Monday, March 17, 2008

18 Myths Associated with Exploratory Testing ...

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Myths are public dreams; dreams are private myths – Joseph Campbell Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths - Karl ...
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Here comes my 100th post ...

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4 Years, 100 Posts, 200+ Comments, 15+ Commentators, about 5000+ page views (statistics since Dec 2007) It all started in July 2004, on 23rd...
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Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Software Requirement Heuristic ...All requirements are Vague

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Here is a heuristic - "All formal/written requirements are vague – only exception is when requirements are collected using a process th...
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Reductionism and Test Techniques - who, what?

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Scientific reductionism is an undeniably powerful tool, but it can mislead us too, especially when applied to something as complex as, on th...
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Tuesday, January 08, 2008

Percipient Subject and Software Quality

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Jerry Weinberg in his famous book “ An Introduction to General Systems Thinking ” mentions quoting Albert Einstein… “Belief in external wor...
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Monday, December 31, 2007

7 Habits of successful Testers

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Here comes the last post for the year 2007 - to be expanded later ... Self Driven or high levels of Inner drive for learning new things – No...
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Saturday, December 29, 2007

Exploratory Testing challenged - Part I

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Here is a conversation that I had recently with one of my manager. We were discussing about merits and demerits of “Exploratory Testing” (ET...
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Friday, December 14, 2007

Advantages of "highly repeatable tests" ...

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I was reading Ben simo's post on "what is software testing" - a meticulously created list of quotes about software testing. T...
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Dr Kaner on Software Metrics ...

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Here is another gem from Dr Kaner .. this time around it is about Software Metrics ... A rare insight into metrics world .... http://www.art...
Saturday, November 17, 2007

Further on Testing as a career ..

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Following this post on career in software testing , I found an interesting comment/viewpoint from Jeff Fry's post (more preciously a c...
Friday, November 16, 2007

Michael Bolton on "Software Bugs"

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Continuing my earlier post on Dr Cem Kaner's comment, this time is about sharing views about software bugs by another leading light of ...

Dr. Cem Kaner on Software Testing as a Career

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I take this opportunity to share few on great discussions happening at "software-testing" Yahoo group, to all my blog readers. For...
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Monday, November 05, 2007

Tester's world of Possibilities

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Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities. -- Aristotle The future belongs to those who see possibilities bef...
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Tuesday, October 23, 2007

100 Questions or 100/10000 Test cases in 20 minutes …

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That is what I would have named a blog post that my buddy Rapid software tester (context driven tester too) Pradeep Soundararajan wrote fe...
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Sunday, October 07, 2007

Types of Equivalence: Equivalence Class Partitioning - II

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Following this post of mine, I have been studying deep into understanding of this technique. Here are few more thoughts related to “equival...
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Sunday, September 30, 2007

More on definition of Test Automation ...

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While discussing about "definition" of "test automation", with Ben Simo I left a comment at Ben's blog post . I am...
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Saturday, September 29, 2007

Simple things and me ...

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World likes simplicity – Pictures, Colors, Sound, Odor are used to abstract some complex behaviors. Consider following – Software Project St...
Thursday, September 27, 2007

Automation Dreams - Thinking about END in the begining ...

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"Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blue prints of your ultimate accomplishments." - ...
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Thursday, September 13, 2007

Physicians, Surgeons, X Ray Lab Technicians ....

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Heard of this rant? “We would like our business users, domain experts and subject matter experts write automated scripts (tests?)” “Our next...
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Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Inattentional Blindness ...

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Sajjad has an interesting article on "inattentional blindness" and Exploratory Testing here Sajjd mentions that - "Explorator...
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