Testing ideas

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Permalink Reply by Sowjanya on December 2, 2009 at 9:42am

Hi,

Some Robustness scenarios:
1) What happens when Invalid Values(Special Chars, -ve numbers, Alphabets, Numeric, Future Dates, Invalid Date Formats Etc) given for Date Input.
(Applicable only when it is USER INPUT)
2) Screen resolution.(How the application behaves for different Screen Resolutions).

Some Usage Scenarios:
Since this is a web based Application Please do take care of
1) Browser Compatibility
2) Security Issues etc

Will Come back with few more scenarios soon (If possible)

Regards
Sowjanya

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Permalink Reply by Harish Pulari on December 2, 2009 at 10:12am

1. What happens when there is no result to plot on particular date .

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Permalink Reply by Navanitha on December 2, 2009 at 10:22am

When there is no result to plot, it displays a message "No data to display".
Date is not entered by the user. There is a calendar widget using which he can only select the date. So option of entering wrong formats of date, or invalid dates are ruled out..User can only select date, but cannot enter date..
Sowjanya told about security issues, can u brief out how we can test for security in this case..

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Permalink Reply by Michel Kraaij on December 2, 2009 at 10:34am

Some ideas:
* what happens if the data is not in a "normal" pattern. E.g. negative values (if positive required), positive values (if negative required), very small values, very large values;
* what happens if the data is empty or zero;
* what happens if the data consists of non-numeric characters (if possible);
* what happens if you are missing data for an entire hour/day/week/month;
* what happens if the source is not available (e.g. server which provides the data is not available and a request is done);

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Permalink Reply by Navanitha on December 2, 2009 at 10:49am

nice ideas,..thank u Mr.Michel..
But we do not have access to the the data in the server..so we cannot modify the data for the conditions suggested by u..
we can only query the database and verify if the data in the DB matches with the one being displayed in the graph..
So as a end user, who does not have access to the data, what other ways we can check for results displayed..

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Permalink Reply by Michel Kraaij on December 2, 2009 at 9:07pm

- are you testing environment? You mentioned you can't access the data. Maybe someone else can do this for you?
- Is there a way to implement data in the interface between the server and the gui?

If you can't implement data, you are merely testing a certain specific situation. You are only able to give feedback about that particular situation. The risk remains the software will display invalid information for those "exceptions" not investigated. Is it possible to conduct a code review by an expert (not being the developer)?

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Permalink Reply by Ajithkumar G on December 2, 2009 at 11:54am

1.check whether the selected date is passed to url.

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Permalink Reply by Navanitha on December 2, 2009 at 1:37pm

no option of seeing the url
i checked but no option of seeing the url..

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Permalink Reply by zavi on December 2, 2009 at 9:54pm

1.Take very high and very low value see its UI presentation on screen, graph should not go out of boundary.
2.Test in 90 and 120 Dpi
3.Resize of Browser window then check it affect on graph or not.

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Permalink Reply by sarwajeet on December 3, 2009 at 11:40am

My idea on this,

1. Usability testing(I.e: Is this page user friendly? does important point of the screen catches user eyes at first instant? etc)
2. Performance Test( What happenes if multiple concurent user try to access the portal at the same time?)
3. Does this page behaves same at varios geographical location? Ofcours you have to simulate this.
4. Compability of the page with other browser, OS, printer etc.
5. Does navigation link of the page(if any) works as intended?
6. Data accuracy against the database.
7.Security test.
8. As you mentioned, you can enter the date only, you need to check the date format. What message you receive if you put wrong date format? What happenes if you put whole dictionary in date field box(does system hangs or crash etc?

Few moe ....need to think.

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Permalink Reply by Michel Kraaij on December 3, 2009 at 10:24pm

What are the risks when taking the application in production without further testing? Should you continue testing?

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