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If your business is on the internet, then you need to be concerned with how your website looks on the various browsers that are currently available to users.  You never know what browser a user is going to use to view your website, and if it doesn’t look good then they will leave and you [...]

I have always used the Quality Center which is not open source and rather expensive but the best test management tool out there offering many features other than just defect tracking.  But if you can’t afford it then the two open source defect tracking tools I know of and have used that are good and will [...]

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In an ideal environment all the defects found in a release would get fixed before the project went live in Production.  However with today’s fast paced businesses, projects are typically defined for a specifc delivery date with very little to no room for date extensions.  This is largely due to having to meet a business [...]

This article is written based on QuickTest Professional version 10, however it applies to most of the past versions. What is the Maximum Rows and Columns in QuickTest Pro? The data table built into QuickTest Professional is actually a 3rd party product that was integrated into the product back when Mercury Interactive first created AstraQuickTest.  [...]

Software versions: QTP v11, IE8, Windows7 Issue: All of a sudden QuickTest Pro stopped recognizing the web browser and saw it only as a winobject (like a regular GUI window).  So none of my actions on the web page would get recorded, and my test script would be empty.  Obviously this is a major problem. [...]

System Testing and “End-to-End” Testing can be very similar but typically the difference is that with System Testing you are exercising the functionality of your application with how it interfaces with other components (applications) in your environment.  An examle of this is with data feeds, your app may send a data file/feed to another application [...]

The other day someone said “I can’t insert a standard checkpoint after I created my script; on the menu the choices are disabled”.  Actually you can insert certain checkpoints after recording once you have a script created with objects in it.  Here are some choices:

There was a posting I responded to the other day where someone was asking about what kind of support QTP has for SQLServer. QTP supports relational databases, so anything that uses standard SQL is supported – like SQLServer, Oracle, MySQL, Access, etc. You just have to have the database driver installed on the same machine [...]

An interesting Test Management topic came up on LinkedIn that I responded to and thought I’d expand on it on my blog site. The question was “How can a test manager provide an accurate estimation like time, cost, resources for the test case creation, testing like Functional, regression and system testing for a large project?”