Bugs in User Story

My product owner just introduce a new type of bug to me, now I can assign bugs in user story, if I feel something is missing in user story, if some parts are missing in the user story to fulfill my test cases for satisfying coverage, to me personally I think a level upper than black box testing and in short to make programmers life a little bit more complex ;P

Feature not a Bug

A very common talk of Programmers in Agile when ever tester caught a Bug. What you are asking is require more work then ever and this is not something that the Product Owner did not wanted specifically, you can not add features by yourself. I am hearing these words everyday, from my team mates. Making my field narrower everyday, decreasing my productivity everyday, is it really needed?
For example I am finding 10 bugs for a sprint then I approve 8 from my Project Coordinator then 4 from my team Programmers, so at last I am reporting 4 bugs :)

Bringing Requirement in the table

A very common blame software programmers give to testers that testers bring new requirements for the application in Agile methodology practice. Bringing quality into a application and introducing new requirements is two very different thing. If you are a software test professional then you will face this problem. My advice at this point will be keep yourself calm, consult with your co-ordinator and do necessary things to do make programmers to work on your reported bugs. Remember a bugs success only depends only and only if it is going to be fixed, or it is valueless. And always be very strict to maintain quality of software :) Be strong

Nice screen capturing tool for Linux

When I started to test applications in Linux environments, I started to miss Snagit a lot because it is not supported in Linux. Reporting bugs with specific and indicated images became nightmare. After a long long search then I found Shutter, A screen capturing tool. I find it very useful, this is a ongoing project many features will be added after final release but for now it is also very much workable. So, people who is  searching something like Snagit for Linux environment, here it is, have fun :)

Exploratory Testing

A great teacher tought me that a workable application's first criteria to success is to work correctly what it suppose to work first then others terms like velidation and verification comes up. For a tester, I will say he/she need to know and practice exploratory testing first to become a responsible tester other things comes after, doen't matter whatever methodology you are working.

Exploratory testing is importent because,
 - You will learn as you use
 - Notice very silly mistakes in application
 - You will learn to fit in developers shoes
 - You will learn how users will use so you will give good feedback about improving the state of the application

And there is much much more, still I am EXPLORING ;)

A light weight tool for automation

Now days we can find many automation tools for many purpose, but most of them is very complex and little hard to use and maintain. Like Selenium, iOpus iMacros also record activities in the browser and play recorded activity again and again. Like Selenium IDE it is and add on of Mozilla Firefox browser but iOpus iMacros can be installed other browser(IE, Google Chrome, Cometbird etc.) rather than Mozilla Firefox. Like other add on it is very easy to install and use.

Google can be your first choice for choosing download link for iOpus iMacros.

Some easy tutorials for using this add on can be found in following links

http://www.iopus.com/imacros/support/index.htm#tutorials 

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=iopus+imacros+tutorials&aq=o

Easy and useful tool for screen capturing

Jing new application for screen capturing from TechSmith, very useful and easy to use application. It have some very nice features like saving the video file in viewable format for users, it gives you server space to save your videos and it implements a smart sidebar to navigate in the video.

After I started using this application my clients become happier than before :)

Download links:
TechSmith

Tutorials can be found:
http://www.techsmith.com/learn/jing/
http://blog.jingproject.com/2007/07/how_do_i_use_this_thing_called.html

And of-course in YouTube

A very interesting way to learn

The following link have some very basic briefing in a very odd and different way, some people will find it annoying and some will get benefit. But what ever it is for you, it worth reading, at least for once :)

testingmanual.com

Nice tool for testing

After using lots of image processing tools I find out the most suitable one for application testing purpose. Snagit 9 have pretty awesome features to capture screen shots and modifying it as needed. I find it very very much usefull as a software tester. I think it worth a try. It is a freeware, you people can find it in your preferred download(full) end and also can be found from following links.

Brothersoft

A very simple tutorial for using it can be found in following link and a lot more in Youtube

http://video.techsmith.com/snagit/9/edu/showme/enu/new-user/new-user.asp

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