Quick Tech Tip: Point-to-point tunneling protocol – PPTP
Filed Under Network, Techniques, Tips | Posted on July 23, 2009
Overview of Point-to-point Protocol: The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) provides a standard method for transporting multi-protocol datagrams over point-to-point links. PPP was originally emerged as an encapsulation protocol for transporting IP traffic between two peers.PPP is comprised of the following main components: * Encapsulation: A method for encapsulating multi-protocol datagrams. * Link Control Protocol: The LCP [...]
Types of testing
Filed Under Techniques, Terms, Testing, Types | Posted on December 16, 2008
What are the different types of testing that one normally comes across ? If there are others besides these, please add in the comments. • Black box testing – This is a testing method that is not based on any knowledge of internal design or code. Tests are based on requirements and functionality. • White [...]
Testing Strategies/Techniques
Filed Under Techniques, Testing | Posted on December 3, 2008
Some of the testing strategies that need to be kept in mind. • Black box testing should make use of randomly generated inputs (only a test range should be specified by the tester), to eliminate any guess work by the tester as to the methods of the function • Data outside of the specified input [...]
Weakness of Function Point Analysis
Filed Under Estimation, Issues, Problems, Process, Software, Techniques | Posted on August 30, 2008
Function Point Analysis is seen as a very important and useful technique for requirements estimation, and for numerous other benefits (see previous post for more details). However, even such a famous method has its detractors, with a number of people / studies pointing out issues with the technique. Here are some of these issues / [...]
