Sunday, December 30, 2012

Where do you stand in this debate?

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Inspired by Elisabeth Hendrikson's blog post  [Updated 25th Jan 2013] I am disappointed to see no responses to this post. While ...
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Sunday, November 04, 2012

A bizarre idea called "Software testing factory"

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" Persistence in the face of a skeptical authority figure is priceless" - Seth Godin Paul Holland (twitter handle @PaulHolla...
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Sunday, October 21, 2012

Divisions in Testing, Slotting People - How bad is idea of schools?

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This post is an offshoot of discussion with friends Rahul Verma and Vipul Kochar on twitter. It started off from a blog post fr...
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Friday, August 24, 2012

How different Software Industry segments see Testing ...

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Consider these views expressed by few real people about testing - cutting across the software industry segments. You (a tester) might be su...
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Sunday, May 06, 2012

A brief introduction of Test Automation...

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I was asked by a blog reader to give a quick introduction of how automation helps in testing. Here is how I replied. I thought this might k...
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Sunday, April 01, 2012

Testing is Dead - in which world?

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Few weeks back I participated in VodQA event by Thoughworks . It was a day filled with lots of power packed sessions and discussions around...
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Saturday, March 24, 2012

Learning from Tenali Raman's crows ...

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As kids, like many in southern part of India - I grew up listening to stories of Tenali Raman - a 16th century wise court-poet of King Kri...
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012

My Views on Testing certification : 2012

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A reader of my blog "Arpan Sharma" writes "What’s your take on certifications these days? I see your wrote about this is 20...
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Thursday, March 01, 2012

Patterns in weakness in approaches about testing

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I was reading this testing round table discussion and thought this might a blog post. Here I go... To me, the biggest weakness is t...
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Saturday, November 12, 2011

Cause and Effect - Non Linear Systems

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Here are three examples where cause and effect do not appear to corroborate. Take a look. Build a flyover on a busy road hoping that tra...
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Thursday, August 11, 2011

Do statistics lie?

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There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that play the devil" – Alfred North W...
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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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