Wednesday, July 21, 2021

Why Knowledge Transfer (KT) is not as easy as Fund transfer (FT)?

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Those in IT industry - there is a familiar phrase called "Knowledge Transfer" or popularly known as KT. Having genesis in IT servi...

Revisiting Jerry's famous Mary had a little lamb heuristic

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 Let me propose a hypothesis "Anything written/expressed in natural language is inherently ambiguous".  As one of hallmarks of civ...
Friday, May 21, 2021

What is Test Design and Test modeling

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 Test modelling - Activity of representing system/feature under test as a model.  A sample hierarchy System          Entities/Objects/Users ...
Wednesday, May 19, 2021

How to improve Questioning skills

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 Following up on a post in The test tribe FB group - here are my toughs on improving questioning skills First - few ground rules on question...
Tuesday, November 24, 2020

What's big deal with testers? Hit that punching bag !!!!

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 Once in every 1 or 2 years - testing team or function comes under "question". I have seen this consistently for last 20 years. Fo...
Sunday, November 08, 2020

My journey of Software Testing - Looking 20 years back - Part 1

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“You seemed to have a good eye and aptitude about find bugs in software. Why don’t you pursue a career in Testing/QA? “said Premjit my mana...
Monday, June 24, 2019

There is no such thing called defect/bug in Machine Learning/AI domain

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One question that comes up again and again in Testing world today is about role of testing in the domain of applications in Machine learnin...
Wednesday, May 15, 2019

Industrialisation of Testing, Heuristics and Mindfulness

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Over last two week end - The Test Tribe (popular testing community) hosted two sessions on facebook - one from T Ashok on Smart QA and ot...
Sunday, September 16, 2018

Testers don't and can't prevent bugs : Alltruism or Sense of Pride ?

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One of the fashion statement associated with testing these days is "testers should focus on preventing bugs rather than finding them...
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 ...