Suppose you have Drupal website where user can purchase ticket through online ticket platform. It allows two types of users such as Registered user and guest user. System will automatically create an account for guest user using email address. Registered users have the permission to manage personal profile.
Spike testing is usually done to estimate the weakness of an application and see the dramatic behavior of the system when a sudden increment or decrements in the load by a user. Spike testing is mainly done to see how the system reacts with unexpected rise and fall of the load. It is also called Data volume testing.
Globalization testing is a type of testing to make sure that software can handle any locale, culture, without breaking the functionality. This testing would be performed using all type of international input and validate whether the software is capable for using all around the world.
Load and stress testing which comes under the division of Performance testing. Most
of us have some confusions regarding these two type of testing. Here I tried to
describe the difference between load and stress testing in simple manner.
Mutation testing is a type of white box testing in which we mutate certain statement in the source code inorder to identify the effectiveness of the test case. A mutation is a small change in a program. It is a type of unit testing, the changes in the source code will be small so that it does not affect the objective of the program.
Quality is an important factor when it comes to any product or service. In order to maintain or enhance the quality, manufacturers use two techniques, Quality Control and Quality Assurance. They are closely related, but they are different concepts. They have strong interdependence, Quality Assurance relies mostly on the Quality Control feedback and both work to deliver good quality products/services, but they are different processes.
Suppose if a Drupal login page has a Captcha to find whether the user is human or a bot. Using Selenium IDE we can automate all type of web elements such as link, check box, radio button etc. In case of Captcha, human interaction is a must.
XPATH stands for XML Path. In web-based application, XPATH is a unique address for each web object. XPath is mainly used to find an element in the web page. XPath helps to get address of the web element such as check box, radio button, link etc. To write XPATH for Dropdown, first of all we need to install Firebug in Mozilla Firefox browser. Firebug allow user to view the code behind the web page.
Sandwich testing is a type of testing that consist of two parts,they are Top-down approach and Bottom-up approach.It combines the advantages of both Bottom-up testing and Top-down testing at a time.Bottom-up testing starts from middle layer and goes upward to the top layer where as Top-down testing starts from middle layer and goes downward. Big-bang approach is followed for the middle layer. From this layer bottom-up approach goes upwards and top-down approach goes downwards.