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