10
Mar 11

QuickTest Pro Data Table Limitations

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.  [...]

08
Feb 11

Basics of System Testing vs End-to-End Testing

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 [...]

19
Apr 10

Test Time Estimation

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?”

05
Mar 10

Test Phases for the QA Team

This is part of my series on “What is QA really all about?”  I find that even today after all these years of sophistication in software development that organizations still don’t really understand what QA is really all about and what is truly involved in verifying that an application is ready for Production deployment.  As [...]

04
Mar 10

Load vs Stress vs Performance Testing

This is the first part of my series on “What is QA really all about?”  I find that even today after all these years of sophistication in software development that organizations still don’t really understand what QA is really all about and what is truly involved in verifying that an application is ready for Production [...]

02
Mar 10

The Tester Interview

The Tester Interview I came across an interesting topic, it was a topic about what senior level QA Managers look for in hiring a software tester. I thought I would blog on this topic having numerous years of experience at the senior and executive levels (Director of QA, VP of QA, and President of ASI), [...]

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