Levels of testing

Unit testing: The primary goal of unit testing is to take the smallest piece of testable software in the application, isolate it from the remainder of the code, and determine whether it behaves exactly as expected. Each unit is tested separately before integrating them into modules to test the interfaces between modules. Unit testing has…

Error, Bug, Defect

Simple Wikipedia definition of Bug is: “A computer bug is an error, flaw, mistake, failure, or fault in a computer program that prevents it from working correctly or produces an incorrect result. Bugs arise from mistakes and errors, made by people, in either a program’s source code or its design.” Other definitions can be:An unwanted…

Priority & Severity in testing

High Severity & Low Priority :  For example an application which generates some banking related reports weekly, monthly, quarterly & yearly by doing some calculations. If there is a fault while calculating yearly report. This is a high severity fault but low priority because this fault can be fixed in the next release as a…

Terms regarding OS

1.What is svchost.exe?One of the most common questions about system processes is what is svchost.exe and why are there so many processes running? First appearing in Windows XP, svchost.exe hosts multiple services within one process. This allows the operating system to save memory by reducing process overhead by cutting down on the number of processes…

Windows tips n tricks

In this post, we will be looking into some of the tips and tricks which makes us easy to operate windows OS (irrespective of any version of OS starting from XP) 1.Lock a folder in windows XP without any software. Follow the steps Below.  Make a Folder in C drive rename it as “abc” without…