Does development platform matter?

[bizzzzzare]

Hi,

Picking up from Sridhar's exceprts, development plaftorm of the application under test (aut) would definitely not matter to manual testing.
As we are basically involved in functional testing of the application and not interacting with application object properties as such, technology does not play a role.

But where Automation or Performance Testing is concerned, development platform would definitely be taken into consideration as a valid issue while deciding the test approach strategy.
For Automation, selection of tool itself would depend on development platform -

• for instance, QTP / TestPartner would be preferred for applications developed in vb.net, asp.net technologies.
• incase of java applications using swing, we would prefer rational functional tester (java version).

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This becomes an important criteria in deciding the object recognition capability of the tool.

Same applies for Performance testing. Depending on the application platform, we select the different protocols in which our scripts would be created. We select siebel / web protocols for siebel application, winsock protocol for win32 applications, orcale / ncp protocol for oracle financialsand so on.

Leaving more to the views and opinions of the other geek members, but definitely a nice topic to discuss on.

Nice post sutnarcha!!.

cheers...

[trainee_tester]

Its really great to be in this thread,
(this kind of debate by expert members )it will be really useful to ppl who are new to software testing!!!

i feel ppl should start from manual testing initially and once they understand the complete life cycle of software testing in manual testing and different testing techniques only then the should move to automation!!!

lets see what other members feel

thanks & regards
trainee_tester