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A Roadmap to Streamlining SAP Automated Regression Testing – Part 1
Introduction Anyone that has watched the movie A League of Their Own must remember the scene when Dottie quit the team right before the World Series. The conversation between her and Jimmy [Tom Hanks] has been one of the most unforgettable scenes for me. Dottie's...
All Animals Can Fly
About the Author Torsten Zelger I am in the testing business since 12 years and started straight with test automation. A subject that still fascinates me although today I focus more on automated testing BELOW the UI and manual testing again. Before testing I was...
Configuration Testing on Mobile Devices
Mobile software applications are becoming more prevalent in our daily lives A recent study published by Andrea Smith on Mashable highlighted just how much we as a society are addicted to our mobile applications, going so far as to say “Some people confess to using...
Ask The Tester: Featuring John Ruberto of INTUIT
Well it's 2013 and once again a new tax season starts for the US. Everyone is pulling together all their financial documents, summarizing their income, expenses, and tax write-offs. And, for many, they will be using tax software to assist them with their tax reporting...
Top Performance Landmines (Part Two)
In a previous article, I provided details on the top two performance landmines to be aware - Size and Deployment Issues - as well as details on how best to avoid them. In regards to Size, bigger pages inevitably take longer to load. You don't want to spend endless...
Top Performance Landmines (Part One)
Performance is a critical business issue. Research has shown that 75% of users will go to a competitor if your web performance is poor. Sites often bog down or fail during peak traffic times, exactly when they need to perform at their best. There are only a few...
Test Estimation
We have executed many projects Large Projects, Small Projects etc. Sometimes we miss our testing deadlines because there is no defined criterion that is used to build our execution test plan. To help avoid missing our deadlines we have prepared these Test Estimation...
Give Spreadsheets The Boot: From Spreadsheets to Complete Quality Management
Software testing is more complicated, labor intensive, and time consuming than ever before. Applications support multiple platforms, browsers, devices and/or languages and end users are expecting better usability, performance and integration with the applications they...
Latest Testing Technology for Next Generation Apps
As opposed to desktop computers, there is a specific framework that applies to mobile devices such as cells or smartphones: There is not only a smaller screen size; mobile services and applications (apps) are also frequently used in a completely different context....
A Bird’s-Eye View of Load Testing
While each kind of performance testing may have different goals and test designs, in most cases they use the same approach: applying multi-user synthetic workload to the system. The term ‘load testing’ is used further in this article because, by...