Command to check version of softwares

 Hey Guys,

Recently i needed to check the versions of installed most of the time, so i thought to list down commands on finger tips.

• Java
• java -version
• nodeJS
• node -v
• npm -v
• newman
• newman -version
• install command : npm install -g newman
• Allure reports
• allure --version
• maven
• mvn -version
• Jenkin
• install command: java -jar Jenkins.war

Regards,

TJ

Smart way of Testing

Hey Folks,

Time to come up with some smart tools, which make your life easier.

1. To find the xpath from xml file : 

xpather.com 

2. To find the WSDL APIs: 

Install Google Chrome extension - wsdler

3. To test mobile app on emulator:

Install Google Chrome extension - Android online emulator

4. To do browser and excel automation without investing much time on commercial or freeware tool

Install Google Chrome extension - iMacros

Cheers,

TJ

Open source Tools

selenium (ref taken wikipedia)

Selenium is a portable framework for testingweb applications. Selenium provides a playback (formerly also recording) tool for authoring functional tests without the need to learn a test scripting language (Selenium IDE). It also provides a test domain-specific language (Selenese) to write tests in a number of popular programming languages, including C#, Groovy, Java, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and Scala. The tests can then run against most modern web browsers. Selenium deploys on Windows, Linux, and macOS platforms. It is open-source software, released under the Apache 2.0 license: web developers can download and use it without charge.

Jenkins ( reference by Google)
Jenkins is an open source automationtool written in Java with plugins built for Continuous Integration purpose.Jenkins is used to build and test your software projects continuously making it easier for developers to integrate changes to the project, and making it easier for users to obtain a fresh build

Maven (reference google)
Apache Maven provides support for managing the full lifecycle of a test project. Maven is used to define project structure, dependencies, build, and test management. Using pom.xml(Maven) you can configure dependencies needed for building testing and running code

Junit
JUnit is a unit testing framework for the Java programming language. JUnit has been important in the development of test-driven development, and is one of a family of unit testing frameworks which is collectively known as xUnit that originated with SUnit

TestNG
TestNG is a testing framework inspired from JUnit and NUnit but introducing some new functionalities that make it more powerful and easier to use, such as: Annotations. Run your tests in arbitrarily big thread pools with various policies available (all methods in their own thread, one thread per test class, etc...).TestNG is an open source automated testing framework; where NG means NextGeneration.

20 Essential Addons for Fire fox

Hey guys,

If you are using fire fox as your testing browser, then you must have these 20 essential firefox addons.I found this article, once I wondering for some information. Hope you will also like it.

http://www.testinggeek.com/twenty-essential-firefox-addons-for-testing

Thanks,
Trupti

Testing Cheat sheet & Tips

Hi Friends,

Please find below some tips on Testing with cheat sheet.

Test Heuristics Cheat Sheet by Elisabeth Hendrickson - This is one of the best cheat sheat that you could find for testing. 

Heuristic Test Strategy Model by James Bach - Again, a must read.

Heuristic Risk-Based Testing by James Bach - A must read for all testers.



Thanks,

Test your application in Different Browser

Hey Readers,

Many times you have to test your website look and feel in different browser with different version having different OS. Right? So, what are you doing? Here, I have come across very good link, which can help you in your work.

http://www.browsershots.org/

This site can give you different appearance of your web page in different browswer and you can test it. Hope this will help you.

Fake Name and Data Generator Tool

Hey,

Find from below link, you can generate Fake name and address details for the Test Data.
http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/

Thanks.

Firebug-Mozilla Add on for Developer n Tester

Hi All,

I found Firebug Add on as very useful in Testing. Using Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.

Also you can get the session details, URL information etc from it. By changing some value in labels and dropdown, you can find some issues in web page.

You can download it from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firebug/

Hope this will help you.

YSlow -Mozilla Add On for Performance Testing

Hey Folks,

When I was doing Web Application Testing, I come across very good Add On of Mozilla- YSLOW.

YSlow analyzes web pages and suggests ways to improve their performance based on a set of rules for high performance web pages. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the Firebug web development tool. YSlow grades web page based on one of three predefined ruleset or a user-defined ruleset. It offers suggestions for improving the page's performance, summarizes the page's components, displays statistics about the page, and provides tools for performance analysis, including Smush.it™ and JSLint.

You can download it from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/yslow/

Hope it will help you.

FireShot - Web page capturing Mozilla Add on

Hi Guys,

Mozilla Provides one very good Add On for capturing Entier Web Page or part of the webpage. Unlike other extensions, this plugin provides a set of editing and annotation tools, which let users quickly modify web captures and insert text annotations and graphical annotations. Such functionality will be especially useful for web designers, testers and content reviewers. From https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/fireshot/ link, you can download it.

Hope, this will help you.

About TFS - Team Foundation Server

What is TFS?

TFS or Team Foundation Server, a Microsoft product, provides version/source control, build management, project reporting, team/project web portals, project and task/defect tracking in a unified server.   Its focus is to improve collaboration in software development projects. 

There is some of the new terminology with TFS.

Team Project is a group of artifacts, including source code, reports, and documents, used by a team and its members to perform and track a related set of work.   A team project is like a project vob in IBM Rational ClearCase.   Artifacts can only belong to one and only one team project.  

Work Items define work activities needed to fix a bug, complete a project or support a customer scenario. In TFS, work activities are further defined. projects have six different work item types (Product Backlog Item, Bug, Sprint Backlog Item, Sprint, Impediment and Sprint Retrospective).   

Areas are used to divide team projects into smaller logical or functional parts.    

  

Iterations are used to define development phases or sprint/scrums during the team project’s lifecycles.      

Online Test Data generation

@Friends,

When I was working with web application testing, at that time, my manager came and told me that you have to prepare test data for our application. At that time, I was intermediate level tester in documentation part, so I was thinking, how I would do that and all. I searched lots of and at that time, I went through some good sites to generate test data. So I would like to share that information with you guys.

http://www.generatedata.com/#about

http://www.turbodata.ca/

Screen and Video Capturing Tools

Hi,

During testing you require to take screen shot of the bug. For that you can use Fire fox’s fireshot add on. You can also capture sequence of steps using video recording and show it to your dev team for what exactly happening. For that use ‘CamStudio’ video capturing tool and it’s free.

You can download video capturing tool from http://camstudio.org/

You can download screen capturing tool from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5648/?src=api

Test Multiple Browser versions in ONE machine!

Test Multiple Browser versions in ONE machine!

@Readers,

As a tester, we need to check our web application in different browser as well as in different versions. Here are some useful links, which I was come accorss during referring of UTest Forum and posted by one of the utest tester. It is very useful links and I would like to thank ‘Bernard’. Hope this will help you guys also.

Here's how you do it for each browser:

Multiple IEs on one machine:
http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE
http://labs.insert-title.com/Multiple-IEs-in-Windows_article795.aspx

Multiple FireFoxs on one Machine:
http://www.speedbreeze.com/2008/01/01/install-multiple-versions-of-firefox-on-windows-xp/
http://www.thesitewizard.com/webdesign/multiplebrowsers.shtml

Multiple FFs on Mac OSX:
http://ejohn.org/blog/sexy-firefox-3/

Multiple Google Chromes on one machine:
http://www.chromestyles.com/how-to-downgrade-and-use-multiple-versions-of-google-chrome/

Multiple versions of Opera on OSX:
http://weblog.timaltman.com/archive/2009/02/19/running-multiple-versions-opera-os-x

Multiple versions on Safari:
http://michelf.com/projects/multi-safari/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcNQhah3LDs

To view website in different browser, you can use http://browsershots.org/ this good site

Check or Test your Code using W3C validator

Check or Test your Code using W3C validator

Hey Folks,

Here, I would like to share link related to validation testing of Markup Validator (HTML,XHTML), Link checker validator, CSS Validator (style sheets).

http://www.w3.org/QA/Tools/

Using this validator, you should check each and every page of your website and verify quality of it. Your code should be w3c compatible for better quality. Sometimes, it is requirement from the client also.