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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