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SharePoint is a web application framework and platform developed by Microsoft. It integrates Intranet, content management and document management features. Efficient software testing of this platform requires some specific knowledge that will be discussed in this article with hints and tips.
It is often said that “it’s always the baker’s children who have no bread”. In this very interesting article, Ed Glas explains how Microsoft manage the load testing efforts for its Visual Studio Online tool based on a Cloud architecture.
Software testing starts when you write the code that will be tested. In these two articles, Shane Tomlinson discusses some anti-patterns that will make your JavaScript frontend code difficult to test. He explains how to detect these anti-patterns in your code and then shows how to refactor your JavaScript to be easier to read, to reuse and to test.
Big Data is a big topic in software development today. When it comes to practice, software testers may not yet fully understand what is exactly Big Data. A tester knows that you need a plan for testing it. Since most Big Data lacks a traditional structure, how does Big Data quality look like? And what the are most appropriate software testing tools? This article tries to answer these questions.
If unit testing has not always been adopted by software developers, this practice has become more mainstream with Agile approaches. Test-Driven Development and Continuous Integration are two technical approaches that require good unit testing. In this blog post, Maxime Lemaitre discusses attitudes that might make your unit testing fail.
Tom DeMarco wrote “You can’t control what you cannot measure”. If test automation has always been actively discussed, the returns of automated tests were usually described in a very general way. There have been so far very few methodologies that can provide you with unbiased assessment of your software testing automation process. This article proposes some of methods to define test automation key performance indicator (KPI).
What is a professional software tester? In this blog post, Huib Schoots explains that he cannot understand why testers who call themselves professionals know so little about software testing and do not study it. He tries to answer this question and explain the difference between professional testers and testers by profession.
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