Google Wave - A forward step in Email Communication

Google is planning to release Wave later this year. It seems Wave will replace the current Email system. And, it looks like it will compete... read more

Will Google's Knol replace Wikipedia?

Currently Wikipedia is the most popularly used free online encyclopedia which is collaboratively created by many people. Google is plannin... read more

Understanding Test Settings and Options settings in QTP

It is usual that people will be getting confused with different settings/options available in QTP IDE . It is necessary to have clear under... read more

Will IIS on Windows XP support accessing website from remote machine?

Normally we used to access php webpages on Apache from remote machine by entering the ip address. We have tried the samething with IIS also... read more

Deleting taskmger created by Virus

Booting of my Computer started taking long time and Browsers such as FireFox and IE also started hanging sometimes. And, sometimes booting a... read more

Handling iframe background color issue in IE

It seems IE (Internet Explorer) is taking White as default background color for iframe . And, it looks like we couldn't change this def... read more

How to keep Track of Changes in Excel?

Excel is having a feature similar to version control system. It is called as Track Changes. We need to share the work book to make "tra... read more

Showing Post Title at first in the Title bar for Blogger Blog

By default, the Blogger blog (i-e blogspot.com)will show the blog title (e.g "QualityPoint Technologies" ) at first and then it wi... read more

Formatting Code automatically in Blog Posts

It will be good if we format the coding (php,html,c#,javascript) sample in the blog posts. i-e Keywords should be highlighted in one color a... read more

WebHarvest - An Open source tool for extracting data from websites

Data from many websites can be extracted using different approaches such as using httpwebrequest/response object of C#.net, cURL of php and ... read more

Resolving inconsistent behaviour of createElement in Javascript

In my previous post, we have seen how to dynamically create and add HTML elements such textbox using javascript. The HTML elements can be cr... read more

Will Prefetch (.pf) files improve Windows performance?

I came to know about windows prefetch (.pf) when searching the windows Registry for some strange files which are created by Virus. It seems... read more

Tips and Tricks for doing AdHoc Testing

It is always not possible to follow proper testing such as writing Test Plan and writing Test cases. In some cases we may need to go with ad... read more

Showing Loading-Indication when loading HTML webpage

Completion of webpage loading will take more time if there is any time consuming process such as querying huge database needs to be complet... read more

Sharing and Protecting Excel Sheet.

Excel is having an useful feature for sharing the content across many users. Consider below scenario. You are having around 100 test cases i... read more

Linkword - An Effective way of learning Foreign Language

Recently, I came to know about "Linkword" when we were doing project for one of our clients. It seems Linkword will help to learn... read more

How to see Javascript error messages in FireFox?

Some browsers such as IE (Internet Explorer) will show the javascript error messages as an alert Dialog window. Even if we choose not to sho... read more

Use of Application.DoEvents method in C# Application.

When using any loop such as while loop in C# application, repainting of application window/form won't happen properly. i-e The window wi... read more

Scheduling Script Execution and Continuously running QTP scripts.

Once after successfully completing dry run of QTP scripts there is no need to monitor the script execution. We can schedule the script exec... read more

Understanding Action Iteration and Test Iteration in QTP

For beginners of QTP, it is very important to understand the difference between Action and the Test . A QTP Test can have multiple Actions.... read more

About Metatag in HTML webpage

Metadata means data about data. Meta tag/element in a HTML page gives information about that HTML page. Meta tag should be placed inside th... read more

QTP automation for testing .Net applications developed using Infragistic Components

Infragistics is mainly concentrating presentation layer of any software application. They are developing many user-friendly UI (User Interf... read more

Expanding/Collapsing a list using javascript

Expand/Collapse feature should be necessary if we are having a very long list of items such as links in a webpage. You can refer the all li... read more

What is FavIcon and how to create them?

FavIcon ( Favorite Icon ) is a small 16x16 image which is shown in the address bar of a browser when loading a webpage. It will be helpful... read more

Javascript code for changing list box (select tag) value based on change in another listbox

Javascript can be effectively used for dynamically changing value in one drop down list (i-e select/option tag) when a value in another rela... read more

Dynamically adding text box in web page using javascript.

Some times we need to add text box dynamically in a web page. For example, assume that our web page is having option to add email id of many... read more

NaN in Javascript and math constants

Javascript will return/alert the value as NaN (Not-a-Number) when a mathematical operation yields undefined result or an error. For exampl... read more

Code for putting Flash File within HTML web page

Flash movie file will be stored .swf when exporting it from Flash. We need to embed this .swf file within HTML code to display the flash mo... read more

Handling single quotes in PHP and Javascript

We need to take additional care when dealing with quotes especially single quotes in web development. We can use single quotes as well as do... read more

Use cURL in case allow_url_fopen is off in PHP

In the previous post I have explained about Inbound/Back links . When I tried to implement the yahoo site explorer api using php code, I fac... read more

What is Inbound/Back Link and how to find them?

The Hyperlinks that link to our webpage from other websites are called as Inbound links or BackLinks . For example, if a website "www.... read more

Name for the performance/Load Test done after modifying Application.

We know that "regression testing" is the name of the testing done after modifying application to make sure existing functionality... read more

Restricting user access based on IP Address

We can restrict access to webpages based on IP address of the user's computer. In php, we can get ipaddress of the user' computer us... read more

Writing Good Test Cases and Finding Bugs effectively

To develop bug free software application, writing good test cases is essential. Here, we will see how to write good test cases. Before seei... read more

array_slice function in php

php is having a function to extract slice of an array. Find below the syntax of this function array_slice() . $outputarray=array_slice($inpu... read more

When to use $_REQUEST in PHP?

We know that php is having Super Global variables such as $_GET, $_POST, $_COOKIE, $_SESSION, $_SERVER, $_ENV, $_FILES and $_REQUEST. Here ... read more

Work around for sub query issue in older version of MySql

We had to work with previous/older version (4.x) of MySql in one of our Projects. We faced some difficulties with sql queries. Actually the ... read more

All Links - QA, QTP, Web Development, C#.Net , Excel and Others

QA and QTP Automation Web Development Application Development (C#.net) General Buy eBook for learning Software Testing and QTP Au... read more