• 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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  • I am happy to announce the Arjuna 1.1.0 production release. Arjuna 1.0.0 production release happened on May 12. In a short span of around 1.5 months, Arjuna has come a long way with an expanded feature set to serve test automation needs. Following is a list of major feature additions: HTTP Automation Arjuna now wraps

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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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  • I presented “The Last Keynote on Software Testing – The Days of Future Past Present” at Unicom’s WCNGT 2017 annual conference, at Bangalore on 20 July, 2017. I am happy to see the kind of discussions and responses it generated. In line with some of my recent talks, many testers of different experience ranges talked to

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  • The Agile Qtopia

    I presented “The Agile Qtopia – Do People Cry in Heaven?” at Agile Testing Days Asia conference, at Bangalore in March 2017. I was pretty amazed to see that for this ant-Agile talk, I was termed as the Best Speaker by an Agile conference. Agile is projected as a utopian view of the IT world. Then why are

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  • करत करत अभ्यास ते, जड़मति होत सुजान रसरी आवत जात ते, सिल पर परत निसान Persistence/Practice makes even a dumb person intelligent (Just like) a soft rope can leave marks on a stone with constant rubbing                     – Vrindavandas (1643-1725) “Hello Rahul!”, he says, “How are you doing?”. I look at him and as I don’t recognise him,

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  • Reflections :: Servitude

    पूजा घर में मूर्ती, मीरा के संग श्याम, जिसकी जितनी चाकरी, उतने उसके दाम|| The idol is in the temple, And Krishna is with Meera. The more is your service, The more is your value                       ~ Nida Fazli I walk past the jungle of cubicles and something

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