Advantages and Guidelines of Automated Testing by Vamseedhar Sane
"Automated Testing" is automating the manual testing process currently in use. This requires that a formalized "manual testing process", currently exists in the company or organization. Automation is the use of strategies, tools and artifacts that augment or reduce the need of manual or human... Load - determining the points at which the capacity and performance of the system become degraded to the situation that hardware or software upgrades would be required. ... The following types of testing can be automated Functional - testing that operations perform as expected.

What Kinds Of Software Testing Should Be Considered by Jerry Ruban
Black box testing – This kind of Testing is not based on any knowledge of internal design or coding. These Tests are based on requirements and functionality. White box testing – This is based on knowledge of the internal logic of an application's code. ... Compatibility testing - testing how well the software performs in a particular hardware/software/operating system/network/etc. ... Sanity testing or smoke testing - typically this is an initial testing to determine whether a new software version is performing well enough to accept it for a major testing effort.

Free DVD Burners by Marcus Peterson
Free DVD burners are DVD burners that can be obtained free of cost. It may be either a hardware piece or software that is capable of burning information onto a DVD disc. It is possible to read and write a large amount of digital data using DVD burners. ... Free DVD burners are generally obtained as freebies from campaigns, where testing and marketing of products are done. ... If one takes part in such product testing campaigns, the manufacturer usually tests the product to see whether it is capable of meeting the necessary requirements for new DVD burners.

Local vs. Network Diagnostics by Sarah Lake
Obviously anyone who maintains PCs, whether local or on a network, is bound to be familiar with the demands of getting the offending machine back up and running as quickly as possible! Most have experienced the frustration of trying to pin point the problem, which could even boil down to being... Not being able to do in-depth hardware testing over a network is just an extreme case of the truism that you can’t do accurate hardware testing under a general-purpose OS such as Windows, DOS or Linux, because these programs are designed to run the hardware in the background, insulated from the...

Certify This by John Dir
Within the scope of my career, the advent of technical certifications is possibly the worst thing that ever came down the pike. I have already written some material on this subject, but this practice has caused me so much anguish, I wanted to add more fuel to the fire. ... If one is willing to overlook the fact that certification testing was originally introduced by software and hardware vendors as a means to produce additional streams of income, there are other issues that make this practice even more distasteful.

QA / QC Engineers - What are They Doing for You? by Marc Keller
Quality assurance and quality control are essential components of every company that produces software applications. Quality assurance (QA) or quality control (QC) engineers are the resources that maintain the quality level of a company and its products. ... A fault can also turn into a failure when the software is ported to a different hardware platform, or if the software gets extended. ... Software testing may be viewed as a sub-field of software quality assurance but typically exists independently.

PC Diagnostics - Step by Step by Natalie Aranda
Computer diagnostics help you to identify different problems and failures that any computer may present in any given moment for an apparently unknown cause. PC diagnostics test the system, including memory and BIOS, the software and the hardware by means of PC diagnostics software designed... Depending on the PC diagnostics software you are using for the testing process, you can run a full check up, that runs in batch mode with almost no intervention on your part, or you will be presented with a sort of menu with check boxes to click only the PC diagnostics you need to verify.

Taking the Guess Work Out of Computers With Hardware Issues by Cory Mioc
Today many computer technicians are frustrated with the unpredictability of various computer problems due to the environment that computers operate in today. Because 90% of all computer users in the United States use it to surf the internet, many computers get infected with malicious programs... Once we rule out that the hardware is problematic, we test the software. ... There are a number of steps that to be followed in order to discover whether the computer has a hardware problem or a software problem.

Have A Big Website - Worried About Server Load by Ted Peterson
Have we ever thought how big websites could be configured to handle massive amount of traffic? How thousands of businesses worldwide are facing challenges everyday to make sure there are no connection failures due to heavy load or congestion of traffic at the website. ... One such great software is the “Web Application Testing” or WAPT, which is a great utility for any website’s sustainability. ... This software is load, stress and performance testing tool for web sites and intranet applications with web interface.

Certification Skullduggery by John Dir
On the surface, the race for certifications in software, hardware, networking, and other technical disciplines sounds like a wonderful idea for ensuring companies receive the level of expertise they need to receive optimal efficiency and talent for their operations. ... With a sufficient amount of trivia collected, software and hardware vendors launched their certification testing plans at a price level that added enough credibility to the program to convince customers that they would really be getting something if they paid to have their employees engage in these testing procedures, at a...