Monday 23 May 2011

Testing a computer system for functionality - P7

There are many ways in which you can test your computer system for its functionality, and some of them that i have done are as follows:

Software applications open and work as intended

In order for me to test that software applications open and they work how i want them to, i will have to test the functionality of them, so i have picked the following two software applications to test:
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Paint

First of all i shall explain how i tested that Microsoft Word opened and functioned as intended, below is an explanation of how i tested it, and after that there are screen shots that show that the software works.

What i did to test Microsoft Word's functionality and if the software opened is i found the program on my system, i opened the program and i wrote a short sentence showing you that the software works as it is supposed to, below are a few questions that i have made before hand to answer about the functionality of the software:
Did the application open?
Yes.
How long approximately did it take upon opening?
Around 20 seconds.
Can i write a sentence without any problems?
Yes, i can write a sentence without any interruptions EG software crashes etc..

All of these tests passed so i know that Microsoft Word works perfectly fine, like the software utility was designed to. Below are some images as evidence that this software works.


















This image shows me opening Microsoft word, the next image shown is an image of Microsoft word with a sentence written in it.

















Now I know that Microsoft Word works exactly how it is intended to work.

Now i shall explain how i tested Microsoft Paint for functionality and if the program works exactly how it was intended to work, first there will be a text write-up explaining what i did and then there will be some images as evidence that the systems software does as intended.

First of all i opened Microsoft Paint, and i drew a cube, to make sure that the software works, following are some questions that i made before hand and i have answered them after testing the software.

Did the application open?
Yes.
How long did it take to open?
About 5 seconds.
Did the software allow you to draw without any problems? (EG crashing)
Yes, the software allowed me to draw the cube without any interruptions.

Now there will be some images that shows evidence that the softwares utility does work as intended and a picture that shows the cube that i drew on Microsoft Paint.


















This is an image of me opening Microsoft paint.


















This is the image of the cube that i drew on Microsoft Paint in order to show that the program works as intended to.

Desktop shortcuts go to the right place

Now i will show you how two of the shortcuts that are on my desktop open and they go to the right place. first i will show you that the 'mouse' shortcut works and it takes you to the mouse settings. Below is an image that shows the shortcut on my desktop.

















I have opened this shortcut and it has taken me to the following screen:


















This shows that the shortcut works as intended and takes me to the right place that it should.

Next I am going to show you that the next shortcut for the date and time works and takes me to where it is supposed to.
Here is an image that shows the shortcut on my desktop background.


















Next i will show you the screen that comes up once i open up this shortcut:


















Now i can see that this shortcut works as when i open this the date and time comes up as intended.

The correct date a time are set

Before i changed the settings of the time it was wrong, as you can see in the following image the time was 3 minutes slow, saying the time was 12:19, when the time was supposed to say 12:22.


















So i simply changed the time by clicked where the digits are in the right and added 3 minutes on, and i got the following result:


















This shows that I can alter the date and time to suit me, if the clocks move forward or back I know how to change the time.

All of the above proves that the system is completely function-able and the system will do anything that you want it to do.

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