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ApriorIT promotes experience sharing and so performs the program, according to which our specialists from different directions write interesting articles - to share the knowledge they have.

You can find our articles on different software development protals, and some of them were awarded by coders' communities. We are very proud of it.

In the Articles section, we publish all the articles from our specialists.

Cross-browser testing tools

Details: Category: Software QA Articles; Created on Thursday, 22 November 2012 18:42

At the moment, there is a great variety of competing browsers. In this situation, there are no common standards for displaying sites: each one of them may display a site in its own way, for example, by distorting the page content. Due to this fact, the “cross-browser” term emerged, that is the feature of a site to be displayed identically in all browsers.

Although the cross-browser issue emerged rather recently, there already exist a great number of tools for testing it.

All cross-browser testing tools vary in the number of supported browsers, ease to use, price, and also testing speed. These factors greatly complicate the choice of the suitable tool.

This article is devoted to the problem of choosing the right cross-browser testing tool. It lists the popular tools, their advantages and disadvantages.

This article would be useful for testers, who haven’t performed this kind of testing yet, or for people, who face the problem of choosing the suitable tool.

Automated Testing System Deployment on the basis of Team Foundation Server and Microsoft Test Management

Details: Category: Software QA Articles; Created on Monday, 01 October 2012 08:39

This article is intended to provide full and detailed description of deployment of automated testing system consisting of Team Foundation Server + Microsoft Test Manager + System Center Virtual Machine Manager.

This article may be useful for Automated Testing Specialists and System Administrators.

Driver to hide files in Linux OS

Details: Category: Software Development Articles; Created on Thursday, 23 August 2012 11:18

In this article, I am going to describe the process of development of a driver module to hide files in Linux OS (you can read the article about Hide Driver for Windows OS here). Besides, I will touch upon such questions:

Virtual File System (VFS)
The work with inode and dentry structures

The article concerns the Linux kernel version 2.6.32 because other kernel versions can have the modified API, different from the one used in examples or in the build system. Article is meant for people that already have some experience Linux driver development. Creation of a simple Linux driver was described here.

Performance Testing. Let’s Go!

Details: Category: Software QA Articles; Created on Wednesday, 01 February 2012 15:00

This article describes general approaches of the performance testing from scratch. There are some theory aspects, testing stages, practical implementation. The article will be useful for beginners in this type of testing, and also for those, who already apply performance testing for their product and want to systematize the process, learn more about its tools and techniques.

Automation of the ESX(i) hypervisor application in the continuous integration process using AutoIT language

Details: Category: Software QA Articles; Created on Tuesday, 10 January 2012 16:12

This article is devoted to the theme of how to deploy the continuous integration using ESX(i) hypervisor as a text environment storage. There are some easy-to-use mechanisms to manage this environment by means of vmrun.exe console utility included into the VMWare VIX installation package.

This article describes how to use ESX(i) hypervisor in the automated testing process for the scheduled build installation by means of the particular example. It is meant for the beginners in the testing automation, who have some skills of writing autotests in a scripting language. Here we will use AutoIT language – it is intended for the Desktop application automation and is freeware, but reader can use any scripting language.