AST's Official Magazine December Edition

Here we GO,

AST (Association for Software Testing) released their December 2007 Issue of Sapient Testing.
Another Good Work from them. Keep it up friends.

http://www.sapienttesting.com/files/December.Final.pdf

Cheers,
-jerry-

Instant Performance Test

Hi All,

Like to do a instant performance test on your site with no cost. Here we go,
http://www.gomez.com/info_center/instant_test.php
try your site with this and get the instant performance details of it.

Thanks to sapienttesting and Scott Barber for his wonder ful work on December edition.

Cheers,
-jerry-

The 10 Commandments of Load Testing

Here r the 10 Commandments of Load Testing.

1. Thou shalt know how thy test tool works.
2. Thou shalt gather realistic usage data.
3. Thou shalt have testable requirements.
4. Thou shalt write a test plan.
5. Thou shalt test for the worst case.
6. Thou shalt monitor your test environment infrastructure.
7. Thou shalt enforce change control on your environment.
8. Thou shalt use a defect tracking tool.
9. Thou shalt rule out thy own errors before raising a defect.
10. Thou shalt pass on your knowledge.

Visit http://www.myloadtest.com/ten-commandments-of-load-testing/ for full details.

Thanks to Stuart Moncrieff for his wonderful blog and his great service to Our Community.

Don't forget to visit his http://www.mypentest.com/ - security testing blog

and http://www.myloadtest.com/ - load testing blog.

Cheers,

-jerry-

Automation Testing Framework for Distributed Systems

BizUnit
The adoption of an automated testing strategy is fundamental in reducing the risk associated with software development projects, it is key to ensuring that you deliver high quality software. Often, the overhead associated with developing automated tests is seen as excessive and a reason to not adopt automated testing.

BizUnit is a framework and as such does not have any dependency on either NUnit of VS Unit Testing, either of these make a great way to drive BizUnit test cases, though equally you could write custom code to do the same.


For further Details Vist :http://www.codeplex.com/bizunit
Thanks to kevinsmi for his great work.

Cheers,
-jerry-

Mother of all checklist for Software testing

Hi All,
Here is the Mother of All Check List for software testing.
Hope this will be very helpful for most of our testing.
http://www.sqaforums.com/download.php?Number=437212
or
http://www.4shared.com/file/31856547/84194eaf/Mother_of_All_CheckListdoc.html

Thanks to Shreya for his wonderful work.

Cheers,
-jerry-

Project Testing Folder Structure

Here is a good Testing Folder Structure. (just a sample)

Cheers,

-Jerry-

Entry and Exit criteria discussion in a Forum - ofcourse me too..

More_Enjoy--
I am testing an web application. Any one can tell me what will be the entry and exist criteria for it.

Joe--
Entry Criteria : A set of decision-making guidelines used to determining whether a system under test is ready to move into, or enter, a particular phase of testing. Entry criteria tend to become more rigorous as the test phases progress. [R. Black]
Exit Criteria : A set of decision-making guidelines used to determining whether a system under test is ready to exit a particular phase of testing. When exit criteria are met, either the system under test moves on to the next test phase or the test project is considered complete. Exit criteria tend to become more rigorous as the test phases progress. [R. Black]

Jerryrajan (Me)--
Here comes the biggest problem of Software Testing. In my view specific definitions will not work for these cases. Because most of the people understand the testing terms in their own way and the very important thing is either they r in the right path or not.In my view the Entry Criteria is a collection of conditions / Objects that are very important to start testing; with out that if you start your testing that will be a failure.Exit Criteria is also collection of conditions / Objects that decides whether you can stop the testing or not.

Richard--
Which part of the definitions that Joe posted do not fulfill what you are saying? As I read them they match up.

Jerryrajan (Me)--
That is my own view Richard, not specifically for Joe.In simple words, "A set of decision-making guidelines" if someone got all guidelines and no resource to follow that.What are the entry criteria?If you r going to prepare a tour plan for your family using your car. What are the entry criteria?You, car, family, then the set of guidelines...correct me if I'm wrong.

Richard--
The guidelines will be specific per project, so the guidelines for deciding if you are going on your road trip would be: - Has the design documents been completed? (Tour plan written)- Are the resources available? (Car, people, luggage, holiday booked) If you can say yes, then you can decided to go live (go on the trip) So the entry criteria and exit criteria should include everything you need to go to the next stage of development, not some of it.

Jerryrajan (Me)--
Agreed.