The Life-Long Journey of Learning!

Lesson Learned from Software Testing: Many of us know, UX stands for User Experience and UI stands for User Interface. Lets see an example: In most of the websites we see a search engine. Now, without entering any keywords in the search box and click on Search Button. We don't see "No Error/Warning message". We feel that is a UI bug. But, it has been worked as designed - to "re-enter and click on search button". Hence, the issue may be rejected as it is not UI Bug. And a tester raises an Issue - There should be warning message " Enter a Search Keyword ". It is a UX Bug.

Few days ago, a new concept came landed on my desk - ROBOTS.TXT and I haven't heard about it before. I have asked many of my friends/colleagues. Thanks to my guide - Thomas , who gave me a clear thoughts about robots.txt.  Here is my learning notes from it. Web Robots (also known as Web Wanderers, Crawlers, or Spiders), are programs that traverse the Web automatically. Web site owners use the /robots.txt -  text file  to give instructions about their site to web robots; this is called  The Robots Exclusion Protocol . This file is placed on web server under  root folder  and advises spiders and other robots which directories or files they should/ should not access. Example:   www.yourwebsite.com/robots.txt What does it do exactly? When a keyword is searched, first thing web spiders visits is robots.txt file.  It looks in the file to know what it should do - based on the instructions mentioned in robots.txt Why ...

I came across a situation while testing on Safari Browser - Mac OS where, On Selection of Tab on the fields - It is not focusing on all fields in the form. Initially, I thought it is a Bug in the application. But, I thought if there are any settings need to be looked over. As I was new to testing on Mac OS Platform. Found that Tab Navigation is disabled by default in Mac OS Safari Web Browser and on click on Tab on keyboard, it doesn’t interact with each element on the page. Solution: But there is an option to "Turn ON" - In Safari Browser -> Preferences -> Advanced -> enables tab to all fields in order to enable basic tab navigation. Hope all customers/users know it, before they raise this as issue. PS: Does anyone know the reason for having tab navigation turned off in Safari by default?