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Thursday, December 7, 2017

Successful Actions Took After By QA Experts To Accelerate The Product Release Process

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Software testing is a process of improving the quality of developed software by finding bugs during the whole software application development phase.
i) Production testing ensures less time to market: Testing in production is a significant way to check the performance of the software with real data. It helps in determining application’s performance in real time and determines how an application behaves in weak connections or network failure.
ii) Automation saves manual time: Test cases can be converted into test scripts(automated) during application development. This helps in increasing overall test coverage along with reducing the manual efforts. It also increases the Reusability of test scripts when the OS or device changes.
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Tuesday, November 28, 2017

How Usability Testing Provide a Consistent User-Friendly Experience?

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Usability testing directly deals with the real users’ experiences. This type of manual software testing is performed by a group of end users who use the application and find out the usability defects. 

If done rightly, Usability Testing is the key to success. In the end, it can be summarized as the process which ensures that the end product meets the users’ demands in order to deliver a flawless user experience.
Types of Usability Testing
# Explorative Testing: Explorative testing is performed in order to analyze what content and functionality the new product should possess to meet the expectations of target audience before releasing a new product. In this type of testing, users test specific services where they are given real scenarios to perform which helps to highlight any kind of loop holes if present.
# Comparative Testing: This type of testing is performed to compare the usability of two different websites. Comparative tests are usually used to compare a website against a competitor site. However, it can also be used to compare two designs to analyze which one provides the best user experience.
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Monday, November 20, 2017

Be more Productive with Selenium for Web Functionality Testing

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Selenium, a powerful open-source tool, facilitates automated functionality testing and has gained substantial admiration off late. This tool executes JavaScript, renders pages, and retrieves webpages in a mockup of human work to check if the website is working well, as it should across various browsers and operating systems. Decked is a run-down of why testers and quality professionals prefer Selenium over other tools for web functionality testing:
Ease of Use
Selenium offers an intuitive, user-friendly interface for creation and execution of test suites.
The real task of writing and maintaining scripts with Selenium is also really relaxed. The tool allows ascertaining elements from the browser, making it easy to write the tests using the specific identifiers of the element. Selenium has a customary set of guidelines such as click (on an element), open (a URL), type (into an input box), and a set of verification commands that allow the user to specify the expected behavior or values. It makes it easy to perform every browser action, including the otherwise complex events like onKeyPress or onMouseOver.
Flexibility
Selenium supports flexible test architectures.
Many testers prefer keeping tests as independent and autonomous as possible for the sake of resilience and maintenance. This allows them to move the tests around, refactor them or delete them whenever required. Refactoring the tests reduce replication of the test codes and intensify the maintainability of the test suite.
Easy Add-Ons
Selenium is a powerful tool that covers almost all the aspects of web functionality testing. The scope is also increased by the means of various add-on tools. Selenium IDE allows the users to navigate their application in Firefox and record their actions forming tests.
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Thursday, November 2, 2017

Top 9 Significant Reasons That Call For Investment In Performance Testing

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The goal of performance testing is not to find bugs but to eliminate performance bottlenecks. Performance testing helps in establishing speed, scalability, and stability of the software application. So, designing and executing these tests are critical for ensuring stability of an application. An effective performance testing strategy is essential for highlighting most of the performance issues.

Why it is critical for enterprises to invest in Performance Testing:

1. It will generate more revenue: The faster the web application is, the more it will generate revenue. For applications such as e-commerce applications have to provide an easy and secure gateway to the customers which results in better transaction and repeated visits on the application.

2. Provide customers with better website speed: A slow and lousy website results in repelling the crowd coming on the site. The automation testing tools enable the teams to check the speed and performance of the website. Users should be able to load the site with basic connectivity and bandwidth that helps in maintaining the interest and keeping them engaged.

3. Improve quality by Resolving defects before getting into market: Performance testing gives customers the information about their application regarding speed, stability and scalability. Performance testing helps in uncovering what needs to be improved before the product goes live. Without performance testing, application is likely to suffer from various issues such as running slow with simultaneous users, inconsistencies across different operating systems and poor usability.

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Thursday, October 26, 2017

Automation Testing for Android Mobile App with Java


Automation testing is a method of practicing an application to implement the entire life cycle of the software in a minimum amount of time and provides effectiveness and efficiency of testing the software. It is a technique where the tester itself writes the scripts and uses a suitable software that it apt for testing.

Mobile Application Automation Testing

Testing of mobile applications can be relatively cumbersome because of sheer extent of testing is required on a variety of devices. Besides, the mobile apps require faster changes than other types of applications like Desktop or Web. Because of this, more and more organizations have started realizing the needs of using automation testing. Mobile app automation testing is a massive undertaking and one can end up complicating the process by selecting a bad tool.

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Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Manipulate The Strength of Mobile & Web App with PERFORMANCE TESTING!

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With the rapid development of mobile devices, innovative technologies and methods are producing high-quality mobile applications. The decision makers create mobile strategies before implementing the application to the end-users.

Mobile Load Testing

This testing helps us to study the behavior of the apps under different loads. This study reveals how the application handles the existing users efficiently. It is impossible to test the performance using real-time users. It is simple to reproduce the huge number of users by stimulating virtual users to use performance testing tool.
Addressing Mobile App Load Testing
There are some tools in the market that help you in serving mobile & website performance testing challenges in the mobile and web app space.

HP Load Runner

HP Load runner is a software testing tool that provides a picture of end-to-end system performance. A reliable and robust performance testing solution is a key for enhancing the experience of the customer.

NeoLoad

It is a load and performance testing tool that stimulates user activity and observes infrastructure performance. Through these insights, you can foresee the bottleneck area in mobile and web applications and take measures to eliminate the bottlenecks.
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Thursday, October 5, 2017

Let's have a Look on the Working of Game Testers in a Game Testing Company!


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Role of a Game Tester
The role of a game tester is crucial for the success of the Game Testing Company. A tester is offered with a complete version of a game in order to find glitches in it. It is the responsibility of a tester to check every nook and corner of the game for finding out the bugs. The uncovered errors during the testing phase are noted out. These errors may be bugs, logic errors or level bugs, art glitches.
The ranking of the bugs are done according to their estimated severity:
·       ‘A’ Bugs are critical bugs that cause many issues, such as game crashes that prevent it from being shipped.
·       ‘B’ Bugs require the necessary attention and are equally dangerous as an A Bug.
Procedure to be followed by Game Testers
Game Testers follow the below procedure while performing mobile game testing:
1.    Design a Test Plan
2.    Write Test Cases
3.  Run the Test
4.  Report the Bugs

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Wednesday, September 6, 2017

Why Website Performance Test Is Required?


You hear a lot about testing web applications; however, you’re yet uncertain, why you should invest additional money in doing this kind of work. How can it increase the value of your work? How might you encourage your customer or manager that it’s a substantial utilization of time and cash?
There are a lot of reasons because of  hire performance testers is mandatory and a few of them are explained below:
  • Search Engine Optimization and Google
Since April 2010, Google began to take load time into account while ranking websites. Obviously, Google’s calculations utilize various components to decide the ranking of websites in Google search result pages.
  • User Satisfaction
It is realized that users just proceeds onward to some other web page if a site influences them to wait for a long time. Bouncing rate is a vital factor that each website admin should consider.
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Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Trending Open Source Tools For Mobile Application Security Testing

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Mobile application security testing can be quite cumbersome. To ease this process, businesses make separate teams for testing and analyzing open source tools.

Some of the open source mobile application security testing tools are listed as below:

OWASP Zed Attack Proxy Project

It was developed by AWASP and is available for Unix/Linux, Macintosh and Windows platforms. Originally, the tool was designed as an integrated penetration testing tool for web testing applications.

Android Debug Bridge

Android Debug Bridge is designed to evaluate the security of mobile apps across many Android devices at the command line. This program can be used as a client-server and can be connected to emulators, in addition, to install and debug the programs.

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Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Mobile Security Testing to Protect Your Applications from Threats


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Owing to the sudden increase in the use of smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices, mobile application these days are proved as vital in increasing beneficiaries.


Mobile Application security is mandatory as we are transitioning our Financial Transactions from Computers to Mobile devices. Mobile security testing service carries out a deep inspection to ensure proper working of mobile applications depending on different criteria.

Need of Mobile Application Security Testing

  • Prevent future attacks by predicting the behavior of attackers.
  • Go live with the new mobile application.
  • Meeting and complying with the tough industry security standards.

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Monday, July 31, 2017

Why Mobile Application Testing Needs to be Performed in Different Networks Environment?

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There are many mobile network simulator tools available in the market which allow you to test your application in different network conditions. But to see what the users experience in reality we need to test how our application behaves in a perfect network or a slow network.

Causes of Network Variability

1. Signal Loss: There are various dead spots on a network that leads to a partial or total loss of network signal. This also results in loss of client server communication.

2. Data loss over a Network: When the data packets sent by client/server over a network fail to reach the intended destination because of network congestion then data loss occurs.

3. Network delay and jitter: The time taken by each packet from source to the intended destination is defined as network delay.

Use Network Emulators to test real network conditions

1. Network emulators is one of the best mobile application testing solution that would assess the impact of network variation on a mobile application’s functionality in a controlled lab environment.

2. Network emulators are perfect solutions for creating different types of mixed or complex networks.

3. There is no need of cable, aerial masks, mobile devices and corporate networks for achieving the best coverage.


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Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Test Application Programming Interface of APIs using Postman

API is an Application Programming Interface. It is used to establish communication and data exchange between two software systems. A software system implementing an API consists of various functions and sub-routines which can be executed by another software system.

In API Testing, you use software to send calls to the API, get output, and note down the system's response.

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API Architecture: API calls collection includes mainly two things:

1. HTTP headers: HTTP headers are always dependent on your application.
2. HTTP Request: There are mainly four types of requests.

What is Postman?
Postman is used to fire requests to an API. It is available as add-in on Chrome and also available for Mac application.  It is very fast in response and also light weight which puts no impact on browser performance...
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Tuesday, July 18, 2017

Ranorex: Components & Features

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RanoreX: What Is It?


Ranorex is a software testing tool that provides test automation for multiple environments, devices and software applications. Allows the users to perform functional testing on desktop, web or mobile applications. It supports various user interface technologies that includes Java, HTML, C#, Flash, Android, iOS and Silverlight.

Features of Ranorex:


1. The powerful feature of Ranorex is Cross platform testing. Once the test cases are written, they can be executed on different mobile devices like Android and iPhone.


2. It offers user interface object recognition model that is reliable and is totally dependent on Ranorex XPath technology.


3. It provides a tool set that allows the user to automate the UI testing by recording the UI actions without writing any code…


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Tuesday, July 11, 2017

Achieve Fruitful Results! By Maximizing Test Coverage in Less Time

To make sure everything is tested in the best possible way and the software you ship is the best possible quality. For all such you need to maximize your test coverage. Gathers the details about which parts of a program are actually executed when running the test set to improve the test case efficiency.

Automated software testing services to maximize test coverage in less time achieving fruitful results - Bugraptors

Few tips that can help you maximize your test coverage:


  1. Understand your business aim: Before test cases designing, understand the point of the software you are going to test. Talk to the end user and try to find what is most important to end users.
  2. Communication: You should talk directly to the developers about what are the new functionalities they are going to deliver with each release. You will get a fair idea to focus your efforts on the next test.
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Thursday, April 20, 2017

All That You Need to Know About Manual Performance Testing Services

Performance Testing is the subset of performance engineering. It is the process of evaluating the speed and effectiveness of a computer, software program, and any device. In performance testing testers calculate the response time of an application and device under the load. At a time the number of requests piles up too high results in crashing the system. In this situation, performance testing plays an important role in monitoring an application to ensure that it will meet the expected load requirements. Performance testing can be done by two ways through manual performance testing and automation testing.
“Can we do Performance testing manually?”
Yes, no doubt we can do the Performance testing manually. It depends on your requirement that what kind of performance test you want to do. For manual performance testing, you should open many active sessions of the application and test it out.
Manual performance testing
In this, the number of open connection are checked can be done such as - database connections, the amount of CPU time, active sessions, how much memory being used etc. All these factors and their amount of performance checking can be obtained manually by a human. In general, you can monitor the present active sessions, the number of databases connections open at a time, and the number of threads which are running. A number of pre-defined industry benchmarks, which must be met during manual performance testing. In this case, most often the tests cases are done by deploying the application on the server and access the same application from multiple client machines and that making a multiple threads to run. Performance viewer should, of course, be installed on the server to monitor its performance. In more, short performance test needs to be evaluated by the tester. This is for an AUT (Application Under Test) within a given time limit. Then after, sanity manual test evoked to find out the page load time.

In manual testing, you don’t need to buy software automation tools and write scripts for it. You can improvise and adjust your test at run time according to requirement and look for unexpected conditions and handle them well manually.
Testing’s which can be done manually has its own series of benefits which can never fade away like:
  • In detecting the response speed of application
  • Evaluating the number of user's load an application can handle without crashing.
  • Determining the application remains firmly under different kinds of loads in different condition.
  • The main advantage is we can test the application “Creatively by thinking more creative scenarios” because the human brain can think boundless, whereas the testing tools cannot.
  • In the manual scenario, we can continue test execution as long as we want, no matter how many numbers of defects we found. In opposite, a tool will stop showing that there is a defect and ultimately terminate the execution.

In Which Cases Do Manual Performance Tests Help?
Non-performance testers can quickly perform manual tests without going through the whole process of setting up an automated test suites without any kind of automation test knowledge. It becomes very helpful in the case where there is a need of quick assessment of the product under certain conditions.
How Much We Are Beneficial For You?
“Quality is not an act to perform, it is our habit”
  • Specialized in constantly delivering end to end performance testing solutions.
  • Known for providing and quality and timely assured performance engineering services based on client's needs and requirements.
  • Highly skilled & experienced performance test engineers having adeptness to implement a holistic and unique approach to delivering the best quality.
  • Equipped with extensive standardized performance test & engineering services lab.

In the up growing technological era, new technologies are emerging quickly, so it becomes crucial to locate ideal manual performance testing service providers and tool for your application. Bugraptors goal is to review various performances testing scenario and let put you on the right path so that the right one procedure can be picked according to your application needs.

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Wednesday, April 5, 2017

How to improve effectiveness of Test automation & ROI


The reason could be a utilization of wrong test practices. The testers implement the test automation tools even if they are not aware of the right procedures which reduce the effectiveness of test automation.
A robust mobile test automation approach can help the companies to test quickly and effectively. At the same time, a poorly designed approach can seriously put a negative impact on the productivity and ROI. So, maximum investments can be made from test automation and also test automation effectiveness, ROI can be increased if the following strategies are kept in mind from the very beginning...

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Monday, March 27, 2017

Technological trends in software testing in 2017


The year 2016 has witnessed a lot of technological trends in the field of Data and Security. It is not wrong to say that 2017 will take this game to the next level and reinforce a strong need for robust testing methods. Today, Testers and developers are increasingly collaborating in order to build flexibility and robustness in the development process. As we speak about software testing priorities for 2017, technology will be of prime importance. So, let’s delve deeper into the technology trends for 2017.
1. Innovation in Open Source Platforms: Open Source platforms have caught so much attention for the dynamic and active interface it offers and also for its cost effectiveness. Due to the number of enterprises cutting down on their operational investments, open source software is gaining popularity and will continue to offer an engaging platform for developers and testers.
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Wednesday, March 22, 2017

What is the role of QA in the age of DevOps?



DevOps is Agile and it removes all the obstacles to delivering high-quality software in the hands of customers. Once a smooth process for agile development and continuous integration is developed, automation of the deployment process becomes necessary because it fulfills the following objectives for which the managers crave:
# Fast-track time to market
# Improved quality
# Increased organizational effectiveness
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Sunday, March 19, 2017

Some of the major key factors to create a test automation framework

Test Automation is the process of software testing which is performed by utilizing various test automation tools. It plays a vital role in the success/failure of any software automation project.  The type of test automation tools can either be open source or licensed versions. 


 It is highly recommended by the software testing experts that before the initialization of test automation, a test automation framework should be created which would not only support the software testing process but also help in improving its quality.


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Thursday, March 2, 2017

Why Do You Need To Perform Application Compatibility Testing?


In today’s technology driven business, a software application is demanded to work with various platforms and versions. Adjusting rapidly to changing platforms would help companies to manage huge business demands and deliver results that provide true business value. Extensive testing helps create products of high quality that provide value for money. 

Compatibility testing is a type of non-functional testing. It is a type of software testing which is done to ensure that the system/application/website built is compatible with various other objects such as other web browsers, operating systems, users and hardware platforms etc.

Multiple software tests are performed while the product is under processing and testing is also performed on the finished prior to its release. This testing ensures a competitive edge for the end product in terms of quality, compatibility, cost, and delivery before it is delivered.


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Tuesday, February 21, 2017

Mobile Apps Automation Testing Tools


                     

Automation testing is one of the widely used mobile app testing approaches. In this, a user is required to set up as many test cases as possible which will allow the user to automate approximately 80% of the testing. Both manual and automation approach can be used for mobile application testing while automation testing saves a lot of time and effort in comparison to manual testing.

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Tuesday, February 14, 2017

What will testing look like in Year 2020?


One thing which we were observing since the year 2001 was how testing activities integrate with SDLC in early stages by using methodologies such as Agile. Agile was used by many organizations for shortening their development time. Also use of virtualization, cloud computing, and service-oriented architecture also become famous.
Below are the Software Testing predictions for the coming years:
1. New roles and responsibilities of Software Tester: Nowadays our prime objective is to prevent bugs before the product gets delivered. In the future, we will see how the testers will also provide various risk assessments tools which will ensure that our product is stable at all times. to read more info at - https://goo.gl/3diCiJ
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Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Introduction to APIs & how to automate APIs testing with selenium webdriver?

An application-programming interface (API) consists of a set of standards and programming instructions for accessing a Web tool or Web-based software application. Application Program interface is a set of protocols, routines, and tools required for building software applications. An API specifies the way in which the software components should interact. Additionally, APIs are used when the graphical user interface(GUI) components are to be programmed. A good API provides all the building blocks and makes it easier to develop a program. A programmer puts all the building blocks together.


Different types of APIs are available for operating systems, applications or websites. For example, ‘Windows’ has many API sets that are being used by the system hardware and applications i.e. when users copy and paste text from one application to another, it is the API that makes it work. Most of the operating environments, such as MS-Windows also provides APIs which allows the programmers to write applications that are consistent with the operating environment. 
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Tuesday, January 31, 2017

How To Improve Test Case Efficiency?

In software programming and development world, best software developers always write their unit test cases first keeping in mind the functional requirements before starting their coding phase which improves their coding quality and efficiency.


Relatively, software testers should write their test cases during the earlier stage of the software development life cycle and it is best to write test cases during the software requirements phase. The QA manager or test manager should gather and prepare the maximum possible documents as per the list is given below: 
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Wednesday, January 25, 2017

A Context-Driven Approach to Automation in Testing

Testing is a part of the critical and creative work that happens in the design studio but “automation” inspires people to think of mechanized assembly-line work done on the factory floor. The term test automation is also unclear.


Firstly, test automation is not human at all. Since you don’t pay the computer, it is incredibly inexpensive and fast too. Secondly, test automation is a skillful activity executed by humans who write and operate software over hours, days or weeks and those people must be paid for their time. 
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Wednesday, January 18, 2017

How to run parallel execution in Selenium Grid using TestNG?

Selenium Grid is a proxy server that enables the user to run tests in parallel on multiple machines. It manages different browser versions and configurations centrally. Selenium Grid allows the selenium test scripts to route the commands to remote web browsers.


Mobile App Testing using Selenium



When the Selenium Grid is to be used?

Selenium Grid must be used when you want to do either one or both of the following:

Tests can be run against different browsers, operating systems, and machines all at the same time: For this, you need to ensure whether the application being tested is fully compatible with a wide range of browser-OS combinations. 

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Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Top 5 software testing traps & How to overcome them

Being a software tester, you might face situations that challenge your efficiency and effectiveness as a tester. Testers must be aware of the hurdles, mistakes and traps that they may encounter in their lives. Following are the top 5 traps that you will ever run into in your software testing career and also the ways to overcome those traps.

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Unaware of the Testing Goal

Sometimes you fall into a situation where you have no idea about the new or enhanced features that needs to be tested. So the tester might fail to recognize the goal when a new functionality/ project needs to be tested. However, if one doesn’t understand in the beginning, it might produce concerns later in the execution and planning phase.

For more read here: https://www.bugraptors.com/blog/top-5-software-testing-traps-overcome/
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Wednesday, January 4, 2017

An introduction to PhantomJS: A headless browser for Automation Test.

A headless WebKit which offers native and quick support for a number of web standards. PhantomJS is scriptable with a JavaScript API and permits webpage capturing, pages manipulation, access to the file system and page settings. 



Also it contend with mobile Webkit, which supports touch events.

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