Monthly Archives: July 2011

Four important software testing certifications

Today in any software development process, quality assurance and software testing plays a crucial role. With the increasing demand for the role of tester, people pay more attention to the equality testing professional. As a result, people are trying best to get certified and acquire the capabilities to fit in this demanding position. Here we will mainly talk about four important software testing certifications.

1. CSTE

Its exam pattern includes: two sections for multiple choice questions which consist of 50 objective type questions; two sections for 10 subjective type questions; and exam duration is 4 hours 30 minutes and the passing marks are 75%.

2. CSTP

It requires a minimum of 10 day of formal Training or education, including the following topics: principles of software testing, test design, managing the testing process, test executions and defect tracking, requirement definitions, refinement and verification, test automation, and static testing.

3. CTM

This includes the compulsory topics: test process management, test project management, test process measurement and improvement, test organization management, risk management, test automation strategies and architectures, and software quality assurance.

4. HP QTP Certification

This certification is particularly famous with two exams: Exam HPO-M31 – HP Quality Center 10.0 Software and Exam HPO-M39 – HP QuickTest Professional 10.0 Software.

Source: http://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/software-testing-certifications-eligibility-exam-patters-and-how-to-apply/

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How to access facebook, youtube, and twitter from China

Facebook, Youtube, and Twitter had been blocked in China for quite sometimes now. For these who needs to be on their social network at least once again, there are two ways to unblock these sites.

Method 1: VPN
You can get a VPN service. The advantage of VPN service is your entire computer can tunnel through the “Great Wall of China”. The down side is that most free VPN services are risky and unreliable. So you should be extremely careful when choosing a VPN service provider.

Method 2: Proxy
The other method is to using a Proxy tool. The advantage is that some browsers allow you to choose when to use a the proxy tool. The downside is that Proxy tools are really slow.

The proxy tool I have been using for times is called FreeU. To use the proxy all I have to do is double click on the program and it will do the rest for you.

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IT firms drive for software testers in graduate recuritment

A group of IT firms has warned that many Northern Ireland graduates could miss out on highly paid software jobs. Now twenty companies have come together to highlight the opportunities in the field of software testing. These companies include multinational giants as well as local employers. These companies drive for hiring hundreds of software quality assurance staff over the next few years. Today, as the poor promotion of opportunities in software testing and compounded by universities and colleges focusing instead on software development, there is a shortage of software testers. And the move of the twenty companies is right a response to a global shortage of software testers.

Source: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/business/business-news/it-firms-in-graduate-recruitment-drive-for-software-testers-16028559.html

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Renesas selects Wind River FAST s/w testing solution

Wind River Framework for Automated Software Testing (FAST) was selected to test Renesas Electronics’ platform, which is Cortx-A9-based and system-on-chip, for Android-based smartphones and consumer products. Wind River FAST for Android offers improved software quality of Android implementations, as well as test performance, compliance and device user nterface and also user experience. It is really a fully automated software testing solution. The VP and general manager of mobile solutions at Wind River, Jerry Ashford, said that Wind River FAST significantly reduced the overhead associated with quality testing and compliance. It helps companies tackle the challenges of Android software testing and deliver high-quality products on time and on budget.

Source: http://www.eetindia.co.in/ART_8800647744_1800001_NT_33365970.HTM

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7 tips to be more innovative in the age of agile testing

The definition of agile testing in wikipedia is that testing from the customer perspective al early as possible and testing early and often as code becomes available and stable enough from module/unit level testing. There are some challenges in agile testing testers having to face while working with agile development team.

1. Obtain number of hours commitment up front

2. Gather Requirements / Estimates up front

3. Entering the actual hours and estimated hours daily

4. Daily builds

5. Keep the daily scrum meetings short

6. Code inspections are paramount

Hence, an agile tester needs to be innovative with the tools that they have so as to meet the challenges above. Here are important keys to innovation: creative, talented, fearless, visionary, empowered, passionate, and multiple disciplines. Watts Humpry said “Innovation is the process of turning ideas into manufacturable and marketable form.”

Source: http://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/7-tips-to-be-more-innovative-in-the-age-of-agile-testing-and-to-survive-an-economic-crisis/

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Microsoft builds SAGE for finding software security flaws

The research group of Microsoft built an automated testing solution to reduce security flaws in its Windows x86-based family of software products. The principal researcher at Microsoft Research, Patrice Godefroid said that the testing application – SAGE – short for Scalable, Automated, Guided Execution, has been deployed internally within Microsoft for the last two years. He indicated that software flaws are expensive to chase no matter for Microsoft or its customers. He added SAGE is one way to reduce the number of security patches it issues each month. SAGE attempts to generate only tests exercising unique control paths in the program so as to maximize the opportunity of finding defects.

Source: http://redmondmag.com/articles/2011/07/21/microsoft-credits-sage-for-finding-software-security-flaws.aspx

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Northern Ireland companies highlight software testing as jobs growth area

In Northern Ireland, there are 20 companies coming together to encourage people to consider a career in software quality assurance, and they promise to create hundreds of jobs between them in this field in the next few years. Moreover, Invest Northern Ireland brought multinational firms and local employers together. Except experienced testing professionals, these 20 companies will also recruit IT graduates as well as HND and degree students with qualifications in science, technology, engineering and maths and business subjects.

Source: http://www.siliconrepublic.com/careers-centre/item/22778-ni-companies-highlight/

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Software testing solutions and other strategies discussed in Denver

The Institute for Health Technology Transformation, the leading organization committed to bringing together private and public sector leaders fostering the growth and effective use of technology across the healthcare industry, announced that the title of their panel session, which will take place July 26-27, 2011 at the Sheraton Denver Downtown, is “Adoption in the Rear-View Mirror: Strategies to Achieve Meaningful Use (MU)”. This session will provide an in-depth analysis of proven models and strategies that can help you get the most out of your organizations IT strategy.

Source: http://www.dailymarkets.com/stock/2011/07/20/catholic-health-initiatives-northbay-healthcare-software-testing-solutions-more-to-discuss-strategies-to-achieve-meaningful-use-in-denver/

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Agile Software Testing Ablaze with Bonfire

As we said before, we know Bonfire 1.0 is a new agile testing tool with two big advantages. And Atlassian CEO and co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes said that agile teams need to test early and often and easily submit bugs as well as issues. Here are four key features of Bonfire that allow teams to test early and often.

1. Submitting bugs directly from the browser

2. Add annotated screenshots with each bug

3. Setup test sessions to track activity against a requirement or user story

4. Create bug report templates to pre-populate meta-data repetitive content

Bonfire is available for a free-30-day evaluation at Atlassian’s website. Users can access Bonfire form within any of the major internet browsers.

Source: http://www.sdtimes.com/ATLASSIAN_SETS_AGILE_SOFTWARE

_TESTING_ABLAZE_WITH_BONFIRE/By_SD_TIMES_NEWSWIRE/35743

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Difference between Performance Testing, Load Testing and Stress Testing

Performance testing is to ascertain how the components of a system are performing in a particular situation. Load testing is to test the system by constantly and steadily increasing the load on the system till the time it reaches the threshold limit. And as for stress testing, various activities to overload the existing resources with excess jobs are carried out in an attempt to break the system down.

Performance testing mainly aims to estabilsh the benchmark behaviour of the system, while load testing are to expose the defects in application related to buffer overflow, memory leaks and mismanagement of memory and stress testing is to analyse post-crash reports to define the behaviour of application after failure.

Source: http://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/what-is-performance-testing-load-testing-stress-testing/

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