Software Testing
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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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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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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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रहिमन पानी राखिये, बिन पानी सब सून। पानी गये न ऊबरे, मोती, मानुष, चून॥ ~ Rahim (1556-1627) (O Rahim! Preserve your dignity How worthless they would be: A pearl without its shine, Flour without water, And a man without dignity.) He walks in and sits in front of me. “Why do you want to be
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After the dogma created by various schools of thought, my frustration with these absolutist ways has led me to create a school of testing for myself. I hate belonging, as when you belong, you stop asking the tough questions. So, I created a school about freedom, about people, about learning. Feel free to ‘belong’ to
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I presented an invited talk at Great West, Bangalore with the title – “Don’t Ignore Your Special Users”. It was on the subject of accessibility with focus on visual disabilities. It was for the first time that I delivered the core of my presentation against a black backdrop in the slide deck wherein the audience
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I presented “The Dogmatic Agile” at Delhi Software Testing Conference. There is Agile. And then there is the The Dogmatic Agile – a system which lays down the incontrovertible truths, principles which you can not change if you want to be called Agile. This talk discusses Agile in the Indian context, a world where everybody
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How does an innocent looking interface element lead to such disastrous consequences like disclosure of credit card information, remotely controlling a machine, hijacking user identities and so on? Data becoming code via cleverly crafted payloads is one of the key security issues and is at the heart of many of the security attacks. Above thoughts
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I presented on the importance of programming and development skills for software testers at WCNGT conference held on 17-18 July at Bangalore. The presentation was arranged in the format of counter-arguments, my arguments and my notes on hypocrisy in Indian testing industry in this context (I can not comment on how the scene is outside
Rahul Verma: My Petty Bits 