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It has not been long that I heard about the concept of “Schools of Testing”. But in the past few months, I could see a lot of debate regarding this concept on some web sites, blogs and discussion groups. In other words, before I could understand the concept fully, I was bewildered by multiple opinions
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When we talk about LoadRunner, we generally hear the term Correlation (which is nothing but capturing dynamic data from the server response to be used as input in further requests). LoadRunner is good at auto-correlation capabilities, but sometimes we come across situations, where only your scripting capabilities and the correct use of some advanced features
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Last week, on 27th April, I presented at Yahoo! Bangalore as an Invited Speaker (Thanks to Nirmala, who is one of the key persons behind QA activities at Yahoo! Bangalore). The topic was “Building the Performance Engineering CoE”. It was a part of QE Conference 2007, in which different speakers are invited to present at
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An essential part of the performance testing projects is developing scripts which simulate the user actions (VUser scripts in LoadRunner). In the scripting phase, an important part is debugging of the scripts in case you run into some issues. Mostly people talk about enabling the Extended Log feature in the Run-time Settings GUI, and then
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One of the famous Urdu poets once pointed out that “Democracy is a form of government in which people are counted, not weighed”. I do not want to go into the trap of discussing on the topic of democracy, rather I have something to say very specific on software testing. We as software testers do
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You will hear people talking about Center of Excellence (COE) in net domain (If you haven’t heard of it, better do your homework, because this is to discuss something beyond COE). This discussion is not to discard the concept of COE. I am strongly in favor of building domain-specific COEs in the organization, so that
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When a few months back, I took a decision to take the next step in my career, I was just stuck in options, suggestions and opinions. Almost for everything there were mixed views from the people whom I consulted. So, I thought that I will take the situation in my hand and then take a
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“Can you develop the product in which you are finding bugs? “, “It’s OK that you are finding mistakes, but can you fix it yourself?” – There is list of such questions, which I have heard throughout my career, often derogatory, from professionals (at times friends) who happen to be developers. The very idea
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Do you count on testing experience or years++? To put it in a different way, do you evaluate yourself or others based on their real testing experience or based on their years of experience in software testing industry? That might sound something strange. We have been traditionally taught in a manner, which propagates the
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This article addresses one of the most important aspects of a tester’s profession – Bug Reporting. In the article on Bug Advocacy (Cem Kaner and James Bach), the authors say a very important thing. The best tester isn’t the one who finds the most bugs or who embarrasses the most programmers. The best tester is
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Rahul Verma: My Petty Bits 