ADSL Simulator 1

#CHARTER

Find and List all the bugs in ADSL Simulator application

#AREAS

OS | Windows XP SP3 Professional

Build | Not Available

Product | ADSL Simulator

Strategy | Consistency & Familiar Problem oracles | System Clock oracle | Blink Testing

#START

24th December 2009, 4.17 AM

#TESTER

Parimala Shankaraiah

#TASK BREAKDOWN

Start

Stop

Reset

Clock

Frames

Context Sensitive menu

#DURATION

High - 120 minutes

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#TEST DESIGN AND EXECUTION

90

#BUG INVESTIGATION AND REPORTING

10

#SESSION SETUP

#CHARTER VS. OPPORTUNITY

90/10

#DATA FILES

None

#TEST NOTES

1. Looking for information on ADSL Simulator on the internet

2. Opening the SWF file in IE browser starts the simulator
3. Maximum Time Display value appears to be 2 hours. Clicking on Start Simulator more than once
resets the time to 1:59:55 or 1:59:59 or different values for the seconds field. Clicking on Start
Simulator at different intervals decrements the seconds and minutes by a number that is not
clear at this point.
4. I am using System Clock as an oracle to test the Time function
5. Using blink testing to detect the nature of decrementing the time values, the minutes and the
seconds fields seem to follow a pattern at this point. Having a script to click the Start Simulator
option every 1 second could help here.
6. There is a clear inconsistency in the clock due to is incrementing and decrementing behavior
when start simulator is clicked once or more than once
7. Watched James Bach’s video clip while he presented his testing effort for this simulator in his
presentation Unbearable Lightness of Model Based Testing. This gave me a few newer ideas

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(some were straightforward bugs demonstrated by James). I used this demonstration to help
understand this program better.
8. There is a pattern wherein Clicking on Start simulator when it is running increments the clock to
1: MM:SS where MM is minutes and SS is seconds. When I click on Start simulator until the clock
hits 1:00:00, then the clock now increments to 2: MM:SS and starts decrementing. On further
clicking on Start simulator, decrements happen until 2: MM:SS and then incremented to 3:
MM:SS and the pattern continues. In any given scenario, the clock decrements. Once it hits X:
00:00, the hours field in the clock is incremented by 1.

#OPPORTUNITY

None

#BUGS

#BUG 1 – Opening the ADSL Simulator in Internet Explorer starts the simulator and goes on forever until
I intervene by clicking some button. It should not be started until I click on the ‘Start Simulator’ button.

#BUG 2 – Clicking on Start Simulator button more than once resets the clock to 1:59: SS where SS varies
each time (pattern) and starts incrementing from thereon.

#BUG 3 – The Time displayed by clock is one second faster when compared to the system clock (oracle)

#BUG 4 – Clicking on Start Simulator button continuously until the time is 1:00:00 resets the clock to
2:59:SS. Clicking on Start Simulator until 2:59: SS becomes 2:00:00 increments to 3: MM:SS and this
pattern continues.

#BUG 6 – Mouse click on Start Simulator starts the simulator, but does not start the clock. Mouse
release on Start Simulator starts the clock

#BUG 8 - Mouse click on Stop stops the simulator, but does not stop the clock. Mouse release stops the
clock

#BUG 9 - Mouse click on Reset resets the simulator, but does not reset the clock. Mouse release resets
the clock

#BUG 10 – Context menu options Rewind, Forward and Back can be used to manipulate simulator.
Clicking on forward takes to next frame; rewind will reset to original state and back will take to previous
frame

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ISSUES

None

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