Software / Technology Tips

The tree elements for our sample test plan would be like    Test Plan    Thread Group – Lets give Number of Threads to be ‘200’    HTTP Request – Lets hit with 200 users    Synchronizing Timer – Add this timer and enter ’50’ as the number of virtual users we want to send…

When we hit Enter on the URL, it doesn’t reload in IE. It just shows the data from cache. So we don’t get the exact view as  it should. In other browser it works fine, but in IE it doesn’t… When we test a web application, we test it on different web browsers like Mozilla,…

Apache is like Microsoft Word, it has a million options but you only need six. Nginx does those six things, and it does five of them 50 times faster than Apache. Apache is a process-based server that means each simultaneous connection requires a thread which experiences significant overhead and they degrade much faster on less…

All of us must have come across the fact that some set of codes are specific to a particular OS only and incompatible with others. In some instances they may also lead to system crashes. In such cases we need to track and identify the OS first and then proceed accordingly. So, here is how…

Sign-up & Login: This point seems like it is an obvious case, but as it acts as a door to the application, it is important that users have easy access to the application or else all the efforts of development would be of no use as when the application is not user friendly, it wont…

Smart Keywords An interesting recent addition to Firefox features and functionalities is the Smart Keywords feature. If you find yourself visiting the same site for different information, you can assign keywords to your search parameters and the site while using Firefox. With the help of these keywords you can go to the specific sections of a site with a…

WinJS.Utilities.eventMixin is basically meant for objects that don’t have associated UI elements (it can’t use the listener methods on the element in the DOM, so it has its own implementation of these methods). We can add WinJS.Utilities.eventMixin to any type we define. It contains WinJS.Utilities.eventMixin.addEventListener, WinJS.Utilities.eventMixin.removeEventListener and WinJS.Utilities.eventMixin.dispatchEvent functions that help us to raise and…

Important Test Cases for Cookies Testing of Web Applications: 1.Test whether your application is writing cookies or not. 2.For testing Privacy of Cookies ,Test that no personal or sensitive data is stored in the cookie. 3.If there is no other option than saving sensitive data in cookie , Test that data stored in cookie is…

As long as there would be softwares there would be defects in the software and as long as Testers keep finding defects they would have to report it in some form known as Bug Report/Defect Report. Aim to write a Bug report – is to get it fixed ! If Testers are not good at…

In one of my projects, I needed to dynamically add overlays to the Google map for group of users . Basically, overlays can be added to Google map using latitude/longitude coordinates. In my case the trick is I don’t have the latitude/longitude for the users, I have the user addresses entered from sign up process.…