Habits of Highly Effective Negative Testers

1) First check if all the tabs, menus and links are displaying proper pages
2) Put negative numbers into text fields
3) Put ridiculously long strings anywhere you can,
4) Paste inappropriate stuff - like binary files into text boxes
5) Open 13 instances of your app at once
6) Unplug the network or the power in the middle of an important flow
7) Change the system date and time
8) Install on a system way below the minimum specs
9) Use weird characters like ì È Ö
10) Run 10 other apps while you are testing
11) Delete crucial files
12) Don't close other applications before proceeding
13) Press submit button in all the forms for more than one time and see
the application response
14) Try to login with case sensitive passwords
15) Close your Browser while doing any uploading or submitting in the application
16) Test with low bandwidth networks
17) Change the parameter id’s displayed in the URL
18) View for Application icon in browser address bar
19) Check with the displayed error messages through out the application
20) Check whether the user can find on which page he is now (i-e) Application
have to highlight the current page

Tips to Capture “Unable to reproduce issues”

A Very challenge thing to a Software Tester is if he posted one critical issues by spending more time, then the developer will simply add comment as “Unable to reproduce”.
At this stage we have to fight with the developer by adding more screenshots or by conducting meetings to explain how to reproduce the issue.
Now a simple way comes to capture a defect in the application. Using this we can record how to reproduce the issue.

http://www.screentoaster.com/

1) Go to the above site and register as a new user
2) Login to the application and click Start Recording button
3) It will display Record button
4) Now go to your application and click “Alt+S”
5) Try your scenario to reproduce the issue
6) After reproducing the issue click “Alt+S” and go to screen toaster
7) Click stop recording
8) Now the video to reproduce your issue is ready to view

You can upload the video into screen toaster and you will get a URL for that
You can upload it in YouTube
You can download the video in “AVI” and “SWF” formats

Now attach the video or give the link while reporting the issue. Developers will not say “Unable to reproduce” after seeing this video.

For your reference I have attached a video to explain about how to record a video to capture an issue.
I have recorded the scenario in login page of “YouTube”

http://www.screentoaster.com/watch/stU0ldRkRIR1pYRVlcXF9RUFVX/how_to_record_a_video

“Happy Testing”

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.