Friday, October 31, 2008

Exploratory Testing - the state of the art, Evening Talk

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I am delivering a talk on "Exploratory Testing - The State of the art" at STeP-IN forum. This talk is happening at Intuit Campus a...
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Saturday, October 18, 2008

Questioning Software - Bizzare?

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Rex Black does not like James Bach’s definition of testing “Questioning a product in order to evaluate it”. I am not sure why. During test...
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Sunday, September 14, 2008

Soft Part of Software Requirements ...

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Michael Bolton in response to a discussion on software requirements mentioned this ... "... There are many requirements that are matter...
Friday, September 12, 2008

10 Commandments for Test Automation Outsourcing

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Most of my test automation experience and learning comes from working with IT groups and GUI based automation using COTS tools. Outsourcing ...
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Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Automation reduces cycle time Part III

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I wrote about it earlier here and here “If automation can not reduce cycle time, save testing cost and reduce manual testing errors, why do...
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Sunday, July 27, 2008

Software - A game of questions and answers

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"The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The truly dangerous thing is asking the wrong question....
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Software - A machine or an organism or ?

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“ The first obvious difference between machines and organisms is the fact that machines are constructed, whereas organisms grow. … Whereas t...
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Sunday, July 20, 2008

Are all best practices "worthless"? Testing Best Practices

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Other day I was quoting following from Jerry ’s new book on testing to one of my colleague who is a “best practice” proponent. ….. The risk...
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Exploratory Testing SHOCK ....

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A colleague of mine other day expressed his struggle to make exploratory testing work for his time (scalability and making it as a best prac...
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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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