Dragon NaturallySpeaking Quality Assurance Manual Testing Software For Accessibility

Rini Srivastava — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 09:45:32 +0000

The software delivery life cycle of an application accelerates in a dynamic complexity. Manual testing in support of test automation becomes the primary driver in Quality Assurance (QA) process for the success of software delivery. Luckily, we have much advanced assistive technology (AT) solutions like Dragon available to facilitate Accessibility Testing with up to 99% accuracy.

The software line from Dragon NaturallySpeaking which is useful for the tester community is given below:

Dragon Professional Individual, v15
Dragon Anywhere
Nuance Winscribe Dictation

Dragon NaturallySpeaking is an incredible player in the web testing space. It is a voice-to-text conversion application trusted by numerous testers and programmers to perform tasks like accessing a web browser, streamline complex workflows, launching a specific website and more. The software comes with a long line of quality features which help to achieve a higher baseline accuracy.

The Dragon makers claim “Dragon is 3x times faster than typing manually and 99% accurate”. It seems the days of cumbersome documentation demands and inefficient workflows are really over with the advent of Nuance Winscribe Dictation (solution offered by Dragon makers) which allows software testers to create high quality documents and streamlined workflows just at a voice command. Maybe that’s why professionals across the globe are leveraging this application’s full dictation capabilities to open programs, navigate web pages, create boilerplate forms and email signatures, and analyze an audio clip/podcast.

Let’s take a look as how to install and start using the voice commands on the Dragon NaturallySpeaking Testing Software.

Dragon NaturallySpeaking is compatible with internet explorer, Chrome and other browsers. When one installs Dragon for the first time, it asks for permission to install the web extension to work seamlessly with the web browser, later on it enables command to click buttons, links on the webpage and navigate and access the functionalities as well.

After installation of Dragon NaturallySpeaking Manual Testing Software for Quality Assurance, open the web browser, goto the address bar and spell out the website address and say Go. Now, to navigate through the page, use the below given commands as per the need:

Commands	Action
Go to sleep	Enable sleep mode
Wake up	Exits sleep mode and activates the microphone
Press enter	Activates the element which currently has the focus
Open	Opens respective Web Browser
Mouse Grid	Dragon will overlay a grid on the screen
Backspace	Gives the same result as pressing the Backspace key on the keyboard
Scroll Up/Scroll Down	Scroll the current page up or down

One can also give mouse commands using Dragon NaturallySpeaking with the help of MouseGrid concept (given by Dragon makers). The MouseGrid breaks up the computer screen into a transparent grid of 3*3 (i.e. 9 grids) with each grid labelled with a number.

For MouseGrid, use the following commands:

MouseGrid
< Number of Grid >

Now, the MouseGrid is active in your system. Just use the command “Click” to restrict the mouse movement and activate the element in Dragon Dragon NaturallySpeaking Manual Testing Software.

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F12 Developer Tools For Quality Assurance & Testing: Software Review

Rini Srivastava — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 08:35:47 +0000

The increasing need for manual testing has led to an increase in the utilization of F12 Developer Tools at various stages of the web development life cycle. Owing to their ability to identify errors, these technology-driven tools are and will always remain the key to the 21st-century IT environment as the next breakthrough.

Formerly known as Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar, the F12 is an essential addition in the toolkit of testers and developers to deal with inconsistencies and unresolvable bugs. From the identification of red-flag potential errors to monitoring performance, F12 testing tools opening the roadmap to actionable insights for manual testers in the real-time.

Ways in which F12 Developer Tools can make discernible impacts in Quality Assurance and Software Testers:

Manual testing is an ongoing and incredibly complex process. Using F12 testing tools can substantially accelerate the traditional software development lifecycle (SDLC) in the following ways. These include:

1. UI Reboot

The tool has a fairly consistent UI that is available as a scrolling ribbon on the left side of the debugger panel. Testers can leverage the clean and intuitive graphics-based navigation system to access dropdown menus and a tab-based metaphor to run a series of quick tests.

2. DOM Explorer:

All new and improved DOM inspector tool brings a hassle-free debugging experience to make developers’ and testers’ lives a lot easier from a debugging perspective. It allows to right-click on any element on a page, inspect that element and drag an element to another location within the DOM explorer. In addition to these great features, it has Intellisense which gives easy access to style rules.

3. Tackling UI Responsiveness:

Now, developers and testers can easily measure the framerates and CPU usage in the page load cycle by using F12’s UI Responsiveness tool and identify any UI performance issues. Using the Timeline details panel, get details about how specific events/ network requests affecting the page performance. Also, they can leverage the feature to look at every element and track specific actions such as styling that play a major role in affecting the rendering performance.

4. Script Debugger:

This new feature of F12 testing application is super helpful primarily in case of a UX issue. Using the Script Debugger, testers can easily work without any frustrating experience of the entire tools panel which pop-off in the browser viewport. Additionally, in the new version, there is a tab metaphor that allows us to view each open file in a sorted way and making navigation substantially easier. And it’s truly amazing how new tools support Tracepoints required to monitor specific values.

5. Memory Analysis:

There will be no Pegging memory-related issues with the all-new and enhanced F12 tools. By using the new memory profiler, testers can conveniently take snapshots of your site or app’s memory usage and create a baseline snapshot of memory footprint along with subsequent snapshots to run a data comparison.

Surely, F12 Developer tools are one of the most exciting disruptors in the IT ecosystem for Quality Assurance experts and software testers and harnessing their full potential can make a marked difference.