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Suppose your Drupal website has the facility to allow user to register in your site. In most of the cases User's e-mail address and username will be unique. In this article will be explaining the cases to be noted for the user registration process.

Stock tickers are representations of companies enlisted on the stock market. Any website which deals with the stock related content is bond to use stock tickers in one form or the other. Stock ticker is normally less than 5 characters in length and written in upper case. They are usually clickable and on clicking those, people are directed to a listing of all content related to that stock ticker.

Hey guys my requirement is to create a view attached with a map(highlight the map with the results) for that you have to enabling Location, GMap, views module.

Reporting the identified bug to the developer is the first and foremost task of a tester. The tester should report the bugs in such a way that the developer can make out the bug from the report, without any further queries. For this, the tester should include every minute details of a bug in the report he/she prepares. Sometimes you may find it difficult to report bug with mere words. At this point, the importance of screen-shots come into play. In Zyxware we use Gimp, a free and open source software for editing the screen-shots. This article is meant for users who are getting used to Ubuntu and in search for a start up guide/basic steps to use the gimp for editing your screen-shots. Read on the following steps:

As test case is the important document for testing, testers use different effective techniques for preparing the same. Equivalence Partitioning or equivalence classes is one of the effective techniques among them. It is a black box testing technique, which focusses mainly on the functionality of a software. Therefore the main aim of equivalence partitioning is to prepare an effective test case which covers the total functionality of an application. In this article, I have included a brief note on Equivalence Partitioning.

Review is the process of examining software related documents such as Requirement documents, design documents, user stories, test plan, test specification etc. This gives an opportunity to the team members, managers and clients to get clarity on the requirements and bridge the gap. Suggestions from the team members can be taken on improving the product quality and to make sure that none of the requirements are missed.

Performance testing is one of the testing methods which is carried out to ensure the quality of the product/website we deliver. It mainly focuses on the speed of the application, possible load the product can support, amount of stress the website can handle, user's access to the website etc. Following are the some of the checklists that you can refer while carrying out the performance testing of your application. Read on to know more.

Deploying a site from dev to live is a process that has to be done carefully especially sites where financial information is being handled such as shopping cart. From a testers point of view these are the basic things to be taken care of like user accounts debug code or even a permission change that have been pushed to the dev site.

Checkout the importance of static testing and dynamic testing.

In order to add a new jQuery or multiple javaScript/CSS to the Drupal site, it is better to use hook_library rather than using drupal_add_css/drupal_add_js multiple times. It is helpful if we are using the javaScript/CSS in multiple pages.

Importing and exporting files are common features we come across in software development. In one of my projects, I had to import large sized files which needed to be exported as well. Since normal process of importing and exporting files may cause problems when there is a network connectivity issue, we opted for Drupal's Batch API process to do this functionalities. Following are the client requirements: