Concurrent user estimation is an important step before going for performance testing and capacity planning as it is directly related to consumption of system resources. Therefore, before entering into the load testing phase we need to determine the peak user load or the maximum concurrent user load for designing a workload model. People often estimate [...]
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Quality Assurance and Testing Services
The quality assurance landscape is undergoing a major transformation as QA organizations try to align their goals with the business goals of their companies.
QA has a tough balancing act to perform — tackling business risks as well as cost reduction and ROI concerns, while building agility in their organizations to respond to business goals.
Testing teams [...]
On Jan. 15, 1990, around 60,000 AT&T long-distance customers tried to place long-distance calls as usual — and got nothing. Behind the scenes, the company’s 4ESS long-distance switches, all 114 of them, kept rebooting in sequence. AT&T assumed it was being hacked, and for nine hours, the company and law enforcement tried to work out [...]
Most of the time applications may face performance issues even after rigorous performance validation. This is primarily because of improper performance test environment setup and model. It is a common issue across the industry that the testing tool might not have performed correctly during the load testing. So it is always a best practice and [...]
HP SiteScope software monitors the availability and performance of distributed IT infrastructures including servers, operating systems, network and Internet services, applications and application components.
HP SiteScope continually monitors more than 75 types of IT infrastructure through Web‑based architecture that is lightweight and highly customizable. With HP SiteScope, you gain the real‑time information you need to verify [...]
Is your client having difficulty to measure QA performance? Is your client undecided on what test strategy to follow for new application implementation? Is your client looking for testing tool recommendations or need to improve the usage of the existing ones?
Hexaware has a dedicated Test Consulting practice where testing experts are involved in providing test [...]
Programming remains the biggest & most critical component of test case automation. Hence designing & coding of test cases is extremely important, for their execution and maintenance to be effective.
Some fundamental attributes of good automated test cases which can be followed,
Simple
Modular
Robust
Reusability
Maintainable
Documented
Independant
1) Simplicity: The test case should have a single objective. Multi-objective test cases are difficult [...]
As the world is moving toward a new era in Technology and business with respect to Testing, we will just have a walkthrough on Manual Testing and Automation testing.
1. Manual Testing is Boring
• No one wants to keep filling the same forms
• There is nothing new to learn when one tests manually
• People tend to [...]
Problems hindering a successful project:
To make any project successful, requirements and project objectives should be prioritised properly. Though few methods were followed for the prioritization, but still the results were observed to be flawed.
Problem 1: Prioritizing the Project Requirements
An important factor for any project to be successful is to ensure that the requirements are prioritized. [...]
