Friday, March 20, 2009

Useful Tips for Testing

In this article we can discuss about some useful tips that are used for software testing.
While testing a web application, there will be some clone sites available for that application.
First we need to check the functionality of the clone site to know more about the application. At that time we need to register in that clone site and then only we can able to proceed. But now a site is giving sample login details for all the famous sites. Link for the site is

http://www.bugmenot.com/

Using this site we can get sample login details for any popular sites and it will be more useful while testing.
For Ex: If you are going to study about the functionality of “YouTube”, but you don’t have login details for YouTube. At this time you can use this above site to get sample details for YouTube.
Check out some sample login details in the below link,

http://www.bugmenot.com/view/youtube.com

Using this logins you can enter into “YouTube” as a registered user.

Monday, March 16, 2009

Categories of Defect

While posting a defect we have to choose appropriate category for the defect.
If you are using any bug tracking tool, then it will be mandatory to select category for the defect while posting. Here we can see how many categories are available for a defect,

1) Functionality Issues
2) Logical Issues
3) Designing Issues
4) Flash Issues
5) Errors
6) Compatibility Issues
7) Usability Issues
8) User Interface Issues
9) Textual Errors
10)Documentation Issues
11) Validation Errors
12) Feature Additional
13) Suggestions
14) Query
15) Enhancements

If you know more categories of defects, kindly write down in comments section or send an e-mail to me.

Thursday, March 12, 2009

User Interface Testing

User Interface Testing:

User interface testing is defined as to test the interface between the application and the end user.
Here we will see how to test a simple form for user interface testing.



Steps for User Interface Testing:

1) Check with the spellings for all the labels
2) Check whether the Tab sequence is working properly in all the fields
3) Anyone option have to be selected as default in the Radio box
4) Able to select the options in the radio box by using right and left
arrows in the keyboard
5) Select option have to display as default in the combo box
6) It will not allow to enter a new option in the combo box
7) We can able to select the options in the list by using up and down
arrows in the keyboard
8) “ * “symbol have to display in all the mandatory fields
9) By clicking submit button without entering any texts, it have to
display error message in mandatory fields
10) By Clicking Cancel button it have to display the previous or home page
11) Font size should be proper as per the requirement
12) Font style should be proper as per the requirement
13) Spaces between the texts and the fields should be proper

If you know more about User Interface Testing, kindly write down in comments section or send an e-mail to me.