Saturday, December 13, 2014

Being away from blogging

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Ten years since I posted my first post - it has been a long journey. Some years very active with many posts and some very lean - like this ...
Sunday, June 22, 2014

There is no such thing called Agile Testing

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I struggled since long to find a reasonable meaning and definition for phrase 'Agile Testing". So far I have been unsuccessful in f...
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Sunday, December 08, 2013

Refreshing Schools of testing - A flow chart

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I picked up this from one of my old notes  on schools of testing where I made a sketch in the form of some flowchart. While I was cleaning ...
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Sunday, December 01, 2013

Connection between Software Metrics and News

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I discovered Maria Popova's brain pickings accidentally. I am happy that I did. Fully loaded with stuff that makes you think almost ev...
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Sunday, November 24, 2013

White's Illusion and Importance of Context in Testing and for Testers

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I found one of the best examples or illustration of what is context and why it is important - in Keith Klain 's Eurostar Webinar "...
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Sunday, October 20, 2013

Questions about Gamification of Testing

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I came across the phrase “gamification” and how in testing we can use this, in the writings of Jonathan Kohl. One day on twitter, jonath...
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Sunday, August 04, 2013

James Bach's Advise on Tool supported Testing (aka Test Automation)

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James Bach, in response a question on articulating "test automation and frameworks" to non technical people - gives these pretty ...
Sunday, June 09, 2013

10 Random ideas about Test Automation Estimation

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I received a mail from a friend who asked about estimation approach for test automation. Wow - what a topic to mess up your head on a sunda...
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Friday, June 07, 2013

Are you measuring something that easy to measure or something that is important ?

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Measurement is fabulous – Unless you are busy in measuring what is easy to measure as opposed what is important. – Seth Godin ... And wh...
Thursday, May 30, 2013

How many heads can you roll off with this Automation?

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...  This was exactly one of the managers in a meeting asked me when I was discussing with a group on automation that we were developing an...
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Sunday, May 19, 2013

How to disagree elegantly and learn something in the process ...

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I love my Zite iPad App that pulls out amazing (and latest) news just about anything. By tuning this to topics like science, philosophy, m...
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Tuesday, May 07, 2013

Book/Reading suggestions ...

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Few days ago - a tester friend of mine approached with a request to suggest him for some books to read. I responded him with a small list t...

Making a food item vs Solving a Puzzle - An attempt to characterize Testing Mindset

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A Disclaimer: I am going to make some sweeping generalizations about how testers and developers (generic name including programmers, design...
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Support Keith - Find answers for questions about ISTQB and more....

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Keith Klain is stirring the world of testing through some smart and witty comments about testing on twitter. I enjoyed his discussions wit...
Friday, January 25, 2013

Should Automation that runs slower than human test execution speed - be dumped?

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I am working on a piece of automation using java and some commercial tool to drive a test scenario on AN iPad App. This scenario involved...
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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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