Posted on December 5, 2011 by rohit.nikam

We are all well aware of the importance of banners in promoting a company or its products on related websites. Animated banners if made unique and attractive, can divert a good amount of traffic to the concerned website.

Lets discuss in a short tutorial below, the step-by-step process to create animated banner in Photoshop: Read more at blog.teamgrowth.net

Posted on November 29, 2011 by vijay.papneja

In our last post we had discussed about advantages of QTP over other testing tools, basic settings, keyword view and expert view. Let us now discuss about the different types of recordings in QTP.

There are three types of recordings in QTP:

I. Normal Recording:

This is the default mode in QTP. It recognizes the objects in the application regardless of their location on screen.

For recording just click on Record button in QTP and start recording. Read more at blog.teamgrowth.net

Posted on November 17, 2011 by amol.ahirrao

We usually use a dummy database for testing. It gets filled with a lot of unwanted temporary data. At the time of deployment we replicate this database into Live Database. While doing so we need to delete all data from each table of this database. It can be easily done if DELETE or TRUNCATE table doesn’t has a foreign key relationship. In this case, first of all we have to disable all CHECKs and TRIGGERs for that table and then call DELETE or TRUNCATE syntax. As this is a tedious and hectic task, MS SQL SERVER provides a function called sp_MSForEachTable, also called as undocumented sp_MSforeachtable procedure. This procedure is popularly used for performing the action on all the tables within the database.

Let’s see how to use this function to Empty your database: Read more at blog.teamgrowth.net

Posted on November 14, 2011 by kasim.badami

We are all aware of the importance of relevant meta data for SEO hence we are constantly on the look out for the most researched keywords in search engines primarily Google. Google also provides Google Trends tool which gives insights into broad search patterns.

Google trends can be accessed here: http://www.google.com/trends

Here you can find the complete information with graphical representation on a  scale based on the average worldwide traffic of Keywords you entered in all years.

Google trends also has its PHP API which fetches top 20 hot trends. Google has restricted the access to 20 keywords. These can be fetched date wise or hourly. The sample code to fetch hourly hot trends of Google is as follows: Read more at blog.teamgrowth.net

Posted on November 7, 2011 by anilr

DNS is a technology to map the names of sites with the server’s IP address. DNS is used to point domain name to server IP address.

What Is a Domain Name Server (DNS)?

WHOIS lookup is an internet utility that helps us to find information about a particular domain or IP address. Typically a record will contain the name and the contact information of the Registrant and the Registrar. Read more at blog.teamgrowth.net

GUI testing means testing how the application and user interact with system.

Graphical User Interface Testing

GUI Testing includes how the application handles/responds to keyboard and mouse inputs and how it displays screen text, images, links, buttons, menus, dialog boxes, icons, toolbox,etc.

Consider the following factors while GUI testing:

1. Consistency: Users expect that if they perform something in a certain way in a program, another will do the same function the same way. E.g. In notepad Find is accessed by going through search menu or F3.In WordPad it accessed through the edit menu or by CTRL+ F. Such inconsistency frustrate users. Read more at blog.teamgrowth.net

Flash Masking with Animation

Posted on November 2, 2011 by deepaks

1. Open a new flash file and import image to the center of the stage in layer 1. Read more at blog.teamgrowth.net

Posted on October 31, 2011 by hussain

These are the special variables that are used for file or related operations. These need not be mentioned explicitly as they are initialized on successful file opening. Moreover each file-handle holds its own set of values.

Some File handle or format variables are listed below:

1. $| 2. $% 3. $= 4. $- 5. $~ 6. $^ 7. $: 8. $^L Read more at blog.teamgrowth.net

How to make the TextView in android scrollable?

Posted on October 27, 2011 by rajesh pahadi

A TextView cannot be scrollable by default. It needs to be in a scroll view tag in the xml file in layout folder. Following code snippet will help you fix the issue:

Copy the following code snippet in your xml file in layout: Read more at blog.teamgrowth.net