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Testing can be mainly classified into two type 1. Automated : Test automation is the use of software to control the execution of tests , the comparison of actual outcomes to predicted outcomes, the setting up of test preconditions, and other test control and test reporting functions. Commonly, test automation involves automating a manual process already in place that uses a formalized testing process.There are many tools available for automation like,Mercury and Rational which is now IBM suite of tools for testing . 2. Manual: Manual testing is the oldest and most rigorous type of software testing . Manual testing requires a tester to perform manual test operations on the test software without the help of Test automation . Manual testing is a laborious activity that requires the tester to possess a certain set of qualities; to be patient, observant, speculative, creative, innovative, open-minded, resourceful, unopinionated, and skillful. Software Testing Types: Black box testing -

"PeopleSoft is an integrated software package that provides a wide variety of business applications to assist in the day-to-day execution and operation of business processes. Each individual application, such as Financials, Customer Relationship Management and Human Resources, interacts with others to offer an effective and efficient means of working and reporting in an integrated fashion across the enterprise" Customer Relationship Management CRM Analytics Solution CRM Portal Pack CRM Warehouse Customer Behavior Modeling Customer Scorecard EPM Portal Pack Predictive Analytics SmartViews CRM Industry Solutions CRM for Communications CRM for Energy CRM for Financial Services CRM for Government CRM for High Technology CRM for Higher Education CRM for Insurance CRM for Wealth Management Marketing Solution Marketing Online Marketing Real-Time Advisor Telemarketing Partner Relationship Management Solution Partner Collaborative Commerce Partner Collaborative Sales Partner Lifecyc

The term Oracle Applications is the applications software or business software of Oracle Corp. . It refers to the non-database (non-technology) parts of Oracle Corporation 's software portfolio. Oracle Corporation sells many functional modules built around the Oracle RDBMS system as back-end, notably the Oracle Financials , Oracle HRMS , Oracle Projects , Oracle CRM, Oracle PO etc. (Oracle Corporation also offers many additional application-oriented products, including Oracle Office , Oracle Media Server , and (grouped with databases) Oracle ConText .) Oracle Corporation initially launched its application suite with financials software in the late 1980s. The offering now extends to supply-chain management , Human Resource Management warehouse-management , customer relationship management , call-center services, product lifecycle management , and many other areas. Both in-house expansion and the acquisition of other companies have vastly expanded Oracle Corporation's appli

Data Warehouse “Provides information on techniques to design, build, maintain and retrieve information from data. a. AB initio – is a database module. b. Business Intelligence – BI is a process of enhancing data into information and then into knowledge. Gather, store, analyze and provide access to data. c. Informatica – database module. d. ETL - Extract, transform, and load (ETL) is a process in data warehousing that involves, extracting data from outside sources, transforming it to fit business needs, and ultimately ,loading it into the data warehouse. ETL is important, as it is the way data actually gets loaded into the warehouse e. Cognos – is an Ottawa, Ontario based company which makes business intelligence (BI) and performance planning software . f. Data Stage – Is used for data extraction, transformation and loading (ETL) solution for information intensive companies, Offers end to end Meta data Management and data integration Applications such as CRM (Customer Relation Manag

Mainframe. a. COBOL - COBOL is a third-generation programming language and one of the oldest programming languages still in active use. Its name is an acronym , for Common Business Oriented Language, defining its primary domain in business, finance, and administrative systems for companies and governments. IDMS - IDMS (Integrated Database Management System) is a ( network ) CODASYL database management system . Backend. c. VSAM - Virtual Storage Access Method (VSAM) is an IBM disk file storage scheme first used in the OS/VS2 operating system and later used throughout the MVS architecture. VSAM comprises four access methods: Key Sequenced Data Set (KSDS), Relative Record Data Set (RRDS), Entry Sequenced Data Set (ESDS) and Linear Data Set (LDS). See record-oriented file system . d. DB2 – database. e. JCL - Job Control Language (JCL) is a scripting language used on IBM mainframe operating systems to instruct the Job Entry Subsystem (that is, JES2 or JES3) on how to run a batch

DOT Net. “Microsoft Technologies” Ado.Net – Data base module. ASP.Net - ASP.NET is used to create Web pages and Web services and is an integral part of Microsoft's .NET vision as Front End. C# & VB.Net (Code Behind File= responds to functional inputs from the front end) - C# is an object-oriented programming language used with XML (Extensible Markup Language) based Web services on the .NET platform and designed for improving productivity in the development of Web applications. VB.Net – Microsoft Visual basic used on Microsoft server as Back end. ASP – A specification for a dynamically created Web page with a .ASP extension that utilizes ActiveX scripting -- usually VB Script or Jscript code . ADO.NET: When a action is performed at the front end and the action requires to talk to Database then you use ADO.NET. AJAX: When a part of the web page requires to get data from the back end AJAX helps for faster data access( Where by the need for the whole page to retrieve t

SAP (ERP - Enterprise Resource Planning) a. Basis – sys admin b. Security admin. Users Super userr End user SAP Technical ABAP - ABAP (Advanced Business Application Programming) is a high level programming language created by the German software company SAP . It is currently positioned as the language for programming Sap’s Web Application Server , part of its Net Weaver platform for building business applications. Its syntax is somewhat similar to COBOL BW - SAP Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW) Extraction, Transformation and Load (ETL) layer - responsible for extracting data from a specific source, applying transformation rules, and loading it into SAP BW system. Data warehouse area - responsible for storing the information in a multidimensional structure. Reporting - responsible for accessing the information in data warehouse area and presenting it in a friendly way to the end user. Sub skillset c. ALE/EDI d. BAPI – BAPI is the most the powerful tool in

JAVA – Java is an object-oriented programming language developed by Sun Microsystems . Java applications are designed to be compiled to bytecode , which is interpreted at r untime , unlike conventional programming languages, which either compile source code to native (machine) code or interpret source code at runtime . The language itself borrows much syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities. JavaScript , a scripting language, shares a similar name and has similar syntax, but is not related to Java. Core Java – Front end. JDBC- JDBC is an API for the Java programming language that defines how a client may access a database . It provides methods for querying and updating data in a database. JDBC is oriented towards relational databases . Back-end . Servlets – The Java Servlet API allows a software developer add dynamic content to a Web server using the Java platform . Middle back end. JMS- JMS is Java Message Service is