Testing Circus

Volume 1 - Issue 1 – September 2010

 Effective Bug Reporting

 Interview with Vipul Kocher
 Test Case Practice
 QTP Code Corner
 ISTQB Preparation Guide
 Testers in Twitter

 Agile Testing
 Trish Khoo’s – Testers and
Developers – Blurring the line
 Jai Ho Testers!

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Welcome to the 1st Issue of Testing Circus.

What a name! Testing Circus. Somebody would say

this is not a good name for a serious venture. The
word circus is generally associated with something
chaotic, funny. But we finalised on this name as
this would mean tricks. Circus is performed by well
trained professionals and they display their skills
and tricks without any hidden magic.

By publishing this e-magazine on software testing we would like to cater the

needs of people who are still new into the profession or those who want to
learn software testing. There are lots of books and magazine already available
on software testing but those are of pedantic in content. Testing Circus will
focus on the grass root level of software testing tricks.

We would like to give this e-magazine free of cost. This means the people who
are working behind this initiative are working without expecting any monetary
benefit. By doing so we believe we are giving back to the society of software
testers. We are known today because of software testing and we would like to
contribute to it back.

We have just started it overnight. We don’t have very good graphic and layout
designers. Our website does not have a good look. Simply, we don’t have
enough resources to cater those needs. Also we don’t want to complicate
things. We will, for now, use Microsoft office software and Acrobat Reader to
publish our e-magazine. We are thankful to Microsoft and Adobe for this.

We would like to thank all our contributors and mentors for helping us publish
this magazine. Special thanks to Mr. Vipul Kocher for encouraging and guiding
us at various point of time. Thanks to our subscribers for subscribing our
magazine.

Please forward, share, debate, criticize our work. We love your feedbacks.
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 By Kumar Gaurav

What is a Bug Tracking system?

Bug tracking system is a system for reporting and

tracking bugs reported against a software application
or project. A bug tracking tool can be very useful in
collecting information about number of bugs reported,
open or fixed at a given point of time.

Some well known Bug tracking tools available in the

market are Bugzilla, JIRA, Mantis, Clear Quest etc.
Quality Center has the in-built capability of bug
tracking.

Why good bug reports are a part of software testing project?

If your bug report is effective, chances are higher that it will get fixed. So fixing a bug
depends on how effectively you report it. Reporting a bug is nothing but a skill and a
good tester must possess this skill.

The point of writing problem report (bug report) is to

get bugs fixed

If a tester is not reporting a bug correctly, programmer

will most likely reject this bug stating as
irreproducible. This can hurt tester's moral and hence
productivity.

What makes a good software bug report?

Anyone can write a bug report. But not everyone can

write an effective bug report. You should be able to distinguish between average bug
report and a good bug report. So how do we distinguish a good or bad bug report? The
following are the characteristics and techniques to write a good bug report -

 Be precise
 Be clear - explain the steps to reproduce the bug
 Give all evidence and explain in clear language
 No bug is too trivial to report - small bugs may hide big bugs
 Attach proofs for the bug - logs, screenshots etc

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Pre-conditions
1. Try to reproduce your bug using a recent build of the software, to see whether
it has already been fixed.
2. Make sure that is not already reported and it is not a duplicate bug.
3. Know the exact requirement before logging the bug
4. Do not report just to increase the count. Try to report genuine bugs.

Reporting a New Bug

If you have reproduced the bug in a recent build and no-one else appears to have
reported it, then:
1. Choose "Enter a new bug” option.
2. Select the product in which you have found the bug
3. Fill out the form in the bug tracking tool. Here is some help understanding it:
Component: In which sub-part of the software does it exist?
OS: On which operating system (OS) did you find it? (e.g. Windows 7, Solaris 10, Red
Hat Linux, Mac OS)
Priority: How soon the bug should be fixed? Priority is generally set from P1 to P5. P1
as "fix the bug with highest priority" and P5 as "Fix when time permits".
Severity: This describes the impact of the bug on the software.
Types of Severity:
 Blocker: No further testing work can be done.
 Critical: Application crash, Loss of data.
 Major: Major loss of function.
 Minor: minor loss of function.
 Trivial: Some UI
enhancements.
 Enhancement: Request for
new feature or some
enhancement in existing
one.

Status: When you are logging the bug

in any bug tracking system then by
default the bug status is 'New'. Later
on bug goes through various stages like
Open, Fixed, Verified, Reopen, Won't
Fix etc.

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 Assign To: If you know which developer is responsible
for that particular module in which bug occurred, then
you can specify user id or email id of that developer.
Else keep it blank this will assign bug to module owner
or Manger will assign bug to developer.
Summary: How would you describe the bug, in one
liner? A good summary should quickly and uniquely
identify a bug report. It should explain the problem, not
your suggested solution.
 Good: "Cancelling a File Copy dialog
crashes File Manager"
 Bad: "Software crashes"
Kumar Gaurav is a Senior
 Very Bad: "Browser should work with my
QA Engineer currently web site"
working in PineLabs, Description and Steps to Reproduce: Write about the
Noida. bug in detail now. Give clear steps to reproduce the
bug.
He has 3.3 yrs of
experience and started his
career as a software tester Expected Results: Write about what the application
in HCL Technologies Ltd. was supposed to do or behave actually according to
His hobby includes reading requirements given by client.
about latest development
in the software testing Attachment: Attach all relevant files, reports, logs,
area. screenshots, and images to give proof of the bug. Make
He wants to share his sure that you don't attach very heavy files. Attach
compressed files if possible.
knowledge about software
testing through Testing
Circus e-magazine.
The conclusion: The
Kumar Gaurav can be bug report is an
reached at integral part of
http://twitter.com/krgaur software testers.
Practicing to write a
av00
good bug report and
tracking the bug to give a conclusive end is one of the
main skills of a software tester. Effectively used, a bug
reporting tool can become a good decision making tool
for management on the health of the software project.

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Agile Testing
Agile testing is a software testing practice that follows the principles of the agile
manifesto, emphasizing testing from the perspective of customers who will utilize the
system. Agile testing does not emphasize rigidly defined testing procedures, but rather
focuses on testing iteratively against newly developed code until quality is achieved
from an end customer's perspective. In other words, the emphasis is shifted from
"testers as quality police" to something more like "entire project team working toward
demonstrable quality."

The Word Agile means "Moving Quickly" and this explains the whole concept of Agile
Testing. Testers have to adapt to rapid deployment cycles and changes in testing
patterns.

Agile testing involves testing from the customer perspective as early as possible,
testing early and often as code becomes available and stable enough from module/unit
level testing.

Since working increments of the software are released often in agile software
development, there is also a need to test often. This is commonly done by using
automated acceptance testing to minimize the amount of manual labour involved.
Undertaking only manual testing in agile development may result in either buggy
software or slipping schedules, as it may not be possible to test the entire build
manually before each release.

In Agile Testing, testers are no longer a form of Quality Police. Testing moves the
project forward leading to new strategy called Test Driven Development. Testers
provide information, feedback and suggestions rather than being last phase of
defense.

Testing is no more a phase; it integrates closely with Development. Continuous testing

is the only way to ensure continuous progress.

Reduce feedback loops, Manual regression tests take longer to execute and, because a
resource must be available, may not begin immediately. Feedback time can increase
to days or weeks. Manual testing, particularly manual exploratory testing, is still
important. However, Agile teams typically find that the fast feedback afforded by

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automated regression is a key to detecting problems quickly, thus reducing risk and
rework.

Keep the code clean. Buggy software is hard to test, harder to modify and slows
everything down. Keep the code clean and help fix the bugs fast.

Lightweight Documentation Instead of writing verbose, comprehensive test

documentation.

Agile testers:

 Use reusable checklists to suggest tests

 Focus on the essence of the test rather than the incidental details
 Use lightweight documentation styles/tools
 Capturing test ideas in charters for Exploratory Testing
 Leverage documents for multiple purpose

Content Source - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_testing

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In Lighter Moods

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 By Trish Khoo

I’m a tester who used to be a developer. I find my developer skills to be very useful in
my job as a tester.

Knowing how to build software goes beyond just knowing how to code up a script. If a
tester can understand how software fits together, then that tester will have a greater
understanding of how to find points of failure. Not only that, but
understanding how something went wrong can lead the tester to discover even greater
risks to the system. If the tester’s understanding of the system stops at the GUI level,
then their exploratory testing path stops there too.

Understanding how different system components interact, and being able to program
these components opens up possibilities for new kinds of tests. Very focused and
powerful tests can be imagined and implemented this way.

Being able to
communicate with
developers at the same
level as them is also
extremely beneficial. It
not only makes it easier
for both parties to
understand each other,
but it fosters a mutual
respect. Building
software isn’t easy, and
knowing what’s involved
gives testers a greater appreciation for the developer’s job. Developers respect testers
who have taken the time to understand what they have built and how they have built
it.

Working with software means that having programming skills gives the tester greater
power over that software. Much of testing is about comparing system states. Being

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 able to query a database and directly call
methods from code can give the tester
greater control over the state of the
system.

Even just having basic programming skills

can be a big plus. Generating custom test
data programmatically can be a huge
time saver. Being able to modify an
automated record and playback script to
speed up a task can also save time. And
then there is automation.
Being able to write code is not enough to
be able to write good automated tests.
Writing a good automated test suite is
Trish Khoo is a loquacious software not a trivial exercise. Even seasoned
tester hailing from Sydney, Australia. developers can find it difficult if they
When not writing for her testing don’t know how to approach it. Writing
blog, Purple Box Testing, Trish can automated tests is a skill that needs
usually be found working as the Test study devoted to it on top of learning to
Lead for Campaign Monitor. code.

She sometimes participates in the

Software Testing Club forums and
Weekend Testing for Australia and
New Zealand.

At the moment, her main interests

lie in automated testing, exploratory
testing and test management.
http://ubertest.hogfish.net/

She can be reached at twitter

http://twitter.com/hogfish

My advice to manual testers: consider devoting some time learning how to build
software. If coding doesn’t appeal to you, then at least consider studying software
architecture and design, which will help your understanding of how software
components fit together and interact. These are skills that will be very useful to you.
There is a great deal of work involved in learning these, but is worthwhile.

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 @

Michael Bolton
BIO: I solve testing problems that other people can't solve, and I teach people how they
can do it too.
96 following,
1,652 followers
197 listed
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James Marcus Bach

BIO: Author of Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar, high school dropout, unschooling parent,
philosopher, neo-pyrrhonian skeptic, software tester
71 following
2,126 followers
250 listed
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Vipul Kocher
BIO: Bhartiya, entrepreneur, Software Tester. Books, History, Movie, Food, ~Lover - TOO
MANY INTERESTS, TOO FEW SKILLS
482 following
343 followers
17 listed
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 Pradeep Soundararajan
BIO: Tester, Coach, Consultant, Speaker, Writer and more on Software Testing
651 following
778 followers
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uTest
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software testing: 25,000+ testers in 160+ countries
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 By Nasim Ahmed

I must introduce myself to get you to the context. I am a software developer in an IT

firm. I have worked on Desktop application, services and web applications. As we all
know in software development phases which start from requirement, analysis,
designing, coding, testing and maintenance. All parts are extremely important and
problem in any phases causes the
failure of the software/application.

In theory, if we analyze a
requirement well and design it
properly, we code accurately then
there should not be any problem.
But in reality it is not true.
Particularly in this age of deadlines
we keep on doing things in hurry and
we end up getting into a mess.

From developer’s point of view the

design is a challenge. Is the design
feasible enough to work on? If it is,
then coding part goes easy. Even
then there is no guarantee that the
software will be 100% defect free. So
testing is an important part of the overall Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
The testers are really the ones who save us from ending up with failure. In the all
development phases, we focus on one part at a time and often an application consists
of many modules and those are developed in parts which when integrated will result
into a complete application.

A problem in one small unit can cause major regression issues in other part of the
application. Let’s take an example of an application which supposed to handle
thousands and millions of transactions at a time. The developer writes a unit but in
unit test it gets pass without a problem. But it may fail in real scenario .The test
engineers test these scenarios which are not generally tried at developer’s end. Not

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 only they test the real scenario but test the
tiny and smallest requirements which
actually may cause a very big problem. From
developer’s point of view a code is working if
it passes the scenario for which it was
written and he/she never bothers for the
unusual cases. Moreover, developers consider
user as a real hero and assume that the users
know how the software should be used. This
is certainly a bad assumption. Luckily the
test engineer saves us by testing all the
conditions.

Md.Nasim Ahmed is a Senior

Software Engineer currently
working in HCL Technologies,
Noida. He has 4 years of
experience in developing and
maintaining various Windows
and Web applications. He
started his career as a software
developer in Edisphere Pvt.
Limited.

His hobby includes reading

novels, motivational books,
writing blogs and tracking
technologies update.

Nasim Ahmed can be reached

at http://twitter.com/_Nasim To be concise “developers test to see the
application working” and “the testers test
it to see if it fails”. For a developer, a tester
is like a critic who will point out all the
wrong things in the application. It hurts a lot as a developer. But at the end of the
day, they are the people who keeps our clients happy by helping us deliver a nearly
defect free application.

A piece of advice to budding testers -

- Do not report bugs just to increase the number.

- Do not blame developers, blame the code. Although blame does not fix
defects.
- Help us understand the defect by writing good defect reports. Watch out your
written and non-written communication skills.

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 By Naresh Bisht

Requirement – A Pet Bottle

To generate and write test cases to a pet bottle.

(This test case document is just an indication of how to write test cases. The test steps are
not exhaustive. The author believes that more test steps can be written for a pet bottle.)

Volume 1 Ltr (1.05 qt)

Colour Transparent light green
Height 10.1 in (25.7 cm) tall
Diameter 3 in (7.6 cm) diameter at middle
Shape Round
Weight 1.45 oz (41 g)

Sr. Actual
Steps to Execute Expected Result Remarks
No. Result*
1 Measure the Volume of bottle 1 ltr (1.05 qt) bottle
Should be transparent and
2 Examine the Colour of Bottle
light green in colour
3 Measure the Height of bottle 10.1 in (25.7 cm) tall
4 Check shape of bottle Round Shape
Measure the Diameter of
5
bottle
At the Top 1/4 in (3.2 cm) diameter
At the Middle 3 in (7.6 cm) diameter
At the Bottom 3 in (7.6 cm) diameter
6 Weigh the Empty bottle 1.45 oz (41 g)
Check the surface finish of Bottle should be smooth at
7
outside and inside the bottle both sides
Check the tightness of the Cap should be sealed and
8
bottle cap should be airtight
Clockwise should close the
Examine the rotation of cap
9 bottle cap, Anti-clockwise
clockwise/anti-clockwise
should open the cap
Bottle should not leak when
10 Check for Leakage the bottle is filled with liquid
(water).

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 Sr. Actual
Steps to Execute Expected Result Remarks
No. Result*
Check the ability to withstand The material used should be
11
heat (50 C Degree) able to withstand heat
Check the ability to withstand The material used should be
12
cold (Zero C Degree) able to withstand cold

13 Check the Base of the bottle The bottle base should be flat

Should be stable when empty

14 Check the stability of bottle
or full
Easy to hold and non-slippery
15 Check the grip of bottle
even when wet
Label should be pasted on
outside the bottle and it
should have all the
16 Check the Label of bottle information about the brand of
the bottle manufacturer –
Logo, Price tag, manufacturing
date, manufacturer name etc.
The bottle should be smell
17 Smell the empty bottle
free
Check the type of plastic used It should be thermo plastic
18
for the bottle (recyclable)

*Actual Results are written when you get to test the

actual bottle.

In this section we will practice to write test

cases on various items, objects and applications.
We do not claim that test cases written here are
exhaustive. It is just to give ideas to testers,
beginners on how to approach for writing test
cases. Readers are encouraged to share their
views on the test cases. We would love to
publish the opinions in the next issue.
– Editor Naresh Bisht has 3 years
experience in Software
Testing. He is currently
employed with HCL
Software Testing Quote - Technologies, Gurgaon. He
"To find the bugs that customers see - that loves reading books, watching
are important to customers - you need to sci-fi movies. Naresh can be
write tests that cross functional areas by reached at
mimicking typical user tasks. This type of http://twitter.com/Naresh_Bisht
testing is called scenario testing, task-
based testing, or use-case testing." (Brian
Marick)

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TalentSprint and Thinksoft Global launch financial software testing
certification program

To benefit fresh graduates TalentSprint and Thinksoft Global have announced a

strategic partnership to launch professional programs in the area of structured testing
of financial software. These programs are designed to benefit fresh college graduates
from diverse backgrounds to become industry ready CFST (Certified Financial Software
Testing) professionals and start a career at Thinksoft. The program involves an
industrial curriculum that includes experiential learning, internship, and certification.
The professional programs will be managed by TalentSprint.

AppLabs looks at buyout in US for around $50 mn

AppLabs, the world’s largest independent software testing quality management

company, which has its global delivery centre in Hyderabad, is planning to acquire a
US-based company for about $50 million (approximately Rs 235 crore), according to its
founder and chairman Sashi Reddi. “The move is primarily targeted at acquiring talent
pool in a short while, going back to the old challenges. One significant acquisition in
the US can help us plug a key requirement (workforce) for the company,” he told
Business Standard, while declining to draw any time line for closing the deal.

AppLabs had earlier acquired three companies — KeyLabs for $7 million in 2005, IS
Integration for $37 million in 2006 and Hyderabad-based ValueMinds for an undisclosed
sum in August 2010. The over $100-million company, has raised $17 million from global
venture capital funds such as Sequoia Capital and Silicon Valley Bank to fund these
buyouts. “The proposed acquisition will be funded through internal accruals and debt
from banks and large private equity players,” Reddi said. AppLabs presently employs a
little over 2,000 globally, of which 1,650 work out of its Hyderabad centre. Reddi said
the debt-free company was expanding its presence in Hyderabad and was taking more
space at the DLF special economic zone here at a cost of Rs 12 crore.

“I can picture that we can add probably more than 1,000 people in the next 12
months,” he said, adding the new facility would be fully operational by the end of this
December. Reddi said there was a change in the mix of people that the company was
taking because of the bigger companies that it was currently working with. The new
recruitment at AppLabs, will include 60 per cent freshers and the rest laterals.

Stating that the global software testing market was estimated to be $6 billion and
growing at a rate of 20 per cent, which is far higher than the growth of the general IT
services market, he said the growth could be achieved if the testing moves from in-
house to outside. “But where is it going is the question, whether it is going to big

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systems integrators, specialised firms like AppLabs or testing tools vendors. In this
space, we are seeing a strong growth in the US, with the geography contributing two-
thirds to our revenues,” he said, adding that when the company competed now for
business, it was always against Tier-I players IBM or Cognizant.

Leading Market Research Firm Positions Cognizant as a Leader in Global

Testing Services

Cognizant, a leading provider of consulting, technology, and business process

outsourcing services, has been ranked a leader in enterprise application testing
services in an IDC MarketScape analysis of 13 global third-party testing firms.

"IDC views Cognizant as one of the leading players with major market momentum that
is helping drive efficient process and workflow into its global testing services
practice," according to "IDC MarketScape: Global Testing Services, 2010 Vendor
Analysis" by Rona Shuchat, Mukesh Dialani, and Melinda-Carol Ballou.

"Cognizant has been growing at an accelerated pace in testing services as well as

across its ADM service lines," the report says. "A key part of Cognizant's approach is to
adapt to the QA maturity level of its clients, engaging systematically to find ways to
reduce inefficiencies and waste, in turn supporting redirection of investment toward
business priorities. To this end, Cognizant works at creating client communities,
sharing best practices in how to overcome internal customer challenges."

"Its testing practice is aligned with industries of specialization - such as financial

services, healthcare, manufacturing/retail, telecommunications, and media and
entertainment. This vertical alignment parallels its broader vertical sales strategy,
enabling it to leverage its domain expertise and domain-aligned testing model," says
the report. "As a result of its deep and focused solution content, Cognizant 2.0 process
orchestration framework, and go-to-market strategy, Cognizant ranks in the leadership
quadrant in our IDC enterprise application services assessment, for both discrete and
embedded views."

"We are delighted to be recognized as a leader in IDC MarketScape's comprehensive

global survey," said Sumithra Gomatam, Senior Vice President and Global Head of
Cognizant's Testing Practice. "At a time when our clients are facing increasing
economic, industry, and technology shifts, we have focused our global testing team on
helping our clients champion software quality and, in the process, build more effective
businesses.

"Our highly experienced testers, consulting expertise, and robust testing processes,
methodologies, tools, and frameworks help us enhance testing efficiency and
precision, reduce costs, decrease cycle times, and provide our clients with superior
software quality," Sumithra added. "Thanks to our expertise on both the business and
technical sides of testing, we have been able to create enterprise-wide managed test
centers and expand our service portfolios to related areas such as test environment
management and cloud-based testing."

Sources – Google News and various internet news portals.

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Foundation Level Exam

1) According to the ISTQB Glossary, the word 'bug' is synonymous with which of the
following words?
A. Incident
B. Defect
C. Mistake
D. Error

2) According to the ISTQB Glossary, a risk relates to which of the following?

A. Negative feedback to the tester.
B. Negative consequences that will occur.
C. Negative consequences that could occur.
D. Negative consequences for the test object.

3) Which is not a type of review?

A. Walkthrough
B. Inspection
C. Informal review
D. Management approval

4) A test team consistently finds between 90% and 95% of the defects present in
the system under test. While the test manager understands that this is a good
defect-detection percentage for her test team and industry, senior management
and executives remain disappointed in the test group, saying that the test team
misses too many bugs. Given that the users are generally happy with the system
and that the failures which have occurred have generally been low impact, which
of the following testing principles is most likely to help the test manager explain to
these managers and executives why some defects are likely to be missed?
A. Exhaustive testing is impossible
B. Defect clustering
C. Pesticide paradox
D. Absence-of-errors fallacy

5) Why are error guessing and exploratory testing good to do?

A. They can find defects missed by specification-based and structure-based
techniques.
B. They don't require any training to be as effective as formal techniques.
C. They can be used most effectively when there are good specifications.
D. They will ensure that all of the code or system is tested

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6) How do experience-based techniques differ from specification-based
techniques?
A. They depend on the tester's understanding of the way the system is structured
rather than on a documented record of what the system should do.
B. They depend on having older testers rather than younger testers.
C. They depend on a documented record of what the system should do rather than on
an individual's personal view.
D. They depend on an individual's personal view rather than on a documented record
of what the system should do.

7) Which of the following statements about the relationship between statement

coverage and decision coverage is correct?
A. 100% decision coverage is achieved if statement coverage is greater than 90%.
B. 100% statement coverage is achieved if decision coverage is greater than 90%.
C. 100% decision coverage always means 100% statement coverage.
D. 100% statement coverage always means 100% decision coverage.

8) Use case testing is useful for which of the following?

P. Designing acceptance tests with users or customers.
Q. Making sure that the mainstream business processes are tested.
R. Finding defects in the interaction between components.
S. Identifying the maximum and minimum values for every input field. Solution:
T. Identifying the percentage of statements exercised by a set of
tests. 1) B
A. P, Q and R
B. Q, S and T
C. P, Q and S 2) C
D. R, S and T
3) D
9) Postal rates for 'light letters' are 25p up to 10g, 35p up to 50g
plus an extra 10p for each additional 25g up to 100g. Which test
inputs (in grams) would be selected using equivalence partitioning?
4) A
A. 8, 42, 82, 102
B. 4, 15, 65, 92, 159 5) A
C. 10, 50, 75, 100
D. 5, 20, 40, 60, 80 6) D
10) Which of the following could be used to assess the coverage
achieved for specification based (black-box) test techniques? 7) C
V. Decision outcomes exercised
W. Partitions exercised 8) A
X. Boundaries exercised
Y. State transitions exercised
Z. Statements exercised 9) B
A. Y, W, Y, or Z
B. W, X or Y 10) B
C. V, X or Z
D. W, X, Y or Z

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 Problem:
Click the link “Delhi Metro Rail Corporation” available in
webtable on Indian railways website. You are not aware
which cell contains the desired link. You have to search the
Jaijeet Pandey has over 5 link and click the same within the web table.
years of experience in
Application Development,
Maintenance and Testing.
From more than last 3 years
he is involved in automation
testing with QTP and Load
Runner tools. He also teaches
QTP on weekends. He is
currently employed with
Birlasoft, Noida. In his leisure
time he loves reading
technical and non-technical
books. He can be reached at
http://twitter.com/jaijeetpa
ndey

Solution:
Here is the QTP code to solve your problem.
row=Browser("Welcome to Indian Railway").Page("Welcome to Indian Railway").WebTable("Zonal
Railways").GetRowWithCellText("Delhi Metro Rail Corporation")
col= Browser("Welcome to Indian Railway").Page("Welcome to Indian Railway").WebTable("Zonal Railways").ColumnCount(row)
For ctr=1 to col step 1
txt= Browser("Welcome to Indian Railway").Page("Welcome to Indian Railway").WebTable("Zonal
Railways").GetCellData(row,ctr)
If strcomp(trim(txt),"Delhi Metro Rail Corporation",1)=0 Then
Set MetroLink=Browser("Welcome to Indian Railway").Page("Welcome to Indian Railway").WebTable("Zonal
Railways").ChildItem(row,ctr,"Link",0)
MetroLink.click
Exit for
End If
Next

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Interview with Vipul Kocher
In this section, we will publish interview with
Software Testing professionals in every issue. In this
issue Vipul Kocher has shared his ideas about
software testing and how he sees future of software
testing. – Editor

Q: How long have you been associated with

software testing?
A: Fifteen years
Name – Vipul Kocher
Organization – PureTesting Q: How did you become a software tester?
Role/Designation – Co- A: From being a developer to a tester was a
founder and Co-President short Journey. I had finished my development
Location – NOIDA, Bangalore, tasks, the product was to be released and my
UK, USA company needed somebody who was available to
do testing. I was a person at right time. That I
was right person had nothing to do with it.
Vipul Kocher is a person
with deep and passionate Q: By any means, do you regret being associated
interest in software testing with software testing?
which also happens to be his A: Only to the extent that I see lot less number
profession. His other areas of testers who are on a focussed learning path as
of interests are Science compared to those who just don’t care about
improving their testing knowledge.
Fiction, Archaeology, History
of Ancient Bharat, Religions. Q: Do you think software testing is less
In his own words – Too many respected than other departments in IT
interests, too few skills. industry?
A: It depends on the organization. For the
organizations I have worked with, they valued
Email ID – their testers at par with other departments esp.
[email protected] development and valued the opinions of testers
even more than developers. I have also heard of
organizations which are ignorant of the value
testing and testers bring.
Blog/Site –
www.puretesting.com
http://vipulkocher.blogspot.com Q: What will you suggest to people who want to
join IT industry as software testers?
Twitter URL – A: My suggestion is that they should polish some
http://twitter.com/vipulkocher of their skills such as communication, analytical
and logical thinking skills and they should

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improve their knowledge of computers, operating systems, programming languages
etc. While it is not necessary, it is highly desirable.
Developing an attitude of enquiry is very important as most important skill required in
testing is the skill of questioning.

Q: Where do you see software testing in next five years?

A: Where I see it today. Necessary, important and still misunderstood.

Q: What qualities will you look for in a candidate when you want to recruit someone
for software testing job?
A: A questioning mind not easily satisfied with “authoritative” answers, an eye for
details and most important of all, a will to excel.

Q: Your weekend routine?

A: No difference between weekends and weekdays most of the time. It is work,
pleasure, reading a lot and a little bit of thinking. I need to reverse that – more
thinking and less reading.

Q: Movie you would like to watch again?

A: There is no liking part there. If I like, I watch it. So I have no list of what I would
want to watch. As far as liking is concerned I am big on Action, Science Fiction,
Comedy – Hollywood as well as Indian movies (including Tamil and Telugu movies with
subtitles)

Q: “I am a social networking site geek” Or “I hate facebook /orkut / twitter”?

A: I am not really a geek there. I use Twitter often and Facebook some times. I use
phone and email a lot more to be connected with my friends. I hardly blog.

From the next issue onwards we will publish mails, feedbacks,

complaints, wishes sent to editorial board. Please send us what
you feel about this magazine.

You can send your emails to

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The first edition of the "Testing Circus" is being published with help from number of
professionals who are working in Software Testing field. We would like to thank all the
contributors who shaped up this magazine. We got overwhelming responses to our
initial campaign to publish this magazine. However, we need more support to continue
to publish this magazine. Here is how you can associate with this mission. We need
people in three categories.
 Content Author - You can contribute original article written on software testing.
A group of testing professionals will review the content and approve for
publishing in the e-magazine.
 Campaign Champion - You can also become a campaign champion by informing
about this e-magazine to the testing community.
 Tech Team - You can help us managing the technical aspects of creating the e-
magazine, maintaining subscriber base and helping on us on websites etc.

Simply write a mail to [email protected] mentioning your willingness to work

with us.

We would like to thank Jaijeet Pandey, Kumar Gaurav, Trish Khoo, Nasim
Ahmed, Naresh Bisht for contributing content for this magazine. We also
thankful to Ish Chand Tripathi for helping us in campaign activities, Anuj
Batta for blogging about Testing Circus in his blog. Special thanks to C.
Nellai Sankar for providing inputs on test case section. There are lots of
people who encouraged us to launch this magazine. We approached lots of
people for helping us. Some helped, some refused, some never replied. But
we are thankful to all of them too.

Our special thanks to Mr. Vipul Kocher, President – Indian Testing Board for
giving us guidance and allowing us to publish his interview in this issue.

Last but not the least. Ajoy Kumar Singha – Founder and Editor of this
magazine would like to thank his wife and son who sacrificed their personal
time and attention and helped him work on this magazine – mostly late
nights.

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