What is User Acceptance Testing (UAT) & Its Different Types?

What is User Acceptance Testing (UAT)?

User Acceptance Testing is a phase of software development in which the developed software is tested in the real environment by the end users. The process is to verify the intended functionality of the developed system on the end user’s perspective emulating real-world scenarios.

In short, User acceptance testingis the process of checking that developed software works for intended users. This may be easy to hear at first, but, practically it is not.

Types of User Acceptance Testing

1. Alpha & Beta Testing: Alpha testing is the type of acceptance testing performed by internal employees or by potential user groups at the developer’s location, prior to the release of the product to customers.
2. Contract Acceptance Testing: In Contract Acceptance Testing, the software developed is tested to meet the specifications and criteria which have been pre-decided and mutually agreed upon in the contract.
3. Regulation Acceptance Testing/Compliance Acceptance Testing: The Regulation Acceptance Testing tests the developed software against certain rules and regulations.
4. Operational Acceptance Testing: Operational Acceptance Testing, also called Operational Readiness or Production Acceptance Testing, ensures that there is a proper workflow for the software that is being used.
5. Black Box Testing: Black Box Testing is time and again classified as functional testing, but to some degree of level, can be considered as a type of User Acceptance Testing.

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QA Role in Agile Methodology

There are responsibilities to be fulfilled by a tester in order to provide the clients/end users with a quality product whilst staying in an agile environment, some of which are:

1. Find and clear out differences in requirement & its documentation:

Agile processes started up with QA when people realized that testers can play an active role in analyzing the first requirements document that comes to them other than simply testing. They are expected to:


2. Be an aqueduct between developers and end users:
You can’t just simply sit and wait for some product to come to you correctly if you are a QA in an Agile environment.


3. Stay alert in planning sessions:

QA needs to actively participate in planning sessions bright from the point of outset to bring and maintain sync between developers and end users.

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Internet for all: Improving accessibility for consumers with disability

The Web and the Internet in whole is an increasingly important resource 
in many aspects of our life which includes: education, employment, 
government, commerce, health care, recreation, and more. It is important 
that the Web be accessible to everyone in order to provide equal access and 
equal opportunity to people with disabilities. An accessible Web can help
 people with disabilities participate more actively in society.

Also, an accessible website is often one of the easiest ways to do business
 with many people with disabilities, for instance, people who cannot read 
print material, people who have difficulty going to a physical store or mall,
 and others. Furthermore, what you do for accessibility overlaps with other
 best practices such as mobile Web design, usability, and search engine optimization (SEO)

An accessible website gives access to information and interaction for many
 people with disabilities. That is, the accessibility barriers to print, audio,
 and visual media can be much more easily overcome through Web 
technologies. Accessibility testing is challenging for testers as they are 
unfamiliar with disabilities so there are different ways of testing. 

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Stress Testing of ERP Frameworks for Operational Excellence

Automated testing is basically recommended for ERP testing as manual testing requires a lot of time to finish a single round of testing. It is proved, that without testing every single segment of a framework and guaranteeing 100% quality, ERP implementation fails.

More or less, test mechanization simplifies the procedure of routine testing, which helps different business forms. Also, test automation helps cover speedy test cycles, including setup and relapse testing. In spite of the fact that test mechanization isn’t the main arrangement, there are numerous intense approaches to choose the correct system or instrument for your business forms. Some of them include:

It is critical during any ERP usage to schedule, coordinate and execute a stress test. Items within this test should include:

1. Planning and Co-ordination: Set time aside to plan and document to what extent your testing will be, what every particular client will do, kinds of exchanges and gear utilized, and your normal outcomes. Plan for inability to happen, along these lines you can be set up to overcome what may sensibly turn out badly later on.

2. Communicating Effectively: Allow for an open line of correspondence for all clients required amid the span of the test. Assign a stress test manager to answer and log client questions on the off chance that they emerge.

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Why is QA Being Outsourced? What are The Benefits of Hiring Third Party Software Testing Team?

In today’s era, software quality is of utmost importance. Hiring an outsourced third party testing team is the practice of handing over the application to be tested to an independent testing company or a third party testing group for testing all the major aspects of the application in terms of performance, functionality, security etc. 

Outsourcing provides considerable revenue gains, increased product quality, high efficiency and productivity of a company. There are many studies that reveal the fact ‘Half of the development effort is spent on testing’, therefore, outsourcing relieves the companies from expensive functions thereby reducing the operational costs.

Benefits of Hiring a Third Party QA team:

1. Availability of Wide Range of Resources and Tools

2. Incorporating Best Practices

3. Faster Time to Market

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What is Data Integrity? Understand How To Enforce It In Database?

Database Integrity is a central underlying aspect or term in the implementation of database technology. Having faith in the data correctness is a prerequisite for using the data in business, research or decision-making applications. So it’s for sure that the factors of ensuring database security and reliability cannot be ignored. One also has to consider the use of error checking and correction codes to deal with the integrity issues and improve the performance of database systems.

Enforcing Data Integrity in Databases

Basically, there are four primary types of data integrity: entity, domain, referential and user-defined.

1. Entity Integrity ensures a table does not have any duplicate rows and is uniquely identified.

2. Domain Integrity requires that a set of data values fall within a specific range (domain) in order to be valid.

3. Referential Integrity is concerned with keeping the relationships between tables synchronized.

We, at BugRaptors, during the testing of Data integrity enforcement makes sure that Data integrity is enforced by features such as check constraints, triggers, views, stored procedures, user-defined functions, and/or referential constraints.

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3 Ways To Show The Business Benefits of Automated Testing

Many organizations consider automation testing as a vital step in establishing a mature Q&A program. But, manual testing can never be ruled out completely.

Automation Testing Improves Business Results In Three Ways:

Shorter Time To Market, Increased Test Efficiency And Increased Test Effectiveness.

Testing efficiency is the average number of test cases you can run for an hour of tester time. High efficiency of testing reduces product development time and costs.

Testing effectiveness is rate at which testing reveals bugs before your application are released in the market. Increased effectiveness reduces the costs through a better product.

Application must be tested before release and reducing your time to market for benefits. Manual testing replacing with automated testing can cut time from elapsed testing time.

ROI Formula:

The ROI for test automation can move into positive zone depending upon the number of regression cycles required for the lifetime of the application.

ROI for test automation can be simply calculated by the below formula:

Return of Investment(ROI) = (Manual testing cost – Automation cost)/Automation cost

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Performance Testing of Mobile Application Using Blazemeter & Jmeter

Mobile Performance Testing Checklist You Don’t Want To Miss

A checklist that will help you in tracking the progress of your testing procedure,

What is the minimum RAM requirement for the mobile app?

• Verify response time and speed of the mobile app under diverse networks and circumstances.
• Test to ensure realistic user experience under different circumstances and networks.
• Make sure that the app doesn’t crash anymore.
• Monitor the uptime constantly and API Usage.

Here are some tools to analyze the above mentioned parameters of Applications:

# Blaze Meter:

Blaze Meter is a commercial, self-service performance testing tool that provides an enterprise performance testing and capacity planning .

This tool can be used to find and fix performance bottlenecks in minutes.

# Apache JMeter:

JMeter is a performance testing tool. It an open source and pure Java tool designed for the performance measurement of web and mobile applications.

It provides graphs and visualization techniques to analyze the results as well.

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Various Parameters That Need To Be Followed While Performing Penetration Testing

Penetration testing can be performed by an in-house expert using penetration testing tools. An expert can also be outsourced from the testing service providers.  The test begins with security testing professional calculating/assessing the targeted network to find vulnerable systems.

In this process, the whole system on the network is scanned for the presence of open ports that have running services. Not all the networks have every service correctly configured, password protected and patched.

Ways to Exploit Vulnerabilities

Penetration testing can be performed by an in-house expert using penetration testing tools. An expert can also be outsourced from the testing service providers.  The test begins with security testing professional calculating/assessing the targeted network to find vulnerable systems.

Various methods that can be followed while performing Penetration Testing

Internal Testing
External Testing
Blind Testing
Double Blind Testing
Target Testing

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How To Overcome User Acceptance Testing Challenges With These Effective Solutions

UAT is a condemnatory component of any Software application. The main aim of user acceptance testing is to execute and test whether the system or product completes all the business and user requirements in terms of security, reliability

Effective ways and resolutions to overcome these challenges:

1. Choose equitable resources: Hire a well versed professional testing team with the domain expertise knowledge to perform UAT. Since the UAT team is more technical, a whole team should be assigned to perform UAT before the release of application.
2. Create comprehensive UAT plan: Create a customize and detailed plan as per the business requirements and follow a scenario checklist to validate if the right plan is being executed and perform preparation evaluation to verify if we have done everything right.

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List of Security Testing Tools That Will Secure the Future

Tools that help test Security:

With such a vast amount of possible dangers it is getting harder to properly test applications. Luckily there are many great tools that will be assisting testers in this dangerous battlefield. Here are some you all may benefit from:

1) BeEF: This tool will be focused on a web browser meaning will assist you with finding flaws that may be caused by an open browser.

2) Brakeman: A nice little open source scanner of vulnerabilities that is designed especially for one language: Ruby on Rails. The tool analyses app’s code and can find flaws on any development stage.

3) Ettercap: This is a handy free open-source tool designed for network security. Man-in-middle or MITM attacks on LAN are of the tool’s strong sides.

Network protocol analysis within a security test context is one of the tools best features.

Read the full list of security testing tools.

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Important factors CIOs(conflict of interest) must look into before outsourcing UAT

In today’s era, the demand for the online business like e-commerce, retail, and online banking is increasing very frequently. Day by day these online businesses have become very famous, most of the people like to use online services and in the business world there are huge opportunities to expand the business by developing web and mobile based applications.

Outsourced user acceptance testing is essential before launching the product/software in the market. It deliberately achieves prestige with full growth of testing. There are various benefits of User Acceptance Testing Service Provider India like it is time-saving, cost-saving, effective, enhances accuracy. 

The most important thing is to select the reliable and trustworthy vendor to attain the appropriate Outcome.

Some important points that need to be considered before outsourcing UAT:

• Set up objectives to engage with UAT vendors: The most important goal of organization to choose the vendor who has expertise in testing. During the commencement of project, organizations plan targets and goals for UAT vendors. In this phase, UAT testers plan their testing approach for the product. 

• Determining tendency and metrics: Determining the information about issues, progress in testing by analyzing the test reports to know the genuine productivity.  If these metrics are not determined on time then there is a chance of inadequacy of statistics and data.

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What are the major business benefits of Installation Testing?

The reason why it is considered to be the most important type of testing in the software life cycle is that the installation process is the first interaction between the user and the software, which simple means that the process should be satisfactory. Successful installation process leads to happy customers which further increases the software installation rate and its success rate.

When do we perform Installation Testing?

• Software version has been upgraded or downgraded
• Re-installed an application to remove the encountered problems
• A new application is launched that is related to a family of applications

Types of Installation
  
Clean: This is the installation where the application is being installed for the first time and old version has never been installed on the system before.
Silent: This type of installation shows no messages on console during its installation process. Messages related to installation get saved in a log file.

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List of Widely Used Test Automation Frameworks and Its Types!

Framework is a combination of test-data handling, coding standards, and object repository management that are followed during automation scripting which results in producing beneficial outcomes such as re-usage of the same code in multiple projects, higher portability and decrease the script maintenance cost etc.

Types of Automation Frameworks:

# Test Library Architecture Framework: Test scripts are initially created using "Record & Playback" method. After that tasks inside the scripts are grouped into Functions. There Functions are called by main text script which is called Driver in different ways to create test cases.

# Data Driven Testing Framework: Test case logic resides in Test Scripts and Test Data is separated and kept outside the Test Scripts in this type of framework. Test Data is read from external files such as Excel Files, Text Files, CSV Files, etc. and are saved in the Test Script as variables.

# Keyword Driven Framework: The Keyword-Driven consists of data tables and keywords, and is not dependent on automation tool for execution.

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Exploring the types of requirements for software testing with these Amazing Ideas!

Let throw some light on the types of requirements and their details:

1. The explicit requirements noted down(Direct requirements): This kind of requirement is noted down directly from the client discussion and converted into the document of understanding. These are generally shared with the team working on the project, and the designs, wireframes and scenarios are made based on the provided details.

2. The implicit requirements(Indirect but obvious requirements): This kind of requirement is generally not provided in the documents, but are obvious requirements expected by the client. These requirements can be related to the Security Testing Service, performance testing service, usability testing service, and availability of the application. Say for instance, there is data to be entered for a firm using the fields ‘Employee Name’, ‘Employee ID’, etc.

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Automation Impacts on Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery

Software testing itself is a vast area to be classified. Primarily, testing can be performed in two ways; either manually or automated testing. It is very crucial to decide when to choose manual or automation testing during software development to ensure quality meeting project constraints.

What is CI/CD?

It means continual integration of the code to the relevant branch of working project. It implies that "integration tests" are run at every code change while Continuous Delivery means that every change that passes tests are automatically deployed. Some organizations emphasize on automation and fully avoid manual testers. Others concentrate on automation testing but not allowing testers to get involved in test strategies.  Therefore, a moderate approach needs to be followed to take full advantage by Hire Tester for Automation Testing.

Advantages of manual over automation

It is impossible to test each and every scenario using automated tool. When an application or product is arrived for testing; testing team starts planning its software testing service life cycle activities. A number of test cases are created for the application beforehand to carry out the testing. Some test cases would be non-repetitive which might be complex and too costly to automate. There are other tests which are repetitive and are executed every time the build is received. It could be functionality that must be in a working condition at all times. Out of all those, the desired performance testing service which we want to automate are filtered.

Furthermore, only a fraction can be automated out of the planned ones because automation is time consuming and difficult task.  Apparently, it will not provide full assurance to the stakeholders in context of quality.

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Smart Mobile Application Testing Strategies for Cloud Devices

Today, as tremendous numbers of applications are in existence, the typical user has the advantage of having the capacity to pick an application for his needs from an enormous choice of applications with comparatively styled characteristics and functions. On the other hand, if the user experiences any issues while actually using the application, he is expected to instantly replace it with some other and moreover give it a negative review, further influencing the given app’s picture.

Hence, in the tremendously competitive world of mobile apps, organizations are looking to discharge apps that function well in various devices, operating systems, internal hardware configurations and through various mobile networks. In this way, testing an application amid its development cycle is really significant to its success.

As a sole ideal testing technique does not exist, every distinctive testing strategy has its own impediments regarding costs, quality of testing and complete time taken. It is perpetually turned out to be imperative to implement a testing strategy that involves many diverse testing techniques.

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Explore These Top Technological Trends for Software Testing For This Year - Bugraptors

Trends like adopting newer test automation tools & practices and DevOps are found to be usually followed, which in turn has resulted to increase in automation being performed on various web applications. While some tools are still facing issues like managing the environments as well as test data, shortened release schedules and lack of time for proper testing.

1. Working together with manual & automation tools: It’s true that automating every single thing sounds like interesting and easy for everyone for once, but, in reality automation makes it difficult to face challenges in complex test environments and data and ever shortening delivery cycles. 

2. Emerging mobile test automation: As compared to earlier years, we can clearly see a shift of software world towards Mobile applications, away from web and desktop applications. The same can be said as the reason for the introduction of Test Automation in mobile applications testing in order to shorten time-to-market needs of software organizations. Although, lack of right tools, devices and methods to execute automated testing of mobile applications still exist there, still emergent mobile test tools and platforms such as Sauce Labs and Kobiton offer right and radical capabilities to make mobile test automation more affordable and executable.

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Increased Use of Banking & Financial Applications Raised The Demand of QA To A New Level

In today's era, BFSI industry has been revolutionized by the latest trends and digital initiatives like Mobile wallets, P2P Transfers, Ping pay, Omni Channel banking has digitally transformed the world. Banking domain involves intricate functionalities and a functional framework spread across Corporate banking, Centralized banking, Cards and payment gateways. For an application to succeed, there are various factors involved like, ease of access, performance, smooth and secure support. The financial applications possess multi-tier functionality to cater thousands of concurrent user sessions. Such applications are integrated with complex business workflows, Bill pay utility as they involve Real time transactions at a very high rate. Therefore, the transaction processor involves millions of transaction per second making it a complex system. Challenges faced by the BFSI Industry: 1. Multi-Channel approach: Everyone wants to make use of banking services anytime and anywhere that led to the origin of digital banks i.e. banks without branches. Providing users complete workflow or end to end functionality of a bank on the front-end of the mobile devices becomes a challenging task. 2. Plethora of devices: Wide range of devices are available having different platforms, operating systems, screen resolution etc. To read more, click original post - https://www.bugraptors.com/blog/growth-in-banking-financial-applications-increased-demand-of-qa/

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Explore New & Latest Features of iOS version 11.0 - Bugraptors

There are a number of features to explore, which have been listed and explained below:

1. The Photos to explore more: This application now brings more features to the Live Photos. The movies now will automatically align as per the portrait and landscape orientation. Memory types like pets, weddings, sporting events, babies etc. have been introduced.

Now, it will also support Animated GIF.

2. QuickType: The users can now swipe down the keyboard to easily switch from letters to numbers, and special characters on iPad. The iPhone will also support one-handed keyboard making it easier to type. More languages are now supported, and 2 new keyboard types have been added.

3. Bunch of other features and improvements: The long-awaited redesign of the Control Center brings all controls on one page. Apple has also made changes to Apple Music, Apple News, and Apple Podcasts. Also, Safari now comes with few more support for math, definitions, and conversions.

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