Entrepreneurship and Consulting

  • I presented a research paper under Innovation category at UNICOM’s Next Generation Testing conference, held at Bangalore on 11th July, 2013. My paper was able to generate a lot of interest in people’s minds for my company Test Mile and what we can offer. My paper was titled – Design of Test Automation – Principles

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  • My Story @ YourStory!

    Now that Test Mile, the company I founded, has completed one year of serving its customers, the industry is also gaining confidence in us. YourStory found the story interesting and has published an article capturing my story, how Test Mile was born and how it is different from all other testing services providers because of

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  • It has been a little more than an year since I announced and wrote my story about becoming an independent testing consultant and coach. Anjan Nayak, one of my friends from McAfee called me up last week and congratulated. I did not even realize that one year had passed by, else I would have written

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  • Disclaimer (Or Before You Read Any Further) I could be wrong about what I say. What I think is based on what I observe. This post is not to insult or offend James and Michael in any way. They are two of the key individuals in the testing experts space whom I respect I lot.

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  • What is a Test Oracle? Is it a source of expected result? Is it the mechanism to validate the observed against the expected? Is it a means for producing expected result? Or is it a combination of all of these including the mechanism to bring the Component Under Test to a state where the expected

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  • ( OR Why I refuse to accept that learning is only a teacher’s responsibility ) Learning takes more than listening. It needs home work to be done for days/months/years before you can understand and learn from someone. The mistake which people often commit is trying to listen to every one with the same level of

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  • What’s your approach for interviewing freshers? Are you lenient while interviewing them? In other words, are your expectations low when you talk to them? Following is what I think about it. Those who underestimate the capability of freshers are the ones who would conduct nonsensical/unfruitful interviews and later put a bar on the performance of

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  • About 2 months back when I wrote about my journey to becoming an independent consultant, I did not mention that I would be founding a company by end of June. I didn’t because I didn’t know that I am going to do it so soon. This post is to announce that I have founded Test

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  • There are a lot of training companies offering trainings in several areas of testing today. They have big offices, large workforce, good marketing people, multiple trainers etc. The question is that in the light of this fact, why should an organization engage me as a coach or why should an individual attend my workshop? There

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  • Effective May 1st, 2012, I would be a Consulting Software Tester, Python Developer and Coach. This is going to be a long blog post, as I want to capture this story in full, in my current state of mind -a story which I would like to read in future. It might be interesting for some

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