Weblinks: CSTE & Software Testing

A good article on ACID feature of databases.

This site is dedicated resource for product test automation developers.

Benchmark Factory-Database Performance and Scalability Testing

This site has wealth or articles on Software Testing. A great resource for CSTE folks too.

Part of project by Dr Kaner to provide effective, grounded, timely materials to support the teaching and self-study of software testing, software reliability, and quality-related software metrics,to improve the education of Software Testers.

List of current active CSTE certificants

Sample quiz A . For Groupname or Username use: CSTE and for Password use: password. You take the quiz and the answers are returned to you after you finish.

Sample quiz B .For Groupname or Username use: CSTE and for Password use: password. You take the quiz and the answers are returned to you after you finish.

CSTE Study materials and tests

Good Article that will help you in your subjective answers

A great page full of resources-you will find functions that found useful in testing, hacks for working around different types of bugs, a few nifty implementations of features that Segue did not include in the 4Test programming language, and a few bits of code which may not actually be useful for anything, but look interesting.

The online resource for Performance,Load and Stress testing.This website contains an ever growing amount of resources for the aspiring and experienced Performance Tester.

Basic info,FAQs,resources on SQA.

Great hints and tips page

This paper is a guide to implementing a LoadRunner based load-testing solution.

This is the 3rd part of the article. Its titled Primer is Software security testing. This article can help you in solving subjective questions on Security testing.

Links to articles on using SilkTest

Checkout the following articles on http://sqa.fyicenter.com/art/

AN INTEGRATED TEST ENVIRONMENT FOR DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS - Huey Der Chu and John E Dobson

Software Test Automation - M.N. Alam

Testing GUI Applications - Paul Gerrard

An Introduction to Scenario Testing - Cem Kaner,

Software Testing Best Practices - Ram Chillarege

Welcome to the Software Quality Assurance (QA) and Testing Information Center. It offers articles, best practices, methodologies, FAQ, guides, books, directories, and tools that are related software QA and testing. Popular materials include job interview FAQ, test plan samples, WinRunner FAQ, and more.

500+ software QA testing tools, training courses, QA jobs, tester certification, testing glossary, white papers.  Open source and commercial tools: unit, functional, GUI, performance, regression, compatibility testing, bug tracking, test management.

A comprehensive article on software testing metrics. See the various metrics you can use for testing. This should be a good source for most subjective question on Test Metrics

A fairly comprehensive glossary of Software Testing terms.

This site has a great collection of Articles on following topics

# Test Automation
# Test Tools
# Using Silk
# Testing Strategy
# Risk-Based Testing
# Reporting and Tracking Defects
# Code Coverage
# Exploratory Testing
# Software Testability
# Working with Developers
# Using Expect
# Notorious Bugs

And much more....An exhaustive list of sites,resourses and books related to software testing.

A Paper on Software Testing.

Quality publications, industry research and online services for the software development and testing professional

This 30-page article is an excellent source of information on software testing methods for various types of applications. Topics covered range from black-box testing to stress testing, from window application testing to web-based 3-tier application testing.

GUI Testing ChecklistA checklist to help testers check gui screens  Important Considerations for Test AutomationImportant considerations if you are thinking about implementing the "holy grail" of testing.  Sample Test Plan The Original sample Software Test Plan.  Test Plan FAQSome pointers on creating software test plans.  Test Project Setup ChecklistA sample tasklist of actions for preparing a software system test.  Article: Usability TestingSoftware Quality Assurance & Usability Testing: The role of User Testing in Software Quality Assurance.  Classification of Errors by Severity2 methods of classifying the severity of errors - a simple 3 level method, and a more comprehensive 5 level method.  What is Software Testing...?Why testing CANNOT ensure quality & What is the difference between testing, quality, quality assurance anyway?

Software Testing and Resourse Center

Excellent links and resources site.

The Grand Index of Testing Techniques-where testers share techniques.

Comprehensive info and a good list of links on software testing,testing gurus,articles,certifications,research,etc.

Resources for Professional Software Testers -Links to other QA related sites.

This site has some good articles on Test automation. You can browse through the site to find some good content on software testing

Test management Guide is a A-Z testing Glossary. It also has basic information

Very helpful site for Testing pros.

4Test Hints & Tips-presents various topics related to the syntax and use of Segue's 4Test language

An information resource for software testers.Exhuastive FAQ.

The site has Test Tools List:

* Bundled Tool Suites
* Defect Tracking
* GUI Test Drivers
* Load and Performance
* Miscellaneous
* Static Analysis
* Test Coverage
* Test Design Tools
* Test Drivers and Test Suite Management
* Test Implementation
* Unit Test Tools
* Other Sources of Tool Information

Testing Types
Learn Functional
Learn Regression
Learn Unit Testing
Learn BlackBox
Learn WhiteBox
Learn GlassBox

This site is a MUST VISIT for all CSTE and Software Testing pros. It has lot of good testing articles.

Information on Agile testing and PDFs are great too.

The purpose of this document is to provide the reader with a clear understanding of what is actually required to successfully implement cost-effective automated testing. Rather than engage in a theoretical dissertation on this subject, I have endeavored to be as straightforward and brutally honest as possible in discussing the issues, problems, necessities, and requirements involved in this enterprise.

A central resource on the internet for a Software Test Engineer.