utest Bug battle results are out

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Last day bug battle Q4 results of utest were out. and know what? I was there in the honored list. See the results in here.
December 9 2009 No Comments

Live -Release – Software Testing Exit Criteria

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What is exit Criteria of testing? Exit criteria of testing is a set of rules defined so that the product can come out of testing and be released. This can be some thing like. 1. No critical/show stopper bugs. 2. No major bugs. 3. No bugs that are visible to the customer. 4. Allowed limit of ...
November 25 2009 one Commented

What is Software Reliability?

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Software Reliability is the major component of Software Quality. More reliable software is, better is its Quality. Reliability of software tells us about the failure-free period of the software .It can also be denoted as the probability of performance of software over a given period. It is assumed that the ...
November 25 2009 No Comments

Sanity and Smoke tests

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There are difference between smoke testing and sanity testing here are four points to get insight into them. 1. Smoke testing was actually referred in hard ware industry where the machine or motor is started / operated and confirms that it doesn’t smoke or burn. Here in Software testing smoke testing ...
November 25 2009 No Comments

Software Quality Assurance

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Software Quality Assurance consists of means of monitoring the software engineering process and methods to evaluate the quality(- wikipedia). unlike software testing, SQA comprises of all the stages in software engineering, from software design, coding, Source code and versioning control, code reviews, change and configuration management and release management. ...
November 18 2009 No Comments

Acceptance testing Vs Accessibility testing

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Acceptance testing is a type of testing to determine whether to accept a software product or not(in end user/ Customer point of view). This is done by validating the software with a set of agreed acceptance criteria or requirement. Accessibility testing verifies that the product is usable even with people of ...
November 9 2009 No Comments

Bug and debug : Software Context

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[caption id="attachment_23" align="alignright" width="300" caption="A moth - First reported computer bug"][/caption] Common usage of Bug refers to an insect(hemiptra) or anthropod or a bacterium. The bug in the software context referes to the errors or flaws that happens in a program. This error may be due to the error in coding ...
November 9 2009 No Comments

What is Cyclomatic Complexity?

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Cyclomatic Complexity was developed in 1970's by Thomas J. McCabe, It is a software Metric to find out the number of decisions that can be taken in a piece of source code / software Cyclomatic Complexity(in control Flow diagram) = the number of edges - Number of nodes + 2x(no: of ...
November 3 2009 No Comments

Software as a Service (SaaS)

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The software is provided on demand, as a service. The provider issues the licence for the application to the users as an ondemand service. Advantages 1. Reuced investment. 2. less fee on licence 3. Easy maintance by the provider (as it is hosted in the providers host) 4. Faster releases and updates. 5. Scalable, Multi user ...
October 23 2009 No Comments

What is Computer Software

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Written programs, procedures or rules and its associated documentations pertaining to the operation of a computer system and that are stored and retreived from the read or write memory of the computer Types of software 1. System software 2. Programming Software 3. Application Software References Wordnetweb Wikipedia
October 21 2009 one Commented