Thursday, October 25, 2012

Spell checker and Grammar

Spell checker-Firefox spell checker add-on highlights the spelling mistakes on web pages

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/spell-checker/

Ginger Software-Free open source-Grammar and Spell checker software which not only points out the mistakes but auto corrects it too.You can use it in Word,Outlook,various browsers like FF,Chrome,IE.

http://www.gingersoftware.com/

HTML validator

Total Validator

Free version for HTML validation
-HTML and accessiblity validations against specific standards
-Includes spell check and broken link checking

http://www.totalvalidator.com/tools/index.html

W3linkchecker

HTML/XHTML,link checker,css validator-Check pages for w3 compatibility

http://validator.w3.org/checklink



Link Checker

Xenu-Open source, looks for broken links(both internal and external links) through out the website.

http://xenus-link-sleuth.en.softonic.com/download

Compatibility Testing

Browsershots-Online service-Provides screenshots of how your websites looks in different browsers and OS(But it takes few mins to generate screenshots).

http://browsershots.org/

Adobe Browserlab-Online service to test compatibility(in important browsers/os) for static pages.

https://browserlab.adobe.com/en-us/index.html#


IEtester-Open source application allows to test in multiper IE versions.

http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage


Performance testing for page


WebPageTest - Online service/software to test performance of page when it is browsed from various countries/states with browser combinations
• Summary((Load time,No of Requests,Bytes)
• Details for each file requested(Time for first byte loaded,start render,request and response headers,Error/Status Code: 404)
• Pie charts-content breakdown for requests and bytes in form of html,flash,css,js,text,other
• how page speed can be optimized?
• Screenshot

http://www.webpagetest.org/

Yslow - Firefox add-on to check performance of pages and the reasons why they are slow like below examples can  boost the performance.


CSS-keeping css at top,removing duplicate JS and CSS,removing unecessary

characters/spaces,

Javascript-keeping Js at bottom

Images-Using css sprites

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/yslow/

Report testing checklist

Check the following
>Order of columns
>Sorting of column
>Print functionality with landscape and portrait
>Search results
>Date display of format(according to culture)
>Amount display format of report
>Export functionality-to pdf,excel,etc
>GUI part-alignment,spell,page title,logo etc
>Response time for generation of report
>Report data on GUI and from DB as well
>Report header info

Testing checklist for Windows App


Checklist for testing Windows Application
>Start Application by DOUBLE CLICK

>Closing the application should prompt user for "Are you sure"

>If application is busy,hour glass or loading progress message should be shown

>Sceeens should have Help button

>Textboxes
-Bring cursor over textbox,arrow cursor should change to insert bar
-Double click should select all text
-Overflow text with many characters

>Radiobutton
-Select by mouse click
-Use up/down,left/right arrows

>Checkboxes
-Select by mouse click
-Use space bar

>Usage of relevant hot keys

>Maximize/Minimize/Resizing window