Saturday, April 4, 2009

a guideline to new test engineers

i am working in qa as a test enginneer for around 1 yr. when i have joined in test team i was alone in the team. so that time i am kind of lost. where i have to start ??

i have browsed lot of sites and lot of articles to know how to test? to know what is the characteristics of test engineers? to know which software to use for test automation?

we are following scrum so its hard for me to find out the perfect test automation tools for us. i have tried lot of test tools. but i didn't like any one of them, because some of them have limitations and didn't meet up my requirements.

suddenly our head of rnd (hasan bhai) told me about selenium and told me to try it out.

so i have downloaded it and tried it out. i just loved it with its first look. it looks so simple and so smart.

The major things that stuck me most of the time is ajax requests. and those software tools don't know how to handle it and goes to the next command and fails. i was stuck in selenium too, but then i have read some article and find out the "pause" function. which helps me to handle the ajax.

now i will come to the major part of this post:

which software is best for you if you are new in test team ?

when i have asked this question to some of the test engineers they just say its upto you to choose there is lot, and that it upto your requirement.

but i have to say its upto you for sure but i can give you a guideline to help you out to find a good tools for you.

the good thing in tools is, it help you to find out broken parts that passed before but not the new bugs that came out for any new builds.

so which tools??

i have to say because you are new in test or you just wanna start as a test engineer then try out the selenium IDE. it is simple to install, simple to record and easy to run.


but i have to tell you again test automation is not a solution to find out bugs. it only helps you to find out the broken parts based on a fixed scenario.

here is those links of different selenium tools.
next post i will let you know about the good and bad about selenium.
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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousApril 6, 2009 at 12:52 AM

    really nice write up tanvir bhai, better if you hide my name, so it wouldn't make me feel.

    btw, still waiting for mailtrap related stuffs.
    best wishes,

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  2. tanvir afzalApril 6, 2009 at 8:25 AM

    i dnt forget to mention those name who helped me out alws to find out new things :)

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