Sunday, March 04, 2018

Chief Value Officer vs. Chief Feelings Officer - Perills of Reification !!!

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"Yet the danger if reification is all too real. We fall in love with our models, yet we need to be reminded that they are just models...
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Saturday, November 18, 2017

Computer does what programmer asks it do : why there are bugs?

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A colleague of mine said something so extraordinary about software bugs that I have never seen anyone talking about software bugs that way....
Thursday, August 10, 2017

Machine learning and Software testing

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Machines are learning - good for them. What about humans? Popular buzz around now is about machine learning and artificial intelligence. Ne...
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Hard Problems in Software Testing (2017) - Part 1

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When I set to write the post with this title - I thought it must be first of its kind. It turns out there is a book written on this subjec...
Thursday, August 03, 2017

Testing Maturity - Dealing with grown up Kid

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Several years ago, during my days as Software testing consultant (not a doer but a consultant) – one idea that repeatedly came up was “Tes...
Saturday, April 01, 2017

Managed diseases and Failure of science

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[off topic] In my opinion, about 70-80% of ailments or diseases treated by doctors using so called evidence based medicines are in the ca...
Sunday, March 05, 2017

There is no such thing called "Agile Testing" - Part II

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My slides of ATDAsia keynote on this topic are here Here are few key points that I have developed since part 1 of this topic. 1. The p...
Saturday, February 25, 2017

Coaching Testers : An approach for finding answers

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Often, I get mails asking testers and budding testers asking questions and seeking my answers. Some of them are questions to something I w...
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Saturday, February 18, 2017

Automation takes away Jobs - A reality check

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I am not talking about "test automation" here. There is media hype sweeping across these days on jobs being lost, people being fi...
Friday, February 10, 2017

Two important lessons for success of Test Automation

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James Bach wrote this great article on how not to think about Test automation way back in 1999. Anyone starting into automation and those ...
Thursday, December 01, 2016

Test Manager vs. Project Manager : Changing motives and Perspectives

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I am running a project as test manager - typical one, every day changing requirements, committed go live date, huge code churn, week ends i...
Sunday, November 27, 2016

Tester or Leborer ?

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A friend of mine sent a link to this article on PMP and Project Managers that brings out an aspect of our profession - testing so beautifu...
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Saturday, July 09, 2016

Testers are human ... so are Programmers

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One important aspect of we humans as testers or programmers is how our day-today happenings impact our work at office. While this is not di...
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Sunday, May 22, 2016

Chocolate and Prayer - An Anti Pattern for BDD

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In a school, for first graders, there was a practice or ritual in the morning every day. The kids used to assemble and sit in a designated ...
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Wednesday, April 08, 2015

What do you call something - Name matters !!!

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In the recent times - I came across two instances where names/phrases we use in our daily life as software people - programmers and testers...
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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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