Software Testing
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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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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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Recently, I was at a Testing Services company, participating in the pre-lims for the paper selection for a conference scheduled in Bangalore in November, this year. Being an over-punctual person, I was there at the venue much earlier than the event started. While waiting alone in a conference room where the papers were meant to
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I love poetry which calls for multiple interpretations. I’m a fan of ghazals especially the ones from the shayars (poets) whose poetry can be quoted in various contexts. In this post, I have chosen a couplet from Ghalib‘s ghazal – “Har Ek Baat…”: English Transliteration ragoN meiN dauDte firne ke ham naheeN qaayal jab aaNkh
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After the confusion around not publishing Michael Bolton’s comment in response to my earlier post was sorted out, Michael has replied (thanks Michael!) with an elaborate post: All Testing is (not) Confirmatory, providing reasoning in favor of his concept of “Testing versus Checking”. Meanwhile, I had a discussion with Pradeep Soundararajan on the comment episode
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In Michael Bolton’s post on Testing vs Checking and the follow-up comments, he splits testing into exploratory testing and confirmatory testing (he’d rather call the latter as checking). I wasn’t convinced with this split-up and studied all his posts on this subject. I initially thought to leave a comment on his post but found it suitable
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A Ghazal is a form of Urdu poetry, which follows certain strict rules. I used to practise this while being an engineering student and in the initial years of my career. Later I got too busy with my job and never had a look at it. I usually use a lot of shers (couplets from
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brand: A brand is a product, service, or concept that is publicly distinguished from other products, services, or concepts so that it can be easily communicated and usually marketed. (Source: http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci211703,00.html ) “Are others able to positively distinguish me from other testers?” – I try to answer this question everyday and in whatever I do as a tester.
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Questions are an essential part of a tester’s job. I have had a recent experience which had a bitter part and a better part. I learnt from both of them. I learnt how important it is to ask the right questions. I realised how important it is to plan before asking questions. I had opted
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I have seen a lot of discussions over this topic in various blogs or otherwise. I could see people outrightly rejecting it, speaking in favor of it or making statements in favor of both approaches. I think it makes sense to write my thoughts as well on this topic. What I am going to write
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