Sunday, July 26, 2009

Tom DeMarco’s confession

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Confession is probably a harsh to describe what Tom DeMarco, the creator of celebrated punch line of software managers – "You can'...
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009

To tweet or to blog ...?

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Due to me crazy traveling and work, I have not been able to write as frequently as I would have liked, for the blog. At least half a dozen p...
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Thursday, May 14, 2009

10 ways to make automation difficult or ineffective

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Here goes another 10 items list for automation. If you are in IT or IT services space and manage/deliver automation solutions -- make sure y...
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Is this a bug?

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I was flying from Cape Town to Bangalore through emirates flight. It is convenient to online check-in. I do it as I can choose an aisle seat...
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Sunday, April 19, 2009

10 ways to reduce cost of software testing

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In current economic situations, IT folks worry about one thing – “reduce cost”. I have been frequently asked “how to reduce testing cost”. A...
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Saturday, March 21, 2009

When "Process" stops working for you ....

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Other day I overheard a Test manager speaking to his team “ As a CMMi Level 5 company, I don’t think we are following processes. We often ta...
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Friday, March 06, 2009

C-DLICE’ing in software Testing

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Let me take credit for making this pneumonic up: C-DLICE. I was listening to Michael Bolton's video interview on youtube. He said testi...
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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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