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Today we are going to return back to basics of software testing and discuss the 7 most popular test types that are being used in every software testing effort. Those different test types cover all the levels of the software to make sure that the final result matching the expectations from every possible angle. Here is our list: Unit testing Smoke testing Regression testing Functional testing Integration testing User Acceptance Testing Performance Testing Now let’s have a deeper dive into each one of those by using a simple example of an imaginary system that was created in order to manage warehouse activity including shipments, inventory and goods receptions from suppliers. Unit Testing This type of testing is usually performed by the developers and is covering the very basic development component. In this test developers are testing the straight forward functionality of a functional piece of code to make sure that it is performing according to th...

Today I wanted to discuss the basic automation question - what exactly do we want to automate? We can of course be extreme and say "everything" or "nothing" but both of those options are a very costly choices, first takes a lot of resources the other get you pay for it at the end. I was consulting a client once where they had a complex process of ROI calculation that resulted in them not automating anything as the process to choose what to automate was time consuming by itself and ironically enough was not part of the Return Of Investment formula. With this client we had to find and streamline the process to make a quick and easy decision regarding the automation candidates and I wanted to share this process with you. To better understand the process we will need to answer two simple questions - Why and What: Why we automate What we automate Why we automate? Imagine yourself in an epic competition Human against the Machine in a battle of ham...

Lately, I found myself helping several people to begin their automation testing journey. And what a better place to do it then a nice new installation of a Robot Framework with its Selenium2Library on a Windows OS. Why Robot Framework with Selenium2Library? While you are probably here because you are looking for a quick installation guide for Automation Testing platform for you web project, I still need to do my do diligence and explain in couple of words why we need it. Robot Framework it's a Python framework that allows for a less development oriented Manual QA professionals to do a quick switch into Test Automation. This can be achieved by allowing for easy English phrases (e.g. Click Element, Wait, etc) to replace a more complex Python syntax. Selenium2Library it's additional add on on top of Robot Framework that allows easy interaction with web elements during the automation process. That's it..... DONE with the talking now the installation.... Installatio...

What is Quality Assurance (QA) in the software development world? This one will be the most popular question,with the widest variety of answers, which by its own gives me a good reason to answer it. So, I will start with dictionary(Wikipedia) definition: Quality assurance, or QA (in use from 1973) for short, is the systematic monitoring and evaluation of the various aspects of a project, service or facility to maximize the probability that minimum standards of quality are being attained by the production process. QA cannot absolutely guarantee the production of quality products . By large this is a nice definition, though it has two issues that need to be discussed further more: 1.minimum standard of quality. 2.quality of a product. But before we go there let me say something about "assurance"