Rahul Verma: My Petty Bits

  • My Journey to Becoming an Independent Consultant

    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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  • Python – A great easter egg on braces

    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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  • Foundations of Web Performance Testing: 1-Day Workshop @BugDebug

    I’m going to conduct a 1-day public workshop -“Foundations of Web Performance Testing – A Tool-agnostic Tutorial” @ BugDebug conference, Chennai on 25th March. The workshop is scheduled on the second day of the conference, day 1 being the presentations day which has an enviable speaker list for any conference. Along with my workshop, there

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  • Omne Ignotum Pro Magnifico

    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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  • Automation gone wrong?

    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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  • The GOLD Heuristic – Go One Layer Down

    While testing, one of the useful ways to get more ideas for testing as well as breaking free of constraints that prevent you from exercising some test ideas is the GOLD heuristic – Go One Layer Down. The concept is simple, although from one implementation to another the ground work required might vary. There are

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  • Opinion Management System

    A lot of times, what is logged as a bug by  a tester is usually an opinion. A tester observes the behavior of the subject and feels something is not right. On further analysis, s/he develops on the idea and forms an opinion about the behavior or atleast has a set of questions about the

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  • Anti-Boxing: Thrive in QA (@ Hyderabad)

    I’m going to present a half-day tutorial as a part of STeP-IN SUMMIT 2012 on February 10, 2012 at Taj Deccan, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad. You can find the registration details here. This is the second time, I’m presenting a tutorial at Hyderabad, after last year’s tutorial on Design and Implementation of Test Automation Frameworks, which

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  • Web Application Security Testing Workshop on Feb 11-12 @ Hyderabad

    I am happy to announce my public workshop on web security testing at Hyderabad. It being my first public workshop in the city, I have decided to keep it a low-cost one. The workshop is on Feb 11-12, 2012. This would a suitable companion to my Anti-Boxing tutorial as a part of STeP-IN SUMMIT 2012

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  • Coincidence and Its Impact on Testing

    Apart from being the last day of 2011, yesterday was a regular day. I chose to watch Schindler’s List. For me, a typical experience of watching a good meaningful movie includes a follow-up web surfing on the subject, its director(s), actors, related movies etc. Yesterday was no different. I opened the movie’s Wikipedia page which

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