Test Automation

1. Introduction As a developer, you may have tested the functionality of your code hundreds of times during development. This is known as functional testing. Despite how familiar you are with your product, users will approach it differently and have many different use cases. That’s why you need Non-Functional Testing...

The 'Cloud Computing' technology has revolutionized the IT industry and it has something good to offer to the testing industry too. After Iaas, PaaS, and SaaS concepts, there is a new testing area called Testing as a Service (TaaS) that is making waves in recent times. Increasing IT costs,...

While manual testing and automated testing go hand in hand, one of the important benefits of automated testing is the assurance that the software is reliable even after updates. In addition, redundancy detection tests ensure that the integrity of the software is maintained while operational costs are optimized. The increasing usage...

With rapidly changing financial conditions, businesses face the tough challenge of optimizing resources to produce maximum results. Choosing the right automation tool for functional testing is one of the important tasks in doing so. The rising popularity and emerging technologies have brought in several testing tools into the market which...

HP Load Runner is the most popular tool from HP for performance, load and stress testing tasks. Using the LR, you can check different aspects of performance testing on a native system or a remote system. However, remote networks are always behind a firewall. When a firewall is used, it...

Table of Contents Essentials 1: Test Artefacts Repository Essentials 2: Error Handling and Recovery Essentials 3: Object Identification Method Essentials 4: Test Data Management Essentials 5: Result and Error Reporting Essentials 6: Function Libraries Repository As we discussed the types of QTP/UFT frameworks earlier in our post 'Traditional Framework Definitions'. In continuation of that, this...

HP Load Runner is a popular automated load and performance testing tool that emulates actual load to check the performance and behavior of a product. Load Runner comprises three important components namely Virtual User Generator (VuGen), Controller and Load Generator and Analysis. In fact, before we start discussing the 'common...

While QTP offers greater flexibility to automate testing procedures, the IDE lacks certain professional features. A QTP license is expensive as well. Test Design Studio 2.0 from Patterson Consulting augments QTP software by providing an intuitive IDE for QTP and WinRunner. While the automated testing performance is enhanced, the price...

Welcome to the second and final part of this series on 'Common Errors for QTP/UFT'! Earlier, we discussed about some of the 'Common QTP/UFT Installation Issues'. In this post however we shall be discussing some assorted issues which you may face, when using both QTP/UFT and 'JAVA' related tools and...

WATIR stands for 'Web Testing Application in Ruby'. It is an OLE-based testing application that automates your browser using Ruby libraries. Here are some of the pros and cons of Watir in brief at first glance. Functionality of Watir Watir takes advantage of the built-in OLE capabilities of Ruby to automate...

As the name suggests, this article focuses on the common problems faced during or after QTP/UFT installation. We shall also have a separate article dedicated to common problems owing to JAVA and QTP/UFT installation on the same machine and thereby arising conflicts or rather configuration issues. Normally, QTP gets installed...

With ever-growing malware, it is inevitable to protect your system with the right anti-virus solution. However, you have to constantly monitor the performance of your anti-virus program as well. You never know when your security program can be infected. Malware normally target the anti-virus program first. To know if your...