SQL Injection
SQL injection is a technique often used to attack data driven applications. This is done by including portions of SQL statements in an entry field in an attempt to get the website to pass a newly formed SQL command to…
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Security testing tips
This post is in continuation of my earlier post on security testing. Before I move into details of security testing here are few tips for beginners and some browser add-on that can help in security testing. Security testing tips:-…
Test strategy
What is it? What does it look like? As per James Bach “How we plan to cover the product so as to develop an adequate assessment of quality.” A good test strategy is: Specific Practical Justified Wikipedia defination “A test…
Page Load time using Firebug and Selenium
Firebug is a well known tool for debugging and page load time.It provides detailed timing information about Http traffic initiated by the page. The Net panel which collects all the data can be used to export it into HAR file. Prerequisites Firebug…
Bug – Severity and Priority
Severity and priority go hand in hand. Often there is a misconception about it. What should be the severity and priority of the bug? Sometime developer does not agree with the severity and priority given to the bug. Is it possible…
Exploratory testing
Exploratory testing is a powerful approach yet widely misunderstood. Almost all testers, sometime or the other do exploratory testing in some way or the other. Once in an interview I asked the person “your entire test cases are passed is…
Results Visualization using xsl stylesheet in JMeter
Using xsl stylesheet in JMeter with .jtl files Jmeter provide several .xsl files to visualize the result in human readable format outside JMeter tool. These are located in %APACHE_JMETER_HOME/extras folder jmeter-results-detail-report.xsl jmeter-results-detail-report_21.xsl jmeter-results-report.xsl jmeter-results-report_21.xsl 1. Open the Jtl file in…
Concurrent pool size and browser emulation in JMeter
Since JMeter 2.5 there is a new option called “Concurrent pool size”. Whats so important about this feature? To answer this lets first understand how browser works and what an end user response time means. Once the browser fetches a…
JMeter – Transaction Controller
Transaction Controller The Transaction Controller generates an additional sample which measures the overall time taken to perform the nested test elements. Note that this time by default includes all processing within the controller scope, not just the samples; this can…
JMeter – How to pass parameters into test scripts?
How to pass parameters into test scripts? To pass parameters in JMeter scripts you can use property() function, which reads value of JMeter property. In order to define the property so JMeter can read it, define it on the command…