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HP Quick Test Professional is a test automation tool, also known as QTP. It is used to automate functional, regression and smoke test cases. It is a very popular software testing tool and works on MS windows O/S, supports development technologies like Active X, Delphi, Java, .Net, Oracle, People Soft, Web services etc. This article presents some best practices while doing automation using QTP.
This article provides an article on how to create unit tests for a Visual C# class in a Windows Store app with Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows 8 and the Microsoft Unit Testing Framework.
Are you doing enough mobile testing? Most don’t, find out how you compare to other development and testing teams. XBOSoft surveyed global software development and software testing teams to understand mobile testing best practices. Use the results from their report to benchmark your own efforts. Below is an article based on the part of the report that covers what types of testing organizations do.
The SQL Server unit tests feature have been added in the December 2012 update of SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT). This article presents a detailed information on how to create an run unit tests in SQL Server.
In this blog post, Francois Zaninotto provides an detailed explanation on how to do functional testing for Node.js using the Mocha open source software testing framework. Mocha is a feature-rich JavaScript test framework running on node.js and the browser. Mocha tests run serially, allowing for flexible and accurate reporting, while mapping uncaught exceptions to the correct test cases.
How do you perform software testing in a continuous deployment environment where you have more than 10 releases a day? How can you be confident that the code running in production is still reliable? In this blog post, Andy Hume explains the software quality process the Guardian uses for continuous deployment mode.
A Reflection on Up-Front Testing As we were saying, up-front testing really isn’t testing at all. It is really up-front design through the analysis of our tests. Can we take this testing even further? When XP came out and suggested doing unit tests, many of us realized that if we combined a series of unit tests together, we could get the equivalent of automated acceptance testing.