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TestingDriveThru: Challenge from last week and How I dealt with it. Challenge: Comparing two text or excel files Initially, the challenge does look like simpler to read.  But the challenging part is to Comparing Huge File which contains records more than 100k. I was advised to use Araxis Merge. It is a Desktop App. It has 30-day trial version and Commercial Version. https://www.araxis.com/merge/index.en  This is very simple tool. Easy to install in few steps. Tool is self-explanatory. We just need to explore the options to try out. When we Open the desktop the Araxis Merge. We see two split windows, to compare two files. Note: We can compare 3 files also. We can drag and drop the files into Text Comparison 1 and Text Comparison 2 Araxis Automatically compares the files. The Non-Matching text will be highlighted between two files. We can generate the report of comparison. By clicking on the Report Option. And it generates...

TestingDriveThru: Challenge from last week and How I dealt with it. Challenge: Count No.of Commas in excel column values Initially, the challenge does look like simpler. But the challenging part is to count commas if the column values contains more than 500+ commas. So, I have used excel formula: Which can calculate no. of commas in the column value. Excel Formula:  =LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,",","")) 

TestingDriveThru: Challenge from last week and How I dealt with it. Challenge: Finding Old site URL's on google search after New site is launched. Most of the times, when a new or redesigned site is launched, the old site URL's still remains on the google web search Problem: If URL re-directions are not specified to the URL's displaying on google search, when a user clicks on the old site URL , It redirects to Blank/No content available pages. This can reduce the Google page ranking or loss of ranking for the site. Challenge: When the customer is not aware of the URL Re-directions to be done, Be proactive to find out the Old site URL's and inform the stakeholders to get the re-directions to them.  How to Find: Go to google search Enter as -   site:svit.ac.in This displays results of site urls starting with svit.ac.in Challenge: Ok, we found the results. But how can we extract all these urls to a file ? How can we do ? Install the  ginfin...

TestingDriveThru: Challenge from last week and How I dealt with it. Challenge: Finding Zero Kb files from the files directory Windows+R = Run : Enter "Powershell" and Hit Enter It opens the Powershell It shows Current directory: PS C:\Users\srinivas.kadiyala> Navigate to the directory where files are stored and where we want to find Zero Kb Files. Use command: CD C:\Users\srinivas.kadiyala\Downloads\FolderTest\   and Hit Enter Now Current directory will be: C:\Users\srinivas.kadiyala\Downloads\FolderTest> Now copy the below script and Hit Enter: Below scripts helps you to find files with zero file size. Get-Childitem -Recurse | foreach-object { if(!$_.PSIsContainer -and $_.length -eq 0) { write-host (“{0} -> {1}” -f $_.FullName, $_.Length) } } Result: It will display files which has 0kb. C:\Users\srinivas.kadiyala\Downloads\FolderTest>DocumentTest.docx -> 0 This can reduce the testing time.

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?

Four days back... When i got the Google - Security Page : To set up new privileges. (2-way verification) I have seen a website: www.whatbrowser.org  - This is of Google, to check which browser are we using and do the browser has latest updates. So, Just i tried to see in all browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera) Here, the problem:  I am having Opera 17 (Latest version) and opened the website URL. I surprisingly found, its showing as Chrome 30. Then immediately i asked other testers in my network - do they have opera browser. One of the tester ( Anshul Jain , Indore) - has replied he has Opera 13. Then i asked him, to open the website. But for him, it was showing Opera 13 as a result.  Then i asked him to install the latest one i.e Opera 17. When he tried the same step: To him, Now - It showed as Chrome 30.  So, i have referred through the site any web mail, to send about this issue. And i have sent the email as: ...

Every time I have been on Website Projects, I always had a testing task to validate Email Address text field. I heard the following from many developers say: Why does User enter wrong email address? And why do we need to validate the Email address. Many feel why we need to test the email address format, why do the user. But as am passionate testers, I always try to research to find out new things and learn and try out, how it can be useful to make the application stable.  I always go for hunt to find out valid or invalid email test cases. So, I thought I will write a post as well as it can be useful for future references for me and for the testing community. The Valid Email Address follows the official standard Regular Expression (regex), defined in RFC (Request for Comments). Refer:  http://www.ietf.org/rfc.html All the Email messages which are sent from Email Addresses should conform that they accept standards specified by IETF (Internet Society...

My Friend Kamlesh Rao ( Blog ) , Independent IT Consultant -  has posted an offer from Microsoft Office on Facebook. The link given: www.office.com/offer  takes to  http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/offer/ The offer is good.. So i skipped the first and lets atleast sign up for an email newsletter. When you click on the sign up button,it takes to: http://www7.downloadoffice2010.microsoft.com/usa/subscribe.aspx?country_id=US&culture=en-US Most of the people when usually see the form to be filled,they just select the first text box and then use tabs to go to below text boxes. But when u enter the Email Address and then press tab,Every one expects the focus on Confirm Email Address Text Box.... But it the tab index appears on Submit Button. Then i again used the tab, But now the tab index was on LOGO . (Suprisingly) Then After the tab index was on Confirm Email Address.(Text Box) ...