead of testing the script with junk data, I plan to allow the Job seekers to use the Resume Posting Service at very cheap price, in return they need to inform us if they find any issue in the job postings. I am working on creating some Special Discount Codes for the Job Seekers who are interested in joining this plan.
This approach won’t do any harm to the Job seekers. Because during this phase, our Team will be manually checking the quality of resume postings by logining into the each and every job site once the script completed the automatic posting. We can easily update any data if our Team find any issue.

Similarly, I am Planning to sell few copies of this entire script at very low price to the people who are showing willingness to cooperate with us to increase the quality of the script and to maintain the quality of the script at long run even if the job sites are getting changed frequently.

Let me see whether this approach works or not. Anyway, I believe there should be some other ways to test the script properly. You can share your thoughts thro’ the comments.

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It seems small bugs are there in this kind of website too. Today I asked a question about QTP certification in LinkedIn and wanted to share this question to the Quality Assurance related LinkedIn Groups. While choosing the Group name I wrongly selected “SEO” group instead of “Software Testing” Group name.

So, I wanted to delete the SEO group name. But I couldn’t delete it as the icon for deleting the name is NOT visible because of the length of the SEO group name is more than the text box length.

I closed the “Share” pop-up window to remove the SEO group name. After doing this, I realized that I might have used keyboard “backspace” button to remove only the SEO Group name.

Anyway I was surprised to see this kind of error in a popular website. Initially I thought that it is happening only in Particular browser “Firefox”.  So, I tested it in Google Chrome also,  but samething happened in Google  Chrome also.

Similarly I had noticed few issues/bugs in the popular website marketplace site Flippa also.

Have you noticed this kind of issues in any other popular websites? If “Yes”, you can share the details thro’ the comments.

What do you think as the reason for this kind of bugs even if this companies can afford good budget for doing Software testing?

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If we talk about business, there is a risk of failure; but at the same time, by taking the risks, there are chances of great success as well. We can’t avoid any future uncertainty; but yes, the impact of loss can be minimized by analyzing and planning the strategy to handle it in advance. This is Risk Management – identify/analyze the risks and then handle those risks in the best possible way by mitigating them.

In the world of IT industry, one of the biggest risk factors is when a software program, without testing and software quality assurance, is released to end users, and in case the application is error prone, the denouement is disastrous. Therefore, a risk mitigation plan must be in place to avoid the consequences of such software failure in the market.

In a broader sense, software quality assurance and testing itself is a risk mitigation strategy. Even after sufficient qa and testing, all risks are not purged, but the risks that will exist will be of low priority with minimum impact.

Below are the key points that are considered while managing the risks:

• Identify the risks
• Determine Criticality of risk, i.e. how severe will be the impact of risk, if it occurs
• Take required actions on the risk, i.e. either mitigate the risk or accept it if it’s of low priority

After taking appropriate actions against critical risks, quality software is released to the customers with low priority risks called out as known issues.

Some of the typical strategies  to mitigate risks include:

• Adding more trained resources to help enhance test coverage in the limited amount of time
• Looking at automation strategies to created automated regression suites to catch bugs which might otherwise be missed in mundane manual testing
• Empowering the team with productivity tools and utilities to help them better focus on the areas that are not very stable

Thus, probability or encountering of risks is not an alert; however, we need to make sure we take appropriate actions for the encountered risks and handle the consequences if they do occur. It is important to focus and proactively work on the impact of risks.

Rajini Padmanaban is Director Engagement – Global Testing Services at QA InfoTech specializing in writing insightful articles on quality testing, providing technical consultation. Find her resourceful articles on quality assurance over the web.

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Most of the people ask me about QTP Certification. They want to know whether QTP Certification will help them to get good job, and they want to know how to get QTP Certification, how much money they need to spend for getting QTP certification, where to get mock tests and model question papers, what are the various certifications available for QTP certification, where to get syllabus for QTP certification, who is giving QTP certification? HP? Mercury? or any other thrid-party, whether it is easy to pass the QTP Certification, and whether they will be allowed to retake the exam if they didn’t pass the first attempt.

Even Today I got a query like whether qtp 9.2 v exams can be taken up or qtp 11 v alone can be taken up.

Personally, I am NOT a fan of QTP certification. Because, I was able to get good high paying automation jobs easily without getting QTP certification. Anyway, I understand that QTP certification may help the Job seekers in some way.

What is your opinion? Do you believe that QTP Certification will Give you any Benefit?

I would like to know whether anyone still searching for Automation job even after getting the QTP certification.

So, you can share your experience thro’ the comments. And, you may answer for the various QTP certifications related queries thro’ the comments. If you blindly add your advertisements without contributing any content, your comments will be deleted. I want to keep this post as single place to get everything about QTP certification.

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And, you can mention your favorite Software testing related website thro’ the comments section. We will rearrange the order of this list based on comments. i-e We will keep the the website which receives most number of positive comments.

1. SQA Forums – This is the very useful Forum for learning Software Testing and for learning Software Testing Tools especially QTP (Quick Test Professional). Mostly, you will get appropriate solution/answer for your problem/questions within few days if you post your questions in this Forum. Personally, I had used this Forum effectively to learn QTP many years back. I think this Forum is available for more than a decade. Previously it was known as qaforum.com
2. JAMES BACH’S BLOG This blog is having lot of interesting software testing related posts starting from year 2003. James Bach is one of the Authors of the book titled “Lessons Learned in Software Testing”
3. LinkedIn Discussions - LinkedIn is having lot of Software Testing Related Groups. We can join the desired Groups and we can participate in the Software Testing related Discussions and we can start our own discussion also. Apart from these Groups, LinkedIn is having Answers section which will allow us to ask our questions.
4. Google Testing Blog – This Google blog explains the Testing processes followed within Google.
5. QualityPoint Blog – This blog is written by myself. I had written an eBook about Software Testing and QTP automation. Mostly my articles will be telling more about practical approaches of Software Testing. Because, I work as Developer also apart from being a Tester. And, I am doing Business also now. So, my main focus will be doing Software Testing in a way to help Developers and Business (Obviously it should help the End Users)
6. Agile Testing – Thoughts on testing and systems infrastructure with an agile, mostly Pythonic, twist
7. Martinfowler This blogs speaks more about effective Software Developments and Agile methods to improve productivity.
8. Cem Kaner’s Blog – He is one of the authors of the book titled “Lessons Learned in Software Testing”
9. Misko Hevery – He writes about writing Testable Code
10. Develop Sense – Michael Bolton writes about how to do excellent software testing in a way that is very fast, inexpensive, credible, and accountable.
11. Sara Ford’s Weblog – Former Microsoft employee writes about combining agile methodologies with community management to provide the best user experience possible for websites
12. Association for Software Testing – AST is dedicated to advancing the understanding of the science and practice of software testing according to context-driven principles.
13. IT Knowledge Exchange
14. GOJKO ADZIC
15. Thinking Tester- This blog provides information about software testing.
16. Chris McMahon’sblog
17. JW on Test
18. Software Testing Help
19. Corey Goldberg
20. Testertested
21. Steve Rowe’s Blog
22. Exploration Through Example
23. Test this Blog
24. Expected Results
25. QA Intelligence- This is a Testing & QA Management blog.
26. Adam Goucher
27. Stevesouders.com
28. QA Hates You
29. Curioustester
30. Stefan Thelenius about Software Testing
31. Testledaren.se
32. Relevantcodes.com
33. I.M.TESTY
34. Automated Chaos
35. Software Testing Hotlist
36. Practical QA
37. ABAKAS
38. Tooth of the Weasel
39. Test Obsessed
40. Quality Frog
41. Testing Hotlist Update
42. Collaborative Software Testing
43. Eric Jarvi
44. Test Guide
45. Testy Redhead
46. Software testing zone
47. Marlena’s Blog
48. Software Testing and more
49. patrickwilsonwelsh.com
50. Quality Assurance and Software Testing
51. Testing Testing 1,2,3
52. Mike Kelly’s blog
53. Enjoy testing
54. Evil Tester
55. Charlie Audritsh’s blog
56. Maverick Tester
57. Paul Gerrard’s blog
58. shino.de
59. Cartoon Tester
60. cLabs Blogki
61. Jeff Fry on Testing
62. Venkat’s Blog
63. Agile Testing and Process Thoughts
64. Software Testing Stuff
65. selenadelesie.com
66. Software Sleuthing
67. The Software Quality Blog
68. One of the wolves
69. Musing about Software Testing
70. Jon Bach’s blog- Jon Bach’s blog, highlighting the humanity in software testing
71. Quardev
72. Software Testing Club Blog
73. TestToTester
74. Agile Testing with Lisa Crispin
75. Confessions of a Passionate Tester
76. I am filled with solutions
77. Software Testing
78. Rosie Land
79. Still Life- This blog is about testing, work, random thoughts, automation and scripting.
80. Brian Osman
81. Dhanasekar S’s Blog
82. The Social Tester
83. QA Insight
84. The Testing Blog
85. Testingminded
86. Swgetesting
87. Jeroen’s world of Software Testing
88. TestingPerspective
89. Adam White
90. Purple Box Testing-It gives some brief information to Testing terms like Bugs,Test Cases,Manual Testing,Automation,Tools and Test management.
91. Lessons Learned by a Software Tester
92. Pliant Alliance
93. Testjutsu
94. Illiteration
95. Tester Testifies
96. Santhosh Tuppad’s Blog
97. Teknologika
98. Creative Tester
99. Tester Troubles
100. Thoughts on QA and Engineering-This blog contains information of about Software Quality,Testing,Quality Assurance and Engineering in general.
101. Quick Testing Tips
102. Cruisin QA
103. Tester Lost Focus
104. James McCaffrey’s blog-This  blog explains the Software Research, Development, and Testing.James McCaffrey is an author of .NET Test Automation Recipes and Software Testing.

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