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Imagine your website without quality

Imagine your life without quality. Imagine your organization without quality. The same effects would happen when your website doesn’t have quality. We cannot guarantee to bring quality in your life, but we assure to bring quality in every aspect of your website. We are here to cater you the best services in website testing.

If you don’t have a professional testing team, don’t worry

We are here

• To ensure Testing is conducted professionally
• To do your core activity of testing because we are professional service providers
• To give that extra assurance to your clients that your software is tested fairly and by a professional third party
• To reduce your cost expenditure

1. More effective on larger units of code than glass box testing 
2. Tester don’t needs knowledge of implementation, including specific programming languages 
3. Both tester and developer are independent of each other 
4. Tests are done from a user’s point of view 
5. This will help to expose any ambiguities / inconsistencies in the specifications
6. As soon as the specifications is completed the test cases can be designed

1. Small number of possible inputs can actually be tested; to test every possible input stream would take nearly forever 
2. Test cases are hard to design when there is no clear and concise specification. 
3. There may be unnecessary repetition of test inputs, if the tester is not informed of test cases the developer has already tried 
4. It may cause many program paths untested 
5. Can’t be directed toward specific segments of code which may be very complex
6. Most testing related research has been directed toward glass box testing

A quality website is a website that is error free and easy to use. Add to this, the website must be good looking in everyone’s point of view and should allow the user to perform a particular job quickly without problems.

Advantages of Quality Websites

With a Quality website it is possible to have good communications with customers, suppliers and staff.

Possibility of the Leads and Sales getting increased are high: having a quality website will establish an worldwide audience for your business services;

A quality website will enhance Customer Service

It will reduce marketing costs.

Quality websites integrated with e-business process can save significantly through inventory management

Quality websites will always keep you ahead of your competitors.

In order to get quality websites, we use the best testing practices and test your websites. Please do visit us at www.qcboss.com.

Let us see why system testing and acceptance testing playing the major role in the software testing. Below we can see some important points of System and Acceptance Testing.

SYSTEM TESTING

• System testing performed by developers and/or software testers.
• System testing should be performed before Acceptance Testing.
• System testing will focus on determining whether or not the software specifications have been implemented as specified.
• System testing is done by integrating the component of a system and any defect that occurs in the system is due to the defect in the integration of the system, but not in the individual components.
• These tests check for factors such as Cross-Tool testing, memory management and other operating system factors.

ACCEPTANCE TESTING

• It is performed by user personal and may include assistant by software testers.
• It should focus on input processing, use of the software in the organization, and whether or not the specifications meet the true processing needs of the user.
• It is considered to be the final stage of validation. This is the time to see that the system under test meets the users needs and provides confidence in its use.
• It is the process of comparing a program to its requirements. Acceptance must be performed by the actual user’s and their Assistants including consultants, auditors, internal systems staff, etc.
• The actual software and hardware configuration (or equivalent configuration) must be tested.
• The actual policies, procedures, manuals, operations, organization structure, and controls that will be in place and required to meet the stated objectives of the Systems must be used in the test.

Before you get all excited and want to run out and start using tools and automation on your tests, you need to realize the below points and take it to heart. Test automation isn’t a panacea. When it is properly planned and executed it can make your testing immensely more efficient and find bugs that would have otherwise gone undiscovered. However, countless test automation efforts have been abandoned and cost their projects dearly when they went astray.

You should consider these important issues before you begin using the techniques described below here:

The software changes. Specifications are never fixed. New features are added late. The product name can change at the last minute. What if you recorded thousands of macros to run all your tests and a week before the product was to be released, the software was changed to display an extra screen when it started up? All of your recorded macros would fail to run because they wouldn’t know the extra screen was there. You need to write your automation so that it’s flexible and can easily and quickly be changed if necessary.

 

There’s no substitute for the human eye and intuition. Smart monkeys can be programmed to be only so smart. They can test only what you tell them to test. They can never see something and say, “Gee, that looks funny. I should do some more checking” at least, not yet.

 

Verification is hard to do. If you’re testing a user interface, the obvious and simplest method to verify your test results is capturing and comparing screens. But, captured screens are huge files and those screens can be constantly changing during the product’s development. Make sure that your tools check only what they need to and can efficiently handle changes during product development.

 

It’s easy to rely on automation too much. Don’t ever assume that because all your automation runs without finding a bug that there are no more bugs to find. They’re still in there. It’s the pesticide paradox.

 

Don’t spend so much time working on tools and automation that you fail to test the software. It’s easy and fun to start writing macros or programming a smart monkey, but that’s not testing. These tools may help you be more efficient, but you’ll need to use them on the software and do some real testing to find bugs.

 

If you’re writing macros, developing a tool, or programming a monkey, you’re doing development work. You should follow the same standards and guidelines that you ask of your programmers. Just because you’re a tester doesn’t mean you can break the rules.

 

Some tools are invasive and can cause the software being tested to improperly fail. If you use a tool that finds a bug, try to re-create that bug by hand without using the tool. It might turn out to be a simple reproducible bug, or the tool might be the cause of the problem.

 

Automated tests produce their value even after the code changes. Except for rare types of tests, rerunning a test after any code changes is a waste of time: it may react to it differently.

But a test will not last forever. At some point, the product will change in a way that breaks the test. The test will have to either be repaired or discarded. To a reasonable approximation, repairing a test costs as much as throwing it away and writing it from scratch. Whichever you do when the test breaks, if it hasn’t repaid the automation effort by that point, you would have been better off leaving it as a manual test.

In short, the tests useful lifespan looks like this:

To estimate a tests life, you need some background knowledge. You need to understand something of the way code structure affects tests. When deciding whether to automate a test, you must estimate how many code changes it will survive? If the answer is “not many”, the test had better be as a manual testing.

Execute the Acceptance Test Plan

• Objective is to determine whether the acceptance criteria have been met.
• Can be accomplished through reviews, or testing. Determination of which (or both) is used depends on criticality of the software, the size of the program, the resources involved, and the time period over which the software is being developed.

Acceptance decisions need a framework in which to operate:

• Contracts
• Acceptance criteria
• Formal mechanisms
• Periodic reviews

Acceptance Decision

Final acceptance testing is the last opportunity for the user to examine the software for functional, interface, performance, and quality features prior to the final acceptance review.

Typical acceptance decisions include:

• Required changes are accepted before progressing to the next activity.
• Some changes must be made and accepted before further development of that section of the product; other changes may be made and accepted at the next major review.
• Progress may continue and changes may be accepted at the next review.
• No changes are required and progress may continue.

We are well-trained software testers who apply ourselves in the development process to build better quality software. There are a few companies that don’t appreciate the challenge of software testing and the value of well-done testing effort. In a free market society, these companies usually aren’t around for long because the customers speak with their wallets and choose not to buy their buggy products. A good test organization (or the lack of one) can make or break a company. For those who do not have a testing team or who would like to try out their hand on third party testers, here we are….

Here’s a list of qualities that we as software testers have:

·         We are troubleshooters. We are good at figuring out why something doesn’t work. We love puzzles.

·         We are explorers. We aren’t afraid to venture into unknown situations. We love to get a new piece of software, install it on our PC, and see what happens.

·         We are relentless. We keep trying. We may see a bug that quickly vanishes or is difficult to re-create. Rather than dismiss it as a fluke, we will try every way possible to find it.

·         We are creative. Testing the obvious isn’t sufficient for us. Our job is to think up creative and even off-the-wall approaches to find bugs.

·         We are perfectionists. We strive for perfection, but we know when it becomes unattainable and we are okay with getting as close as we can.

·         We exercise good judgment. As Software testers we need to make decisions about what we will test, how long it will take, and if the problem we’re looking at is really a bug.

·         We are tactful and diplomatic. We are always the bearers of bad news but we know how to do so tactfully and professionally and know how to work you’re your programmers who may be aren’t always tactful and diplomatic.

·         We are convincing. Bugs that we find won’t always be viewed as severe enough to be fixed. We will be good at making our points clear, demonstrating why the bug does indeed need to be fixed, and following through on making it happen.

Mailer Email Marketing is also known as Online Direct Marketing. The process is to send Online HTML Mailers and Non HTML Mailers to the customers/clients with the purpose of Marketing the offers and services.

The best benefits of Mailer Email Marketing is:

1. For enhancing customer relationship with the merchant. 
2. Sends promotional Mailers to the customers/clients for getting new customers and to conveyance your old customers to buy the product and services as offered in the Mailers…. etc.

We have a very good experience in designing & testing the effective Email Marketing Campaigns.

What we do testing in this….

1. Is a promotional message, contains a compelling offer and a call-to-action? 
2. Is a newsletter, contains a header, a table of contents, a welcome, and multiple ‘departments’? 
3. Is easy way to unsubscribe? 
4. Do it includes unsubscribe instructions? 
5. Do Reply works? 
6. Is offering Signed by a real person? 
7. Do it delivered in All Major Email clients with proper alignment…etc 

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