Google has released a new hosted software platform offering developers access to its application servers. Google App Engine service that includes a distributed Web server, database and storage, software development kit, which enable developers to write Web applications in Google’s SDK, and upload them to the company’s servers for hosting. The Google App Engine currently supports only Python, which will surely be a significant boost to interest in and usage of the Python language for web applications.

Before beginning with any kind of testing, one should consider few aspects like the architecture of the application, size of the application, who the end-user would be, time and budget allotted for testing, and most importantly the Operating System.

In this article, I will be covering the basics of UNIX, some basic commands of UNIX that will help beginners getting familiar with UNIX and some advanced commands too.

For more advanced concepts, check out part 2 of this article: Getting Started Guide to Unix Based Testing: Part 2