Technical articles
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Payment services testing
18.04.2023We use payment systems almost every day: purchasing stuff online or paying for delivery services in applications or on mail websites. Such payments have become an integral part of our everyday life: shopping at your favorite store, pizza delivery, donating to your favorite RPG game. Any problems that arise during payment cause only negative emotions. Today, payment systems are the most convenient and the easiest prospective means for monetary payments on the Internet. It is not difficult to understand what payment systems are, because we have prepared for you an article about the operation and testing of online payments.
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Using Postman in testing
11.04.2023API testing is becoming more and more popular. Using it, you can predict how the system will react to a real user, perform the same tests with various sets of input data and take any additional actions by creating scenarios and test data, making the testing process faster and of higher quality.
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Android Debug Bridge (ADB) guide:installation and setting on Windows and mac OS
28.03.2023Android Debug Bridge (ADB) is a tool that is extremely useful for testers working with devices running the Android operating system. Despite its not particularly attractive interface, ADB has the widest functionality that allows effective interaction with gadgets.
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Testing of push notifications
21.03.2023Push notification is a helpful tool used in many systems. The notification types should take into account the interests of users and it is advisable not to limit users in choosing which type they want to receive.
Notifications are used on different platforms and are user-friendly, as they allow you not to miss important messages, news, and updates. Users receive the necessary information in a convenient form, they can quickly view new messages and respond to them without opening the application itself. -
Testing the cart in online shops
14.03.2023Most e-commerce websites have a common theme and structure where the shopping cart and checkout process are the most important parts
The shopping cart is one of the strategic areas to cover while testing. If website visitors can’t add items to their cart, they have no reason to stay. Therefore, test cases should contain all types of operations with the selected element. In other words, the shopping cart functionality must handle calculations that are sometimes quite complex. Since it determines the price of the final product depending on the type of delivery or other services, the smooth functioning of the shopping cart is crucial. -
Difference between UI and UX
28.02.2023In this article, we will look at what UI and UX are, what the rules are to create interface design, what influences UX and what is the difference between these two concepts. This terminology is often used in IT, but it has gained the bigger popularity in websites and application development. These terms are often confused, although they are approximately 70 years old. Let’s find out what the abbreviations mean and how they differ.
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Test Coverage
21.02.2023This article will discuss one of the metrics for evaluating test quality, such as test coverage. This metric represents the density (coverage) of test coverage of the executable program code or its requirements. The more tests are written, the higher the level of test coverage will be. But, you need to understand that there cannot be a full 100% test coverage, as it is impossible to fully test the entire product.
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Passwords, their testing and usage
14.02.2023Before, the «password» word was used to define a different kind of protection, for example, for entering the city and moving around it safely. In our time passwords protect physical information (documents in safes, money in banks, things in luggage), digital information on a hard drive, devices and most commonly on websites.
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How to work with Testrail: guide
07.02.2023This instrument and its peculiarities were described in the «Popular test design tools» article. However in this article we will look through the process of signing in; creation of projects, test cases, test-plans, test-runs and so on.
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Errors and response codes of server in testing
31.01.2023It is important not only for IT specialists to understand the causes of HTTP errors. The codes are related to the functional operation of the resource and inform about the state of the pages. Thanks to the information that each code carries after a user request, the server changes the processing of the document. If an error occurs, knowing the result of the request, you can also eliminate it yourself. Also, the diagnosis of error codes allows you to identify software weaknesses.