Browser Shots - A nice tool for Browser Compatibility Testing

Browsershots - Nice online tool for Cross Browser Testing

Browser Compatibility Testing

For the past few days, Mubeen and Srikanth were busy in taking  the screen shots of their app and doing the functionality testing in all the popular browsers.
Everyday I hear Mubeen screaming "My eyes are burning like anything". Why the hell we have so many browsers in usage!! And If I am made a Queen, I would definitely see an end to all the browsers and bring a rule to use only a single browser.

As I too belong to the same fraternity, I completely  agree to her point and stand by her statements. :-) Some times, I too feel why Is there a  so much difference in the  look and feel  of the application and why it behaves differently in different browsers.  Doing the same repetitive Job/Task in  all browsers. What a Pain..!  I do remember another example which was like..sometime  back Ryan got an email asking compatibility of our Web application in older version of Internet Explorer(IE6) and with the deadline of  2 days.
We do not have any answer readily available as we had already upgraded to IE8 and IE 6 was under the trash as we were not using it anymore. And Gosh!! How is it possible to test app in 2 days.. :-(

If we have any tools, procedures methods readily available to automate these task would be great.

Ask Google - Googled and found few useful articles on Browser Compatibility Testing. 

I liked the below two articles describing all the available tools, hope you too like these articles

Links:

• 7 Simple Ways
• Browser Comaptibility Testing Guide and Tools

Testing for DWH

Estimations and Results

Are we doing the estimations properly? if yes why most of our guys are extending themselves or working late nights to achieve the targets? And It has other side also like team members have more time than actual time. Is this due to our failure in Estimations or due to customers ;-)

Few days back Mubeen asked me about our Estimations. Honestly I don't have any answer for few questions as we too failed many times due to many reasons which resulted/effected to my team to extend their work hours to complete their tasks. Here we cannot blame anyone as everyone is correct on their perception,

Few methods here

Wide Band Delphi - my favorite Estimation method. In this we can involve everyone, taking their opinions. Check the below link for details
http://leansoftwareengineering.com/wideband-delphi/

Test Estimation Approaches

Test Effort Estimation

Finally on Estimations: There are many techniques, methods defined by our Guru's. But the problem is we do not follow properly.

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