A common myth that we hear around from people is testing is an easy task. But as a QA we know that it is not easy as sounds. We come across many challenges/hurdles while testing an application. With the help of below tools we can make our day to day testing easier
Takeaways from this Post:
1. Different test tools which you can apply/implement to your testing process. This makes your testing easier
2. Test Ideas, which enhances your test skills
3. Let me know if you find other than above mentioned so that I will add here. Please ignore if these are not at all takeaways :)
Problem #1 -
In one of my project, we had a requirement of compatibility testing i.e. to test the application in heavy sets of environments where we need to focus on testing in different set of OS's and different set of browsers(All versions of browsers).
Maintaining multiple machines and multiple browsers(installing and uninstalling browsers on a machine and testing is a night mare task) is heavy. But we had a little better solution to maintain a VM and have snapshots for each version. Even this did not worked well for us, because switching to each snapshot is again a over head and also maintaining these vms used to take up more memory space which was again a risk
Sol'n -On researching, we came to know that there are some external service providers which serves our purpose. They maintain all the stack of environments in cloud where we can access them and test our applications. Some of them are
2. Sauce Labs
3. In IE browser when you press F12, you can see an emulator mode where you can test different IE browsers(7,8,9,10,11,Edge)
Problem # -2
Have you ever got a requirement/test criteria to test the color of particular component(button,frame,link) in a web page should match with the hex decimal value? Don't know how to test this?
Sol'n - Try using colorcop, where you can find exact hex decimal value of a component by simple drag and drop of eye dropper controller on a web page (OR) you can also try using "Colorzilla" browser plugin (available in Chrome/Firefox)
Problem # -3
Have you ever found a bug, where the application is inconsistent in terms of height /width of a web component or distance between the components within a page or a different page is not consistent. How do you really measure these parameters and convey to Dev?
Sol'n - "Measure It" -Add on Firefox where you can easily measure the distances between a component in a page in "px " units
Note:
There is an awsome tool called FastStone Capture which not only provides above features, but also has additional capabilities like screen and video capturing
Problem # -4
Have you ever tested content in a web page to see whether your application has some typos? What is your approach?
Sol'n-
One approach is to paste whole content in word editor and check for mistakes or install a firefox plug-in called spell checker, where instantly you can check typo errors just by a single click(No Copy/paste required.)
Problem # -5 -
Do you want to test an input field in an application with multi language characters(say Arabic,French, Japanese etc..? Gather these Test Data?
Sol'n- "CharacterMap", Go to Start in Windows 7 and type charmap in search. You see all language characters and you can copy the different language characters and start testing
Problem # -6 -
Most of the today's web applications are having signup and account activation process via web emails. There was a requirement in my project daily to test at least 10-20 registrations/signups followed by account activation via email. But registering dummy accounts for web email accounts was a tedious task .
Sol'n: There are some service providers like Yopmail which does not ask for you to Signup at all. It creates an account at run time(No authentication)
Problem # - 7 -
This problem is a generic one i.e. not tightly coupled with testing.However you can correlate the things. Say, You have given an application or a new tool and your task is to research, how you plan , learn, manage and organize the learned things?
Sol'n: There is a powerful tool called Mind maps, where you can brainstorm your ideas, map your findings in a single map. This not only reduce your unwanted documentation part but also you can plan things better if you have everything on one area.
Believe me, once you start using this, you will love it
Download links:
1. Xmind
2. Mind Miester
Note: There is an awesome Open source test community called TestInase where people contribute testing related articles in Mind maps. Explore this you love it
Below picture depicts the mind map related to selenium web driver api
Problem # -8 -
If your application supports 4-5 different roles and you need to test the scenarios related to roles. You either test logging in and out from a single browser 4-5 times (OR) open different sessions of browsers(say firefox ,chrome, ie and private windows) at a time which again a tedious task to switch to different browsers. Either of them does not make our testing process easier.
Soln: Install chrome plug-in called "New Identity", where 3 different sessions(say admin,moderator,end user) of a same application can be preserved in 3 different tabs with no issues
Problem # -9 -
We go in a route of testing mobile applications(Native/ browser based apps) in routine Android SDK emulators(since cost and maintenance of real devices is high) . But I observe that these are very slow in terms of performance .Another problem while testing with these emulators is, you cannot really simulate some actions like camera, controlling battery levels etc..
Soln: There are some advanced and powerful emulators like GenyMotion , whose performance is not only good but it also has powerful capabilities like simulating network, Camera, GPS,battery levels. Please try these from above link
Problem # -10-
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