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  • Pluralism and the Infinite Testing Schools

    Many years ago, I had published the Pluralistic School of Testing, as a personal set of principles for testing. As a continuation of my Embracing Infinity series, I am taking that as a basis, but with a revised version. I have outgrown the idea of a school as a blanket community cover completely. I have

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  • Embracing Infinity – 20 Years of Contradictions

    The more I have worked in testing, the more difficult it has become to explain my thoughts and views. It is pretty easy to sit on the extreme side of an opinion and express oneself – there is coherence, consistency and tightly coupled concepts; for the audience, there is less confusion and contradictions; you attract

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  • The Uber/Ola Cab Plot Device for LinkedIn

    Disclaimer: Uber/Ola have nothing to do with this plot device and don’t, in any manner, endorse the contents. Their names are used for demonstration purpose only. No cabs were damaged in the writing of this article. You want to write a great post or article on LinkedIn and you wonder how to get started with

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  • Jambvanta, Public Figures and Testing Conferences

    Do you recall who was Jambvanta? Yes? No? Park that thought. We’ll come back to it later. Let me first get into the context of writing this article. There are lakhs of software testers in India. Thousands of them do very good work. A few hundred of them have become popular over time by showcasing

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  • This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right. You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click the

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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’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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  • This is a software testing post, although not in the most conventional ways. It is mix of several expectaions some of which are genuine but when we put together all of them, a tester must be the real world avatar of comic book super heroes. Enjoy! If someone is planning to use it for their

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  • This blog post is not about software testing. It is about a Hindi poem that I wrote today mostly around introspection. You have been warned! [one-half] यादें याद बहुत ही कम बातें रहती हैं मुझको… कुछ धुंधली सी तस्वीरें हैं जिन तस्वीरों को जीवन का नाम दिया है साल बिताये हैं दसियों मैंने तो क्यूं

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  • While other languages mark blocks mostly with braces or begin/end flags, Python does so using compulsory indentation ( although indentation is suggested in the former as well). Being a Python coach, I have observed that this generates a debate every time in my classes. Today I came across this easter egg on braces which indicates

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