Bug-Tracking Part 1

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In this article I want to consider the concept of "bug-tracking" and its impotence mainly.

Modern companies often use a special system for the registration of defects (bugs). The basic sense: testers create bugs, developers fix them, and project managers evaluate the status of the product. The management of defects in such systems is called «bug-tracking».
plan Testers, who are beginners in this work, usually have questions: «Why is it impossible to report about a problem verbally?». It is faster and easier. Experienced testers name several reasons:

 

Selenium Assertions

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At first a small review about selenium commands.

 

A command tells Selenium what to do. There are three 'types' of Selenium commands: Actions, Accessors and Assertions. Each command must contain command name, target and value:

 

command target value

 

Accessors examine the state of the application and store the results in variables, e.g. "storeText". They are also used to generate Assertions automatically.

 

Assertions are like Accessors, but they verify that the state of the application is as expected. All Selenium Assertions can be used in 3 modes: "assert", "verify", and "waitFor".

 

"WaitFor" commands waits until some condition become true. When the condition becomes already true, test will succeed. If the condition has not become true within a specified time-out, test will be considered as failed.

 

If "verify" command is failed the test script continues to run with the entry in the error log.

 

If"assert" command is failed the test script is aborted.

 

Let’s look at the most frequently used “assert” command.

Virtual keyboards for Android

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My dear readers, let’s continue our conversation about Android mobile applications. Development of modern technologies makes a lot of interesting features possible. Some of them are useful; and some are just entertaining. Today, let’s talk about virtual screen keyboards for Android smartphones. We’ll discuss the most popular applications allowing their users to type messages in different ways and consider, which way is the most convenient one.

For many smartphone users, the virtual screen keyboard is one of the most important system components defining usability of the device. First of all, I’d remark that the default Android keyboard is pretty convenient. Moreover, it is being constantly improved. For example, we see a gesture keyboard in Android 4.2 that understands movements of our fingers and guesses what we are typing.

But not everyone is satisfied with this default solution. For such people, mobile application developers created a lot of alternative keyboards. Let’s consider the most popular examples from Google Play.

My dear readers, after Google Glass was finally released and excited pretty much hype among mobile application developers and users, I’d like to tell you about a technology that is able to become a considerable rival for Google Glass in the future. It is Canon's Mixed Reality (MR) System presented by Canon in February 2013.

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Canon Mixed Reality System looks like a pair of glasses, too. These glasses aren’t as elegant and minimalistic as Google Glass – speaking by heart, they look like a device from some old-school science-fiction movie. However, Canon MR System possesses a much more comprehensive functionality than just taking pictures or sending messages like Google Glass does. Canon MR System has another target auditorium, too, which don’t actually cares much about the device appearance.


So, what is Canon's Mixed Reality System?

Google Glass became a reality

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google galssMy dear readers, this article is devoted to one of the most promising novelties of the technologies market – Google Glass. It has finally been released; and now we have the chance to see how all the fantastic features shown in advertising are implemented in the real life. Let’s start with the technical specifications of the device published by Google.
http://support.google.com/glass/answer/3064128?hl=en&ref_topic=3063354

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