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Three New Good Things About Indian Testers

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 ambassador for Bangalore [...]

What testing frameworks and processes do you use?

Q: What testing frameworks and processes do you use? A: It’s really interesting that it’s such a common question, testing frameworks as opposed to many other tool choices you could make. I’m not sure why that is. It might be because it’s such an aesthetic choice and also such an unimportant choice. Ultimately, it’s that [...]

Encouraging Programmers to be Testers

A colleague wrote to me recently and asked about a problem that he’s had in hiring. He says… The kind of test engineers we’re looking for are ones that can think their way around a system and look for all the ways that things can go wrong (pretty standard, so far), and then code up [...]

Fish baking story …

Feed from shrinik.blogspot.com This was a story that came to my mail box. A little girl was watching her mother prepare a fish for dinner. Her mother cut the head and tail off the fish and then placed it into a baking pan. The little girl asked her mother why she cut the Shead and [...]

Has Your Testing Been Certified?

Readers of the uTest blog are no doubt aware of the ongoing (some would say never-ending) debate on tester certifications. We occasionally write about this topic ourselves and frequently ask our Testing the Limits guests for their thoughts on the matter as well. Some have opposed them unequivocally, arguing that a certificate can never validate [...]

I thought that a small project does not need testing…

Over the last few weeks I had to write three small (1-2 days of work) applications. They were a command line utility, a Swing application that analyzes the complexity of Java methods, and a web-page–a single .html file–that lets it user extract some information from a REST server (Javascript, JQuery, Ajax). I don’t think that [...]

Is it a bug?

Scenario: You are a competent tester who has just joined a company and is testing on the first project there. The application you are testing is a financial web application. During test execution, you make the following observations. Rate each observation on a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being definitely not a bug and [...]

Why Software Testers Need Interpersonal Skills

Let’s take a scenario where a tester follows the rules and reports 100 bugs. Some of these bugs were traced to non-documented requirements that are implicit in nature, such as a drop-down list not populating alphabetically and things of that nature. These bugs are quite common and usually end up in conflict, as development teams [...]

How can Mathematics be the Language of Nature?

Feed from shrinik.blogspot.com I am reading this wonderful book about Physics (and history and philosophy of Physics)  “Tao of Physics” by my all time favorite Physicist and author Dr. Fritjof Capra, a contemporary of Werner Heisenberg. Incidentally, Dr. Capra’s other famous book “Turning point” has really introduced me the concept “systems thinking” while struggled to [...]

Watir and Selenium: Two open-source tools for testing web applications

Two excellent open-source tools for testing web applications are under development: Watir and Selenium. I’ve been contributing to both. Why? Wouldn’t it be better to just have one good tool? Both tools run tests directly in a browser, and both do it in a way that allows the browser to be minimized while the tests [...]

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