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Journey of Selenium – a Primer

Fri, 05 Jun 2020 09:06:08 +0000

My Dear Tester Friend

My New Article is on New and Improved Selenium 3

The Title of My New Article is:
Journey of Selenium – a Primer

Excerpts from the new article are as under

This article is for the software tester who is seeking to explore more or a beginner/novice who wants to pursue a career in Software testing. Here we will have the historical preview of Selenium, its journey through times – from its advent in 2004, till the latest version of Selenium 4 (2020). First, let us see what this Selenium is.

What is Selenium and Why Selenium?
Simply putting, Selenium is an open-source testing suite for testing web applications across different browsers and platforms. It is a free tool preferred because of its automation features which makes writing test cases and testing site’s functionality, easy.

Selenium is best suited for automating user interaction tasks when testing the functionality of a website e.g. things like filling a form, submitting it, clicking on a link, etc. But when it comes to checking low-level functionality like headers set/returned or the different status codes like 404, 301 etc., Selenium can’t work at its own and need the help of third-party tools like BrowserMob.

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What Software Testers can do to Prepare for the Next Recession?

Sat, 25 May 2019 10:12:18 +0000

My Dear Tester Friend

My New Article is on dealing with current Recession in Testing Industry

The Title of My New Article is:
What Software Testers can do to Prepare for the Next Recession?

Excerpts from the new article are as under

The economy always goes through a cycle of several ups and downs. It is easy to go through the good times but million dollar question that remains is, how to sail the boat when heading for the tough times? Should we wait till we are hit or should we prepare well in advance?

As a Software Testing professional, it is very common these days to hear news about layoffs, but what are we going to do about it?

I totally believe that when other people lose jobs, it is called a “Recession”. But when we lose ours, it is not the recession, we call it “Depression”. Now economic recession can be a setback or a source of stress to every person whether you are working as an employee or whether you are at a CEO position. That is the time where instead of just sitting idle and hoping and praying that it shouldn’t affect us, we should do something about it.

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An Insight to Project Management – A Short Primer for Novice to Experts

Mon, 24 Dec 2018 10:22:18 +0000

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I have brought to you a New Article for on Project Management

The Title of My New Article is:
An Insight to Project Management - A Short Primer for Novice to Experts

Excerpts from the new article are as under

It remains a long cherished dream of every IT professional, be it in software development or in testing / QA, to be a team lead followed by the position of project manager. The span of such a journey varies from person to person being commensurate with his/her skills acquired over the passage of time. With years of hands on experience on IT projects, one acquires in a natural way, traditional skills of communication, basic management, man management, agile methods, requirements engineering, software development process etc., yet that’s not enough for being an effective project manager.

If you are not ready to go for either of the certifications, you can still polish your skills on Project Management and can excel in your career progression by studying from rich resources being given to you.

I am already pursuing PMI PMP certification and am extremely glad to share the complete knowledge resources as per the latest PMBOK 6th Edition, like practice question papers, articles on the Project Management with my tester and developer friends.

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Race on to the Success Ladder of Career in Testing and QA

Tue, 23 Oct 2018 19:20:08 +0000

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Thank you for a long association with SoftwareTestingGenius, that is relaunched in an All-New, Vibrant and Most Comfortable User Interface.

This year we completed 10 years of service to the Testing Community by providing exhaustive world-class knowledgebase on testing and free access to premium eBooks!

Our team of experts is constantly striving to bring to you the Best Resources on Renowned Certifications and New Technologies, free of cost very shortly.

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I have brought to you a New Article on Fourth Industrial Revolution 4.0

The Title of My New Article is:
New Techniques emerging out of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Excerpts from the new article are as under

The world of Technology is now on the verge of a revolutionary change. New technologies like, artificial intelligence, robotics, digital manufacturing, autonomous vehicles, biotechnology, nano technology, materials science, analysis of real time data of trillions of pieces of information, modern gadgets connected to the internet are going to evolve into a "Fourth Industrial Revolution" known as "Industry 4.0" in short.

Public by and large hasn’t fully realized the advent of this revolution yet, however digital technology Initiatives would bring enormous opportunities to bypass several stages of development in India.

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My Dear Tester Friend

Today a new article article has been published by Andrei Hardzeyeu - Senior QA Consultant at ScienceSoft headquartered in McKinney, Texas.

Andrei has 10+ years of experience. Working in large Agile and waterfall projects, Andrei has demonstrated the ability to invent and establish the process according to the project specifics.

This article brings deep insight to Quality risks associated with them

The Title of the New Article is:
QA in Agile and Waterfall-Quality risks and how to fight them

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ISTQB Agile Tester Extension Exam Theory Study Material Part 1

Tue, 14 Aug 2018 12:05:40 +0000

My Dear Tester Friend

While appreciating Crash Course Question Banks on ISTQB Agile Tester Extension Certification Exam, several tester friends have requested to upload Essential Theory Part of this study material as well.

Good News !! Today I have uploaded 200+ Questions with an explanation of answers for preparation of ISTQB Agile Tester Extension Certification Exam.

Quick Start to preparation for ISTQB Agile Tester Extension Exam

Download ISTQB Agile Tester Extension Exam Theory Full Study Material - 21 Parts

Download Largest question bank with 210 Questions on ISTQB Agile Tester Extension Certification Exam

I am curious to have your feedback soon on the above.

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An insight to the revolution of Big Data-A Primer

Mon, 30 Apr 2018 11:28:50 +0000

My Dear Tester Friend

Going with the new technology I am bringing out Several New Articles and Certification related New Technologies like "Big Data" and "Robotic Process Automation"

The Title of My New Article is:
An insight to the revolution of Big Data - A Primer

Excerpts from the new article are as under

During the 1990s, no one could imagine the pace at which the technology backed by internet will evolve. In 1988-89 hard disk drives of about 100MB storage capacities were sufficient for 386 desktops. In a span of around 10 years, the storage capacity requirement shot up to around 2GB with an increase of around 20X. By the year 2015 users were uncomfortable even with 1TB capacity that is one thousand times increase in 15 years.

According to Prof. Hal Ronald Varian (Chief Economist - Google), 5 EBs (Exabytes) of digital data was created by the human beings till 2000, and these days that much of data is being created in just two days. World’s digital data was near 1 ZB (Zettabytes) in 2010 and by 2020 it would possibly touch 50 ZBs or 50 Trillion GBs (Gigabytes) which means an increase of 50 times.

Is Information explosion responsible for the birth of "Big Data"?
In the era of explosion of digital information, now almost 50% of the world's population use internet daily. Millions of people browse the internet, send instant messages and share huge amount of data in the form of documents, audios, videos, animations across popular platforms like Facebook, Youtube, Instagram, WhatsApp, Twitter, Reddit, Linkedin and many more.

We all are responsible for generating huge data every minute;
> 360,000+ Tweets
> 293,000 Facebook status updates
> 510,000 Facebook comments posting
> 45 Million Instant Messages
> 800,000 Google searches
> 300 Million emails sent
> 4500 Terabytes of data creation
> 800 New cell phone users surfing the web

Today "Big Data" is growing day-by-day due to;

1) The prime reason being the data created by each one of us.

2) Availability of high-speed processors day-by-day - shift seen from pocket calculators during the 1990s to high speed personal computers these days.

3) Availability of higher storage capacities - shift seen from few Megabytes of Analog data during the 1990s to Terabytes of Digital data these days.

May it be the business environment, or for pleasure’ sake, we keep on generating an ever-increasing amount of digital data in anything we do. World population is 7.6 Billion out of which 6 Billion people are having cell phones. With the digital explosion of information, over 4 Billion people are surfing the web in a quest for information and being connected to the world.

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Glossary of Terms related to Big Data-Alphabet A to Z

Sun, 22 Apr 2018 12:27:50 +0000

My Dear Tester Friend

Going with the new Technology I am bringing out Several New Artciles and Certification related posts on New Technologies like "Big Data" and "Robotic Process Automation"

The Title of First out of a set of four Articles is:
Glossary of Encyclopedia Importance Terms Related to Big Data

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I am giving you a full length repository of definitions in an alphabetically sorted order

1) This database explains various concepts, terms and definitions designed to help communication in the field of Big Data and related disciplines.

2) An effort has been made to make this database quite exhaustive with maximum possible definitions & terms exclusively related to Big Data. These definitions & terms explained by several experts of Software Testing field have been included in it.

3) You are most welcome to contribute & tell us the missing terms or definitions & we shall add it here.

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Importance of doing a Pilot Project before Full Scale Automation Tool Roll Out

Wed, 31 Jan 2018 18:23:23 +0000

My Dear Tester Friend

I have brought to you a New Article on Automation Testing

The Title of My New Article is:
Importance of doing a Pilot Project before Full Scale Automation Tool Roll Out

Excerpts from the new article are as under

Before delving on the intricacies of going into a pilot project, I would like to describe few common pitfalls involved in the large-scale implementation of automation tools.

1) "Ease of use" of course being one of the key consideration in selecting an automation tool, can never overlook the prime requirement of good functionality. A tool can easily be misused while it may fail to do few simple things.

2) In the absence of a structured assignment of roles and responsibilities towards centralized methodology of using the tool, the users tend to get absorbed In several standardization attempts that land up evolving equal number of confusing approaches. Different users of the tool try to use it in different, ways as per their own convenience leading to collapse of the standardization efforts.

3) True value of a test automation tool can be better understood by carrying out a small-scale pilot project before a mass roll out.

Due to this reason, in small sized organizations, the test managers lay greater stress on the pilot compared to selling their concept. They believe in avoiding doing anything new on a large scale.

Why go in for a pilot evaluation project?
The objective of pilot project is to provide a safer opportunity to the organization to test the new automation tool, demonstrate its true value and discover deficiencies if any, well before spending significant amount of money, time and other resources on a full-scale project. Working on a small-scale project would help in ironing out the problems coming across small group of users.

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How to perform Poor Testing-A Primer for Self Improvement

Sun, 08 Oct 2017 11:00:09 +0000

My Dear Tester Friend

I have brought to you a New Article on Poor or Bad Testing

The Title of My New Article is:
How to perform Poor Testing-A Primer for Self Improvement

Excerpts from the new article are as under

This article is not aimed at inculcating negativity among the software testing community, rather it is a live pointer to various mistakes poor testers make in the real world scenario. This is better viewed as an opportunity for self-improvement in our software development initiative.

Poor testing leaves an adverse impact on the customer experience of the software product. Such poor impact on the customer leaves big dent on sales of the software product as well as affects the profitability of the company. It can lead to legal implications as well on occasions.

Poor testing can prove to be more expensive in the longer run. Spending lot many hours and considerable amount of money on software testing and missing out many problem areas and non conformances of the software product is the worst part of it. It is a sheer wastage of the organizational resources, and on the other hand it provides a false sense of security to the testing team and the organization.

Important Do’s & Don’ts of Poor Testing:

Don’ts of Poor Testing:
Never do the following if you want to do a poor testing;

1) Do not Add Stress:
We can not learn much out the software product, by testing it at a low level of vigor. Hence it is essential that the product is tested against most severe levels of stimulus.

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An insight to Innovative Agile or Spiral Software Testing

Sun, 19 Apr 2015 14:58:43 +0000

My Dear Tester Friend

I have brought to you a New Article on Agile Testing on great demand from many fellows

The Title of My New Article is:
An Insight to Innovative Agile or Spiral Software Testing

Excerpts from the new article are as under

The intent of life cycle testing promotes testing by software testing professionals from some agency outside the development organization. The prime advantage of testing with life-cycle approach are that we have crystal clear requirements defined before hand, and it is comparatively easier for an external expert to verify the facts. Software testing is generally considered as a destructive activity aimed to challenge the work done by the developers.

On the contrary, spiral-testing psychology promotes more cooperation among the development organization and the quality assurance. The is based upon the hypothesis that, in an environment of rapid application development, all the available requirements may not be that precise as expected, or may be varying drastically. Unless precise requirements are in place, it would be extremely difficult task for the software testing engineers to define the test criteria. The best possible solution remains is that software testing & development teams must work in tandem.

Bridging the gaps between Tester and Developer Perceptions:
Understanding of the stumbling blocks in the way of healthy relationships between the software testing teams and the development teams, it is important to respect the roles & responsibilities of each other. Both testers and developers need to break the age old ice and rise above the traditional confrontation.

Software testing is an effort intensive task that is infinite as well as indefinite. Despite putting in long strenuous efforts, software testing engineers can’t claim with surety that they have found all the bugs in their application, or even all the most important problems.

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Beating the Systematic Software Testing in a Non Systematic way

Mon, 16 Feb 2015 22:17:27 +0000

My Dear Tester Friend

I have published a New & Unique Article on Non Systematic Testing

The Title of My New Article is:
Beating the Systematic Software Testing in a Non Systematic way

Excerpts from the new article are as under

Many a times systematic testing of the software product becomes insufficient and frustrating for the software testing engineers! Reasons being the defects are truly cunning & call for attacking them in equally unpredictable ways.

Here comes the deployment of non-systematic testing techniques as an effective substitute for the systematic testing techniques.

I am discussing two non-systematic techniques that are:

1) Attacks: It is a type of security testing, meant for testing how resistant a software product is to the people intending to break into it in different ways & for different reasons, may be like incidental mistakes, form fun sake or due to criminal intentions.

The need for secure systems is growing day by day, so is the requirement of powerful and sophisticated security testing. One of the reasons of this is exponential growth of e-commerce & e-business market & at the same time development of more and more applications aimed to get Web access for something or the other.

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Security Testing Made Simple by Smart Test Managers

Sun, 04 Jan 2015 16:02:04 +0000

My Dear Tester Friend

I am giving you a New Article on Security Testing

The Title of My New Article is:
Security Testing Made Simple by Smart Test Managers

Excerpts from the new article are as under

Intelligent software testing managers lay their key focus on the security testing of their system, right from the early stages of the system's life cycle.

The process begins with the drafting of the security test documents. Your starting point can be the security test plan if you were assigned to perform functional testing on a system that is new or new to you, & which can be to familiarize yourself with the product. Generally people prefer one security test plan per release, but you may have one or more functional test plans, mostly depending on the size of your system & its complexity.

Next you can prepare a test case outline or test case document that will outline your test cases to be run with each test case. You can start by noting down & dividing the entire system into various security areas that you may be planning to use at the beginning of your test case documentation. Since test case outline document can grow to a gigantic size, you can have multiple test case outlines for every release. Each one of these can deal with a different security risk or product area.

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System Test Automation Primer-A Must Read for the Test Managers

Mon, 24 Nov 2014 17:44:58 +0000

My Dear Tester Friend

I have published a New Article on Test Automation an excellent stuff for every Testing Manager

The Title of My New Article is:
System Test Automation Primer-A Must Read for the Test Managers

Excerpts from the new article are as under

It is essential for any software testing organization to be more efficient especially in test automation. The reason being automation is a strategic business activity, requiring sound support from the senior management; without which it can doom due to the lack of adequate funds & other resources. Automation is aligned with the business mission and goals and a desire to speed up delivery of the system to the market without compromising its quality. Automation remains a long-term investment and is an on-going process. Results can’t be realized overnight; expectation need to be managed to ensure that it is realistically achievable within a certain time period.

Few best reasons for system test automation are:

1) Better productivity of software testing engineers

2) Better coverage of regression testing

3) Better reusability of test cases

4) Better consistency in testing

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