Leap Year Testing

A bug has been discovered in the Community Technology Previews (CTP) of SQL
Server 2008 related to leap year. The result of this bug is that SQL Server
2008 services will not start during the 24 hours of Feb 29 GMT.

This issue affects customers using any version of SQL Server 2008 on any
supported operating system. Although there is no known impact on SQL Server
2005 or prior versions at this time, we are continuing research on all
versions.

* Do not start or stop SQL Server 2008 Database Engine services during the
24 hour period of Feb 29, GMT
* Do not install or upgrade SQL Server 2008 during the 24 hour period of Feb
29, GMT.

So how my site visitors testing their product for leap year bugs?

Selenium core vs Selenium IDE vs Selenium RC

I got a chance to use this valuable tool which is light weighted and user friendly. It can be used by any technical or non-technical users as well. I really love this tool.

Selenium IDE is a plugin or call it an extension to Firefox, just like Firebug, Chatzilla but with a different functionality and purpose altogether. The recording mode plugin is not available for IE.

Basically Selenium IDE records its tests in HTML and then uses those tests to execute through browser. But users can covert HTML script to ruby,php,phython,C# or java by Options->Format.

But when you need them to execute the tests altogether as a test suite then follow the link change the test according the requirements and also modify different execution mechanism as required.

http://wiki. openqa.org/ display/SIDE/ Automating+ Selenium+ IDE+tests

Selenium Core and Selenium RC are used to execute the recorded script.

If you application does not work on Firefox or if it is not intended to work on Firefox according to the requirements then its better to use Selenium Core.

Some useful resource like tutorials and downloads on the net for beginners
http://selenium. openqa.org/
http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ Selenium_ %28software% 29

I missed a BUG

Most of the testers/QAs are concern about external issues that they have missed. Carrier wise external issues are not good for testers profile inside their organization. More external issues may destroy the testers reputation within organization. On the other hand it is not fair to put 100% responsibility of external issues to testers. Why testers miss bugs?.

1.Lack of project management.
2.Not enough time to test.
3.Requirement change in last moment before releases.
4.Lack of domain knowledge.
5.Lack of QA/test resources.
6.Poor requirement specifications.
7.Limited time to acquire domain knowledge.
8.Selecting automation testing in the earlier stage of project. ( Where manually testing is required.)
9.High coupling with developers. ( testers who depends of developers to get domain/technical knowledge may influence by developers.
10.Not enough motivation towards testing. ( more open bugs, ignorance of QA team within organization, lost of existing functionalities due to new bugs, less salary.... )
11.Developers/QA/tester attitude towards bugs.

Surely, there are more to add for above reasons list, Above points can be categorized in to two.

1.Self factors
2.Organization factors.

Anyway most of the above factors caused due to lots of sub reasons. Head of the organization or middle layer management should take actions to treat the organization factors. Immediate supervisor should care about the testes self factors.

I would like to mention one of my story here. Last week I found a bug which was missed in first release of the project. Luckily that bug was found by me after the release. If external user report that bug, things may have got worse. The project is small one so it can be tested by one QA resource. “Unnecessary text” is appeared top left had corner of the screen. Actually text was an e-mail password of one of our developer. Mistakenly he has type it in JSP file . I have been testing that project around one month before the release. It is shame of me. Why I have missed this idiot UI bug? What are the precautions that I can take to eliminate this kind of bugs in future.

Main Reasons (My excuse)
1.UI theme has changed 3 days before final release. So little time to test new UI theme.

But could have found this bug If I had used JSP/HTML/CSS validation tool. Yes it is good to learn by mistakes. And it may be more than good to share that mistake with others (to learn by others mistakes)

Some of the tool that you can use for this kind of work are given below.

http://validator.w3.org
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
J2EE verifier tool – JSP validation.

I have heard that Australian wicket keeper Adam Gilchrist going to retire from cricket due to the reason that he missed a catch. According to him what I should do?