Time: 4pm – 6pm IST

Testers: Anit Patel, Rasmus Koorits, Rickard Englund, Sakthi and Steffen Blenk

Facilitator: Ajay Balamurugadas

Mission:

The product to be tested is Direct Folders.
Perform Claims testing. Evaluate each and every claim the product makes through its help file and website. At the end of the testing session, provide your observations, issues in the form of a test report.

Highlights:

• Many of the testers had never performed Claims testing before.
• Most of the testers successfully completed the mission.
• There were few bugs highlighted.
• Mission was liked by the testers.

Chat transcript: Link

Test reports: Link

Time: 4 pm IST

Testers: 

Jasminka, Madhusudhan, Priya, Rasmus, Sakthi, Shailendra, Steveland, Vamshi and Zeacuss

Facilitator: Ajay

Mission:

The programmer of www.myswar.com wants you to register as a user, note down any issues you find. If you have any suggestions to improve the site, feel free to do so.

At the end of the testing session, be ready with your testing notes/report with bugs/suggestions/issues.

Highlights:

• Mission was met by most of the testers.
• My account was hacked by one of the testers – A critical issue was found by Rasmus.
• Good mix of first timers and WT experienced testers.
• Good coverage in terms of OS/browser combination.

Attendees:
Anuradha, Ajay Balamurugadas, Bharani, Steveland Daniels, Robert Donahue, Shmuel Gershon, Michael Larsen, Gabriel Loo, Scott Seltzer, Wade Wachs, Eugenia Yakhnin, Susan Yin

The session today was based around playing the game of SET. We used two examples of the game to help familiarize the participants. The first game was a single player game, where the users has the ability to select six sets that were guaranteed to be in each section of cards. This was used as an opportunity to teach the game and give some understanding as to how sets are constructed. The 2nd site, and our area to test, was an online multi-play version of the game.

The session details are as follows:

The site we are testing is http://gamepixies.com/set/
This is a multi-player version of the game of SET, and there are rooms to join to set up games and play. There are spaces for Anonymous players, but to actually see who you are, you need an account, so create one. The mission is simple. Play it, explore it, break it .

From there, we took over a few of the game rooms and set up several games. We were able to spot a number of inconsistencies and some issues that needed to be addressed (incorrect sets being labeled as not scored because the user ran out of time, hitting the space bar repeatedly locking players out of the game indefinitely, scores not updating unless the users left the room and returned to it. There were also various different experiences bepending on the browser and the operating system being used by the participants.

Some of the participants felt that, while the first SET site gave players the ability to understand how to play the game, they felt that seeing that version of the game biased their opinion of the implementation of the multi-player version of the game. Note to self: next time, just one site.

Full transcript can be seen here.

Due to the festive season, we are closed till second week of January 2012.

We will resume weekendtesting sessions in the new year.

Happy New Year and Best Wishes!

Attendees: Albert Gareev, Claire Moss, Eugenia Yakhnin, Hamza Razzak Ismail, Linda Rehme, Mahesh, Michael Larsen, Scott Seltzer, Susan Yin, Zoltán  Molnár

We had a group happily looking to dive into the idea of a “testing vacation”. What in the world is that, you might ask? ”Testing Vacations” is an idea that Elizabeth Hendrickson popularizes in her Agilistry studios workshops. Jonathan Bach introduced  me to the idea, and I have found it to be a good aproach as a way to learn a new product, or even to re-invigorate testing efforts with products a tester is intimately familiar.

The mission was to look at Google Translate. It’s a simple application that translates text or documents from one language to another. In addition to looking at the application and learning about it, we wanted to generate as many short and abbreviated charters as possible (preferably no single charter taking more than five minutes). The “short and abbreviated” is the goal behind a Testing Vacation.

We went through an initial example, a simple game of “translation telephone” with a phrase to see how well it would handle the translation process, as well as if we could see notable differences in the user interface. After six or seven iterations translating between different languages, we came back to the original language to see how much of the original message was left intact. Some phrases did very well, some lost a good deal of the content between translations, and notable differences were noticed with the user interface and the “Listen” feature.

We then let various pairings of testers go off and see how many testing vacations they could develop, and the answer is “Quite a few!”. This is a powerful technique that can be used in conjunction with Session Based Test Management to focus a tester’s attention on a very specific area, and to do rapid exploration of a given feature. The general consensus was that this was a valuable technique that the participants could take with them and make immediately effective.

For the rest of the session, the chat transcript is here.

Time: 4 PM IST to 6 PM IST

Mission:

Today's session is about Address Book.
http://download.cnet.com/3001-2074_4-10064661.html

I want to experiment and see how much coverage we can achieve as a group.
Let us work as a team, split up functionality and try to test as much as possible.

At the end of the testing session, I expect a single testing report with list of

features covered and bugs.

Testers:

Ranjit, Prasanna, Allmas, Sudhamshu, Ajay and Pradeep

Highlights:

• Testers tested in pairs.
• Reports were consolidated on http://willyou.typewith.me/
• http://Typewith.me was better than http://willyou.typewith.me/
• Different test ideas were exchanged.
• This application was found to be a good tool for testing exercises.
• Few reports at http://willyou.typewith.me/p/testReportAllmasRanjit/timeslider and http://willyou.typewith.me/p/WT70

Time: 4 PM IST to 6 PM IST

Mission:

Today's session is about Time Zone Conversion
http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc

http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/gmt-converter/index.htm

Compare and contrast these two time zone converters.

1. How useful is each link to the user, tester?
2. What are the advantages/disadvantages in each of the converters?
3. If you had to design only ten tests for each of the converters, what would they be?

At the end of the testing session, I expect a testing report with answers

to the above questions.

Testers:

Anuj, Aaron, Victor, Allmas, Sulaimon, Philip, Madhusudhan, Reshma,
Sumit, Prasanna and Vamshi.

Please find the chat transcript here.

Time: 4 pm IST – 6 pm IST

Mission:

We have the anatomy of a tweet with us at

http://www.inquisitr.com/70372/anatomy-of-a-tweet/
List all your test ideas as to how you will test www.twitter.com
At the end of one hour, a report of your test ideas is needed.

Testers: 

Victor, Madhusudhan, Megha, Srikanth, Balaji, Anuradha, Chirag, Manikantan, Allmas, Ranjit, Tony and Dapo

Please find the chat transcript here.

Attendees: Albert Gareev, Eugenia Yakhnin, Justin Rohrman, Markus Deibel, Michael Larsen, Scott Seltzer, Susan Yin

Today we decided to take a look into a tool that would allow us to tinker in places we weren’t meant to tinker. No, this was not a session dedicated to hacking or other such dark arts, but it was a chance to see if we could get applications to do things that, really, we as users shouldn’t be doing.

The Firefox plugin “Groundspeed” allows users the ability to see under the hood of many web forms, and it also opens up the hidden fields to view and be modified. Want to see what Google looks like in Japanese or Hebrew? Interested in seeing if your database is protected from rogue strangeness? So were we.

A group of us today spent some time initially getting used to the tool and understanding exactly how this worked. For many, penetration testing is a brand new subject, so we spent a bit of time discussing some of the things that were involved, as well as doing some very basic practice runs on some common sights, just to show the concepts (nothing malicious or destructive).

After we spent some time learning about the techniques needed, we split off into pairs and discussed the possible uses of penetration testing and Groundspeed in particular. We determined that most of our tests allowed us to do the following:

1. Bypass front-end validation of values.

2. Input values that you are normally not able to input – via hidden fields.

3. Trigger function calls in the application that are normally disabled or not accessible.

As testers love to have handy mnemonics to remember various things, we all decided today that, when it comes to Penetration Testing and the area to focus attention on, we agree; we will all “Remember the B.I.T.”

Full chat transcript can be seen here.

Time: 4 pm IST – 6 pm IST

Mission:

Today's session is about Globalization Testing
Please download the exe from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/bb688102 .

Learn how the tool can be used in Globalization testing and prepare a report.
You can find more about Globalization Testing from Anuj Magazine's presentation



and

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa292086(v=vs.71).aspx

Testers: 

Balaji Ponnada, Raheel, Khair.un.Nisa, Jassi, Akanksha Talwar, Madhusudhan, Narasimha Reddy and Reshma.

Facilitator:

Ajay Balamurugadas

Highlights:

• Most of the testers had never performed Globalization Testing
• Testers found it a bit difficult to understand and use the tool.
• After 45 minutes of struggle, the mission was to find bugs in http://www.drawastickman.com/