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• Arjuna 1.1.0 Production Release
• The Last Keynote on Software Testing
• The Agile Qtopia
• Reflections:: Persistent Learning
• Reflections :: Servitude
• Reflections on Testing: Dignity
• The Pluralistic School of Testing
• Don’t Ignore Your Special Users
• The Dogmatic Agile – A Critique of Deliberate Blindness
• Pattern Thinking for Performance Engineers
• Notes from Teaching Programming & Testing to My Son – Part 1
• Pattern Thinking for Test Automation Architects
• Test Encapsulation – Enabling Self-Aware Automated Test Cases
• In Retrospect: Three Years of Test Mile, Talent Reboot and More
• When Data Becomes Code – Understanding Injections and Overflows
• Moving on from Testing Perspective
• Testers Must Learn Programming – The Secret That Wasn’t
• How (I Think) I Became The Tester I Am
• Case Study: Exploratory Product Comparison of FotoBounce(TM)
• What is a good test?
• Design of Test Automation – My Presentation at WCNGT2013
• My Story @ YourStory!
• An Year of Anxiety, Experiments and Accomplishments
• Testing vs Checking – How (I Think) I Changed What James and Michael Think
• On Oracles, Heuristics and Context
• The Learner’s Responsibility
• Are You Lenient While Interviewing Freshers?
• White Box Testing – Blind Men’s Elephant – How I plan to build expertise
• Announcement: Test Mile Software and Services is On!
• Ghalib’s Ghazal on Software Testing
• Tester – A Semi-fictional Superhero ( Hinglish Poem )
• यादें (Memories) – A Hindi Poem
• Why Should You Choose Me As a Testing Coach?
• 3-Day Web Security Testing Public Workshop: 15-17 June @ Bangalore
• India’s First Five-Day Web Security Testing Workshop
• My Journey to Becoming an Independent Consultant
• Python – A great easter egg on braces
• Foundations of Web Performance Testing: 1-Day Workshop @BugDebug
• Omne Ignotum Pro Magnifico
• Automation gone wrong?
• The GOLD Heuristic – Go One Layer Down
• Opinion Management System
• Anti-Boxing: Thrive in QA (@ Hyderabad)
• Web Application Security Testing Workshop on Feb 11-12 @ Hyderabad
• Coincidence and Its Impact on Testing
• Web Application Security Testing Workshop on Nov 26-27 @ Bangalore
• Beyond I,Me,Mine,We,Us,Ours
• You Are, What YOU Are
• Know the Context, Don’t be Driven By It
• Notes on Test Automation (III) – Test Configuration Formats
• Web Security Testing Public Workshop – 21-22 May 2011 (Bangalore)
• Agile Testing Public Workshop – 23-24 April 2011 (Bangalore)
• NCR Testers Monthly Meet – Full Day Conference
• Chekhov’s Gun and Test Planning -What testers can learn from Chekhov!
• Notes on Test Automation (II) – Distributed Testing Models
• Designing and Implementing a Common Test Automation Platform
• Test Encapsulation – Slides from QAI’s STC 2010
• Slides from my Talk on Fuzzing at Aditi Technologies
• A Short Experience Report of GTAC2010
• The Water Jug, The Refill Sticker and a Tester
• Paper Presentation @ PyCon India 2010
• Notes on Test Automation (I) – Test Encapsulation
• Understanding Alternate Data Streams on Windows
• Poetry for Testers (I) :: Knowledge Vs Demonstration
• All Testing is Confirmatory – Part II
• All Testing is Confirmatory
• WinDbg – A Primer on the Windows Debugger
• Design Patterns in Python
• Intelligent SPAMing – “The Ajay Balamurugadas SPAM”
• HDFC’s faster ATMs, Centering Principle and Fast Path Pattern
• Introduction to File Fuzzing
• Tutorial presentation at QAI’s STC 2009 (Bangalore)
• My Article on File Fuzzing @ ITB’s iTest Newsletter Sep 2009
• (Book) Fuzzing for Software Security Testing and Quality Assurance – From Wishlist to Bookshelf
• A Ghazal on Software Testing
• Are you a brand?
• A Critical Account of STeP-IN Security Testing Conference at Pune
• Tutorial Presentation at STeP-IN Security Testing Conference
• Testing a Software using a “Blank” File
• The Importance of Right Questions
• Testing Thought Leadership Award for Testing Perspective!
• Talk on Security at IIT Chennai
• Face-to-Face: COMPTIA Security+
• Presenting at upcoming ISQT Theme Conference at Bangalore
• TEST2008 – A Must-Attend-Conference for Software Testers!
• Should the Testers Learn Programming?
• I am Dilbertized!
• Getting SPAMed!
• Matt Heusser writes in the Wiki about the Minefield problem
• Announcement: Testing Perspective website goes live!
• Brushing Up Performance Testing Basics
• Pythonize Your Testing Efforts!
• Learnings From the Jungle – New Manager versus Existing System
• From the Wild Wild Web – Web Performance Matters
• The Big Fight – Schools of Testing – Overall Conclusions and Thanks Note
• The Big Fight – Schools of Testing – My Thoughts
• The Big Fight – Schools of Testing – Views of Indian Testing Community – II
• The Big Fight – Schools of Testing – Views of Indian Testing Community – I
• The Big Fight – Schools of Testing – Views Against and Additional Perspective – III
• The Big Fight – Schools of Testing – Views Against and Additional Perspective – II
• The Big Fight – Schools of Testing – Views Against and Additional Perspective – I
• The Big Fight – Schools of Testing – Views in Favour
• The Big Fight – Schools of Testing – Is Context-Driven school a Meta-school?
• The Big Fight – Schools of Testing – The Schools
• The Big Fight – Schools of Testing – The Origin
• The Big Fight – Schools of Testing – Introduction
• Dealing with dynamic boundaries in LoadRunner using Text Flags
• Presentation at Yahoo! Bangalore
• Selective Logging for effective debugging in LoadRunner
• Using Bug Count for Performance Evaluation of Testers
• Expanding a COE to System-Wide Knowledge Pool
• Taking my next Testing Career move !
• Can you develop the product in which you are finding bugs?
• Do you count on testing experience or years++?
• Whose Bug is it anyway?
• Am I putting the cat in the basket?
• Welcome to Testing Perspective !
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