Drupal Development for Great CMS Solution

Released in January 2001, Drupal is an open source content management system distributed under the GNU General Public License, and is a content management framework. Drupal development is used worldwide in the development of content management websites, blog sites, government websites, corporate websites, social networking websites, community websites and lot more.

Moreover, Drupal CMS supports numerous software frameworks such as PHP, JAVA/ AJAX, Flash/ Flex, etc. along with web server including Apache, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite and Microsoft SQL server. Not only that, Drupal development is cross platform compatible, as a result, a developer can perform Drupal development on any operating system such as Microsoft Windows, Mac OS and also Linux.

In fact, there are several advantages of Drupal development available to the Drupal developers. These advantages could be classified as:

• Drupal is an open source technology, as it proves to be cost-effective
• Availability of numerous add-ons, themes and templates
• Easy to install and use
• No need to buy licenses
• Used by thousands of users worldwide
• Availability of Drupal community
• Constantly updated by thousands of users
• Availability of free updates
• Drupal development is able to develop solutions for both dynamic websites and CMS
• Supports of various software frameworks
• Capable of building multilingual websites
• And much more...

However, as a main functionality of Drupal Content Management System (CMS) is integrated with several features which had made developers and industries around the world to seek Drupal development for their web development needs. These features of Drupal CMS are:

Build - Drupal CMS allows building internal and external-facing websites in almost no time without the need of custom programming. As a result, developer doesn't need to start again from the beginning for building a new website. Drupal has a tool for multi-site configuration and Drupal distribution allowing presetting the configuration of the site functionalities and features.

Create - Supports numerous types of content including text, video, blogs, podcasts and polls with easy to manage functionality, along with user management, menu handling and real-time statistics.

Administer - Drupal CMS supports creating new user accounts and user permission. Administrator can assign different roles to different developers as per the priority and skills.

Design and Display - Drupal CMS supports thousands of Drupal themes and templates, and also allows the developer to create their own unique design for themes and templates.

Organize and Find - Drupal CMS allows organizing with the facility of automatically creating URLs, custom lists and by relating content with other content on the site.

Extend - Drupal has more than 6000 modules available which helps to increase the potentiality of the web development process.

Collaborate - Drupal can help to develop social networking and blog sites where the stakeholder can have the control on the users and the type of the content that they may publish, along with the interactions towards the content.

Connect - Drupal CMS allows website to connect with other websites using feeds and search engine connection capabilities. Even social networking is supported via Drupal.

With so many features and advantages, no doubt Drupal development certainly proves to be an excellent content management system delivering top-notch solutions in web development, worldwide.

Concept Infoway is an offshore software development, offering array of excellent services in software development, mobile development and web design and development, along with Drupal development.

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Scenario Testing: The Path to a Great Piece of Software

Scenario testing is a method of testing which involves creating real life scenarios for detecting possible issues that a user may have with a piece of software. These type of tests need to describe a complex procedure but in the same time they need to be easy to evaluate. The most important feature of a scenario test is credibility; this means that it needs to create real life situations.

Although a hypothetical story, the act of creating a scenario is more or less similar to telling a good story: it needs to captivate the public and to make it believe that it might happen.

The main difference between test cases and scenario tests is that the former cover simple steps whereas the latter focuses on complex tests which have as main purpose the relationship between features. So each feature of the software needs to be tested individually before elaborating rich scenarios.

By developing scenarios tests, the quality assurance team gets an insight into the functionalities of the product, learns its mechanism and is capable of exposing failures and preventing future issues. The purpose of such tests is to see how the software will react when employed by an experience user: to acknowledge its benefits and to underline its weakness.

Such scenarios offer developers a real and complex feedback about their work, and the possibility to fix bugs and issues before the product comes out on the market. This increases the overall quality of the product and guarantees satisfied users.

In order to develop powerful scenario tests, testers need to determine different typologies of users and to define their main characteristics. It's highly important to know who your users are and what their main interests are. Failing to do so will lead to failing to deliver a quality product.

Also, testers should not neglect the challenges and failures the product had in the past. If this is the case, a thorough analysis of the previous versions will set a path for future testing and will reduce the time allocated to searching issues.

The difference between scenario testing and other types of tests, such as stress testing, domain testing, function testing, risk based testing, etc. is that it offers a global view of the functionalities of a product from the end user's perspective and underlines the complex relations between features. Scenario testing is suitable for complex functionalities, succeeding to point out bugs and issues that failed to appear through other approaches.

There's no such thing as a good scenario test or mandatory steps, there are tests which serve your purposes, and there are tests that fail to meet their goals. A thing is certain: scenario tests will be different for different products and need to be adapted to the requirements of each piece of software.

Not only that scenarios can improve the quality of the end product, but it can save time developing unsuitable features through its real case feedback. This can only mean a better product and resources invested wisely.

Scenario testing are a must for a company that wants to deliver a quality product and to gain an important position on the software market.

Brad Larson promotes quality standards in programming services. He works with http://www.sbp-romania.com/ in sustaining a high level for code writing.

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