Monday, January 05, 2009

Context Driven Testing gets a boost – to grow stronger…

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It is a fantastic "new year" gift (and also week end feast to many like me who is spending better part of Christmas/new year in fr...
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Sunday, January 04, 2009

MS outlook as Alarm Clock: Is this a bug?

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[Background in the beginning … those who are interested in reading about bug I am talking about, skip first few paragraphs and go straight ...
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Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Metrics or a liquid in a container?

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I was responding to a thread on "productivity in software - when the term is relevant" on test republic and posted following par...
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Quantum Theory and Software Testing - Any connection?

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Atomic physics, Atomic structure and history of how all those brilliant scientists discovered (still discovering) atomic structure, electr...
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Can Software ever get IT right?

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Matt Heusser wrote this beautiful piece of writing about software development practices – quoting another famous Blogger Joel Spolsky. ...
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Perils of Quantification – what harm metrics can do for you?

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This is a hurriedly written post (just to make sure that I do not lose the thought – "fieldstone" in Jerry Weinberg's terminol...
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Monday, November 17, 2008

A conversation on Automation ROI Part 1 …

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When automation is required, either by contract or due to technical constraints, ROI computation may not be helpful. Intangible factors may ...
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Thursday, November 13, 2008

2 Notorious “E”’s of Testing

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Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things – Peter Drucker Let me make a dig on these two notorious and the m...
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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...