You can add a watermark to worksheets in Excel, but you must add them manually using the header and footer tools. Open your worksheet in Excel and click the Insert tab on the Ribbon. In the Text section, click Header & Footer. NOTE: If your Excel window is smaller, the Text section might be condensed … Read More →
I have found it useful to send test script by email if people don’t have access to or don’t know how to use QC / ALM, the below steps detail how to do this. 1. Log in to ALM and go to the Test Lab Module. 2. Expand folder structure and select a test set … Read More →
A test matrix is simply a spreadsheet that supports the activity of defining and documenting Test Cases, by laying them out in the form of a table. A matrix can be implemented at the module, feature, function or field level, it should identify the different permutations for the level at which it is being documented … Read More →
The Quality Center (QC) Excel Add-in enables you to export your test plan, requirements, or defects from Excel directly to QC. You can view the exported test plan in the test plan tree, the exported requirements in the requirements tree, and the exported defects in the defects grid. This guide assumes that you have already … Read More →
Recently I have heard a lot of comments around the term ‘Best Practice’. The first question this raises for me is what exactly does the term ‘Best Practice’ mean? Wikipedia defines it as “A method or technique that has consistently shown results superior to those achieved with other means”. It goes on to state that … Read More →
Following on from my post on Test Types I decided to put this post together on Test Techniques as a follow on. Below are the main test techniques covered in the ISTQB syllabus, Rather than rewrite the definitions i have pulled them from different sources and edited as appropriate. Equivalence partitioning (EP) - divides the input … Read More →
I recently attended the first Sheffield Test Gathering, it was a very interesting and engaging evening with around 30 attendees and several speakers. One of the speakers, Paul Berry, raised 2 points that created some interesting discussions: … Read More →
There are many different types of software testing that can be carried out, the list below provides a brief description of each one. It is important to note that these are Test Types not Test Techniques, a test technique is an approach for how a particular test type will be scripted and executed. Acceptance testing … Read More →
Click in your table of contents. Now click the References tab, click Table of Contents, and then click Insert Table of Contents. (You’re going to replace the existing table of contents with the one you want.) In the Show levels box, type the number of levels you want to display in the table of contents. … Read More →
Setting buttons in outlook to open email templates can save a lot of time and make the process alot simpler, you will no longer need to hunt for a template file or type out the whole email each time you need it. Firstly you need to create your template and save it as a .oft … Read More →