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My initial plan was to board the flight to Toronto on July 11th from Mumbai to attend CAST 08 software testing conference. Sangeeta, a tester from Mumbai influenced me to change my plan and organized a lecture in Ness Technologies in Mumbai. I liked the offer and accepted it, as I knew I would enjoy the experience. It's fun to meet new testers, talk to them and learn new things. I am in

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The image you might see above is a screen shot of what I saw after hitting the 12th page for the search results of "tester". I am not sure if you can reproduce that because I haven't investigated on it but I did plan to capture it to demonstrate: "The test doesn't find the bug. A human finds the bug, and the test plays a role in helping the human find it." Be it with the robust systems like

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Dear Pradeep, Greetings! I have been with you all this while and shall continue to be with you. I am enjoying each moment you enjoy as a tester and also each moment that you don't enjoy as a tester. I am sorry for enjoying those moments which you think you haven't been enjoying. I am sure you'd be interested to know why and how I have been enjoying those moments that you haven't been. First,

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I toured Singapore for about 10 days this month. I don't know why my eyes kept catching signboards that suggested people to Reduce, Reuse and Recycle plastics. I think it was because I am from India. As a part of my tour, I had been to a Zoo and there, I heard the animal show host explaining the need to reduce, reuse and recycle as it impacts the environment and animals. I felt great about

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As you have started to read this post, before you continue further, I'd like you to listen to a podcast - The Word Test . If you are skipping the podcast, it's OK but it might be a good idea to not skip. Also, don't read this post while you are mid way listening to the podcast, it's more bad than not listening to it. One of my student who works for a leading IT services provider from India,

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I am observing that every passionate learning tester have tried doing things that are not testing and try to bring in some learnings to testing from doing them, to test better. For instance, Michael Bolton has tried cooking and theater and has benefited by it in testing, you could read his interview in which he mentions that. Michael Hunter (a.k.a The Braidy Tester) has recently blogged about

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I often meet people who claim to be "automation testers" and I love and hate to argue with them about test automation. The more I meet such people, I am getting confident about making a conjecture that more than many people who claim to be doing test automating in India and other APAC country testers I visited, are doing it without knowing it or without wanting to know it. Here are the things

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Yesterday, I presented a guest lecture on "Questioning Specification and Requirements as a skilled tester" at Edista Testing's newly launched, really unique career program, which I think, can be titled as "Keep learning software testing and we'll keep supporting you to do that" as they intend to keep track of the progress of one's testing career, knowledge and skills even after the completion of

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Everyone has heard about testing and unfortunately everyone has heard about it from different sources that say different and contradicting things. One of the customer I worked for thought - testing is about delivering bug free product - which, in my opinion and many other experts with whom I interact is an impractical idea about testing.Another customer I worked for thought - testing is about

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In Test Republic, Jayapradeep Joithis posted a topic and discussion under the name "Shun the experts ... Long live the experts" and I replied to it with my thoughts. In this post, I publish, for the first time about Schools of testing and my ideas. In this post, I publish the same because I love to have it on my blog for some of you to comment or question me or Jayapradeep or share your thoughts

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I would be presenting my workshop on Rapid Software Testing Excersises + a paper at Asia Pacific Software Testing Conference at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia between Feb 24 to Feb 29, 2008. I wish to thank Vishal Manghani of Processworks Sdn Bhd for the invite. So, here goes the abstract for the paper I am presenting at the conference: Great testing stories from India (Created by Not Following Any "

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I saw in my mind that someday, I would be attending Jerry's workshop. I saw in my mind that someday, I would see James Bach in live testing action. I saw in my mind that someday, I would show Ariel ( Michael Bolton's daughter) how autorickshaws in India zoom. I saw in my mind that someday, I would go around Toronto with Michael Bolton. I saw in my mind that someday, I would get a chance to meet

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Happy New Year wishes to all my readers. It is exactly one year since James Bach officially hired me to represent Satisfice Inc in India. James Bach wrote in his post Satisfice India, "A Satisfice tester, (as my brother Jon, at Quardev will tell you from working for me for 18 months) is expected to be quantum cut above normal testers. We achieve that not through wishful thinking, but through

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No, not me! James Bach published a post mentioning that his vote for the World's Most Inquisitive Tester is for Shrini Kulkarni and I am proud, he is from India. The moment I read that post from James, I took my mobile phone outside my pocket, dialled Shrini Kulkarni's number and congratulated him for the appreciation he got and for the challenges he gives to testers through his questions. He

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Ants can go into corners of tables and chair, which we humans might not be able to. Ants can travel to any country without a passport or Visa (if they manage to slip into someone's baggage). Ants can live anywhere and yet not pay rent or property tax. Ants can eat junk food forever and live happily. Doesn't all of them sound so obvious? So, here is something that might not be so obvious about

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I am 100% sure that this article would make no difference to the world because there have been better insightful articles than this about the topic that I have started to write, which didn't make much difference to the part of world I think I am living in. I feel it is important for you to ask yourself, "Why would I want to read an article that the author is certain that it wouldn't make things

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What is the company looking for? As a Test Manager of the company, I am looking for 3 testers, each of whom has spent at least 2 to 5 years testing and learning diversified things in testing. I want to challenge the tester in a permanent position in the company I work for, to solve complex software testing problems, whose main focus would be to question testability and supportability of products

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I have no control over your thought process to restrict you to not read the title as Ego You Go and I go of testers. Here is what I think about my ego: I am egoistic but not at contexts and situations where the ego could kill the possibility of me doing a good testing.I am not egoistic because I am so curious that I don't care from whom I learn something that can help me do

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This will take away at least 8 minutes and 24 seconds of your time, so please be careful if you'd like to spend your time on a thing that potentially has a risk of not yielding any good thing for you as a tester. Maybe you might want to continue executing test cases instead of going through this. Click on the image to waste 8 minutes and 24 seconds. You are lucky if you don't have a MS Powerpoint

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This quiz created by me challenges a tester to answer several common and uncommon questions. At the end those who finish the quiz get to know what prize they win. ( which means, there are a lot of prizes to be won) Last time I announced I would give free books - Lessons Learned in Software Testing and I did give it to those testers who proved to me that they deserved it by working on an exercise

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I offered a public class recently and there were testers from Thought Works, Philips, IBM, McAfee, MarLabs, Mphasis, Mopat Solutions ... (other names that I can't recall) At the end of the session each of them looked thrilled and excited. We had hours of discussion even after the session officially ended and that is a clue to me about the excitement and joy of learning they had. Now, all my

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Yesterday I spoke to Jon Joseph from Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu, India. He has at least 4 times more experience than I. He had owned a software development company prior to 2002 and now works as a Senior Test Engineer in a company that develops e-publishing software. He will be coming down to Bangalore to attend my upcoming session on 29th September. It was a great experience to listen to his

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This is a top secret post and be very careful with the information. I am not sure if I can expose my notes to my dear blog readers but I am taking a risk of doing it. There are some secrets of test experts that not many know. I had a mission sometime back to spy about how test experts actually find many important problems, quickly. Many people think ( that included me, too) that Test Experts

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