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Introduction to Client/Server Testing
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Introduction to Client/Server
Testing
SilkTest and QA DBTester
®
(a companion product to SilkTest) provide
powerful support for testing client/server applications and/or databases in a
networked environment. Testing multiple remote applications raises the level
of complexity of QA engineering above that required for stand-alone
application testing. This chapter introduces certain principles of concurrent
programming that you need to understand when developing client/server
testcases or any testcases that must operate in a networked environment.
What you will learn
This chapter contains the following sections:
Client/server testing challenges
The challenges of Quality Assurance in today's application development
environment are many. Where once a computer program ran on one
computer, today it must run on many different computers. Where once an
application communicated only with local input/output devices, today it must
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Client/server testing challenges
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Client/server testing with SilkTest
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The kinds of network testing you can perform
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Client/server testing configurations
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QA DBTester features
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Concurrent programming issues
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