Technology Based Software Testing

GUI Testing Communication; aspects to be tested are: Tool tips and status bar Missing information: Enable/ Disable toolbar buttons Wrong/ misleading/ confusing information Help text and Error messages Training documents

• Keyboard actions
• Mouse actions
• Canceling
• Okaying
• Default buttons
• Layout error
• Window buttons
• Sizable
• Title/ Icon
• Tab order
• Display layout
• Boundary conditions
• Sorting
• Active window
• Memory leak

• Menus
• Popup menus
• Command Line Parameters
• State transitions

• User options
• Control
• Output

• User tailor-ability
• Visual preferences
• Localization

• Accessibility
• Responsiveness
• Efficiency
• Comprehensibility
• User scenarios
• Ease of use

• Translation
• English-only dependencies
• Cultural dependenciesv
• Unicode
• Currency
• Date/ Time
• Constants
• Dialog contingency

Application Testing

• Java Applications/.NET/ Applets
• Automated component testing
• Functional testing
• Performance testing
• Applet/ application testing
• Code coverage
• Boundary conditions testing

Application Programming Interface (API) testing

The following tasks can be automated:

• Test-code builds
• Test-suites execution
• Report generation
• Report publishing
• Report notification
• Periodic execution of test-suites
• A tool for test automation should be identified very early in the project.
• A simulator (that services the API calls) should be developed by the testing team. In the absence of this simulator, there is a dependency on a Server (not developed by the API development team).

• Meaningful names
• Concise and short names
• Number of arguments
• Easy-to-read names

Middleware testing

• Functional testing
• Interoperability testing
• Performance testing

Database/ Backend Testing

Apart from testing (verify/ validate this) the application the following needs to be considered for databases:

• Distributed Environment
• Performance
• Integration with other systems
• Security Aspects
• Description/ Sub-tasks

• Dataset
• Numeric
• Alpha
• Numerosity
• Field size
• Data structures
• Timeouts

• Calculations - Reports
• Calculations - Backend
• Divide by zero
• Truncate
• Compatibility
• Test data
• Data consistency

• Save
• Retrieval

• Databases and devices
• Tables, Fields, Constraints, Defaults
• Keys and Indices
• Stored procedures
• Error messages
• Triggers, Update
• Triggers, Insert
• Triggers, Delete
• Schema comparisons

• Login and User security

Website/ Page Testing

Link and HTML Testing :

• Detecting HTML compatibility problems
• Checking Cascading Style Sheets
• Checking link and content
• Checking HTML syntax/ Validating HTML documents
• Detecting broken/ dead links
• Web site performance analysis

• Load testing of web based systems
• Reliability, performance and scalability testing of web applications
• Load and performance testing of web server