"Many a false step was made by standing still." Anonymous
Anyone knows about Orthogonal array, could you please help with this question? Thanks in advance.
Q: Assume you want to test pairwise combinations of configuration options for a browser-based application. The application will support the following operating systems: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Linux, Mac. The application will support the following browsers: IE(latest version), IE(previous version), Firefox(latest version), Firefox(previous version), and Opera (latest version only). The application must work at dial-up and broadband speeds.
Which of the following describes an orthogonal array upon which this testing problem can be mapped?
A. Three columns, five numbers per column, ten rows B. Four columns, four numbers per column, sixteen rows C. Five columns, five numbers per column, twenty-five rows D. Seven columns, six numbers per column, forty-two rows
You don’t want
your customer to puzzle over how to operate your user interface, you just want
them to focus on your product, on your argument, on your ideas, whatever you are
trying to promote. And if you then get in their way by doing things in unusual
manner, then for sure you are going to lose a large percentage of
people.
- Use plain
language
Describe in plain language, more people will know what they are going
to get, if they go there, if they click there, if they use that
feature.
- Be straightforward
People tend to spend about 30 seconds total on a homepage. So it’s a
very initial impression that decides whether it’s most likely to be useful for them or not, and then they will
start reading a bit more.
First 2 words are really where you have to get users, and
that’s why you shouldn’t use generic feel good vocabularies like welcome to try
our etc. You have to answer what’s in it for me, why should I click here; try to
put some of those action oriented words to tell people what it’s going to do for
them.
-Caution about use of graphics
When using graphics make sure you are showing real
content and not just decorations. If it’s just smiling models out of a clipart
catalogue, that does no good. And those images become an obstacle course to a
people’s actual appreciation of the page. Because you have to look and look
around so much junk, so much irrelevance to get to what you want.
-Placement matters, not the flashing lights
or colours.
The better way is to put it in a place where people
tend to look the most which is upper middle or upper left of the page. People
have a tendency to scan web pages in an F pattern, which is they look across the
top, and a little bit across a little bit further down and they kind of scan
down the left hand side of the content area.
-Common hatred of advertising on the
web
Because people have evolved a very aggressive hatred
of advertising on the web, not in the sense of being anti-commercial,
anti-business because people want to buy stuff. It’s more that advertising on
the web has become so polluting. It’s information pollution, it’s yelling and
screaming at people and bouncing up and down and slapping their face, and
because the advertising is so aggressive now-a-days, and a lot of pages are
filled with blinking, flashing, moving things, people are evolving a protective
mechanism to protect themselves from that intrusion on their peace and quiet.
The protection mechanism is called selective attention.
With flashing lights or colours, you might thought
you have the information stand out, but what actually happens is that people
think that it’s a foreign element and it’s probably an ad, and it ends up being
ignored. We see this so many times that websites put up what they think to be a
promotion or special feature, something they really want to have people pay
attention to, and in fact a lot of the users completely ignore it, because it
looks too much like an ad.
"Many a false step was made by standing still." Anonymous
Often think of job change especially when projects are on hold or when you have open and close web browser 20+ times in the last hour?(not when u r testing a web site) What shall you do when no task is delegated to you and the boss is sitting the cubicle behind you?
Positive thinking: Just like the quite night before a storm, maybe I will be flooded once all the projects are released at the same time. Maybe I should study ISTQB advance certification.
Negative thinking: Am I going to be redundant and my job is going to be outsourced. Maybe I should study ISTQB advance certification.
Take a look of the water condition of where I am going to duck in:
-97 Testing & QA job listed in the last 7 days in my city metro area on one of popular the IT job site (IT2). 75% of them looking for middle/senior level QA tester, the salary offers vary from AU$ 60,000-90,000 (not too bad).
-If you have been to one of ISTQB exam sites, you will notice how many testers there are or how many people wants to be a testers. (competitive)
-Many companies as I know (even some big Corps) don’t have testers; they use developers/BA as casual testers. Let’s hope one day their developers/BA go on strike that they want a clear job description when they find out it’s not humanity to tell themselves that their babies are ugly. (potential)
-Different companies require sets of different skills: their legacy system, operational environment, automation tool, business environment etc. QA is certainly not a one to many kind of job. (challenging)
Anyway, learning and self-improvement seems always fit in many situations when you don’t know what’s the next.
"Many a false step was made by standing still." Anonymous
“What is the book which changed your life?” I was asked by an interviewer once a few years ago.
Till now I still can’t figure out a single book which have completely changed me or my life, but I believe there are many books or short articles floating on the web or a single quote have changed me at some stages.
I remember reading Ken Follett’s The Pillars of the Earth, touched by the human strength from the struggling builder or a dedicated monk; and Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief to see the gentle hearts of normal peoples in Nazi Germany in WWII.
I remember how my attitude towards testing is changed by a single quote from Lee Copeland ‘s article - All I Ever Need to Know about Testing I learned in Kindergarten, he quoted Norm Kerth’s words: “Regardless of what we discover, we understand and believe that everyone did the best job they could, given what they knew at the time, with their skills, abilities, and the resources available.” And I certainly won’t forget Professor Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture, one of his advices is believing in peoples, each one has his/her good side, giving them time to show the good side….
All those people like many others have left the light on for ones behind them in their life journey, and their lights have brightened and changed my life.
