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I’m a fan of detective stories and recently I have been watching a lot of Sherlock Holmes. There is a recurring plot line that happens at various instances, where Sherlock would give amazing insight about a person just by looking at the person for a minute. On one such instance, Sherlock explains how he came
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I’m going to share the text of a single comment, which I found marked as SPAM. It’s interesting because it seems to comprise of a lot of unrelated individual spam comments which the author might have intended to spam multiple blog posts. The comments in themselves are like regular SPAM – irrelevant/overly appreciative/funny but their
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I had a strange experience yesterday. I visited Trivandrum, Kerala to deliver a workshop on Agile Testing, the revenue from which would be donated for a cancer patient at a local hospital there. To confess, I didn’t know how I am going to feel about it. At times, there was a strange hesitation inside me
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I am going to present at PyCon India 2010. PyCon India is the primary Python conference in India. A purely volunteer effort, it is being hosted for the second time in India, and has attracted some of the best Python developers in India and abroad, which is demonstrated by the number and quality of paper submissions..
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Design Patterns in Python is a free online book written by Rahul Verma and Chetan Giridhar on the subject of employing design patterns in the world of object-oriented programming using Python. The book is written in a way to keep the discussion and the related examples simple. This is done to provide a text so
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My article on File Fuzzing, which deals with software testing via corruption of file contents, has been chosen to be published as a series of two articles in the Indian Testing Board’s iTest newsletter. Part 1 is available in the Sep issue @ http://istqb.in/newsletter/ITB_NL0909.pdf Rahul Verma
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Since its publication in the beginning of this year, the book “Fuzzing for Software Security Testing and Quality Assurance” by Ari Takanen, Jared DeMott and Charlie Miller has been on my wishlist. Why wouldn’t it be! It’s the first fuzzing book which mentions right there in the title that fuzzing is meant for software testers,
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brand: A brand is a product, service, or concept that is publicly distinguished from other products, services, or concepts so that it can be easily communicated and usually marketed. (Source: http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci211703,00.html ) “Are others able to positively distinguish me from other testers?” – I try to answer this question everyday and in whatever I do as a tester.
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I attended the TEST2008 conference at New Delhi from Oct 13 – Oct 15 as the conference coordinator and as a presenter on the subject of Fuzzing Frameworks. I am very happy to share with you all that I have received the Testing Thought Leadership Award for How Would Pareto Learn(tm) Python – the free online book
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