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History's Worst Software Bugs

July 28, 1962 -- Mariner I space probe. A bug in the flight software for the Mariner 1causes the rocket to divert from its intended path on launch. Mission control destroys the rocket over the Atlantic Ocean. The investigation into the accident discovers that a formula written on paper in pencil was improperly transcribed into computer code, causing the computer to miscalculate the rocket's trajectory.

1982…

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Added by Malay Parikh on May 28, 2012 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Google’s Acquisition of Motorola Mobility: Taking a Giant Bite out of Apple?

Yesterday, Google announced the completion of its deal to buy Motorola Mobility at $40 per share, or $12.5 billion dollars – a 60 percent premium from Friday’s stock price – to enter the hardware market. The official commentary from Google states that one of the main reasons for the acquisition is “given Android’s phenomenal success, [Google] is always looking for new ways to supercharge the…

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Added by DeviceAnywhere on May 25, 2012 at 1:05am — No Comments

Interview Questions for Manual Tester

1) Tell me about your self

2) About my roles and responsibilites?

3) What is STLC?

4) What is a bug life cylce? 

5) What is System integration testing?

6) What is retesting and Regression testing?

7) What is difference between Bug Validation and Retesting

8) Is System Testing is performed before System Integrating Testing?

9) What is Build?

10) What is Websphere?

11) High level test Scenarios for Notepad

12) What…

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Added by Satish Dukkipati on May 24, 2012 at 3:07pm — 2 Comments

Free Web Application Security Testing Tools

Netsparker Community Edition (Windows)

Netsparker Community Edition

This is the free-community edition of the powerful Netsparker which still comes with a bunch of features and also false-positive-free.

The application can detect SQL Injection + cross-site scripting…

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Added by Malay Parikh on May 24, 2012 at 3:03pm — 1 Comment

Interview Questions

Hi all,

 

Check out the Interview Questions.docx which are useful for a Tester.

 

Regards,

Damodar.

Added by Damodar Varma on May 23, 2012 at 6:47pm — 11 Comments

10 things which require more patience

(As per me these cases requires more patience )

1. Working on android 4.0 emulators (Very very slow)

2. Testing localization (Cant understand the words)

3. Typing web URL on device browser (especially on symbian)

4. Testing on GPRS n/w and preparing performance metrics (each time you will find a new parameter)

5. Testing a boring game with same repeating sound effects or music

6. Testing Data consumption of app (which does not give approriate…

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Added by Divya on May 23, 2012 at 4:04pm — 2 Comments

Biggest challenges on mobile web applications....

Thousands of available devices.

Number of manufactures, hardware and firmware.

Tons of operators and different technologies like 2g, 3g and 4g.…

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Added by sanjay kumar on May 17, 2012 at 1:44pm — 4 Comments

Automation tool for collecting log of antivirus for android mobile

hello friends....!!

Is there any tool available that can help me for collecting log of any antivirus for android mobile.

I am able to find Device log collector but I am interested for such type of tool that can help me to collect log of antivirus that is installed in device...

Added by Kanu Sankhat on May 16, 2012 at 4:47pm — 2 Comments

Few simple actions which will help with testing on an Android device:

Press and Hold Menu Button - Keyboard

This will work in contexts where it is necessary to have a keyboard but one has not been readily provided like search fields, email fields, account sign up fields etc.

Menu/Context Menu

Depending on what is being tested, and whether or not you are navigating through the phone itself or an application, the menu button will provide different extra options.



Home Button – Press and Hold

Pressing and holding the Home…

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Added by sanjay kumar on May 15, 2012 at 4:38pm — No Comments

Basis knowledge on ipad.

Settings Icon:

  1. Settings>General – Clicking on About menu item brings up information for iPad
  2. Settings>Mail, Contacts, Calendar – Set up Email addresses in this setting on the iPad

Finding UDID for your iPad:

  1. Launch iTunes on your computer and connect your iPad to your computer via your USB connection
  2. Select your iPad from the list of devices
  3. Click on the summary tab
  4. Click ‘Serial Number’ located next to the…
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Added by sanjay kumar on May 15, 2012 at 4:07pm — No Comments

Any Automation tool for testing iOS application. If yes please specify.

Any Automation tool for testing  iOS application.  If yes please specify.
1.Can we cover the functional test.
2. Can we cover the UI.
3.Can we get the logs regarding leakages, crash.

Added by Yayati on May 14, 2012 at 3:58pm — 3 Comments

What is the expected behaviour when the application is build in Cocoa-touch framework.

Minimize the application by pressing the home key. Change the orientation. Launch the application from task bar. Observe that the application shown 1st…
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Added by Yayati on May 8, 2012 at 5:16pm — No Comments

Approach for Stress Testing

Approach for Stress Testing…

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Added by sanjay kumar on May 7, 2012 at 6:41pm — No Comments

Need your support for automation of the iOS Apps using "SEETEST" tool.

Hello Guys,

 

I have initiated the automation of the iOS Apps using SEETEST (Experitest) tool with a little bit knowledge regarding the tool. I am going forward and looking for all of your support as usual.

 

So guys lets begin the blog and hoping that you will share your knowledge on this blog regarding the automation.

 

Thanks,

 

Added by Kunal Tambe on May 7, 2012 at 1:05pm — No Comments

UI/Application Exerciser Monkey with Android platform

The Monkey is a program that runs on your emulator or device and generates pseudo-random streams of user events such as clicks, touches, or gestures, as well as a number of system-level events. You can use the Monkey to stress-test applications that you are developing, in a random yet repeatable manner.

Overview

The Monkey is a command-line tool that…

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Added by Malay Parikh on May 3, 2012 at 10:00am — No Comments

Release notes should include the following sections:

Release notes should include the following sections like:

  • Header – Document name , product name, release number, release date, note date, note version, etc.
  • Overview - A brief overview of the product and changes, in the absence of other formal documentation.
  • Purpose - A brief overview of the purpose of the release note with a listing of what is new in this…
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Added by sanjay kumar on May 2, 2012 at 10:00pm — 1 Comment

Tutorials and Classes - Association for Software Testing

http://www.associationforsoftwaretesting.org/conference/cast-2012/tutorials//

 

For those of you in CA this sounds like it would be fun to attend, wish I was in California.

 

Added by Ashley Sibri on May 1, 2012 at 2:00am — No Comments

windows phone limitations updated

WP7 PLATFORM LIMITATIONS:

1)      Background Processing

  1. Unable to register a service in the native scheduler to have app continue minimal processing even when the application is closed.

2)      Contacts

  1. Unable to read contact groups

3)      Media

  1. Unable to access native videos
  2. Unable to use seek functionality with Native Media player

4)      Media Library

  1. If you want to…
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Added by raghunandan on April 30, 2012 at 12:00pm — 3 Comments

Status Update document....

 Schedule item Item Owner Plan date Last week’s estimate…
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Added by sanjay kumar on April 29, 2012 at 8:55pm — No Comments

Satisfaction,Comfort and acceptability of use,usability matrics

Satisfaction   (Comfort and acceptability of use) …
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Added by sanjay kumar on April 29, 2012 at 8:30pm — No Comments

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