Last month OWASP has released list of top 10 vulnerabilities for 2013. This list is a release candidate, but is more through with business level security testing. OWASP top 10 2013 list is as follows (Reference: www.owasp.org) Injection: Injection flaws, such as SQL, OS, and LDAP injection...
Same as any web or desktop application mobile application needs to be tested for functional and non-functional testing, but the way we test mobile application differs from a desktop or web application. If we look at black box functional testing of mobile application it needs...
Many times we do installation without changing default values and one of them is hostname in operating system. In this post easy steps provided to change the host name of UBUNTU based operating system. Step 1: edit hostname file. Logon as root or sudo user to edit...
Following are the standards as defined by IEEE for Software Testing and can be used for Quality Assurance or Quality Control of product. IEEE 829 A standard for the format of documents used in different stages of software testing. IEEE 1061 A methodology for establishing quality requirements, identifying, implementing,...
Acceptance tests are defined early in the process prior to the system development process in Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD). ATDD is basically an Agile system development life cycle approach Here acceptance tests will act as both detailed requirements and test cases at the same time,...
DEFINITION Software quality is the degree of conformance to explicit or implicit requirements and expectations. Definition by IEEE The degree to which a system, component, or process meets specified requirements. The degree to which a system, component, or process meets customer or user needs or expectations. Definition by ISTQB quality:...
Software test automation is in demand now days. Companies are moving to test automation to meet the dead lines of the product delivery. On daily requirement changing it is difficult for a companies to meet deliver the program on time. Automation helps them to reduce...
How to measure tester’s success is really a big challenge. Can tester’s ability be measured by number of defects logged? Answer is No, there are many other impacted areas which have more influence to measure tester’s success. Type of Defect: One needs to check the type of...
Following are some of the good tactics to become a good tester. Honesty: Honesty is the best policy as a being tester as well. Make sure that you are well informing developers about your plan to test application. Supportive: Developers many times seek helps from tester to fix issue...
Equivalence class partitioning or EQP is the technique of blackbox software testing method. In this technique tester separates data in two distinct type Valid data Invalid data If we look at input testing number of input data would be more and if we test application with all possible...