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Every year, just after Thanksgiving an event takes place called Black Friday. Retail stores all across the United States lower their prices and have tremendous savings on quality products. This event causes a shopping apocalypse for people all over the US.

Black Friday is a planned, well thought-out, and hectic day for shoppers. People line up, camp and wait outside stores so they can get to the best sales before everyone else. It is a big deal in the US and stores take advantage of this very well-known day. Stores plan on opening earlier than normal like Best Buy, which is opening at 12 am that day. Stores hand out ticket vouchers for certain, high priority items. This is the biggest shopping day of the year, so tie your shoes, get your coat and head lets go.

The top places to go for Black Friday are limitless.  If you are a dedicated shopper you will make the way to your top stores. Best Buy, Target and Wal-Mart are top for everyone’s places to visit this day. Some places like sears and K-mart open before Black Friday to get a head start on the day of crazy shopping.  Online shopping is another to help with the hustle and bustle of Black Friday. Instead of having to wait in ridiculous lines or fight your best friend for the last iPod on the shelf, you can go online and shop from home. There are deals that are leaked online before magazines and newspapers, so check it out.  Online views will give you at least a plan of attack for your one day shopping Bonanza.

There are many Black Friday Apps that will help you navigate around your shopping schedule.

List Bliss- gives users the ability to synch their lists for free, in real-time. If you are part of a tag-team, the function means you won’t accidentally buy two of the same item.

Zoomingo- lets shoppers get a jump start and find all the best deals locally with a searchable catalog of pre-Black Friday sales from all the national retailers. Shoppers can create a “Watch List” of items they are planning to buy with their Pinterest account or from Zoomingo’s curated Watch N’ Save section. The app automatically sends a notification when the item goes on sale.

Black Friday discounts are widely known and sought after. Some places offer up to 75% discount for certain products. Best Buy this year is offering a 40 inch flat screen for 179.00 with a savings of 240. That is huge!! Other retail vendors are doing the same with a variety of products and you will need to do some research to see which you are going to buy.

WordPress has come along way since its early beginnings as just a blog hosting platform. WordPress has evolved into one of the leading Content Manage Systems that are available.  It is very easy to use and you don’t have to be tech savvy to use it, which is why a lot of people love it.

WordPress has just launched JetPack 2.0. This platform includes some of the most highly sought after features for WordPress.  These features include infinite scroll, email posting and blog connecting to social media sites. These features have been requested by users and now the wait is over.

Photon is the most talked about new feature for this platform. It allows your hosted sites to display your high res pictures on devices without having them be fuzzy or blurred. Photon uses the global WordPress cloud to host the images.

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We follow a continuous iterative testing process where the testing is initiated early. Quality Assurance (QA) members work closely with the developers. QA participation is assured for the requirements gathering phase and analysis phase, so that they understand the real customer needs on a frequent basis. The following are the major 5 phases that the testing team will participate.

Release cycle definition stage

Identifying the functional and performance requirements that need to be tested

Planning and confirming which all tests to be performed

Organize, schedule and execute the tests and analyze the results

Report the defects into the defect tracking system and track how the repairs are progressing.

Regression testing is usually considered as the most time consuming activity in QA.  We always try to reduce the time consumed for regression by leveraging automation tools and reusing test cases across multiple projects. We follow SCRUM process as the default model, every Sprint a two week iterative cycle. The various testing processes within a Sprint are Unit Testing, Integration Testing and System Testing. During application development stage, we use the Unit testing tools such as PHPUnit, JUnit, and NUnit to reduce the number of blockers (show-stoppers) and the testing time fairly.

During every sprint, our QA team will do the test design, test execution and test reporting. The test cases are documented covering the requirements or the user stories. The test cases are executed and marked as pass / fail / blocked depending on the outcome of the test execution. Defects are reported through the defect tracking system. The QA member participates in daily stand up meeting where they will update the current health status of the code they are testing. The test management tools used are HP Quality Center and Testlink. The defect tracking systems widely used are Redmine, BugZilla, Trac and Jira. We always recommend for the integration of test management system and defect tracking tool.

For reusability and saving time for test design phase, we maintain generic test suites containing test cases that are reusable across multiple projects. Our QA team follows the agile process in order to gain transparency into what we are testing and to contribute and collaborate in a meaningful and measurable way. This also helps in auditing the QA progress between releases.

Communication Channel

We conduct daily Scrum meetings as part of the agile methodology. In case the client representative is unavailable on a daily basis, weekly meetings will be held with the client representatives. Daily bugs/issues will be logged in the defect-reporting tool. Any critical issues/blockers/crashes will be communicated to the client immediately through all possible means.

Iteration Phase

Requirements will be managed in the Test Management System as User stories, Use case and Test cases. All these will be assigned to a release.During the test execution phase if one test case is failed, a new defect is reported. The test case status will account for the status of user story and use case. Once the test design is completed, tests are assigned to a release. The tests are executed and the status is tracked at the release level. The test coverage should be viewable at any point during the test execution phase. Using the defect tracking system, the bugs identified during the iteration will be tracked.

QA member identifies the bug and report them.

Supportive attachments to be made available with the bug such as Crash Log, relevant screenshot etc.

The concerned developer is notified.

Developer fixes the bug and resubmits it to “Resolved” or “Ready for Test” status.

The tester retests the bug-fix and marks it as “Test- verified” status.

The tester marks the corresponding test case on test management system to Pass /Fail.

Exploratory testing is mandatory

Within Iteration the QA members will be responsible for the activities as shown in the diagram below:-

Post Iteration Phase

October 12th is FREE App Friday and MyMathBook HD will be available to the public for free all day. Since the release of MyMathBook 2.0, Innolance has decided that MomsWithApps will host our App Friday.

Free App Friday will be a 24 hour event where MyMathBook HD 2.0 will be available for free to the public. MomsWithApps hosts their event, App Friday, every Friday promoting new exciting apps. They give reviews and talk about new app products. It’s a great way to gain publicity and to promote your app. In the new version of MyMathBook there are many new features, which is why Innolance is proud to release this app for free this Friday. The app is for kids and they will get the same great quality as before, but with more exciting features.

A new feature of MyMathBook 2.0 is the shapes. There are a couple new shape options to choose from. One is choosing the correct shapes. It will give you a name of shape and kids will have to pick all of the correct shapes out of the bunch of other shapes to move on.  Another feature will be a quiz for addition and subtraction. Depending on how well you do, will determine how many gold stars you receive.