Generating data with Om

As a part of development or quality assurance activities you must have faced situations that require you to test a field of an application by using strings of a particular length (as a part of Boundary Value Analysis) or you need to generate random data to check if an application behaves gracefully when subjected to … Continue reading Generating data with Om

Understanding MZ Headers

Authors: Chetan Giridhar, Rahul Verma image: http://freedigitalphotos.net/ Have you tried opening a binary file in notepad? Try it and you would see a lot of gibberish. Or we should say gibberish for human users but optimised for the software that deals with a given binary format. Try the same for a PE (Portable Executable) file (Dll/Exe) … Continue reading Understanding MZ Headers

Measuring Application Launch Times with AppTimer

 Authors: Chetan Giridhar, Rahul Verma                                             image: http://freedigitalphotos.net/ Performance tests are instrumental in keeping a check on product quality in terms of reliability and scalability. One essential area of performance measurements is application launch time which is the time elapsed from the operation which triggers the launch (double-click/command-line etc.) and the moment at which … Continue reading Measuring Application Launch Times with AppTimer