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Internet Explorer Shortcuts…

————————————————————————————————————————- ALT+RIGHT ARROW : Takes you to the next page . SHIFT+CLICK : Open a hyperlink in in new window BACKSPACE : Used in IE8 to go to previous page ALT+HOME : Shortcut to go home page SHIFT+F10 : Used to show shortcut menu for a hyperlink CTRL+C : Shortcut for copy in internet explorer…

How to know ur system is of 32bit or 64bit processor…

————————————————————————————————————————- Windows Vista Method 1 Click Start, then click on Run or Start Search. Type msinfo32.exe and then press Enter key. In “System Information”, review the value for the System Type item: For 32-bit editions of Windows, the value of the System Type item is x86-based PC. For 64-bit editions of Windows, the value of…

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…