This article explains about Differant steps in Life Cycle of Testing Process. in Each phase of the development process will have a specific input and a specific output. Once the project is confirmed to start, the phases of the development of project can be divided into the following phases: Software requirements phase. Software Design, Implementation...   Read Article.

Usability Engineering, an empirical science has quite a simple definition. It studies the human interaction and cognitive behavior of an individual with respect to performing as task. It could be as simple as a driving a vehicle or using a product. Users interaction in performing a task should be in sync with the workflow of the product. Usability Engineering...   Read Article.

This article explains about SDLC : Software Development Life Cycle which is also known as Classic Life Cycle Model or Linear Sequential Model. Author: Madhavi Bade, QA Analyst....   Read Article.

Fault Based Testing (Error Seeding) Mutation testing Techniques. Fault-based testing has long been used in software testing in the form of error seeding. In late 1970's, DeMillo et al. proposed the mutation testing method. This method has been developed into more sophisticated fault-based software testing theories and techniques. The focus of these...   Read Article.

A repository of Q-Patterns and the template for writing Q-Patterns....   Read Article.

Q-Patterns are a set of interrelated questions, grouped together.Understanding Q-Patterns by the help of an example...   Read Article.

An Improved Test Generation Algorithm for Pair-Wise Testing. Pair-wise or two-way interaction testing requires that for a given numbers of input parameters to the system,...   Read Article.

Software Testing is perhaps the least-understood and most critical component of the Software Development process in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) with roughly 40-45% cost associated with it. This article explores the importance of a Testing Engineer towards completion of any successful software project and throws some light on the hurdles...   Read Article.

Automatically create test designs and even test data based on all pairs of inputs • Review the tools available to support pair-wise testing and the limitations of those tools • Product testing using data-driven automation methods and tools...   Read Article.

Why Bother to Unit Test? This paper addresses a question often posed by developers who are new to the concept of thorough testing: Why bother to unit test? The question is answered by adopting the position of devil's advocate, presenting some of the common arguments made against unit testing, then proceeding to show how these arguments are worthless....   Read Article.

This section is a little different from some areas on the site but it fits in with the general theme of game testing that this section is about. What I want to do here is present a few examples that I have written for game testing and then show some specifics relative to those games in terms of test concerns...   Read Article.

There are many game development companies that strongly rely on playing to test a new game. The idea here is to get as many people as possible playing the game with the idea apparently being that this is some form of testing. To a certain extent it is a form of exploratory testing and, as such, has a great deal of merit. Other companies however much...   Read Article.

The people involved in the whole process of game design is a diverse group, often more so than in testing other software applications. As a test or quality practitioner, you may find yourself dealing with game producers, game designers, technical directors, programmers, publishers, artists, sound engineers, project managers, product coordinators, storyboarders,...   Read Article.

No, this is not an entire section devoted to any sort of game theory or something like that. What this is about is just what it sounds like: applying the techniques of testing to games. This topic often comes up a lot on various newsgroups or forum boards and there are not many resources for game testing. Yet, with that said, it is often the case that...   Read Article.

The purpose of this article is to give a fairly in-depth overview of the process of workload and/or resource characterization. This is done as part of a performance testing effort. While the details outlined here are just crafted examples and while variance is certainly possible, this gives a general justification at a formal level for two of the core...   Read Article.

This article highlights two aspects of performance modeling and testing that is often left out of the discussion and consideration when it comes to determining ways in which to simulate workloads. Burst Traffic...   Read Article.

This article highlights one handy measure of the human analysis of the generally automated performance simulations (tests). This speaks to how confident one is that the results being generated and presented to the relevant clients are accurate in terms of reflecting a potential workload....   Read Article.

This article was originally written by Leslie Segal, the founder and president of Testware Associates, Inc, a software testing services company based in Piscataway, NJ. I highly recommend you check out their site. This article is reprinted here with permission...   Read Article.

This article will detail some of the practical elements of a general load testing effort. This information is not tool-specific but is instead based on general elements of a good load test that can probably be applied to any tool. Note that I am indebted to two sources for this information. One is the excellent "Load Testing for eConfidence" booklet...   Read Article.

At its most basic level testing for performance applies anytime an application has to do any form of processing and this is true whether that processing is an internal formula (such as a Microsoft Excel sheet calculating a formula for a group of cells) or the interaction of a client with a server (such as a Web page making HTTP requests to a Web server...   Read Article.