Monday, June 27, 2011

When Testing Fails ...

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Carl Segan once famously said “Science is a self correcting process – an aperture to view what is right”. Carl Zimmer in an article on Indi...
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Tuesday, June 07, 2011

Sure Ways to Reduce Test Cycle Time through Automation

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World is simple, we complicate the world for the sake of it – says a friend. There is a simple concept called "automation" and ano...
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Wednesday, May 25, 2011

All wannabe software testers out there …

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An anonymous comment posted on my blog read “ hi i am non IT background i want to do software testing course in india. if some give me some ...
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

How IT deals with Test Automation ...

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Here is a short post on how test automation is dealt in IT/IT services organizations. For example : A typical test cycle: Before Automation ...
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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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