Software Testing

  • 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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  • Whose Bug is it anyway?

    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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  • Recently, I attended a Seminar on Software Testing by Mr. Srinivasan Desikan , at Hyderabad. He is working as Director for Agile Software Corporation, and is the author of the best-seller “Software testing – Principles and Practices”. He has a great way of teaching testing principles – he teaches them with stories, one for each

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  •  I am Rahul Verma. My profile mentions at a high level about my professional stuff and is available as a part of this blog spot, so I want to use this space to talk something else. I have about 4 years experience in Software Testing and throughout these years, I realized one great thing –

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