Technical articles

Before, 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.

This 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.

It 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.

For an ordinary user, a video game is a final application that gives him certain gameplay. However, what does a video game mean to a developer?

In computer technologies the term «client» means software or hardware that interacts with the server in order to receive data or perform some actions. Client is an important part of the client-server architecture. The great example of clients are web-browsers. They serve as the web-clients and send requests to the web-server, receiving the needed web-page in turn.

Automated testing presupposes using automation tools to execute a set of test cases. As this kind of work is done by automatic, less time is required for manual testing, but more time is needed to support automated scenarios. Automation is good for large projects that require multiple checks of the same areas. Also those projects that have already passed the initial process of manual testing. Finding bugs in simple operations is the main task of automation. This type of testing is more suitable for large-scale companies, as it requires significant investments.

Chatbot testing is an ongoing process. Any chatbot checks before the release are beta testing no matter whether the tester uses manual or automated testing. Online feedback provided by users can become a true challenge. You need to be prepared to always adjust the chatbot according to reviews after its release.

Mind map is a structure in the form of blocks that demonstrates the relationship between elements. This term has many synonyms: associative map, connection diagram, knowledge map, mental map, intelligence map, thought map, mind map.