Top 8 Must Read Books about M2M and IoT

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Pros and Cons of ‘Automated Testing’

   One of the ancient ways of testing..

               Testing that requires a formalized ‘Manual Testing Process’ is known as Automated Testing. It is the use of strategies, tools and artifacts that argument or reduce the need of manual or human involvement or interaction in unskilled, repetitive or redundant tasks.

This type of Testing’s’ currently exists in a company or organization. Testings such as Functional, Regression, Expectation or Negative, stress, performance , load can be automated.

Benefits of Automated Testing

• -          Confirmation
• -          Rapid feedback
• -          Speedy implementation
• -          Frees up the time of the testers
• -          The development team can contribute
• -          Reusuable

Disadvantages of Automated Testing 

• -          False sense of quality
• -          Not consistent
• -          Maintaince Time and Effort
• -          Slow feedback
• -          Not many bugs found

Source : http://www.testingexcellence.com/test-automation-advantages-and-disadvantages/

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A Little Something About ‘BLACK-BOX’ Software Testing

                    

Widely popular Black Box testing is the software testing method is used to test the software without knowing the internal structure of code or program. The main purpose of the Black Box is to check whether the software is working as per expected in requirement document and whether it is meeting the user expectations or not.

                   The Main focus in black box testing is on functionality of the system as whole. The term ‘behavioral testing’ is also used for black box testing and white box testing is also sometimes called structural testing behavioral test design is slightly different from black box test design because the use of internal knowledge isn’t strictly forbidden, but it’s still discouraged.

-          Black Box testing occurs throughout the software development and testing life cycle i.e Unit, Intergration, System, Acceptance and regression testing stages.

Advantages of Black Box Testing

• ·   Tester can be non technical
• ·      Used to verify contradictions in actual system and the specifications
• ·      Test cases can be designed as soon as the functional specifications are complete

Disadvantages of Black Box Testing

• ·         Test inputs needs to be from large sample space.
• ·         It  is difficult to identify all possible inputs in limited testing time. So writing test cases is slow and difficult
• ·         Chances of having unidentified paths during this testing

Methods of Black Box Testing

1. -          Graph Based Testing Methods
2. -          Error Guessing
3. -          Boundary Value Analysis
4. -          Equivalence Partitioning
5. -          Comparison Testing

Source : http://www.softwaretestingclass.com/what-is-black-box-testing/

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Universally used Mobile Testing Tools

                 As Mobile applications become more and more important for business and consumers expecting higher quality apps for mobile devices, testing teams need to adapt and get ready to verify and evaluate mobile apps as part of their projects. Evaluating the quality of mobile devices is especially resource intensive and time consuming, especially as automating tests for mobile devices can be quite complex.

Most used Mobile Testing Tools

Appium ( Andriod and iOS )

Calabash  ( Android and iOS )

Monkey Talk ( Android and iOS )

Robotium ( Android )

Selendroid ( Android )

UIAutomator (Android )

UIAutomation ( iOS )

Frank (iOS )

Why there is a need for Mobile Automation?

Speed of Testing – By automating testing, one can run a suite of tests that would take a manual tester hour to complete in minutes or seconds. It can allow expanding test coverage so one can be more confident.

Scaling – Increases which platforms you are testing on and running singnificantly more tests is easy.

Cost – Automated testing can save time and money, since one can spend fewer resources on manual testing.

Source: http://www.optimusinfo.com/blog/top-10-mobile-testing-tools/

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SOFTWARE TESTING TRENDS IN 2016

As a new year starts, it’s time to focusing on new trends. Software testing isn’t immune to new developments and companies must keep these in mind as they put in place practices and processes. To assist you with this, here are some software testing trends to keep in mind.

1, Immense Test Automation Development

• -    Increasing use of automation even when code is in a high state of flux.
• -    Automation tools that support full end to end testing
• -    Increased penetration of automation into both development and operation
• -   A rise in technical skills levels of testing organizations in support of automation engineering

2, More use of Mobile Device Test Farms

• -    Key trend in mobile app comparability testing is the rise of mobile device farms in house or in the cloud.
• -    Maintaining a highly dynamic infrastructure in house is simply untenable for all but the largest enterprise.
• -   Supporting hardware and software for instant configuration, provisioning and collaboration between testers and development, which makes their use far more efficient than in house setups.

3, Proactive Software Testing

• -  Reduces the jolts to production cycles that occur when software is created and evaluated by distinct groups in distinct time phases.
• -  User experience, availability and performance issues will surface sooner and result in the delivery of software and more closely reflecting customer requirements

4, Focus on Security Testing grow intense

• -    Dynamic, run time test cases to expose vulnerabilities
• -   Static tests using automated code analysis tools during development
• -    Manual code scrubs to expose security issues that automated tools may miss
• -    Penetration testing, which uses a combination of manual and automated techniques to compromise apps and hardware and then further expose inner points of vulnerability

5, Need for Test Data Management gets multiplied

• -   Rise of the Test Data Manager role in leading software organizations.   
•   Enable data driven testings.
• -  Application of security testing, broader use of test automation, cloud based testing services and an elevation of the role that test data management plays. 

Solving BIGDATA problems faster on CLOUD

The faster the world is moving forward, various kinds of new technologies and strategies are coming to challenge the business world and is becoming important for them to cope up with these challenges to stay updated all the time.

Technology has given the industry two of the most powerful tools that any business can use to solve the issues related to productivity, customer, clients, revenue growth and infrastructure. And they are Cloud computing and Big Data.Data analysis can optimize a business’s decision-making, but, as analyzing big data is not a job which can be done very quickly as well as accurately, Cloud computing has come and taken the responsibility to make the dream of the industries true.

According to the businessmen, big data analysis on cloud enables businesses to get different opportunities and ways to solve any issues within the concerned time, strategically and as accurately as possible.

Cloud computing has given the root where big industries can store their big data and can protect it from any outside source. Not only that but it helps to decode the data acoording to a suitable process so that the decoding becomes structured and less complex and that makes it quick and takes it near to accuracy.