TestToTester

Hi All, Francis Balfe and I will be at the UK Test Management Forum to talk about recent challenges, test strategy and methods which worked for us in our recent project. We hope to get loads of feedback from the audience :) I also look forward to a lot of other great sessions lined up at the forum especially the talk from Mark Crowther. So, if you are a tester in UK and have no plans for the holidays walk into TMF. Cheers

Hi All, Announcement : We are launching WeekNight testing, a chapter of Weekned Testing LIVE in Central London on Mar 23rd and Markus Gartner is launching it in Germany at the same time. We will also have our regular Weeknight Session over Skype. An exciting day to meet and test with loads of testers around the globe. Don’t miss out on the opportunity. For more details check the link http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/agile-testing/weeknight-testing-live To register thru Skype ping SKYPEID: weeknighttesting See ya All on 23rd MARCH UPDATE: For all testers who missed the fun, there is a video capture of the event available @ http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/agile-testing/weeknight-testing-live/

  I guess we all try and want to be better in whatever we do and one such aspiration led me stay away from my blog for a long time now. I wanted my blog articles to be written in better English, talk about stuff very new or something that no one else (well, at least the people I know) had even thought of, better than the previous ones, longer, attract more readers and more comments, etc. The result: It has been more than 6 months and not even a single article in it. The pressure I put on myself to make my next article better than my previous ones have only made me feel awful about myself. The last 6 months have been one of the most exciting times in my life and career but I have missed to write about any one of them.     Anyways as the proverb goes "It's no use crying over spilt milk" – let me try summarizing the last 6 months in a series of posts or may be just one. I guess there are times a blogger has to realize the reasons why he/she started the blog and I guess I hav...

How many of us remember the story of “The Wise Pigeon” from Panchatantra ? If you do not here is a quick recap. As in the classic we are all aware of the fact that we could learn, focus, share, deliver, and create magic when we learn and work together. Find below some of the events, forums, exer cises I have been to or involved in which demonstrate the power of learning together and why we should have more such platforms. Zappers Community This is one such rare event for testers I am aware of where we “test” and not speak about testing. Isn’t that great? It’s fantabulous. I was looking forward to this event for quite some time. I had missed the inaugural Zappers event at Bangalore but did not want to miss the second one. The event rules were simple and similar to our weekend testing. An application is handed to each team 5-10 minutes before the testing session. ID’s for the bug tracker is created for each team. One hour is provided to test the application and to log bugs in Bugz...

Last week on my way home from office I was cruising at around 80 kmph on my motor bike and then THUD. The next moment I felt severe pain on the left side of my head, my palms felt scalded, and I could not stand properly because my left toe hurt. Got up slowly tried thinking over what happened. The pictures started falling in place and I realized I have met with an accident. I removed my helmet – no bleeding. Good. Next removed the riding gloves – palms looked well. Checked my foot, and my toe was bleeding. I wore a Canvas shoes damn! Tried to lift my bike and it was a mess – a broken mirror, sari guard bent, connecting rod to the rear suspension was cut. Some how managed to ride back home. At home after relaxing a few minutes I started looking at the damage on my helmet and the gloves I wore. The scrapes on my helmet and riding gloves gave me goose bumps. The left side of the helmet was a mess with loads of scratches and when I run my finger over it I could feel the impact the helmet h...

At a training session with an agenda to update developers the new changes in the bug tracking tool. A senior developer : with a cunning tone - Do you also teach how to add duplicate bugs? Tester : This training is to teach you on how to use the bug tracking tool, we could take the issue of duplicate bugs later. Senior developer : I feel there should be some validation in place in a bug tracking tool to block testers from logging duplicate bugs. Do we have one in this? Test Manager : If there are duplicate bugs in the bug tracker, please go ahead and mark it as duplicate and reject it. We shall verify the bug and if it is a duplicate we shall close it. Senior Developer : No, that is not the point – it is easy to increase the number of bugs by adding duplicate bugs so there should be a strict protocol in place. Test Manager: You are deviating from the training agenda, lets get thru with the training and we could discuss about it later with the project manger. After this con...

There are many reasons why BWST is very close to me. To start off with BWST was started by my guru Pradeep Soundararajan . BWST is a true tester’s meet/conference/workshop organized by the testers for the testers. There is no boring, to fill in presentations or business angle to it. BWST is one such meet which almost any tester could afford to participate. BWST uses k-cards which provide an opportunity for all attendees to share their thoughts with the presenter. BWST is for testers from all ages, experience, designations, geographical locations, etc. And the list goes on. Right from the day Pradeep announced BWST-2 on his blog, I had the date marked in my calendar. But as the date to BWST-2 got closer, my schedule at office went haywire. We were working late nights, weekends, holidays. My doubts on attending the BWST-2 grew with each passing day. At some corner of my mind I still felt I might just make it but then every...