Chronicles Of Testing

Mind map on Exploratory Testing a Web Application. The above Mind map summarizes Testing on a Web Application Learnings: Realization about Exploratory Testing Versus Test Case preparation. Writing down test ideas – Relevant and required to capture the missing elements if any. Context is the Queen  Mobile Testing – There is more to it than that meets the eyeball. Web Testing as summarized above in the Mind map. Lessons on Bug Reporting and contextualizing it. Conventional versus My Way of Testing – Every tester has their own Style of testing which needs to be polished. Breaking the bad – Includes breaking one’s own biases and barriers. Being Surprised – Expect to be surprised and not surprised too when you spot a bug on the same page that which you checked and cross checked. Observe, listen, compete, test and report the bug – Pair test and learn with your colleagues. Participate in debriefing sessions. Part...

Is software security of any relevance to the role that I play as a programmer, a product owner, a  business developer, a user and a tester? In the past month, a retail firm failing to fix the reported bugs concerning security led to several user's credentials landing in pastebin.com(revealed and now removed). This article is an attempt to identify every role in SDLC with that of a responsible securitista. Why security needs to be considered as a functional feature? Why should software security be identified as an integral part of SDLC? Why is there a need to build a security team? Why having a mind-set and skills required for security, a boon to any organization? In addition, it is necessary to get consumers to understand that the Application/Website built is robust and secure. And have this message conveyed with the security features that your application provides the users with. The image below is one such attempt by Amazon.   Image courtesy: Amaz...

Open Source Firefox Web Browser offers free and purchasable add-ons - Install and use it for Testing the Web Applications and do more with it.  Image Courtesy:  https://addons.mozilla.org/ 1) Tamper Data Used for web security/penetration testing. Install this feature and tamper the data/request/cookies being sent to the server. Check for client side and server side validation. Validate input fields with valid and invalid data and posted messages. 2) DoNotTrackMe Many sites are tracking user's web activity, if you had like to obscure your activity on the web. Go for this. DoNotTrackMe does not ensure to obscure your web activity wholly. It checks against a list of sites and blocks them for you. Who will track your web activity? Hosts of tracking companies and social networking sites. What would they do with this data? Use it to provide you suggestions/recommendations. Misuse it to sell you something or sell the data. 3) Ghostery ...