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April 19th, 2012
Automation testing helps testers to reduce burden of repetitive tasks in manual testing. Many software companies are launching applications in industry and to keep pace with this fast moving mobile industry they have test and release new mobile applications or same application with more functionality rapidly. To meet this challenge, software companies are moving towards automation testing in mobile. We know that mobile testing is evolving and so is mobile automation testing. It is not completely matured like in case of website automation testing.
There are few tools available in market for mobile automation testing. It is true that mobile testing is still evolving and there is always increased pressure on companies to adopt to changing mobile operating system or in other words diversified nature of mobile phones. There are challenges in mobile automation testing which are mentioned below:-
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April 6th, 2012
Nowadays, automation testers are shifting from selenium1 to selenium web driver because of its many advantages. I am new to automation and had used selenium1 earlier. I have recently started using selenium web driver and while automating my first test, I wanted to maximize my browser window but then I found out that web driver has no direct command of maximizing window like we have in selenium1. Although we can use selenium commands in webdriver by using webbacked driver function. I used selenium.maximize() function but it was not working on my machine. I knew that it is not the only way of maximizing browser window. There could be other ways also. I have mentioned four different ways of maximizing browser window in selenium web driver in this blog . If in any case, one of them is not working for you then have other options which can be tried out.
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March 2nd, 2012
In today’s world, ever increasing inclination towards mobile devices and applications has provided great prospects for enterprises to move their business in mobile world. As mobile technology lets the customers stay connected for almost all the time, enterprises are moving beyond the desktop world to keep attuned to their customer needs. But development of mobile applications with an impeccable user interface and functionality for highly fragmented mobile market is in itself an ordeal. Thus quite evidently mobile application development has become a booming field in the IT industry. Few days back, I met with a guy who is mobile QA from long time. I discussed with him few of the best practices which shall be followed for functional testing of mobile applications. So through this blog I want to share few of those practices which should be followed by mobile QA while doing testing for any mobile application. Read more »
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February 16th, 2012
Meaning of Exploratory Testing is self explanatory. In plainest form, we can define it as discovery of test cases while testing functionality and then simultaneous learning functionality and designing test cases and executing them. It is useful in testing any type of application either simple or complex but It is extremely useful in following scenarios:-
1. When you have no/less requirements or specifications
2. When you have little or no knowledge domain
3. When you do not have time to specify, script and test
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January 20th, 2012
During my last project, I was given a task to choose one of the best tools for performance testing among open source tools available in market. After evaluation and little research I came up with JMeter. I have thought of writing a small blog for those who are new to performance testing and are confused of which tool to use. It’s pretty common that whenever we start looking out for any tool we keep few things in our mind that it should record and playback, allow easy parametrization, generate detailed reports, should be able to simulate a heavy load on a server, analyze overall performance, etc . JMeter would not disappoint you in that sense because it has more than above mentioned features. There are important features of JMeter which have been listed down in this blog. Let's start from first thing which is its installation. It is very easy to install which requires only Java set up on your machine since it is a Java based tool.
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