Nice Agile Blog from Henrik

http://blog.crisp.se/henrikkniberg/

Scrum Open Assessment Exam --- Access your scrum knowledge

http://www.scrum.org/scrumopenassessment

It has got 30 questions and you've to answer them in 60 minutes ...
Less Questions :)
More Time :) :)

Click > Access > See Where you are in Scrum :)

Good Luck !!!!

Call Stack settings in Test Complete

The CallStack settings in TestComplete allows the user to track the function call that has been made to reach the particular log message.
By default this settings is enabled fonly for log.error message.

I guess this helps the testers to debug the code , whenever it fails...

For More info please visit

http://www.automatedqa.com/support/viewarticle.aspx?aid=11359&SearchQuery=call%20stack

Happy Testing & Debugging...

Write to Excel Cell with specified Colour using vb script

The function below can be used to write data to an Excel sheet.
The ReqColourIndex can be between to 1 to 56


Function WriteToExcelSheet(FileName,SheetName,RowNum,ColNum,DataToWrite,ReqColourIndex)



Dim ExcelApp,ExcelBook,RtnValue
RtnValue = False

If (Utilities.FileExists(FileName)) Then
Set ExcelApp = Sys.OleObject("Excel.Application")
ExcelApp.DisplayAlerts = False
Set ExcelBook = ExcelApp.Workbooks.Open(FileName)
Set sheet = ExcelBook.Sheets(SheetName)
sheet.Cells(RowNum,ColNum) = DataToWrite
sheet.Cells(RowNum,ColNum).Font.ColorIndex = ReqColourIndex
Call ExcelBook.SaveAs(FileName)
ExcelBook.close()
Set ExcelBook = Nothing
Set ExcelApp = Nothing
RtnValue = True
Else
Log.Error(FileName &" does not exist")
End If

WriteExcelSheet = RtnValue

End Function


//Example


sub TestWriteExcelSheet
call writeExcelSheet("C:\1.xls","Sheet1",2,3,"Routing passed",32)
End sub

Test Complete script to drag and drop an object (Vb Script)

This script can be used to drag and drop an object from one screen to another screen without using the coordinates.Everyobject has Left,Top ,width, ScreenLeft ,ScreenTop properties.

These properties can be used to achieve the drag and drop .

This was written with the help of Jay , AutomatedQA while trying to move an object from one screen to another
.
Sub DragAndDropItems(ReqObjectToMove,DestControl)
Dim XPos ,YPos ,dX ,dY
LogFolder = Log.CreateFolder("Draging and dropping item ")
Log.PushLogFolder(LogFolder)


XPos = ReqObjectToMove.Left+ReqObjectToMove.Width/2
YPos = ReqObjectToMove.Top+ReqObjectToMove.Height/2


dX = DestControl.ScreenLeft - ReqObjectToMove.ScreenLeft
dY = DestControl.ScreenTop - ReqObjectToMove.ScreenTop


Call ReqObjectToMove.Drag(XPos, YPos, dX, dY)
Log.PopLogFolder


End Sub
 
If your object does not have a Drag method ,alternative method is to drag an object to the desired position is to use LLPlayer to simulate the drag operation.

How Scrum is being followed ?

Is Scrum being followed the way it should be in Companies?

 Well , The one word answer to this question is NO...

What's being followed then?

 Indian Service providers have their own process and they do false promise to their customers that they will follow scrum alone during the development. But behind the screen , the companies do follow some other process along with scrum to keep documentation intact and they do not show it to the customers.

What is the result of doing so?

 Well the answer is the companies keep telling that they follow XXXX process and keep their business alive back home and they are indeed kicking the client  who follows scrum alone. The client wants to improve their productivity by following scrum . This is just going to be a dream and dream. Well in some sprint the client can see 100% work done and in some other sprint the result goes down to <40 %. Then the scrum smells something bad and jumps into the retrospective meeting , where the developer tells some lame reason for not completing the task and the scrum master believes it most of the time. This is done by the developer to protect his job ...If he says that he is asked to follow some other process along with scrum , he will be kicked out  or the manager will say some XXX XXXX reasons during appraisal meeting and curb out his promotion and salary hike ....



How is Scrum being followed?
 In some companies , I feel that scrum is being followed exactly the way it should be. The entire team sits during the start up meeting and plans the thing for the whole sprint. That's Good and that's how it should be done.



In some Companies the On Site Team and the Off Shore team manager/ Team leader sits and estimate the sprint work. The the Off Shore team leader assigns the activity to the team member . This is how its done when you follow a water fall model....This is again not a scrum model.



 In some companies it is still worse ... The On site/Client estimates the sprint work and send it to the off shore team . The off shore team has no other option other than just banging the key board to write the code and deliver....I feel the scrum model is again being killed here...



How can it be done?
 I feel that some part of the existing process can be mixed with scrum to keep records of what is being done. If a company tries to implement their entire process with scrum , then I guess the productivity will never go up and the client will have to keep filling water to a pot which has invisible holes right at the bottom from where profit is being drunk by the offshore team ...



Good luck ...



These are just my opinions based on my experience...

Team Effort

Dynamic Analysis - Testing Techniques

The testing of software mostly end up in testing an executable on a computer. To test such an object we give a set of inputs and we look for some expected outputs. If we are able to see the required outputs we end up saying that the software works well. This is a kind of testing where we've the entire software to be tested. But there are also scenarios where only partial software will be developed and we've to test those too. In such cases the test object can be embedded into a test bed for testing. The test bed will have stubs and drivers which can be used for testing.

The Stubs and drivers together form the test bed. Stubs just simulate the I/O behavior of the part of the test object. Often the testers need to modify the existing test drivers and make them generic to test the required test objects. Most of the testing goes by gut felling. Though such kind of testing reveals some bugs on top of the test object, it does not reveal all the bugs inside the test object.
In order to reveal the bugs hidden inside the software a proper test methodology should be followed. There are two different approaches for testing a software .They are Black box testing and White box testing


In Black box testing we cannot see the internal structure of the code .Only the test object is jsut like a complete black box. The inputs are given and the output is observed from the Point Of Observation (POO) in the test object. Black Box Testing is also called as functional testing. In white box testing the internal structure of the code is seen and it is under test. Here the Internal code is the Point Of Examination. Here the test cases are written to cover the internal structure of the code. White Box Testing is also called us Structural Testing. Black Box Testing Techniques During the Black Box Testing the internal structure of the code is not considered. Though it is a matter of testing how the DUT behaves, it cannot be tested the way we like. There are certain methods that are available, which can help us in arriving at some reasonable number of test cases assuring maximum coverage.
The methods that can be used while developing the test cases for Black Box testing are
1. Equivalence Class partioning
2. Boundary Value Analysis
3. State Transistion Testing
4. Use Case Method
5. Cause Effect and Decision Table
Equivalence Class Partioning (ECP)
The DUT always has to respond with some kind of information or output whenever some input is given. Whatever may be the input data, whether it’s valid or invalid the device has to respond with some kind of input. Our test case has both invalid and valid data to test the DUT. In ECP the test cases are separated on the basis of the class which it falls.