Himani Sharma (Qa-Sr. Lead- QA)
Experience:8+ yrsHimani brings years of experience as a Quality Analyst, demonstrating expertise across the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), and Agile Methodology. Her skill set includes Release Planning, Risk Analysis, Test Planning, Estimation, and Reporting. Himani is proficient in Manual Testing for both web and mobile applications, Configuration Testing, as well as Load Testing using JMeter. She has successfully led teams in client projects. She is well-versed in bug reporting tools such as JIRA, Trello, Mantis, and Bugzilla. She has extensive experience in API Testing using Insomnia and Postman. Additionally, Himani is skilled in using debugging tools like Charles Proxy, as well as other tools like TestRail and Confluence. Her valuable contributions can be seen in client projects such as Pesamill, Belfrics, Coinzoom, ERM, Wethio, and HUMA.
Himani Sharma
(Sr. Lead- QA)
Himani brings years of experience as a Quality Analyst, demonstrating expertise across the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), and Agile Methodology. Her skill set includes Release Planning, Risk Analysis, Test Planning, Estimation, and Reporting. Himani is proficient in Manual Testing for both web and mobile applications, Configuration Testing, as well as Load Testing using JMeter. She has successfully led teams in client projects. She is well-versed in bug reporting tools such as JIRA, Trello, Mantis, and Bugzilla. She has extensive experience in API Testing using Insomnia and Postman. Additionally, Himani is skilled in using debugging tools like Charles Proxy, as well as other tools like TestRail and Confluence. Her valuable contributions can be seen in client projects such as Pesamill, Belfrics, Coinzoom, ERM, Wethio, and HUMA.
Languages
English
Bilingual
Skills
Usability Testing
Performance Testing
BA
Test Planning
Load Testing
Acceptance Testing
Manual Testing
Client Handling
Selenium with Java
Jira
Mobile Testing
Rest Assured
API Testing
QA
Selenium with Python
Database Testing
Automation Testing
Work
Experience /
Trainings / Internship
Sep 2017-Present
Senior Lead QA
Gurgaon, Sohna Road
Oodles Technologies
Gurgaon, Sohna Road
Sep 2017-Present
Education
2013-2016
Banasthali Vidyapith, Jaipur
Master Of Computer Application(M.C.A)-Computer Science
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A Guide to Blockchain Applications Testing Approach
Introduction:
The world nowadays is about virtual, computerized, and cryptographic forms of money in various shapes and sizes (read as rates and valuation individually) that vigorously depend on innovation. The most normally heard buzz is "Bitcoin" whose size and shape have been experiencing the rooftop.
In a general sense, Blockchain is straightforward yet things begin to appear to be unique once you begin getting deep. A clear basic approach to comprehend Blockchain is – "Block" – a real-time ledger record with encryption and timestamp; and "chain" – expanding list of records with a connection to the past block. A blockchain is in this way a decentralized database of blocks inside an enormous system of distributed ledger, which monitors size and state of the cryptocurrency alongside ongoing access for sharing, mining, and a stream of installments through a supply chain.
In case it gets entangled, here's a straightforward model–
John needs to send some cryptographic money to Susan.
John asks for the equivalent (here a block is made) through a wallet or other access methods.
This appeal is then communicated inside the big network (containing a decentralized record) for consent.
The network accepts the transaction (after the basic checks).
The affirmed transaction (block) gets attached in the "chain".
Susan gets the digital money credited in her wallet.
This arrangement of exercises isn't heavily influenced by an individual or an association. It is open, secure, opaque, and driven by everybody as everybody in the chain can see the related information of a block progressively. Just the proprietor of the block can get to alter the block through a one of a kind private key (which is with the proprietor only). All the activities in the process referenced above are reflected, refreshed, and synchronized in the whole network continuously.
Testing techniques are as follows:
1.Functional Testing: Functional testing assumes a vital job in blockchain testing as it assists with surveying the business conditions, procedures, and viability of use cases. A portion of the significant segments that tried as a piece of functional testing are:
a) Block Size: As expressed prior, a block contains a continuous record with encryption and timestamp. These are clusters of transactions which are affirmed and are then mutual on bitcoin's open ledger (which is the blockchain). There is a ton of discussion occurring over the size of the block as the more size/transaction gets connected to a block, the intricacy of testing goes up. Most of the miners couldn't want anything more than to have greater block sizes (for clear reasons) while the clients and designers then again are searching for better calculations to fit the substance in the characterized block size. Generally, blocks could convey up to 36MB (everyone) of transaction information however this before long presented dangers of spam and other assistance disavowal issues on the web. The block size was therefore decreased and fixed (obviously collectively) to 1 MB each. With evolving complexities, basic advancements and the capacity to have numerous transactions inside a solitary block are pushing this cutoff to greatest. The QA's are currently concentrating on numerous inquiries, for example, – imagine a scenario where the transaction size goes over 1MB, what tests ought to be thought of if there are various transactions in a block, what are the encryption rules related and a greater amount of such complex scenarios. Chain size – The chain size basically can be numerous blocks as the chain increases. QA's guarantee that chains are not broken at the hour of testing and complete record of each worth transaction that has happened is tested under potential situations.
b) Data transmission: Testing around information loss during transmission is done in this stage as the shared architecture of blockchain manages information encryption at source and decoding at the less than desirable end. Testing for transmission guarantees the least information loss, improved procedure work processes among peers, and gives a degree to distinguishing mix prospects.
c) Adding a Block: QA checksall the block that gets added to the chain post verification of each transaction. Since the chain can't be modified and the block which gets included can never be changed, testing at this crossroads is critical.
2.Integration Testing: This is significant from various frameworks being strong. Several environments can be used for the deployment of the systems running in equal and guaranteeing that few part interfaces converse with one another consistently gets significant. A point by point perspective on all the touchpoints and the Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are checked by the testing group to guarantee that fitting interfaces can be practiced during the approval stages.
3.Non-Functional (Performance) Testing: Non Functional testing in the blockchain is significant from the perspective of the number of transactions and transaction size being checked for the execution of a block or an application is prepared to be sent to creation. The testing group additionally centers around other significant and ward boundaries, for example, performance bottlenecks, network latency, the succession of transactions at each node, relying upon production environment, processing speed of transaction, customer/client, and system interface alongside the reactions required from the smart contracts. Since there could be numerous endpoints with compound testing, the start to finish situations is considered for complete performance which is a large portion of the cases prompts an automated performance testing for the complete scalability of the blockchain environment.
4.Non-functional (Security) Testing: The essential concentration here is to guarantee that blockchain applications are checked altogether to verify if they are vulnerable to attacks (virus, malicious, etc.), if the approval system is strong and if the confirmations are certified. Security testing likewise considers the other significant angles, for example, integrity, confidentiality, Consistency/Availability, and impacts. Security testing gets significant in case of hacking of identity layer which may prompt advances being uncovered. In progress, transactions can't be halted quickly henceforth security testing should be viable to reveal all identity layer hacks. A portion of different difficulties related to security testing incorporates – private keys, wallet signature techniques, secure hash, application dependencies, consensus algorithm, and so forth. A characterized check and approval approach assists in managing the greater part of such irregularities.
5.Application Programming Interface (API) Testing: This kind of testing reports about the correspondence and cooperation of applications that happen back and forth inside the system. QA's here approve the outer responses that the application gets, guarantees that the structure for the API demand is right and substantial. Inside the blockchain, there is likewise a comparative sort of innovation to APIs that permits a comparable methodology for testing APIs, called smart contracts. A portion of the well-known tools used in API testing is – Postman and SoapUI.
Conclusion:
With quick changes to the innovation suite, "specialized testing" is increasing greater notoriety. This sort of testing requires explicit abilities which are mentioned above in 5 points and a mix of specialized and area understanding. Having said that, the conventional or the most utilized basic testing methods still hold true to blockchain testing.
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Himani Sharma
24 Jul 2020
Importance of Issue Log in Project Management
Introduction:
Effective communication and coordination are two key aspects which are imperative for the success of any project/program.
Project teams across Oodles Technologies have raised concerns on the extent and effectiveness of communication between key project roles - including project team members, senior management, project sponsors or even clients.
Today there is no formal mechanism of raising or tracking project queries and sharing that information with others in the group. This is coupled with the fact that information is scattered across multiple mediums - Chat, Mail, Client call recordings, etc.
Query Log is the single source of truth - source for gathering and offering information with all team members. It is a common repository where all the queries/doubts are maintained for everyone in the team to refer to. Team members are able to document their queries in order to get them answered.
Typically the questions are organized by feature, release, sprint for the purpose of gathering, sampling, analyzing and interpreting information from respondents.
Objective:
The objective of this process is not to replace what we already have but to streamline the approach for seeking functional clarifications in a timely and structured manner. This would also enable us to document the requirements in a clear and concise manner, thereby making them manageable.
The main advantage of the Query Log is that it helps the team members in asking and collecting the appropriate information and making sure each question is specific and understandable, in sequential order.
Query Log helps in mapping answered queries back to a need identified by the team members.
This document defines the approach and guidelines for using the query log.
When the document is prepared:
The presence and utilization of this document are introduced to the project members over the kick-off meeting. This document is utilized by each and every member of the project to highlight pending issues and problems they have experienced.
Who engages in the planning process:
All individuals from the project write in the Issue log. The project manager maintains the Query log and designates singular issues that must be settled. The manager additionally ensures that the queries are concluded in time to their fulfillment. It is recommended to share the Query log document with the entire team so that every individual in the project can get the current status of the issue.
When is the document required:
A Query Log is a great tool to have in your project management during planning and implementation phases of the project. It is utilized every time there is an unforeseen event or issues that arise beyond the limit of the planned work. Additionally used as a supporting document for informing project members about ongoing and final changes.
Approach:
Queries from project team members to be maintained in a single (running) log. All stakeholders (Client, BA, Dev & QE) should meet formally every week at a designated time to review and discuss the queries. Formal meeting invites to be sent. The meeting will be recurring. Participation is MANDATORY.
Pre-Meeting Mindset:
Business flow related queries should be documented in the query log, along with the complete information at least one business day before the scheduled meeting.
Meeting Points:
During the meeting, the reporter will take and record the client’s verbal/discussed information for his / her inputs on the query.
Post Meeting Actions:
Post meeting, the reporter will document the inputs received during the meeting.
The client will review the comments added by the reporter and either accept them or update them as need be.
The query will follow the complete lifecycle from Open-Close status.
Once closed, the summary of the entire discussion will be documented as an additional comment on the Query Log where the base requirement is available.
Query log will be maintained on a weekly basis, with new queries being appended to the log.
NOTE: The above approach does NOT apply to a showstopper query. Any showstopper query should be raised on priority outside this process.
Reference of the Issue Log Template is given belowwhich can be modified as per the requirement:
Guidelines:
The list of Columns required for constructing the Query Log is described below:
1.Issue Number/Issue reference number (ID): This column is for identifying the query uniquely. It can include typical numbers or Combination of module name acronym with the numbers
Examples: 1 OR 00001
INV-01
2.Module Name: This column is for adding functionality in which context is not clear
Examples: Accounts
3.Sub-module: This column is for adding the feature in which context is not clear
Examples: Invoice
4.Query Summary: This section will contain a summarized view of the query
Examples: To Show Invoice History in Paid invoices
5.Query Type: This column is to show the query category, so the nature of the query can be clearly understood by the resolver
Workflow: This will include navigational and transactional questions that how a flow works
Examples: Current flow is that If the user logs in to the application, and tries to perform trading without completing the KYC process, he would see the KYC completion validation message.
Instead, can we take the user directly on the KYC screen rather than just showing the validation message?
Field Validations: This category includes query related to a specific field and its behavior
Examples: Name Field
As of now, we have only permitted alphabets in the name field with a maximum limit of 30 characters. Please let us know if you want alphanumeric data as well.
Enhancement: If some additional item can be added in ongoing functionality
Examples:
Can we add the Hide/Show Password icon in the Login Screen for better user experience?
Technical Description: This will include technical queries in the project
Resource: This category includes queries related to human resources, materials, and equipment in the project.
Third Party: Queries related to suppliers, vendors or any outside third party can be added in this category.
6.Query Description: This section will contain a detailed view of the query which helps query resolver to get a clear understanding of what has occurred, so they don't need to pursue individuals up and defer the reaction.
Examples: For a future perspective, the user may need to review the different changes made in an invoice
For this, we can record certain changes like change in status, payment and invoice item with time and the user name who changed the details and after then it can be shown below the invoice
7. Query Raiser: This column is for mentioning the person name raising the query. This individual is the person who initially recognized it, as they may demonstrate an asset later as far as addressing questions that progress in the direction of its goals.
Examples: Himani
8.Priority: This column is for mentioning the degree of query that how soon this should be resolved and the criteria for marking Priority is mentioned below:
High: When the user is completely blocked and is unable to take any further step on functionality which has to be deployed in this build only.Resolution required immediately
Medium: When the user is blocked somewhere in functionality but has a workaround available
Low: When the user is confused for some minor function and it can be taken in later stages
9.Query date: This column is for mentioning the date when the query is raised
Examples: 1 Apr 2019
10.Response/Resolution: This column is for summarized response documented by the team member, basis inputs from the client. User must enter the summarized response, not the complete chat or email responses.
11.Remarks or References for Query: if any reference point is given from the requirement doc or BUG id or any URL for comparing. Use this section to attach a document for reference as well.
12.Status: It's essential to note whether the issue is open, in progress, blocked or done. This is the place you'll monitor settling it.
This column is for mentioning the current status of the query, where
Open: When the query is raised but no action has yet been taken.
Answered: When a response for the query is made, but a person may not be satisfied by the response and need a discussion
Closed: This status is for the time when the person is completely satisfied with the response"
13. Query Resolver: Person name who resolved the query, as there may be the case when the query is resolved by the lead or Project Manager or by the BA
14.Resolution Date: Enter the date when the query is marked as closed
Conclusion:
To conclude, Query Log provides a safe and reliable interface to capture and record the inevitable project problems, whenever left unattended or unresolved, may crash the project and create obstacles with project deadlines. Therefore, by maintaining the query log, a team is able to monitor dependencies in the project for each issue and prioritize them easily, yet makes trust and fulfills your client that you're taking care of the project speedily and genuinely.
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Himani Sharma
30 Apr 2019
How to measure the success of your Agile Initiatives
Introduction:
Agile is known to be a procedure that extraordinarily improves an associations' ability and capacity in the regions of both programming advancement and testing. Appropriately executed, it gives a ton of business-basic advantages to associations. It helps associations effectively handle difficulties identified with advancement costs, consistency, and degree.
For what reason is Agile Testing approach suggested?
Agile appropriation to a great extent focusses on advancement groups,sprysystems, and the partnered specialized practices inside its procedure. Aside from this, a great measure of accentuation is laid on the apparatuses, particularly, test mechanization devices to accelerate the advancement and testingaction. One of the best features of Agile Testing is thecommunity-orientedequalization it brings for the testing and improvement groups.
There are various reasons and supporting variables that can approvethe appropriationof Agile practices. Be that as it may, a methodology can work for you in the event that you have a solid supporting technique. With regards to propelling Digital activities for organizations, it is especially basic to concentrate and invest some energy in the technique, as there isn't much extension to sit around idly and turn out badly in an aggressive shopper situation. Above all, Agile practices additionally give the adaptability to return and forward, and track the advancement viably. Business Agility is basic in the current 'computerized' setting.
According to theTenthAnnual State of Agile Report by VersionOne, following are a few insights disclosing the measures used to survey the accomplishment of Agile activities in associations:
The accompanying focuses quickly portray what a couple of these measures include:
1. On-time conveyance and Customer/client fulfillment: A legitimate, well idea appropriation of Agile programming advancement rehearses, helps to convey on time business-basic arrangements that are worked according to the particular requests of the customers. Lithe likewise gives a domain wherein criticism and sources of info can be taken at any stage, along these lines enhancing the arrangement at each progression. Add to it the diverse types of testing, for example, practical, execution, or convenience, and you will dependably have customers and clients who are incredibly happy with your administrations.
2. Nature of Software Application: Agile testing requires lumping a bigger bit of task/code into littler and progressively sensible parts. This enables designers to give a total spotlight on little parts of the code, which prompts upgrades in the general quality, vigor, and testing of the product application. Since Agile supports staged improvement cycles, it advances visit fabricates, which makes it important to direct more tests and audits for every emphasis. This thusly prompts early distinguishing proof of issues that can be settled (- at a lot lesser expense), along these lines enhancing the nature of the product.
3. Business esteem: Every association discusses 'Business esteem', however not very many extremely can characterize concerning what they mean by it. To be estimated precisely, business esteem requires characterizing explicit, quantifiable, feasible, practical and time-sensitive business destinations that are appropriately lined up with the systems being utilized. Accomplishing such objectives in this manner requires a consistent workplace of individuals, process, and innovation. An Agile-DevOps blend gives a domain where existing standards and practices work firmly to help in developing the business esteem. Our groups work in ideal agreement with the customers to comprehend their necessities and needs and in this manner give the best an incentive for their business.
4. Profitability: In an Agile-based process you have to guarantee that the general population chipping away at some random errand are individuals who are most appropriate to perform it. Also, Agile energizes an air where it is the resultant item that gets evaluated as opposed to individuals being reprimanded. The two practices whenever guaranteed will help increment the general efficiency of the group in general, and the association will prevail in its objectives.
5. Process enhancement: Agile, as a procedure, is a very group focussed methodology. A great deal of association's fizzle since they don't have appropriate procedures set up – regardless of whether advancement or testing of programming. Nimble procedures, even as ahead of schedule as in the initially made Agile proclamation, laid a ton of accentuation on making a group based culture. According to the equivalent, the nature of subsequent programming is the duty of the entire group as opposed to a solitary person. Consequently, the procedure must be with the end goal that advances a great deal of correspondence and shared duties. For instance, amid testing, any imperfection found by anybody at some random purpose of time must be imparted to the engineer quickly, with the goal that the equivalent might be settled.
Conclusion:
Broad information has been produced around Agile Testing and its advantages, and even worldwide undertakings have approved the developing advantages of embracing the training. Shorter test cycles, visit testing, quicker testing cycles, and snappier turnaround time has been probably the best features of Agile Testing. Indeed, even industry examiners and improvement groups have supported the training for the business esteem it brings for organizations.
To put it plainly, it is prescribed to utilize more up to date approaches for executing a fruitful test the board situation. Following the prescribed procedures recommended thus will help conquer practically a wide range of impediments.
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Himani Sharma
29 Jan 2019
Five prominent ways in which Agile Testing Works
Introduction
Agile Testing Methodology has been received by undertakings who require Continuous changes all through the product advancement and testing lifecycle. The training requests that improvement and testing exercises are led close by, which is diversely organized when contrasted with the Waterfall show. Thus, Agile Testing approach adopts a totally opposite strategy as against the conventional Testing approach.
Reference to Enterprise Agile Planning Tools, Gartner characterizes that, 'Venture lithe arranging (EAP) devices assist associations with making utilization of spry practices at scale to accomplish undertaking class dexterous advancement. This is accomplished by supporting practices that are business-result driven, client-driven, community-oriented and helpful, and in addition to persistent partner input.' This for all intents and purposes characterizes how Agile adopts a totally particular strategy all through the advancement cycle.Five Things Agile Testing approach does any other way are mentioned below:
1. The procedure of Development and Testing contrasts
No application can bear to remain static and stagnate in the current computerized development situation. Henceforth, there is a great deal of spotlight on Continuous Development, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Growth. This is in opposition to the customary routine with regards to Development, where Testing is led towards the end, which in a roundabout way impacts the application advancement and upkeep movement.
With the nonstop condition of advancement, the testing and improvement groups team up inside shorter cycles and convey the job that needs to be done. Thusly, the advancement procedure needs open channels of correspondence, exchanges, and trade of thoughts. The underlying line of announcing goes to the SCRUM group and later to the particular testing and improvement groups.
2.Can't envision Agile Testing usage without utilizing Tools
Testing and Development groups require devices to help the constant improvement and testing exercises. The instruments empower groups to robotize and affirm that the recently executed changes are not affected by the ongoing ones. This includes test information age instruments, white-box testing apparatuses, and information examination devices, which are essential in a nimble biological community. In addition, instruments empower groups to characterize testing targets and work towards it with backtracking offices. Robotization of exercises empowers groups to keep pace with the Sprints via mechanizing different highlights.
This encourages them to roll out successive improvements and execute the equivalent on a persistent premise. The devices further empower community-oriented working and commitments from all through the testing and improvement exercises.
3. Cross-useful groups with assorted abilities are required in an Agile methodology
As we have talked about, Agile Testing doesn't adopt the customary strategy, where there is clear division and various leveled movement of the undertakings. It needs coordinated effort overall groups and takes a parallel detailing structure. Henceforth, groups need to create cross-practical abilities, as there are unequivocal possibilities that jobs could get traded amid the advancement or testing process. Indeed, even the proposals identified with different perspectives inside the application can emerge out of colleagues with various capacities and jobs.
Ordinary stand-up gatherings and open channels of correspondence make the improvement procedure progressively community and creative for the application. The light-footed analyzer has a lot greater task to carry out in the more extensive set-up, which is to guarantee quality and have abilities over the general range of advancement.
4. Light-footed Testing can't work inside shut correspondence channels
Testing turns into the coupling power in an Agile situation, where they combine up with the engineers for dashes. In the process, each part is relied upon to remain responsive to steady changes and cycles, which could be represented by operational hiccups or customer desires, or related changes. Business Agility should be keptby guaranteeing responsiveness.
Indeed, even commitment towards the undertaking can emerge out of an edge of the group, which makes steady correspondence particularly fundamental as experiments, day by day measurements, or imperfection measurements. An Agile testing group must incorporate phenomenal communicators for differing circumstances.
5.Dexterous groups must guarantee fast input and resulting activity
One of the key explanations behind considering Agile is to guarantee business nimbleness as snappier input instrument and coming about activity for the task. With day by day stand-ups, structure discourses, and audits with client story confirmation, groups can produce snappier input. This diminishes the turnaround time that is required for actualizing the changes. Moreover, the group must be prepared and talented to take up these progressions on a ceaseless reason for execution.
Just when the progressions are executed ceaselessly, Agile Testing will have the capacity to convey steady an incentive for undertakings. This can be trying for associations and groups who have been working in a customary improvement situation. Subsequently, a legitimate retraining/preparing program is required before receiving Agile Testing rehearses.
Conclusion
'Readiness requires straightforwardness, and there is no real way to adjust in the event that you don't have the right data. Assuming, in any case, straightforwardness requires a person to be 'too fair' to the individual doing their audit, paying their reward and building their advancement plan, at that point, it is conceivable that the realities will dependably be conveyed with a specific 'constructive' perspective. This will result in an absence of straightforwardness which thusly will make squander and lessen viability. It is anything but difficult to state, "be transparent," however difficult to be that way when your next reward is seen to be in danger.'
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Himani Sharma
28 Dec 2018
Test Data Management Techniques That Empower Software Testing
Internet gaming applications get propelled with varieties and alterations to draw in gaming aficionados. Each gaming application or any product dispatch is upheld by thorough programming testing and quality confirmation. In any case, when renditions are checked it is very basic for groups to take a gander at the prior testing information and offer some kind of reparation or overhauls based on that test information. Test Data Management (TDM) is profoundly basic amid the testing lifecycle when the required informational collections are required for evaluating the application under test (AUT).
The quantum of information created while testing an application is monstrous, consequently, TDM limits the time spent on preparing the information and produce reports that increase the value of the general application/programming. It additionally empowers coordinated delicate information revelation, business arrangement, and approach driven information concealing for de-distinguishing proof and compelling usage of creation information inside the advancement biological community.
Give us a chance to examine four key TDM strategies that enable programming testing.
1. Investigating the Test Data
Information can be available in various structures and distinctive arrangements, which can be spread over different frameworks too. The particular groups need to look for the correct informational collections based on their necessities and the experiments. Finding the correct information in the required organization and inside the time imperatives is completely basic. This increases the requirement for a powerful test the executive's device that can manage end-to-end business necessities for testing an application.
It is obvious that physically finding information and recovering it is a monotonous errand and might cut down the productivity of the procedure. Thus, it is essential to bring into play test information the executives arrangement that guarantees compelling inclusion investigation and information perception. Investigating the informational indexes and breaking down them further is completely basic, which sets up a viable Test Data Management approach.
2.Validating your test information
In the present situation where associations are executing light-footed philosophies, the information can be sourced even from real clients. This information, for the most part, comes by means of the application, which is pursued as training for creating and investigating test information that gets utilized for leading experiments by QA groups. Henceforth, the test information must be secured against any rupture in the advancement procedure, where delicate individual information, for example, names, addresses, money related data, and contact points of interest must not get uncovered.
This test information can be additionally reproduced to create a genuine situation, which can additionally impact the final products. Genuine information is important for testing applications, which is sourced from creation databases and later covered for protecting the information. It is important that the test information is approved and the subsequent experiments give a genuine image of the creation condition when the application goes live.
Inevitably, the test information will figure out where the application breaks in the real (genuine world) set-up.
3.Building test information for Reusability
Reusability is key for guaranteeing cost-adequacy and boosting the testing endeavors. Test Data must be assembled and fragmented to make it more reusable. It ought to be open from a focal storehouse and the goal ought to be to utilize it however much as could be expected and enhance the estimation of work that has been finished.
By making the information reusable, the bottlenecks and issues inside the information are evacuated and it is completely formed. At last, no time is squandered in settling any concealed issues with the information. Informational collections get put away as reusable resources in the focal archive and are given to the individual groups to additionally utilize and approval. Thusly, the test information is accessible for building experiments inside no time and calm.
4. Automation can quicken the procedure
Test Data Management involves scripting, information covering, the information age, cloning, and provisioning. Robotization of every one of these exercises can turn out to be completely powerful. It won't just quicken the procedure, yet additionally, make it considerably more effective.
Amid the Data Management process, the test information gets connected to an explicit test, which can be sustained into a computerization apparatus that guarantees that the information is given in the normal configuration at whatever point required. Computerizing the procedure guarantees the nature of the test information amid the advancement and testing process.
Like relapse testing or any sort of repeating tests, even creation of test information can be mechanized. It helps in repeating huge movement and number of clients for an application to make a generation situation for testing. It enables spare to time in the more extended run, diminishes endeavors, and helps uncover any mistake with the information on a progressing premise. At last, the QA group would be in a superior position to streamline and approve its test information the board endeavors.
In Conclusion
Information is an empowering influence for any and each industry today. It helps in evaluating the normal, as well as some surprising elements. Test Data Management is basic, as it groups the required informational indexes for building the required test condition and lift programming quality affirmation. It is basic for testing an application's usefulness, execution, security, and each viewpoint that is essential for guaranteeing the coveted client encounter. TDM, subsequently, is central to the achievement of your information methodology and by and large testing system.
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Himani Sharma
29 Nov 2018
Quicken Your Application Delivery with Automated Testing
In the advanced scene of programming improvement, organizations are currently required to expand the speed of conveyance with the end goal to adapt to the firm requests of an extremely aggressive commercial center. Be that as it may, even with this emphasis on rapid conveyance, it is considerably more imperative to not trade off on quality.
Organizations are quickly adjusting spry testing hones to accelerate application conveyance to advertise, in light of the fact that following a reliable, ceaseless calendar empowers more continuous discharges and furthermore diminishes the time among ideation and consummation. A worldview change is then expected to guarantee Quality@Speed.
Changing Over From Manual To Automated Testing
Manual techniques are currently obsolete, given the tremendous weight on organizations to continually advance, create, and convey, or else chance being forgotten in the harsh elements. For relapse testing, a gigantic measure of exertion is required from countless, so with the end goal to minimize expenses and speed things one ought to truly consider the mechanization course. Close cooperation among test and dev groups can deal with numerous pointless testing forms and robotize them to keep the conveyance pipeline clear.
Test robotization actualized well ought to in a perfect world certification that the correct tests are executed at the correct intersections; this will guarantee that not exclusively does the product work at a specialized level, however, that it likewise satisfies the wants of the end buyer.
Actualizing and Executing Automation
A definitive goal of setting up a robotization program is to clear up the build-up of testing ventures via mechanizing repeating assignments. Test and dev groups would then both have a far clearer picture of application conduct. Hence unspent assets can be utilized somewhere else.
However, now, on the grounds that there is a wide range of testing instruments (security, execution, utilitarian, and so on), various groups need to utilize diverse devices as per their necessities. The variety of apparatuses, in any case, implies that the test outcomes won't be too very much coordinated. To deal with this potential issue, all the computerization must be incorporated and joined under a particular arrangement that precisely introduces the important outcomes.
In the wake of dissecting the information, you are then in a situation to choose whether the application is prepared for discharge or not. What's more, despite the fact that this official conclusion can likewise be robotized, it is imperative to assess the information from the bits of knowledge produced by the testing devices and be certain about giving that extreme endorsement for the fulfillment and conveyance of the application.
Measurements
Measurements are significant to test the wellbeing of the test itself. Aside from the nature of any application experiencing testing, the test computerization system should be broken down for irregularities, glitches, and provisos that may turn out to be dangerous down the line. These bits of knowledge can advise you about what may be changed in the general computerization process. Organizing measurements are hence essential to keeping up the vigor of your conveyance stream.
Conclusion
Manual techniques should be discarded in the present powerful field, however, the significance of setting aside some opportunity to dissect the information from testing instruments and measurements can't be exaggerated. Computerizing your whole testing condition does not ensure quality, but rather it makes it significantly less demanding to convey applications and updates for those applications consistently.
Prior to giving the green light, it's essential to total and assess the aftereffects of your testing programs, to get a feeling of the nature of your item.
What's more, at last, one ought to never take the wellbeing and viability of any computerization setup for conceded. Setting up the correct measurements can forestall extraordinary cerebral pains at a later stage, and can give priceless bits of knowledge about the state of your testing suite.
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Himani Sharma
31 Oct 2018
Cross Platform Mobile Test Automation Using Appium
Portable is quickly turning into the greatest medium to achieve the customers as the reception of cell phones is expanding. A Mobile App or Mobile web application is the stage which empowers you to get associated with your coveted gathering of people. Buyers utilize different diverse stages and gadgets to get to your portable applications. So in this period of multi-stage and mass selection, are your applications cross-stage? Are your applications tried for cross-stage? Is it accurate to say that you are conveying the best involvement to your clients?
Appium is the cross-stage answer for portable test mechanization.
Appium is an open source, cross-stage portable test mechanization device to robotize the testing for local, mixture and versatile web applications. Appium accompanies bolster for Android, iOS on genuine gadgets and also test systems and emulators. At center, Appium is only a HTTP server written in node.js. In working, it nearly acts same as Selenium which sees http demands from selenium customer libraries and it handles those solicitations in various routes relying on the stages.
Appium is a standout amongst other choices accessible today in the market and is broadly embraced by the associations for their versatile test computerization needs. Additionally with developing supporter base and more grounded network, it is getting simpler for undertakings to receive it. Appium gives you a chance to compose the tests in any dialect which is bolstered by Selenium, utilizing the WebDriver API. On the off chance that you are attempting to test the Andoird Apps at that point, Appium computerizes it utilizing the UIAutomator library, which is a piece of the Android SDK. So the expectation to learn and adapt is somewhat less demanding in the event that you have effectively utilized Selenium. The simplicity of testing both Android and iOS applications makes it a standout amongst other cross-stage instrument. You can run your test either on Emulators or on Real gadgets with Appium utilizing the WebDriver JSON Wire convention.
Appium begins an experiment on the gadget that generates a server and tunes in for proxied directions. On iOS, Appium intermediaries directions to a UIAutomation content running in instruments.
The center preferred standpoint which Appium offers is the capacity to compose test in your most loved dialect. So you can pick your IDE and your dialect, for example, Java, Objective-C, JavaScript, PHP, Python, Ruby, C#, Clojure, or Perl. The help for mechanization structures like JUnit and TestNG is likewise the one of the advantage which accompanies Appium.
In the event that you take a gander at the ebb and flow contenders for Appium, they are calabash-ios , Frank, UIAutomation, ios-driver, KeepitFunctional if testing iOS applications and calabash-android, UiAutomator, Monkeytalk, Robotium,and selendroid for Andoird Apps.
Be that as it may, Appium gives you the best answer for portable test robotization contrasted with every one of the ones recorded previously. The significant advantage being the capacity to test the same application you submit to commercial center. The greater part of alternate instruments require an additional operator to be assembled with the application code. So Appium gets an additional point over all the others.
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Himani Sharma
27 Sep 2018
How can Quality Engineering contribute to API Testing
What makes API Testing crucial?
APIs help to control and deal with the cooperations between different programming programs inside an association, particularly when the organization puts resources into programming to maintain the business. Programming interface testing is a sort of programming testing that tests the APIs for their abilities to coordinate, and confront the normal functionalities, execution parameters, and security guidelines, of course.
APIs can be misused to hack or test inside an association's product framework or an undertaking application. Thus, incorporation testing and testing the product on all grounds in completely business basic. It guarantees security principles, as well as affirms that the general framework will perform even under shifting burdens or system conditions.
What capacity can Quality Engineering add to API Testing?
Quality Engineering (QE) alludes to an arrangement of standards, conventions, and procedures that are being set to convey productivity and speed to the quality confirmation process. Just when forms are taken after, associations and groups would have the capacity to accomplish the normal effectiveness with the APIs. How about we take a gander at some key qualities that QE brings for API Testing.
1. Early Defect Detection
QE with set conventions and systems guarantees that testing and quality confirmation doesn't go toward the finish of the product improvement cycle. QA turns into a piece of the improvement procedure ideal from its beginning. This encourages groups to distinguish the deformities or any holes path ahead in the advancement cycle. Procedures, for example, DevOps and Shift-Left get robotization and pushes testing inside the advancement procedure.
Consequently, quality turns into a common duty, and early imperfection discovery cuts down the improving endeavors, which spares expenses and testing endeavors as well.
2. Presents Predictive approach
With Analytics, testing and improvement groups can anticipate the normal problems or hiccups that can happen with an application or a product. Besides, it evaluates the way the application will be utilized and what could be normal by the clients. APIs can be tried by these inductions to guarantee that they convey execution, as well as guarantee that they remain flexible in the customer situation.
3. Consolidate Business-driven approach
What's the purpose of building a fantastic application that doesn't fill the business need? Fusing the business objectives and thoughts while at the same time fabricating an application is totally basic for groups. QE guarantees that the procedures are set-up and intended to join the business necessities at each phase in the improvement procedure. Besides, it works in the quality remainder at each level, which makes it business-driven and also quality-driven.
4. Guarantees Continuous Testing for Continuous Integration
Programming interface Testing is basic, as it includes steady reconciliation of projects, codes, and improvement of the structure/design. Consequently, it is essential to check different projects for consistent coordination and consistent execution. QE acquires procedures and instruments for Automation of tests, which strengthens Continuous Testing to affirm Continuous Integration. Also, philosophies, for example, DevOps urge mechanization to guarantee quality alongside speed. It likewise accomplishes most extreme Test Coverage.
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Himani Sharma
31 Jul 2018
How Testers can make your business application more effective
These are some ways that we have caught to support the application testing process.
1. Interface with the clients
What could be superior to associating practically with the end clients of your application? Alongside designers, even analyzers hold the obligation to comprehend the use examples of an application by the end clients. For example, if it's a web based shopping application, the analyzers can center around similarity testing, security testing, and most fundamentally Performance testing. It will assist them with gauging the working of the application under different conditions. In the event that the analyzers can discover the holes along these lines, consider your application has discovered the correct course.
Imaging the experience that the client is required to get and utilizing the application the way the client may utilize is the most ideal situation that the analyzer can make.
2. Try not to test to succeed
Does this announcement sound right? Truly, it is completely in accordance with the goal to test better. When you test and the test brings about positive reaction; that could be a cheerful minute. Notwithstanding, it is prescribed to take a gander at negative result to make testing more productive. The goal of testing the application ought to be fundamentally to come up short the test. This will bring about thorough endeavors and assurance to determine the deformity. Analyzers and engineers will at last get profited with these fizzled endeavors, as it will bring about more data for them. The data can be chronicled and alluded later.
3. Take the Agile course
Today applications require additionally testing, as different situations and condition conditions must be considered while at the same time estimating the application's effectiveness. Henceforth, it is essential to keep the testing cycles shorter and visit. It will test more inside shorter ranges, where both testing and improvement groups can effectively work together and exchange duties also. This won't just bring speed, however guarantee nature of the application under test.
4. Powerlessness Assessment can't be missed
An application must be secure to guarantee its solidness in the purchaser condition. Weakness Assessment checks for holes inside an application, which spares it from getting hacked or traded off at any stage. It resembles diagnosing the application for any provisos. Particularly, in the current advanced situation, the analyzer can't pass up a great opportunity for this progression. It is a key advance in guaranteeing that the application doesn't separate in any conceivable way.
5. Grasp Test Automation
Computerization devices are being utilized to spare time and testing endeavors, as well as to convey more effectiveness to the testing movement. An analyzer needs to guarantee that the instrument/stage being considered for mechanization fits the necessity. Additionally, it is basic to comprehend the level of mechanization that ought to be considered for an application. It keeps a technique in locate while at the same time grasping test computerization. This will empower the groups to bring the normal productivity and even boost test scope for the application.
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Himani Sharma
31 Jul 2018
Considering DevOps For Microservices Testing
Microservices or Microservices designhas been thought-about as Associate in Nursing quality, especially, within the current part of Digital Transformation. As applications get advanced, Microservices design breaks down huge applications into smaller fragments that square measure far more manageable. Hence, rather than functioning on the applying as a full, groups work on elements and eventually integrate with language agnostic protocols. totally different groups work on smaller freelance services, sanctioning superior ascendable systems, inducement productivity, and ultimately quicker time to plug. whereas the design delivers effectively within the Application Development method, however, will DevOps add the price for testing Microservices architecture?
Why Microservices Architecture?
Complete a certain something, yet do it well!
It is most likely the philosophy running behind the idea of Microservices design. It helps support shopper expertise, brings transparency, and makes the business proposition far more ascendable. lightness being the norm of the day is required to confirm sleek delivery at speed. to boot, stronger security patches is additional and tested across the whole vary of the applying.
This helps businesses to remain competent and aware of market changes, augmenting the digital transformation efforts. It offers opportunities to even enhance service offerings by adding price to the prevailing service structure. let's say, it’s a mobile recreation application with a variety of stages that require a relentless revamp. rather than taking down the whole application at a time, groups will wrestle varied stages and equip the software system in bits.
Cloud Adoption has been a catalyst for the expansion of Microservices design market because it is required for chiefly functioning on enterprise business applications. Eventually, it's affected by numerous alternative segments love wearables, smartphones, connected devices, sensible home appliances, and connected software system development.
Technologies love AI, Robotics, and VR have gotten tested. These ideas want constant updates, however infractions, as they keep evolving. Microservices design is required to attach and act with alternative third-party services, REST API (Representational State Transfer program Interface), to deploy any services within the application’s evolving lifecycle.
Practically, it's a bunch of loosely coupled services with light-weight protocols. it's a supporting idea for organizations that require to additional grow their technology stack. It facilitates groups to mature with the progressing shopper situation. Hence, Microservices Testing could be a keyspace and it'd be fascinating to deal with it within the scenery of DevOps growth and edges it brings.
Why think about DevOps for Microservices Testing?
DevOps as Associate in Nursing approach and observe has been adding the price for enterprises, especially, with Continuous Testing and Continuous Development. the main target isn't simply on Speed, however conjointly on guaranteeing Quality. DevOps tools square measure deployed to effectively track varied quality metrics and project development. Transparency and communication square measure the ruling fundamentals of the observe. So, what’s the worth that we tend to see with DevOps in Microservices Testing?
1. Decentralization brings the price to the event method: The Microservices design is all regarding breaking down a monolithic application and centrifugal the event activity with separate groups. DevOps compliments this pattern by sanctioning the decentralization method and creating individual groups answerable for the end result.
This helps in reducing duplication of labor, overhead prices, and triggering additional innovation. Smaller groups will work their pace and management what can be and what ought to be delivered. Distributed efforts bring down the probabilities of failure, as answerability for delivering a high-quality software system is on every person.
2. Release services severally while not overall dependencies:As we are able to see, decentralization is that the norm of the hour, and it’s operating for enterprises because the want for speed doesn’t stop to exist. It conjointly means there's less dependency on the predominate factors to deliver your bit within the development cycle. this is often a pattern which will be adopted for delivering Enterprise Applications which will be intensive, wherever changes will happen at a small level while not impacting the flow.
In Conclusion:
Any method that demands decentralization should specialize in collaboration, communication, transparency, however with the segmental responsibility to deliver. DevOps involves parallel execution of individual tests, collation of take a look at knowledge and take a look at configuration activities. There would be the addition of recent take a look at cases and take a look at knowledge repository likewise.
Microservices design testing includes these activities, however, wants a supporting methodology. DevOps blends into all the necessities for MSA testing. It offers scope for innovation and experimentation in an exceeding situation wherever client expertise and delight is of utmost significance. It additional fosters growth and Digital Transformation.
Just that, Continuous Delivery pipelines ought to be in sleek motion. Moreover, this could foster innovation, and build a lot of required resilience with the applying and software system. Automation in testing cuts down the efforts and makes the method error-free.
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Himani Sharma
30 May 2018
Effective Usability Testing Strategies For Mobile And Web
In a world that has gone portable – alright, many individuals still utilize the Web – it is just evident that the applications and highlights on these brilliant gadgets are easy to understand and simple to utilize. The product or applications that are difficult to utilize, for the most part blur away soon into insensibility. It's simply a question of seconds before prospects choose whether or not a site or an application is working as per their impulses and likes. On the off chance that they are not usable per their necessities and requirements, the client proceeds onward to the following accessible alternative – and there are a huge number of them.
Ease of use thinks about, hence, wind up principal in picking up a novel point of view into the most widely recognized issues looked by clients. The reports at that point can be utilized to take the remedial activities so clients can be held for quite a while.
According to the ease of use testing background crosswise over numerous associations over the globe, here are a couple of perceptions and lessons learnt for improving the client experience and more agreeable.
1. Make your site/application exuberant and instinctive: If you can keep your site pleasantly planned, natural notwithstanding for a first time client, and sufficiently clear so clients can do what they have to without looking for help – you have picked up a client for quite a while.
2. Keep the Navigation straightforward: Having a multi-level route board isn't just befuddling, however it is additionally disappointing to locate the required alternative in a convoluted labyrinth of choices – and afterward in a matter of moments, the route vanishes. Try not to make it difficult for your clients to utilize the item. Make it simple for them by, say, showing all alternatives on the double.
3. Have Simple Menu Names and Proper Categorization: Unless your classifications are gathered appropriately under the most important gathering – you will keep on losing clients. The arrangement must be with the end goal that clients can recognize what they are searching for in seconds – instead of investing minutes endeavoring to deal with things. Concurred that not every person will dependably concur with the way you sort things – thus, simply endeavor to make it as pleasant to whatever number as could be allowed.
4. Give a Strong Search Support: Having a solid Search alternative is certainly a basic instrument to have in your kitty – on the off chance that your items are excessively confounded. In any case, the greater part of the hunt choices gave experience the ill effects of specific downsides, for example, confined word restrains, no help for extraordinary characters or hyphens, or result in out of nowhere or un-organized query items (- that have no connection at all with the item looked for). The last one particularly is the most bothering! To make this friendlier, run some arbitrary checks yourself of the best results of your site and check whether there's some significance. If not, endeavor to adjust the hunts and make it more clever.
5. Have a User Friendly Design: There are sure locales where regardless of whether there was a connection directly before you, you would not see it. Why? Since the content shading and configuration would look precisely like the rest of the content on the page. Keep joins underlined and ideally in an alternate shading.
6. Envision the item as a customer– not as yourself: If you can place yourself in the shows of your clients, attempt to see the difficulties that they may face, and after that endeavor to accomplish a comment their lives – you should make sure to produce some entirely fast ROIs.
7. Give a Standard Testing Environment: Having a lab for performing particular ease of use and execution tests make it helpful for versatile testing. Testing whether the applications work consistently over various gadgets utilizing differed OSs is a major cerebral pain – that should be left to be taken care of by experienced and talented experts. Having a continuous WiFi association includes to the analyzers having the capacity to center around the typical interface issues.
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Himani Sharma
30 May 2018
Differences Between Vulnerability Assessment And Penetration Testing
The theme 'penetration testing versus vulnerability assessment" regularly raises warmed talks as far as which is better, as well as concerning the distinction between the importance of this product security estimation approaches.
How about we take these two issues and make them clear.
How would they contrast?
The reasons for these two security testing writes are at first unique. While vulnerability evaluation intends to gather however many risky security issues as could reasonably be expected in the given item, penetration testing means to attempt the framework by playing out some characterized activities. One can regularly hear a conclusion that the primary distinction between these is essentially nearness or nonappearance of misuse. In any case, I'd rather proposed that the line between the two techniques was attracted not terms of abuse, but rather as far as objective. Where the objective of weakness evaluation isn't that distinct and the method is fairly exploratory, the other one generally has the ultimate objective which characterizes the accomplishment of each entrance test.
Which is better?
As far soon as the significance and distinction of the two testing write are cleared up, the following inquiry emerging is "When should one utilize one and the other?" and, most likely, "Which one is the best to offer the clients?" Here you may decently anticipate that I will state that everything relies upon the client and his venture. While this appears to be sensible, most lean toward completing a weakness evaluation on the undertaking. The reason ordinarily lies in the specialized development of the client, and powerlessness appraisal is the thing that appears to be ideal for clients more often than not.
How about we quickly diagram when these two kinds of testing are utilized and why for you to have the capacity to settle on the reasonable one yourself:
Vulnerability assessment needs just low to medium client development since it's connected when the client speculates his item has security issues and needs assistance to recognize them. The focal point of such security testing will be on expansiveness as its objective will aggregate a rundown of organized vulnerabilities in the given condition so that to make an establishment for later remediation.
Penetration testing, despite what might be expected, requires the client to be profoundly developed as far as understanding his task and security issues. This sort of security testing is connected when the client is certain of his framework's safety efforts, yet needs to demonstrate their effectiveness by testing. The emphasis here is on profundity since the objective of a state test is to decide whether the safe framework withstands a specific activity of a propelled aggressor.
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Himani Sharma
30 Apr 2018
Five Cost Efficient Tools For Penetration Testing
At the point when your item is prepared for dispatch, you'll need to ensure for one final time that it is as secure as could reasonably be expected and the wellbeing of its profitable information won't be traded off. Infiltration programming testing is called to do only that by imitating the programmer's activities to recognize potential item vulnerabilities. A more itemized clarification of this sort of testing programming can be found in our past article on infiltration testing.
Be that as it may, the same number of feel this kind of testing isn't the key one and decline to shoulder extra costs from the financial plan, we offer you a rundown of five extraordinary 'pentesting instruments' that are accessible for nothing.
1.Metasploit
This open source stage is utilized for creating or testing abuses and accessible both for Unix and Windows. This is by a wide margin a further developed apparatus contrasted with the others here as it requires all the more programming aptitudes to utilize. Its principle leverage is that particular adventures are completely exhibited as existing instead of just noted as potential vulnerabilities. The stage runs shellcode, remote shells, and payloads to enable you to enter the objective.
2.Nessus
This is a free powerlessness scanner impeccably keeping up its precision, speed, and profundity while checking substantial helplessness libraries. With more than 30,000 accessible modules with programmed refreshes, Nessus 5 is among the speediest scanners around.
3.Nikto
This is an open source instrument intended for security checking of web servers. It is presently ready to check for in excess of 3500 potential vulnerabilities and gives custom output alternatives by powerlessness classes. Adjustable and consistent testing choices, have choice from the Nmap yield, and numerous different highlights make it an extremely incredible apparatus.
4.Nmap
A multi-reason apparatus, Nmap is utilized for port mapping, organize filtering, and application and OS revelation. On this rundown, this one is without a doubt the least demanding and most adaptable of all. Nmap exceeds expectations at whatever point you have to recognize and distinguish all hosts of a substantial system, port guide, or find every one of the applications running on a host.
5.Wireshark
This device is a flawless alternative with regards to sniffing or catching system activity, or inspecting sessions and conventions top to bottom. This is a crucial apparatus while catching Ethernet movement, looking at, and decoding particular conventions. Wireshark keeps running on an incredible scope of stages, and backings numerous catch document positions.
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Himani Sharma
30 Apr 2018
Strategies To Keep In Mind While Performing Mobile Testing
In the amazingly aggressive universe of portable applications, undertakings try to discharge applications that capacity well on various gadgets, interior equipment setups, resolutions, working frameworks, and crosswise over various versatile systems. In this manner testing an application amid its improvement cycle is significant to its prosperity.
Since a solitary perfect testing methodology doesn't exist, as every one of a kind testing technique has its own particular confinements regarding costs, testing quality, and general time is taken. It has perpetually turned out to be imperative to embrace a testing methodology that includes a wide range of testing techniques.
1. Gadget Testing
There exists a lot of cell phones with an alternate kind of screen sizes and working frameworks. Expressing a portion of the insights, there exist around 24,000 gadgets which have distinctive screen sizes however a similar OS, i.e., Android. In any association, it is by difficult to make an application enhanced for these gadgets. Hence, an association should set a rundown of the gadgets it will bolster. This makes the QA take the guidelines and guarantee that the application underpins the majority of the recorded gadgets.
2. OS Version Testing and Support
Extensively considering two OS accessible for cell phones in the market are iOS and Android.
Testing an application would have been simple if there hadn't been various adaptations of working frameworks. When contrasted with iOS, Android is leading the pack in discharging new forms of their working framework. To test an application for every one of these renditions is a bad dream for a large portion of the QA group. For any association, it's very vital to have a testing approach which plainly expresses all adaptations of these working frameworks are bolstered. This encourages the QA group to test every usefulness in bolstered stages.
3. System Connectivity Testing
Diverse bearers give different sorts of system associations which incorporate a scope of 1G to LTE. For an effective portable application testing, an analyzer should test the application on all the system speeds accessible extensively thinking about 4G, 3G and LTE versatile correspondence models. Additionally, the conduct of any application on wifi can be not the same as when utilized on 4G. An analyzer ought to likewise test how an application will perform when there is a sudden change of a system from 4G to 1G. Cases like what a client should do if there should be an occurrence of loss of network ought to likewise be secured.
4. Interfere with Conditions
The inquiry that emerges is what precisely is interfere with conditions? Intrude on conditions is alluded to any condition when there's an approaching call or SMS while you're utilizing the application that should be tried. This being a noteworthy part of testing, numerous associations neglect to think about this while setting their testing gauges. For the most part, an application loses its in-advance exercises because of interfering with conditions. Hence, it's the analyzer's obligation to report this conduct to the business group for an appropriate method to manage it.
5. Security Testing
Security testing is the most significant piece of the versatile application testing, particularly as the details are shocking. While performing security testing, the accompanying must be incorporated :
Information stream defenselessness – Testers should check the stream of information and where the information is put away.
Check for information spillage – Testers should ensure that the information isn't split between logs.
Ensure all the web information is secured – The web information which is going and originating from application to server-side ought to be ensured. HTTPS is utilized for information encryption for most applications so the analyzer ought to guarantee that confirmed pages are served over HTTPS.
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Himani Sharma
30 Mar 2018
List Of Ways To Deal With Jmeter Out Of Memory Exceptions In Jmeter
JMeter Out Of Memory exceptions happen during a heavy load test, it can also be a message like "Unable to create new native Thread".
Here is the list of actionable fixes that I found useful to get rid of memory issues like Java Heap Space exceptions while running JMeter.
1. Utilize Java JDK NOT JRE
As a matter, of course, the JVM is arranged to toss Out Of Memory mistakes if it spends over 98% of the aggregate time doing Garbage Collection and when after the Garbage Collection just under 2% of the store is recovered.The motivation to run with a JDK is that it contains a server improved compiler which is better at advancing Java code execution, therefore JMeter Execution.
2. Increment Java Heap Size
JMeter is a Java program which depends on the Java Virtual Machine. The JVM can be tuned to build the dispensed RAM. At the point when a Java program requires reasonable a measure of memory, as JMeter, it's normal to build the assigned RAM.
As a matter of course, JMeter can utilize something like 512MB of RAM, you may increment or diminishing it to fit your framework's memory accessibility.
This is the base load measure: HEAP="- Xms512m - Xmx512m"
This is a truly moderate setting to guarantee JMeter can run even on modest PCs. Give me a chance to clarify the settings:
- Xms512m: advises the JVM to allotted no less than 512MB of RAM,
- Xmx512m: advises the JVM allotted at most 512MB of RAM.
For instance, on the off chance that you need to distribute in the vicinity of 1024MB and 2048MB of RAM to the JVM, utilize the accompanying settings by altering your JMeter startup content:
HEAP="- Xms1024m - Xmx2048m"in JMeter.sh or jmeter.bat launch scripts.
3. Overhaul Java and JMeter
Make a point to utilize the latest adaptations of: Java, Jmeter, Jmeter Plugins, Operating System.
As a rule, abstain from utilizing old programming variants else you may experience bugs that have been settled in most recent forms.
4. JMeter Non-Gui Mode
The user can execute JMeter test from the commandline without propelling the UI (which expends a great deal of memory):
By using the Command: JMeter - n - t scenario.JMX
where,
- n: runs JMeter in non-GUI mode, and
- t: indicates the way to source .jmx content to run.
5. Impair Listeners
A significant number of the JMeter audience members devour a ton of memory since they keep every one of the outcomes in the RAM. You should handicap or expel them all before running a heap test to abstain from putting weight on the JVM with pointless outcomes kept in primary memory.
6. Keep away from Fancy Extractors
Jason Path Extractor or XPath Extractor ought to be kept away from. They devour a ton of memory since they have to change over the reaction body into a mind-boggling information structure in memory.
7. Utilize Few Assertions
Statements increment CPU and memory use since they typically need to process the reaction information sent by the server.
8. Utilize The Right Script Engine
Go for JSR223 + Groovy scripting. It's the quickest scripting motor in JMeter. BeanShell, Javascript, and others ought to stay away from in light of the fact that the execution punishment can be immensely contrasted with Groovy.
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Himani Sharma
28 Feb 2018
Performance Testing Fallacies
Performance testing has to a great extent developed over the previous decade to help the all the more quick paced needs of deft situations. While testing techniques of Agile are ending up more critical, groups should in any case guarantee that they're concentrating on particular territories like execution and checking that the product satisfies client desires. In any case, there are various misguided judgments in execution testing that groups should pay special mind to. We should investigate performance testing false notions that could be influencing your testing procedures:
1. The Planning Fallacy
We regularly imagine that execution tests just happen toward the finish of an advancement venture, just before rollout, on the off chance that we have to do some adjusting to ensure everything goes easily. That is the reason execution testing is viewed as an answer for execution issues. Be that as it may, truth be told, it's tied in with recognizing and envisioning issues so as to begin taking a shot at their answers. The issue is that when we consider execution testing just toward the finish of the task, when we experience intense issues, by then their answers accompany higher expenses.
Along these lines, to minimize expenses, it's best to think about execution from the beginning times of improvement. We should do transitional tests all through the advancement lifecycle with a specific end goal to identify imperative issues that emerge before they winding wild.
2. The "Simply Add More Hardware" Fallacy
It's common to hear that execution testing isn't important in light of the fact that any issues identified might be comprehended by essentially including more equipment, for example, extra servers, memory, and so on. This supposition is very mixed up. Consider the instance of a memory spill. On the off chance that we include more memory, we may keep the server dynamic for five hours rather than three, however, we won't take care of the issue. It likewise doesn't bode well to expand framework costs when we can be more viable with what we as of now have and lessen settled expenses over the long haul.
To put it plainly, including more equipment isn't a decent substitute for execution testing. Rather, we ought to discover the foundation of the issue and applying a genuine arrangement rather than a fix.
3. The Testing Environment Fallacy
There is another equipment deception stating that we can perform tests in a situation that does not take after the genuine creation condition—for instance, testing for a customer on Windows and expecting that the application will work similarly also for another customer who will introduce the framework in Linux. We should make a point to test in a situation as like the creation condition as conceivable in light of the fact that there are numerous components from the condition that influence a framework's execution, for example, equipment segments, working framework settings, and whatever remains of the applications executed in the meantime.
Indeed, even the database is a critical part of the execution testing condition. Some think execution tests might be done with a test database, however, then issues with SQL inquiries may go unnoticed. Thus, on the off chance that we have a database with a huge number of records, the SQL reaction time won't be enhanced and would most likely bring along colossal issues.
4. The Comparison Fallacy
It's one thing to expect that you can utilize an execution testing condition that does not look like the genuine creation condition, but rather it's another to make decisions around one condition in light of another. We ought to never extrapolate any outcomes. For example, you can't copy servers to copy speed. Neither would you be able to just build memory to expand the quantity of clients upheld. By and large, there are various components applying an effect on the general execution. The chain breaks at the weakest connection, so on the off chance that we enhance a few connections, the rest will keep on being similarly delicate—as such, on the off chance that we redress a portion of the components that confine a framework's execution, at that point the bottleneck will move along to another component. The best way to ensure everything is working as it ought to will be to continue testing execution.
Extrapolating the other way isn't substantial, either. Envision the instance of a customer with a thousand clients executing with an AS/400 working flawlessly. We can't consider the base equipment important to offer help for ten clients. We should check it through testing.
5. The Neighbor Fallacy
We tend to believe that applications being used by others without any confusions won't cause us any issues when we utilize them ourselves. For what reason would it be advisable for us to complete execution tests, when our neighbor has been utilizing a similar item and it works for them fine and dandy?
Notwithstanding when the framework works with a given heap of clients, we should tune it, modify the stage, guarantee the right setup of the different parts, and consider different variables that will affect our clients with that framework.
6. The Overconfidence Fallacy
There is a conviction that the frameworks where we will experience issues are just created by developers who consistently commit errors and who need understanding, in addition to other things. A few chiefs think their designers are altogether super experienced, so there is no compelling reason to test execution, particularly on the off chance that they have grown huge scale frameworks before with no issues.
To conclude, performance testing is a noteworthy piece of the product advancement exertion and ought to be dealt with in that capacity. In any case, groups may receive paradoxes like presumptuousness, including equipment and expect that a nonappearance of mistakes implies that the product is prepared to dispatch. By understanding these misinterpretations, QA administration can keep away from these traps and support their execution testing methodologies.
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Himani Sharma
28 Feb 2018
A Thorough Guide To What is Cloud Testing
Cloud testing is a type of testing in which applications utilize distributed computing condition and cloud foundation. The cloud framework incorporates equipment and transfer speed that intently reenacts true conditions and parameters. Testing a Cloud incorporates accessibility, security, execution, interoperability, catastrophe recuperation, and multi-tenure testing. Testing is performed in three unmistakable territories of cloud that incorporates framework, stage, and administration. Associations and ventures confront a considerable measure of issues with testing, for example, constrained test spending plan, an absence of meeting the recommended timetables notwithstanding high expenses per test. Cloud testing encourages administrations to customers in view of the web and conveys administrations like assets, programming, and data by utilizing distributed computing assets and models to empower all parts of testing in an exceptionally financially savvy way. The point of cloud testing is to guarantee excellent administration conveyance and help to maintain a strategic distance from information blackouts by containing testing inside, outside, or either, in a data center.
A commonplace cloud condition handles high increments in the stack by progressively scaling to more physical assets in light of the need. It keeps running on a virtualized equipment and a product stack that can be moved and repeated between machines as required. It gives API's to incorporation and administration and is worked to be exceedingly adaptable continuously. Be that as it may, to effectively give cloud administrations and sharing of assets, the cloud must be tried. Cloud testing will be trying cloud-based applications as an administrator and IT associations that arrangement with testing items and administrations make utilization of cloud-based authorizing models for customers. There are some cloud testing challenges like security challenge, layered testing challenge, adaptability issues, an absence of general principles, direction, and constrained foundation that should be dealt with while cloud testing.
Advantages of Cloud Testing
With associations embracing cloud administrations, they certainly get the advantage of speedy access to information at whatever point required without encountering any undue postponements. It additionally causes clients' information to be moved to huge server farms, which are remotely situated, with the client having the capacity to get to the same whenever required. Further, it decreases the coordinate cost of hardware support and administration and accomplishes quick ROI on application resources and offers about speedier time for sale to the public.
Fiasco Recovery in Cloud: Today, there is another idea of cloud that depends on virtualization wherein the whole server including the working framework, applications, patches, and information are epitomized into a solitary programming group or virtual server. This virtual server further can be moved down to an off-site server farm inside no time. Since it is a virtual server with no requirement for equipment, information can be securely exchanged starting with one server farm then onto the next without the weight of re-stacking to the server. This can significantly diminish recuperation times contrasted with ordinary (non-virtualized) calamity recuperation approach as the server should be stacked with the OS and later should be designed. With distributed computing, catastrophe recuperation turns out to be more financially savvy with speedier recuperation times.
Multi-Tenancy in SaaS Cloud Computing: In distributed computing, multi-tenure speaks to a Software as a Service (SaaS) and the merchant gives a solitary rendition of its product for every one of its clients. Undermulti-occupancy engineering, a solitary case of a product application serves numerous clients wherein every client is an inhabitant. Under distributed computing, the multi-tenure design has widened because of new administration models that exploit virtualization and remote access. The SaaS supplier can additionally run one occurrence of its application on one occasion of a database and give web access to numerous clients and each occupant's information is segregated and stays imperceptible to different inhabitants. It brings down the expenses through economies of scale.
Cloud Testing Models
There are 3 models named as:-
1. Infrastructure as a Service: IaaS is a commonplace stage virtualization condition as an administration. It can be spoken to as a completely outsourced benefit wherein customer buys servers, programming, server farm space, and other system hardware.
2. Software as a Service (SaaS): for SaaS, the cloud supplier offers finish applications over the web and administration is paid on a unit premise with the Pay As You Go display.
3. Platform as a Service (PaaS): the PaaS demonstrate, the administration encourages to push venture engineers to rapidly compose and test client or representative confronting web applications.
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Himani Sharma
30 Jan 2018
Endurance Testing in Software Testing
Definition : Endurance testing alludes to tests normally done to see if an application can withstand the preparing load it is relied upon to need to persist for a long period. This sort of testing is performed at the last phase of execution run cycle. This makes endurance testing vary from load testing, which as a rule end in two or three hours or somewhere in the vicinity. Endurance Testing is a kind of performance testing and a sub sort of Load Testing which is otherwise called Capacity/Soak Testing.
Why Endurance Testing is essential?
While stress testing takes the tried framework as far as possible, Endurance testing takes the application as far as possible over time. For example, the most typical issues - memory spills, database server use, and lethargic frameworks - happens when software keeps running for an extended timeframe. On the off chance that you avoid the endurance tests, yourodds of identifyingsuch deformities before development are very low.
Issues foud during Endurance testing -
1) Genuine memory release that would in the end result in application and operating system crash
2) Inability to closeassociations between the layers of the frameworks could slow down a few or all modules of a framework
3) Inability to close database associations under a few conditions maybring about a total crash
4) Continuous corruption of responsetime of the framework as the application turns out to be less proficient because of delayed test.
Points of interest of Endurance testing :
1) It helps in deciding how much workload can the system under load can handle
2) Gives exact information thatclient can use to approve and upgrade their foundation needs
3) Distinguishes execution issues that may happen after a framework has been running at an abnormal state for longer timeframe
4) Common issues are distinguished in littler focused on execution tests, which implies it guarantees application stay accessible notwithstanding when there is tremendous load in a limited ability to focus.
5) The endurance testing is likewise used to check whether there is any execution debasement after a long stretch of execution
Disservices of Endurance Testing:
1) It is frequently difficult to characterize how much stress merits applying.
2) Endurance Testing could cause application as well as system disappointments that may bring about noteworthy disturbance if Test Environment are not confined.
3) Perpetual Data misfortune or defilement can happen by finished focusing on the framework.
4) Asset use stays high after the pressure is expelled.
5) Some application parts neglect to react.
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Himani Sharma
04 Jan 2018
Brief Introduction To Testing As A Service
Testing-as-a-Service (TaaS) is the most recent development in the product testing space which is quickly picking up footing in the market as a cloud-based conveyance display. TaaS is considered as a practical testing model in the spry advancement and DevOps approaches since it accomplishes business goals and development with the coveted speed. TaaS demonstrate fills in as a unit-based testing in a virtual domain giving.Testing as a Service (TaaS) is a cloud-based stage for conveying computerized application testing administrations.
Beneath recorded a couple of the significant advantages of actualizing TaaS demonstrate in software testing :
1) The significant favorable position of actualizing TaaS demonstrate is diminished expenses. Since the whole framework is facilitated on a cloud, it doesn't require speculation of setting up servers, devices or working frameworks which diminishes the capital and devaluation costs. Also, since endeavors pay for the genuine administration and time were taken, it helps control costs bringing about better ROI.
2) TaaS display additionally advances coordinated effort since the whole assets and libraries are facilitated on a brought together cloud. The concentrated condition conveys brought together working, disposing of duplication issues and revamp.
3) As opposed to performing on-preface testing, which causes venture delays, testing on cloud give boundless and round-the-clock access to servers, devices, and projects from anyplace without holding up. This rates up the whole testing cycle bringing about better time-to-market of uses.
4) TaaS condition enables analyzers to effectively and rapidly scale the applications under test and extend the limit edges for a huge number of clients simultaneously to suit deft and DevOps requests.
5) The model likewise bestows huge adaptability by giving offices to increase and tear down the testing condition without attaching to unused instruments and framework. Above all, the on-request and unit-based testing enable endeavors to pay for a specific unit of testing instead of spending all in all stack that in a way expels the spending lock-in.
6) TaaS show enables analyzers to concentrate on vital procedures while synchronizing apparatuses, individuals, and procedures. In addition, with institutionalized foundation, there are fewer mistakes of erroneous designs which eventually credits to drive productivity in the whole test process.
7) Since the whole test engineering and the server are facilitated on an open cloud, TaaS show lessens space issues which drive better limit administration.
Testing as a Service enables ventures to amplify ROI by bringing down the cost of testing. It gives a virtual set up without the forthright interest in robotization apparatuses, labs and assets while the Pay-Per-Usage or Unit-based estimating makes it more spending plan well disposed.
Additionally, the adaptability and versatility offered by TaaS abbreviate the whole testing cycle of applications decreasing an opportunity to-showcase. Be that as it may, it ought to be noted here that before executing this model, ventures need to approve whether they can truly receive this condition with required security or consistence gauges. A dependable and experience testing specialist co-op can absolutely enable take to right usage course in the wake of assessing the attainability and fundamental advantages of TaaS and after that tweak the TaaS offerings according to the endeavor business needs.
Himani Sharma
06 Dec 2017
Formal Review in Software Testing
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A formal review is one of the important review techniques in Static testing. It has a complete process to follow. Unlike the informal review, formal review is more structured and regulated. The six steps that come under the formal review are as follows:
1.Planning: In this stage, a request to review is made by the author to the moderator (also known as the review leader). A moderator is the person who takes care of all the follow-ups on the rework, scheduling of the meetings time, date and place, performs all the entry checks as well as exit criteria. Entry check is very important in defining that whether the document is mature enough to go for the formal review, also the moderator time does not get waste on a document not ready for formal review.Once the document cleared the entry check, which part of the document needs to be tested is decided by the author and moderator.
2.Kick-Off: In this stage, a brief introduction about thegoal and objective of the review meeting or document is given to everyone at the meeting. This step is optionalbut helps in giving understandability of the relationship between the document under review and other documents if there are an ample number of documents related to it.
3.Preparation: In this stage, the reviewer (also known as Inspectors) reviews the document individually based on related documents, checklists, rules and procedures provided. While reviewing the document each reviewer identifies the defects, questions, and comments according to the understanding of the document. After that, all issues are recorded with the help of Scribe (a separate person to do the logging of the bugs found during the review process). The success factor depends on the number of pages checked per hour also known as checking rate. Normally the checking rate is in the range of 5 to 10 pages per hour.
4.Review Meeting: This stage consists of three phases:
a)Logging Phase: All the defects andissues that havebeen identified during the Preparation step are recorded page by page by the author or the scribe. Every defect and its severity should be logged. Three severity classes should be considered while logging every defect that is Critical, Major, Minor. Meeting the good logging rate in the formal review should be between one to two defects logged per minute.
b)Discussion Phase: If any issue needs discussion than that issue is handled in this phase. It is the responsibility of the moderator to take care of peoples issue and prevents the discussion from getting personal and aggressive. The outcome of the discussion is documented for future references.
c)Decision Phase: A decision has to be made by the participants on the document under review at the end of the meeting, sometimes based on exit criteria (average number of critical defects found per page).
5.Rework: In this stage, if the number of defects found in each page exceeds the certain level than the document has to be reworked. It is the responsibility of the author to judge whether the defect needs to be fixed because not every defect leads to rework.
6.Follow-Up: In this stage, the author has taken care (action) of all thefamilies defects is assured by the moderator.
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Himani Sharma
24 Nov 2017
Getting Smart With JIRA Query Language
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JIRA Query Language (JQL) is the alternative and most flexible way of searching the issues in JIRA which can be used by the technical as well as non technical business user. JQL is a part of advanced search though there are different filters that comes under the Basic search but the search result using JQL is more specific and refined.
Let us take an example if someone wants to see the list of all the reopened bugs from the start of the sprint till date in the name of one person. However we can search the same using Basic search by checking the checkbox of the status “Reopened” but what if the the status of that bug has been changed by the Developer as Resolved and tester Closed that bug after testing. Now you will never able to get the total number of Reopened bugs as the status of these bugs is no longer remains Reopened.
Let us start with JQL:
1.) On Jira Dashboard go to Issues in Header
2.) Select ‘Search for issues” in the list
3.) Click on the “Advanced” Link on the page
Let’s start with simple queries:
1.) project = Test AND status was Reopened
Explaination : In this query we have used project keyword to select the project which is Test here and “=” is the operator, we can use other operators are as well like <, !=, etc . Keywords are the predefined words having specific meaning in any language.
With the help of this query we would be able to find all the reoped issues under Eimars project.
2.) project = Test AND status was Reopened AFTER "2017/09/25"
Explaination : In this query we are using AFTER keyword to filter all reoped issues after a speficic date, we can also use BEFORE keyword as per our requirement.
3.) project = Test AND assignee= amit.shah
Explaination : With this query user can easily find all the issues in the name of assignee “Amit Shah”.
Himani Sharma
23 Nov 2017
Use Of Stub And Driver In Software Testing
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Life of software testers is not at all easy as they face the challenge of testing a module which is highly dependent on the module which is still under development. In such cases, drivers and stubs come to tester’s rescue.Stubs and Drivers are two different types of dummy modules which are mostly used in the case of component testing.
Stubs are used as ”called programs” functions in Top Down Integration where top level complete the way down to the lowest level, it is used when subprograms are under construction.
Drivers are used as “calling programs” functions in Bottom-Up Integration where the low level to complete the way up to the highest level, it is only used when main programs are under construction.
Example for Stub:
Let us assume that we have 3 modules Sign-in, Log-in, and user-database module. Suppose Log-in module is ready and need to test it, but we call functions from Sign-in and user-database (which is not ready). To test at a selective module we write a short dummy piece of a code which simulates Sign-in and user-database, which will return values for Log-in, this piece of pseudo code is called Stubs and it is used in a top-down strategy.
Example for Driver:
Consider our Sign-in and user-database modules are ready and Log-in module is not ready, and we need to test Sign-in and user-database modules which return values from Log-in module, So to take out the values from Log-in module We write a Short Piece of Dummy code for Log-in which returns value for Sign-in and user-database, So these pieces of code is always called Drivers and it is used to Bottom-Up strategy.
The main purpose of a stub is to allow testing of the upper levels of the code when the lower levels of the code are not yet developed, whereas driver allows testing of the lower levels of the code, when the upper levels of the code are not yet developed.
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Himani Sharma
31 Oct 2017
Importance Of Mutation Testing
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Mutation Testing is one of the types of testing which is performed to know the effectiveness and quality of test cases or test suites.It is the White box testing technique which is mainly used for Unit testing.
For a tester, test cases are a measure of qualitybut to make sure about the quality of the test cases, below mentioned questions must be analyzed:
Have testerwritten enough tests?
Has testercovered every branch, every line, every path?
Will some of the test fails, if a semantic change is done to the code?
Mutation testing is the answer to the questions mentioned above as it helps to provide an automated way to verify if your tests are of any good.
Mutation testing is the method or strategy that makes small modifications to our source code known as mutants to detect the fault in the system or program under test. The ultimate goal is to kill mutants. Testers can set up as many mutants as required. They also need to make sure that every mutant remains unique and is also different from the original system.
The process of mutation testing is:
Create mutant software - by introducing semantic changes to the Java byte code, such as inverting the logic of if and while statements, and removing function calls. Changes performed on each of these codes is called a mutant.
Prepare test cases for input to the original and mutant software
Execute original program and mutant program:
If the result of the original and mutant program is same than the mutant is killed otherwise mutant is alive.
Compute mutation score:
Mutation score is the percentage of killed mutants with total added mutants.
Mutation score=(Killed mutants/Total mutants)*100
The mutation test score is directly proportional to the success of the test cases or test suite.
Advantages:
It plays the major role in detecting new kind of bugs to the attention of developers.
It is more reliable and helps obtain stable systems.
It brings a good level of error detection towards unit tests.
A powerful tool to determine the coverage of testing programs.
Disadvantages:
Creating n number of mutants and testing of these mutants is time-consuming and costly.
Mutation testing is the very complex task to do manually.
Requires numerous testing to have the needed data.
It implies changes in the source code, so it is not at all appropriate for black box tests.
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Himani Sharma
30 Oct 2017
