Sunday, March 13, 2011

Programmers make Excellent Testers - Arguments and Counter Arguments

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Janet Gregory’s post on Programmers as testers prompted me to do this post. She mentions in the post that “Programmers make excellent te...
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Thursday, March 10, 2011

Book Review: Selenium 1.0 Testing Tools - Part 1

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In a first of its kind request, few months back someone requested me to do a book review – that too a book on “ Selenium ”. I wanted to lear...
Monday, March 07, 2011

A Paradox of Reification – A Tool or a Fallacy?

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Reification – Making some idea into a thing [Wikipedia] Reification is a process (or is an essential element) of modeling – a process of red...
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011

In Pursuit of Quality, let’s Call Quality as something else

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The theme of this year’s Euro STAR conference is “In Pursuit of Quality”. A great theme but an ambiguous I would say. I wonder what could h...
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Sunday, January 30, 2011

Two versions of being practical...

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My boss tells me always that my ideas about testing are impractical and esoteric. I find it hard to understand why he thinks so. I believe m...
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Thursday, January 13, 2011

What type of tester are you?

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I was assisting homework of my 7 yr old daughter in her science assignment. The assignment was to collect pictures of living and non-liv...
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Tuesday, January 04, 2011

What does that mean?

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The other day I visited a science exhibition at my daughter’s school. As I was passing through an array of models and demonstrations, I coul...
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Friday, September 17, 2010

Fish baking story ...

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This was a story that came to my mail box. A little girl was watching her mother prepare a fish for dinner. Her mother cut the head and tail...
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Thursday, August 05, 2010

How can Mathematics be the Language of Nature?

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I am reading this wonderful book about Physics (and history and philosophy of Physics) " Tao of Physics " by my all-time favorite...
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Thursday, July 08, 2010

Nature of Problem(s), we testers (should) investigate (or solve)

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I am puzzled about the nature of problems that software testers, today are juggling with or should be losing their sleep over - more than th...
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Sunday, March 07, 2010

A movement called weekend testing – What it can do to you and your testing career?

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An extremely contiguous phenomenon is sweeping in some circles, communities of software testing; it is called Weekend testing (twitter @wee...
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Monday, February 22, 2010

Man and the machine ....

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Can a software be produced and maintained using a machines in a factory … like Google does? Notice, with their machinery and factory setup,...
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Monday, February 15, 2010

I’m blocked… but why?

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"There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough." American Poet William Stafford I am blo...
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Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Why GUI Test Automation is Popular and Tempting? Part I - Business context

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It is rare to someone on testing in IT world not be aware of "QTP, WinRunner, Rational Robot etc ". For the most in IT world, the ...
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Saturday, December 12, 2009

Eurostar 2009 – A Trip Report

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I am just back from EURO STAR at Stockholm. As a ritual, and like an obedient delegate and speaker, I am narrating the experience. It was ...
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