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20 Basic Illustrator Tutorials Every Beginner Should See
Learning a new software application can be a daunting task, especially when tackling an application that’s as deep as Adobe Illustrator! Thankfully there’s a colection of Illustrator veterans who are generous enough to take the time to document the basics, allowing new users to grasp the initial workings and gain a know-how of the tools and core techniques. This collection of hand-picked tutorials cover various tools, and provide plenty of useful hints and tips. Together they form a super handy resource for any beginner looking to get their brains wrapped around Adobe Illustrator.
Learn Illustrator CS3 in 30 Days
Link Building: The Definitive SEO Guide
The purpose of this document is to (a) identify the various types of links (b) calculate their impact on search engine rankings and (c) provide an overview of the various metrics and link types to create a protocol for SEO best practices.
Link Building Tips: The Definitive SEO Guide to Link Metrics
SEI CMMI Maturity Levels
A maturity level is a well-defined evolutionary plateau toward achieving a mature software process. Each maturity level provides a layer in the foundation for continuous process improvement.
In CMMI models with a staged representation, there are five maturity levels designated by the numbers 1 through 5
- Initial
- Managed
- Defined
- Quantitatively Managed
- Optimizing
Want to Get Paid to Play Games? Become a Game Tester!
We are covering almost all topics from software testing industry. Very less testing professionals are aware of Game Testing industry and Jobs. Game Testing industry is expanding really fast and now there are many “game design” and “video game testing” openings available in market. Here is a very interesting article on game testing which will give you a brief idea about game testing industry!
This is a guest article written by a Game Testing Expert “Malini”.
Game Testing Industry Introduction:
The video game testing industry is set to become the largest industry. In spite of the recession, there was no dearth in the sales of the game titles, although the game console sales were hit and the game testing companies had to revamp their strategies.
10 Helpful Resources for Cross Browser Testing
Every web designer knows that browser differences can create plenty of headaches. Finding and fixing problems can be difficult if you’re not equipped with the right tools. In this post we’ll take a brief look at 10 of the leading resources for making your browser testing less time consuming and more productive.
Browsershots
Browsershots is a popular free service that will provide screen shots of a page from just about any browser from all of the common operating systems. All you have to do is enter your URL and select the browsers and operating systems that you want to test. Browsershots will then enter your information into the queue, and in a few minutes you should have the screen shots.
There is a paid option that will give you priority over the free requests. When the service is busy it can take a while to get the free screen shots, but you can pay $15 per month for priority processing.
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When to use manual vs. automated software testing tools
By Elisa Gabbert, Associate Site Editor
When does it make sense to use an automated software testing tool over a manual tool? What do you stand to gain by using automated software testing tools? When is automated software testing a bad idea? Are any categories of automated testing tools still too bleeding-edge to adopt?
If you’ve ever asked yourself these questions, you’ve come to the right place. We asked five software quality and testing experts to provide advice and best practices on when to use manual versus automated software testing tools for a software testing project.
12 Steps to Better Code
1. Do you use source control?
I’ve used commercial source control packages, and I’ve used CVS, which is free, and let me tell you, CVS is fine. But if you don’t have source control, you’re going to stress out trying to get programmers to work together. Programmers have no way to know what other people did. Mistakes can’t be rolled back easily. The other neat thing about source control systems is that the source code itself is checked out on every programmer’s hard drive — I’ve never heard of a project using source control that lost a lot of code.
Why Documentation is Important in Software Testing
This is a guest article by ‘Tejaswini patil’ – Associate QA Manager.
In my Software Testing career, I never heard people talking much about software testing documentation. The general opinion about testing documentation is that, anyone who has free time can do the documentation like Test case, Test plan, status report, Bug report, project proposal etc.
Even I did not stress more on the documentation, but I can say it’s my habit to place all the data in black and white and to update others about that as well.
Just want to share my experience with you:
We had delivered a project (with an unknown issue in that) to one of our client (angry client). And they found issue at Client side, which was very bad situation for us, and as usual all blame was on QA’s. The issue was something regarding compatibility of one website. When it came to me, I was having proof that I didn’t get such requirement document which state I have to check compatibility of the website also. Thank god I was safe. That was the lesson for me, I realized importance of documentation and from that day I started to work on documents and created testing documents like Test plan, Test cases, sanity testing checklist, bug report and many.
20 jQuery Utilities For A Smashing Website
Webdesigners create and design a whole lot of widgets and utilities to make a website more appealing. Here, I have collected the best jQuery Utilities that will help every web designer and web master to build a beautiful yet fully loaded smashing website.
1. Real Person jQuery Plugin
This plugin is designed to help overcome automated form submission by requiring a real person to identify text made up of dots. The entered value is compared on the server with the generated value to determine whether processing should continue.
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20 SEO Tips for 2010
Below are 20 SEO Tips for 2010 as a stocking stuffer from SEO Design Solutions to kick off the new year in style. It’s no secret that SEO involves granular changes across multiple metrics to optimize a site, yet each layer of the respective SEO onion has its place in the hierarchy of relevance which you can use to fine-tune rankings and results.
