Thursday, June 26, 2008

Side Effects of Metrics/Statistics

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Jamie Dobson writes this piece of "reality" with respect to statistics/metrics and numbers. “... that human beings will always wo...
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Software Testing certifications Part II

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Dr Cem Kaner posted a note to Software testing yahoo group on the topic “software testing certifications”. I thought, it would really make l...
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Friday, June 13, 2008

What if Automation finds bugs ....? Good thing or bad thing?

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Ryan in response to my post on " cycle time reduction and automation ", mentions that "It is an accurate statement that autom...

A catalogue of Test Automation Benefits ...

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Other day, some one asked me “in your opinion, what are the real benefits of automation”. That triggered ideas for me to write this post… Le...
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Friday, June 06, 2008

What is a bug ... A new meaning ...

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Let me give a try to this one-liner ...(short post) "A software bug is a reflection of the mind of a confused human user" Analyse ...
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Monday, June 02, 2008

Goal of Testing and a quotable quote

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Michael Bolton in response to this post from Steve Rowe mentioned this gem … “Do our automated tests take into account the notion that dif...
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Thursday, May 29, 2008

Mission - Test Estimation model

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It is very difficult to make a vigorous, plausible, and job-risking defense of an estimate that is derived by no quantitative method, suppor...
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Can Automation reduce cycle time or improve time to market?

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Continuing on this discussion on test effort and manual testing – there is another popular variation in which Automation tool vendors claim...
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Saturday, May 17, 2008

When method dictates Goal – See Goal displacement in action - II

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I wrote about Goal displacement part I here . Surprisingly .. no comments yet ... :( Here is example # 2 Software Testing Certifications: A ...
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Can Automation reduce human testing effort ?

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This post is for all those IT managers who are considering outsourcing testing and listening/talking to various vendor presentations on test...
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Saturday, April 26, 2008

I am a sapient Tester …

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Here is my first and a very crude attempt write a poem (if it can be called as a poem) on sapient tester ... I understand that testing is a ...
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Thinking about Zero defect software - Attaining software Nirvana ...

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“Humans have always proved impossible is possible … Dreaming, Desire and passion is key to achieve “impossible”. Wright Brothers dreamt abou...
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Chasing the definitions of Quality ....

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Why do we have so many meanings/interpretations/definitions of quality - A colleague of mine asked recently. I did not have any ready answe...
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When method dictates outcome and Goal – See Goal displacement in action - I

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I first heard (came to know) about this word from James Bach and this immediately caught my attention. I started seeing it everywhere. The ...
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Friday, April 25, 2008

Software Testing certification - To be or not to be ..

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I am yet open up my thoughts on certification ... also I have not been very critical of certification programs. Here is an attempt to publi...
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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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