• I am happy to announce my first public workshop on web security testing, after having undertaken the same in the form of corporate workshops for various organizations for testers and developers. Download the Web Security Testing Workshop brochure The workshop is on Nov 26-27, 2011 @ Hotel Shilton Royale, Bangalore. It is prepared with the

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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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  • You Are, What YOU Are

    Dear Rahul, Note: If you think that you don’t fit into the description of the “YOU” that follows, ignore this letter. It’s not meant for you! When you have chosen to ignore it based on this decision, please reconsider for once on my request. You are not what your school is. You are not what

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  • Note: Before you read any further, let me warn you that you might not be comfortable reading this, esp if you are from context driven school. Have a glass of water, if it helps. This post is not to undermine the contributions of the context driven community. I owe a lot to their wonderful work

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  • This is the third installment in the Notes on Test Automation series. So far I have published one article in this series about Test Encapsulation, which focuses on making tests the most powerful part of a framework, and one about Distributed Testing Models, in which various types of implementation of distributed testing and their pros/cons were discussed. In this

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  • The 2-day workshop builds solid foundation of web security concepts and web security testing. It is not a course focused on a set of tools to do security testing rather the focus is on concepts and hands-on exercises during the workshop. Following is what would be covered at a high level: HTTP Essentials – Aspects

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  • I would be conducting a 2 day public workshop on Agile Testing. The workshop focuses on how to be a successful tester in an Agile environment employing Scrum. Workshop Objectives Over the period of 2-day course, we go beyond the buzzword of Agile Testing and attempt to explore the term beyond theory. This course teaches

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  • Vipul Kocher, Ajoy Singha and Vipul Gupta have created a platform for testers to share their experience and learn about testing. The platform is a monthly testers meet which is a mix of formal paper presentations, group discussions, solving practical problems faced by members in the audience and lots of fun activities. With its beginning

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  • Anton Chekhov was a Russian short story writer known to be one of the best in field of literature. I remember that as a child I used to buy his books translated in Punjabi – that’s a long time ago. I’m not sure how I landed into his wikipedia page reading about one of his

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  • In the first article – Test Encapsulation – published in the Q3/2010 edition of Testing Experience, I explained how the design of a test automation framework (from now on referred to as TAF) should start by thinking of tests first and then the surrounding features. In this article I’m going to address another challenging area in the design of TAFs

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