• Kisi din muskura ke ye tamasha hum bhi dekhengebhale peeche rahein, aage tamasha hum bhi dekhenge hamein ik taraf rakh kar, kyun dikhaate ho kalaakaaritamasha hum bhi dekhenge, tamasha hum bhi dekhenge abhi tak chal raha hai jo bhi, vo hi, phir se hona haijo dekha hai, vahi phir se tamasha hum bhi dekhenge isi

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  • 70+ Sampling Factors/Think-Words for Testers

    In my recent article on why testers should look past the User’s lens, I had pointed out how there is a black-box functional tester’s bias running throughout the discussions of what is the core of testing. Sampling is no exception – to the extent that it is less commonly used word as compared to the

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  • Uncaging the Meaning of Sampling and its Role for Testers

    I had started writing on the subject of sampling, 5-6 weeks back. I soon realised that there are many missing pieces. I had started talking about sampling without building the larger context. So, I wrote many more articles to primarily cover the concept of Test Transaction, Interactions and the shape-shifting, wandering view of data as

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  • Testers, Look Past the User’s Lens!

    Somewhere in the debates of human role and automation/AI in testing, I constantly see that deeper investigation as a tester, has taken a back seat. The discussions on human role almost fail to realise that exploration of tooling, technology is not optional. The automation/AI in testing proponents, behave with a sense of superiority, thinking they

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  • Split Datality: Mental Models of a Wandering Data for Testers

    I hope you have read my previous, rather long I must add, article on how data is a shape-shifting creature. I wrote the article to challenge the usual notion amongst testers that an input value is something static – little attention is paid to some critical finer details. The said article builds on the previous

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  • Ichhadhari Data: A Tester’s View of Shape-Shifting Data in Variables

    It took a lot of writing to reach this point. I had initially thought of writing on Sampling as a core test design technique. I soon realised that directly talking about the inputs will have the same constraint on discussions, as do most existing test design texts. As I want to supplement them with my

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  • Input/Output Variables in a Test Transaction

    In my previous article for the AEIOU model, I mentioned about various mental models to think about Input/Output in a Test Transaction. In this article, I further break down the concept of Input/Output into the concept of variables. Let’s get started. Revisiting Input/Output Although we discussed maturer models in the said article, for a beginner’s

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  • Testing vs Tester as a Testing Professional in 3 Fables

    Has it ever happened to you that you think you are sleeping but really aren’t? Your brain is still doing its job but in ways you weren’t really controlling it? Today’s sleep was like that for me. Something must have clicked somewhere. Something must have had a deeper impact on me in the past few

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  • Some Mental Models of Input/Output in a Test Transaction

    When I was thinking about writing the next entry in the AEIOU model explanation, I thought of writing about Input/Output. I soon realised that it is too big a topic for a single entry and could get too complex too quickly. I’ve taken some time to think about breaking down this problem in multiple parts.

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  • How did we become distant from Testing?

    During my college days, I visited a book exhibition at a poetry festival. I had a quick look at a Punjabi book which had a poem written in the format of a triangle created with words with the heading “asi.N Naanak to.N door kive.N hoye” (How did we become distant from Naanak?). At the time

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