tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-211320992012-01-24T17:52:03.596+05:30Pradeep Soundararajan's Software Testing ZenPradeep Soundararajanhttps://profiles.google.com/117693835736762782202noreply@blogger.comBlogger1981100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21132099.post-16525598643306140662012-01-03T08:46:00.000+05:302012-01-03T08:46:39.334+05:30

If you didn't know how Part 4 came up? Here is how it came. I first wrote Part 1, then Part 2 and then Part 3 ;-) So, logically here is Part 4 of the series How Pradeep teaches software testing. "I know how to do certain types of testing but if someone asks me to explain what I did, I struggle to explain" was a problem statement I heard from a tester today. I replied in a confident tone, "I

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Not that you don't know. Truth About Test Plan Documents 98% of test plan documents that are created are not updated, maintained or cared beyond sign off. The first 5 pages of a test plan document contains history that doesn't interest even those whose names are mentioned in it. Scope of testing section is the most funniest part of the whole document. Some times when testers report serious

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I know you think I am an expert tester.  I am, safely. One of the ways in which I remain as an expert tester is by reading what real expert testers are writing about and add my own thoughts to it and thereby making a large population (who don't blog anyway) think I belong to the expert testers league. For over 6 years, I have been successful in fooling many to believe I am an expert tester.

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Oredev conference was super duper. The people I met and what I could learn from them was amazing. Siggie got a bunch of speakers for the test track and I was one of them. I met some context driven testers and good humans I was longing to meet. Selena was full of energy. Zeger was artful. Siggie has a cool style. I'd vote him for the next James Bond. After lot of talk (beer), talk (err, beer)

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Oh my! I was reminded of this story. It is a hard to digest story for me but I can't just hold myself from telling it. About two years back, I did work for a client in India and they had to pay me about a couple of thousand dollars. Meanwhile, a fresh college graduate who was trained by some testing institute came to me seeking help in getting a job. He convinced me that I should help him. I was

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One of Moolya's customer, a large IT company in India wanted me help a group of testers think beyond the boundaries they had accustomed to. They wanted me to help them bring out the potential and creativity of testers within their organization. Having thousands of testers,  they did know where to start from - the top 30 they had. Top 30 in terms of demonstrated passion for software testing.

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It is a proud moment that a magazine on testing started by a tester in India who did not have any funding or money to run it has completed 1 year and has matured well over the last couple of months. It is testers like Ajoy and his team of volunteers listed here are the ones who are going to make a difference to this world in all good ways. It re-iterates a good point that passion can make

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I hope you have read Part 1 and Part 2 of the series of "How Pradeep teaches software testing" and I welcome you to the Part 3. I don't yet know how many parts it is going to take for me to complete this series. I am hoping that I would write down the most important parts and keep adding whenever I need to update. In this part, I am going to focus on my journey of doing exercises and hands on

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I just hope you all read Part 1 of this series. Now, I bring to you Part 2 where I talk about my journey of my first set of workshops. In 2007, I was not sure if people would be willing to listen to my ideas in testing. I had some good readership for my blog and I announced 2 hour free talk on exploratory testing titled Mirchi Test Masala. Mirchi in Hindi means "spicy" and I wanted to offer the

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I'd like to spill the beans here. I want to tell you how I teach people to test software and my journey of it. I have also written about it in the past here , here and here. In this post, I'd like to tell you about finer details of my teaching style and how I got them. If you would read all the parts I am about to publish, you'd know more about my teaching than you ever did or you ever wanted to

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This year, BWST 3 (#bwst3) is delayed by a couple of months and for all good reasons. We were busy with personal and professional stuff. So, here comes the details. Personal excellence & skill development We have been noticing over the last few years that those who can change things for the world are those who have been changing things for themselves. As people say revolution starts from within,

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Once a group of software testers were traveling on a plane to attend a test automation conference. Their plane was hijacked by terrorists and all people on board, including the testers were held hostages. The situation was grim as terrorists appeared to be dangerous with AK-56 strapped across their chests. The terrorists demanded a lot of things that the government couldn’t meet. After seven

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Dear Blog Reader, Greetings! Hope you all are doing something in life and I don't care about it. I would like to introduce myself to you. I guess you don't know about my split personality disorder. My name is Pradeep Soundararajan too. No, not the guy you know but this is his split personality. The split personality is - I am the worst Agile tester from India. Yet, I am smart enough to be able

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Hey folks. As I wrote in my previous post on future of Indian testing the thing that seems to be making a lot of testers talk to each other is Testers Monthly Meet and now its organizing a low cost ( 500 rupees for one full day ) conference in NCR. Adobe India is the venue host and they already seem to have more companies wanting to send their testers out for this event. The speaker line up

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This is a conversation I had with a good friend of mine. She is passionate about teaching testing and has changed her teaching style tremendously over the last couple of years. I have changed a few words and broke down sentences from the conversation to make it more reading friendly. So, Mansi, when you read this and you spot anything that I have goofed up, please correct me. Mansi: You are a

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At home, while the whole family was watching a reality show, I happened to take the liberty of changing the channel to NDTV 24x7, a leading news channel. A news that had been making headlines over the last couple of days was a prime time discussion. The issue is this. A pilot produced fake document to get and got to fly a commercial airliner. Once /a/ pilot was identified to be faking, the

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One of the ways Moolya is going to become a great organization is by attracting, hiring and retaining good testers. Sreenuraj Varma who won our heart for this blog post asked us if he could work for Moolya. We got him to test things out and send us test reports.  We found that we liked him to work with us and he liked to work with us. So, we hired him a couple of weeks ago. Before the project

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Manoj Nair is the co-founder of Weekend Testing and works for an organization that has a worldwide presence. The core business of the organization he works for, is to help people shop, online or at their stores. He functions as a Senior Tester for projects that are to be deployed in United Kingdom and Europe.  An year ago, they decided to expand its presence in the United States of America and

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I am doing my first exploratory testing workshop for 2011 and first from Moolya Software Testing Pvt Ltd. and I am excited about it. You can find the details by clicking on this link . If you are in India and plan to attend it, please do it quickly. I usually don't take a lot of participants although I know I'd gain more money out of more participants. Ever since I announced it yesterday, there

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I am a changed man today. I didn't know I would be here when I started this blog exactly 5 years ago. I want to thank you all. I don't know if this blog has influenced you in any way but it has definitely had a huge influence on one tester I know - me. Thanks to all those who motivated me to reconsider blogging when I almost announced I will stop after a lot of plagiarizing incidents. Today, I

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Once upon a time, Bangalore was ahead in testing leadership compared to other cities in India. What I mean by that is, we did things and made it visible to the world. We did good things that helps us develop ourselves plus do something good to others. I acted like a brand ambasdoor for Bangalore testing within India and used that opportunity to challenge testers outside Bangalore. In fact,

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This is a true story that happened sometime ago. I met Andy Glover (the famous Cartoon Tester today) on my flight to Sweden. We were sitting in adjacent seats. He was drawing cartoons and I was trying to see if I can do one related to testing.  That's when he started a conversation with me asking, "Are you a tester?" and then I instantly replied, "Yes". Back then, no one knew Andy Glover. He was

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When I first heard about the small "a" agile and the big "A" agile, I was intrigued. I was wondering if it really did exist. Later when I interacted with those who were agile and those who claimed to be agile but were not, I started believing in it. Similarly, I am going to be talking about the small "e" exploratory testing style. Every tester I have interacted, tested in pairs, watched them

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Happy New Year to all my dear readers, followers, fans, bulbs & CFL Lamps. I wish you become a better tester and respect other (good) testers much better than what you did in 2010. I also wish to be what I wished you to be :-) The support for the company I launched Moolya Software Testing Private Limited - Brainual Software Testing Services Company, from you all has been fantastic. We hope to

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I have been patiently waiting to write this post. Many times I wanted to but then I postponed it to this moment and I would tell you why. The news is: Santhosh Tuppad and I have co-founded Moolya Software Testing Private Limited in Bangalore. What this means to customers, you and the testing community? That's an important question we'd like to answer. We are going to be offering testing

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हम क्यू नहीं अपने बाषा में टस्टिंग ब्लॉग नहीं लिक्थे? में जब रशियंस की ब्लॉग दुन्द्था हूँ तब मेरे को रशियंस बाषा की टेस्टिंग ब्लोग्स मिलता हैं. वैसे ही चिनेसे या जपनेसे या गेर्मान टेस्टिंग ब्लोग्स बी हैं. अबी थो जीमेल की गेनेराल सेत्तिंग्स में त्रन्स्लितेरतिओन आप्शन एनाबले किया थो सब भाषा. ( एक इंडियन की स्तिथि ऐसे हैं देखो, मुझे कोंफुसे हो रहा हैं "भाषा" कोर्रेक्ट हैं या "भाशा") आप इंग्लिश में

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I have spoken bad about testers in India in the past. I received an applause for it from Americans, Europeans & even Indians. I didn't consider it a sin. There is an equal (no, wait, "much more") applause if an American was complaining about testers in India being bad in testing. I just didn't mind that. That was a few years ago. 2 weeks ago, I had an opportunity to speak at STC2010 conference

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Not so long ago, I thought there existed a set of testers called, "bad testers". I hated them. I wanted to punch them on their face and get their face to bleed. I wanted to become a powerful politician and kill them all and escape without being charged for genocide. I wanted to become a superhero and get people to fire them from their jobs. I wanted them to beg for jobs, money and survival. I

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I give myself opportunities to meet many different software testers from Bangalore or to the places I travel. One of the ways that's been successful for me is "Coffee with Pradeep". This has brought many testers to my lives who have had a good influence on me. Sharath Byregowda contacted me for a coffee and then we work closely. He is one of the good testers and thinkers I have met. He recently

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This post is about an experience I had recently. An experience that proves to me that there are more hard working people than me and I shouldn't feel too proud of what I have achieved so far.  I was at a conference recently. I was at several conferences, so don't get confused with what is shown in my Events page. This conference was not listed and doesn't have a conference page either. It

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The inspiration The title is inspired from Angels & Demons where they talk about the "God particle". The topic is  inspired by so many testers asking or answering to, "How much important is domain knowledge?", "Can we test without domain knowledge?", "What happens if we test a product or technology without domain knowledge?" ...  Every person who writes in public and in forums have been

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Over the last few years, I have received at least about 40 emails and a couple of phone calls from people working in tech support, BPO, call center, homemakers asking for my advice to get a job in software testing or to make a career in it. I am tired responding to the same set of queries from different people. Now, that doesn't mean I wouldn't be interested to talk to people. I just hope they

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There is a trend that is picking up in the software testing industry. To be more precise, I am talking about a trend of competitions, prizes and rewards. This is good. I love the idea of being able to compete globally and with testers whom I may not have known otherwise. When someone wins a testing challenge and the report is published to those who participated, it influences others to ape some

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Hiya! Hope you are doing very well. I am Pradeep Soundararajan, your tour guide for the next few minutes. I am glad you chose to take this tour of being an independent test consultant. Here are some questions you might have: How does it feel to be an independent test consultant? What is it like to be one such in India? Will I be able to survive? Will I make enough money to run my family? Will

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In 1954, when software testing was just about taking birth, there were two groups that started to form. I was as curious as you are right now, to know what those two groups stood for. One of the groups christened as, "Kuzusu", had a thought that good testing would reduce the number of billable hours to deliver a good enough product and hence had to be avoided. The other group christened, "

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Many thanks to my client in Bangalore who encouraged me to blog about the experience, value and outcomes we had in separating tests and checks. If you are reading this, it means my client has approved this for publishing.   Thanks to Michael Bolton who posted a series of posts on his blog under Testing versus Checking and those who commented on the posts, whose ideas and thoughts helped me to

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Hiya there. My name is Pusher V9.3.4 and I am a web application software living in thousands of computers worldwide. I am twenty four years old. I was born to help humans transfer data from one secured location to another and to provide them with a report of all transfer they have done in the past. I have traveled around the world and for every economic meltdown, I was moved from one country to

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Some of us have a designation such as “Software Tester”, or “Software Test Lead” or “Software Test Manager” but observing what we do at work makes me think our actual designation is “Job Saver”. For every action to be performed we ask ourselves a question, “Would this take away my job?” and then do what we consider appropriate to get an answer “No” for the question. So, we never get to

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At a class recently  Scene 1: "What have you all been doing for the last few years in this organization?" Chorus: "We test for functionality of the software?" "That's nice! Why do you think it is called /functionality/?" Silence "OK, what is a function?" Silence "No problem. Let's fix it. Where else have you heard the word /function/? Math? So we all might have studied f(x) = y and that

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 Experience Report - Bangalore Workshop on Software Testing - 23rd April, 2010 @ Shilton Royal, BangaloreEvent Sponsor: Vipul Kocher, President ITB Photos (and camera) credits: Rahul Mirakhur  Bangalore Workshop on Software Testing stepped into its 2nd year on April 3rd, 2010. Why wouldn't it? This time, it was much more organized than BWST 1. Of course, we learn some lessons, if not all, when

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 This post is India specific. I have a reputation and credibility in this industry to an extent that some people inside and outside of the country have at least heard my name, if not for my skills. I have a brand of my own. I have a style of my own. I call myself with cool names. I sound like a geek. I speak like an American. I pretend to be good at something. I brag. I blog. I podcast. I

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If you have been my blog reader for a while, you are likely to be cognizant about Bangalore Workshop on Software Testing or BWST. If you don't know about it, no problem, the post and details are still there. So, BWST – 1 was attended by testers from Bangalore, Pune, and Mumbai. Oh, you should read the experience report and you’d realize how much fun we had or how much fun you missed.  So here

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On clicking that image, the progress report should download. Hate that idea? You can download the same file by clicking on this link, too.  Other updates: There is a public workshop on Skilled Exploratory Testing planned in Chennai on Saturday, March 27th, interested testers send an e-mail to me at pradeep.srajan@gmail.com OR if you know of any testers in Chennai who want to attend this please

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Here are some of the funny/awful bug reports that I have seen in my experience: "When I open the application and click on that button I get a error massage saying it fatally crashed" "The spelling of Transport Parametre is miss spelled" "When I perform a submit the application has error message and thrown on the right side" "I open and it crashes" "The application is giving me unexpected

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So, I posted a challenge for software testers in December through this post : Why testers need to learn to write code that works. It was widely tweeted, circulated and even translated to Russian. At the end of the post was an exe file with a challenge in it. I was practicing coding and wanted to do it in a way that helps me and others. I probably thought many Indian testers might pounce on it

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Image credits The following conversation is a copy paste from LinkedIn's Software Testing & Quality Assurance group in which I write a lot. Quality Leader at org_1 asks :What is Robust testing? Senior Software Engineer - Quality Assurance from somewhere responds: Never heard about it?I googled the term and found one helpful link. http://www.phadkeassociates.com/index_files/

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While the world thinks test estimation is a very tough thing to do, I think, everyone gets test estimation right. The point at which they realize their estimates were wrong is the time they get the estimation right. I wish they corrected themselves. Mostly, it remains unfulfilled. So, the deal is to communicate the number when you know you are getting it right and buy time to get it right. By "

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One of the things you thought I don't do often as a tester is - to write code. You are not completely wrong. I immersed myself all these days trying to be a tester who is /mostly/ black-boxish and interacts with the software through GUI. Did you read it as, "A black box tester doesn't need to write code?". Stop reading it that way! Read a sentence the way it is written and not the way you expect

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Mission: To find three conditions where Defender wins, Defender loses, and Neither Defender wins nor Attacker Wins for SpeedSim. Deliverable: Send the combat report of the simulated battle for each of the conditions in a zip file. Tester: Pradeep Soundararajan Time: 3:00 PM IST , 28th Nov, 2009 Later there were more missions that were added (bad I didnt pay much attention but was able to

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I think I was stupid to have missed mentioning this tutorial from Rahul Verma on Fuzzing for software testers in my previous post. My apologies to all testers from India for overlooking at our own indigenous talent. Rahul, please forgive me. Fuzzing is a very interesting topic and I dont want to loose out on attending his session in Bangalore.Have you ever corrupted a file? Have you been curious

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Is it a best practice that a post should have only one title? ;-) Sharath Byregowda has won the Best Performer award at Mindtree. You know what it means to win the best performer award in an organization that has about 8000+ technical force. According to Mindtree there was a special guest who was invited to give away that award and that special person for them that day was me. Sharath's

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You haven't yet read Testers & Blocks Consulting - Puzzle 1? You know Testerlock, right? "Are you Testerlock of Testers & Blocks Consulting?" screamed a voice on the road just when Testerlock was buying some vegetables. Before Testerlock could respond, the young man filled with excitement said, "I have watched you test at a webinar and I loved the way you brought in so many heuristics to your

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On September 1st, 2009, I decided to move away from my paying job to write this book - Approaches for interviewing in software testing. Before my bank sends an SMS "Lost your job?", I am hoping that I will finish this book and find a publisher. ( Also means: If you have any short assignments you can hire me or sponsor me for the book ). So, there you go. Now you know what I have been doing over

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At 9 AM on Aug 13th, 2008, Testerlock, Principal Consultant of Testers & Blocks Consulting, walks into the lobby of Seven Inc in Whitefield, Bangalore and asks for Peter, the Head of Testing. Testerlock, was supposed to attend a meeting with Peter and his team of Test Managers. There had been some testing problems in Seven Inc that had been causing concerns to top management. So, it was Peter's

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Let me brag a little bit and then get to the core. I don't believe in feedback forms that are asked to be filled by participants at the end of a training program. That's not a time to fill the feedback form because the value of the training can be determined only when participants get back to their work and apply the ideas they gained.However, I ask all participants to fill it because the client

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So, I don't need to tell you that most of the software testing in the world is outsourced. I live in Bangalore and I assume a considerable amount of the world's outsourced testing projects are here. I meet testers from most of these organizations and hear the same process of testing software although called by different names their organization executives named them. Most testers I meet lament

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About a couple of years back, I had an opportunity to read "How I learn stuff" from James Bach and was excited about it. I had a concern about it that it was not complete and kept asking James for his plan on it.Little did I know then that it would turn out to be a great book for the community and not one that was accessible to those who work with James. When I learnt from James that Simon &

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One problem that I constantly spot whenever I meet a good tester in India - they don't blog and publicly write or speak. That''s why some people continue to think about me as a good tester.The recognition that an organization gives could be fine as long as you stay in the organization or as long as the organization is doing fine. That's why many people stick on to an organization for quite

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When I was a child I never dreamed to be a software tester and always wanted to be a fighter pilot, a naval commander, a cricket player, an astronaut, a doctor, aeronautical engineer, an actor, an army commando, a scientist.Why didn't I think of being a software tester? Ah! Maybe because there wasn't anything I heard about software in 1980's but what about children today? They still say, "I want

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I agree you need money to run a business but then...If you are subscribed to Testing Experience - The magazine for professional testers, you would have got an e-mail recently ( a day or two before this post ) announcing first year anniversary of the magazine. I am subscribed to them from their third issue and in an year they have grown to about 350,000 subscribers ( as per their own website claim

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Approved for Publication by all Participants Theme: Changing the way people test and think about testing May 2nd, 2009 Venue Sponsor: Edista Testing Institute & Test Republic Participants displaying their K - cards For more pics, click here Participants ( not in the o: Ajay Balamurugadas, Aishwarya D Shukla, Guruprasad, Manjunath, Rahul Verma, Rahul Mirakhur, Shrini Kulkarni, Manoj Nair,

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Here is my talk at one of the coolest conferences: Oredev, Malmo, Sweden, November 2008.Great* testing stories from India( Created by *not* following any best practices )Highlights of the talk :I was fired from Motorola trying to follow James Bach's adviceTest cases make people mad and sad.Sharing 230 stories in 45 minutes.The value of doing things that that context demands.Questioning things

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It has been five times over the last six months that someone considered hiring me before making a release decision or after getting skeptical about scripted tests.Amidst recessionary times, someone considered outsourcing some testing work to me from United States. An advanced version of the product was slated for a release in the next couple of days. The United States company had outsourced

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I interact with the Western world as much as I interact with the Eastern part. One of the things that the Western world does well that the Eastern part does not even do (significantly), is Peer Workshops. When I funded myself to be at CAST 08 conference, Toronto Workshop on Software Testing (TWST08 ) was a huge bonus for me. Thanks to Fiona Charles and Michael Bolton for allowing me to

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I claim to be one of the most experienced and most affected tester in the context of interview in India and here ( in this link ) is more information about it. After going through that link or this video you would know that I have been struggling to not see another Pradeep Soundararajan in the job market who is frustrated with this industry's idea of interviewing. Edista Testing Institute ( my

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Are you curious to look at excerpts of the participants work that we have been consistent in achieving from Hands on Testing Training that I talked about in 2008?Are you aware of the power of young generation? Are you aware of the power of coaching them with better education in software testing?Are you aware of the impact of providing better education in software testing to young generation today

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If you haven't noticed that I have been doing audio [and video] podcast series Testing Stories from India, no problem. You have known it now.Here is my latest podcast: What Software Testing Could Be? [ 3.18 MB ]Summary:There could be about 28,000 definitions of software testingWhat? Are there rules of software testing?Many testers don't test their own definitions of software testing?Certified

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Make a list of some of the teaching staff that considered bad at school or college. You might be able to notice a pattern - most of them were not willing to learn while they were teaching. Here are some of my stories and attempts that I made during my experience as a coach in software testing. Story 1 I was teaching at Datamatics 2 weeks before. When it was time to officially end the workshop

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Click on the image below to download the full verison.Alternatively, you may right click on this link and save the file to your desktop.

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All workshops that I conduct has lots of elements of hands on testing and thinking exercises. I myself benefited a lot from hands on testing training approach that James and Michael do in their Rapid Software Testing class.Over the last few months, I have been working on models of hands on training on software testing for freshers and people who are interested to be good enough to start testing

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Michael Bolton, the singer has won Grammy Awards. This Michael Bolton , a little known mandolin player and largely known singer of good intellectual software testing has been awarded for his innovation and contribution to the community you and me live in, at EuroStar 2008, one of the biggest conferences in the world.Wait a minute, T H E Y won the award!I just want to celebrate this more than any

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In a CMM Level 5 organization I worked for about 2 years back, I got an e-mail from my Senior Manager that testers would be rated based on number of bugs they find. At that time I was an ace bug slogger ( means, I logged a lot of bugs ) for the team. I was the first one to revolt on that idea of rating a tester based on the number of bugs they find despite knowing the fact that it could benefit

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I am a software testing coach. I am not the kind of software testing coach who runs through hundred of slides about how to drive a car for those aspiring to drive a car or for those who aspire to drive better. I coach by putting each one of them in drivers seat. That's how James Bach and Michael Bolton coach software testers. I believe they picked up such an approach from Jerry Weinberg.I am

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Test 2008 was a scintillating software testing conference. I never slept before 2 AM every night around the conference dates. I had great discussions with interesting testing minds like Rahul Verma, Aswin Palaparthi, Shrini Kulkarni, Dhanashekaran , Ravindran, Shyam Sridhar and others. During one of our conversations the topic of "bug free software" popped up and someone mentioned that he had

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You have read enough things from Pradeep Soundararajan. Some of you even believed what he wrote. Some of you thought it was stupid. Some of you follow it very closely. Some of you got irritated by it. Some of you relied on what he wrote for guidance. Some of you enjoyed the writing and others hated it. Some of you thought he was faking. Some of you didn't bother to read what he was writing all

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The entire e-mail conversation between me and someone is available for you without his permission. I have masked his mail id and name to protect his privacy. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------hi, this is XXXXX from chennai, now married and settled in XXXXXX, USA. i saw ur blog on testing and found it very

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I don't know from where I heard "Happy Testing", the first time and fear to think if it echoed within me. I also don't know how I caught those words to sign all my e-mails to testers I communicate, writing "Happy Testing" at the end of the e-mail. I noticed that a lot of other testers to whom I communicated also started doing that in their e-mail communication to me and in their blog posts. I

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North American, European Union and some Asian countries laws and law enforcements are much stricter than those in India. Most testers in India who have not known much about it, tend to ignore that fact while they test. I too didn't know till I actively kept reading. The value of reading is - I know to focus on problems that matter to my clients in countries like North America.You might want to

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Most testers who write test cases carry a hope that most test cases they write would help in finding most bugs.Most testers who execute them carry a hope that most test cases they execute would help in finding most bugs.Most testers who add more test cases carry a hope that they will help in finding most bugs. Most customers insist on most of the testing to be done from test cases.Most managers

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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 constant

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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 Google

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Alternatively, you can click on this link

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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, let me

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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, asked

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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 they

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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 "Best

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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 with

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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 study

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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 ants...

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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 a

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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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