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Daily Learning - Day 11

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Date: 29th January 2017 Below are the topics i learnt today.. Topic 1: Who is Agile Tester? Everyone on Agile Team is a Tester And Agile tester is a team member who drives agile testing. Agile Testers tend to have good technical skills along with exploratory skills. Agile Testers should collaborate with Technical, Business, Customers to understand the Customer's Software Requirements. Agile Testing Mind-Set Agile Tester is not a Quality Gatekeeper. Agile Tester works with customer , product owner to gather and share information - so customer gets the features they needed. Successful projects are result of good people allowed to do good work with a discipline, time, learning, experimentation and working together. Agile Testing Mindset is a result-oriented, craftsman like collaborative, eager to learn, passionate about delivering business value in timely manner. Agile Principles and Values Reference:   https://dzone.com/articles/agile-testing-princi

Daily Learning - Day 10

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Was busy in Personal Life,  Back on Daily Learning after two weeks. Date: 28th January 2017 Below are the topics i learnt today.. Agile Testing: In Agile, Testing should be part of Agile development How in industry, the stories are developed late - Due to this testing is done in the Rush at the end of sprint and not exploring the system by the testers Automated testing is also not a feasible solution for stories, as if any changes done in the code by development team, the automation testers should re-work on the code earlier worked. This will become inefficient and expensive in long run. In Sprint Table, There should not be "Test to be Done" column as: Stories is done only when "Dev+Test" is done. Agile Testing should be done to prevent the bugs, while working together with developer.  And Agile Manifesto says: Team is responsible for Quality. Not Just individual Testers. Instead of Releasing all features and testing at the end li

Daily Learning - Day 09

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Date: 15th January 2017 Below are the topics i learnt today.. Topic 1: cURL - Installation & Testing Download the Curl:  Go to https://winampplugins.co.uk/curl/ Then click on selected downloads 64/32 bit files Rename the file to Curl and Extract it Copy the Extract File to : C:\ Now, Curl folder displays inside C:\ Folder Installing Certificate: Go to https://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html Then Download : cacert.pem Rename the cacert.pem to curl-ca-bundle.crt Add the curl folder path to your Windows PATH: In the Start menu, right-click This PC and select More > Properties . Note : In Windows 7, right-click Computer and select Properties . Click Advanced System Settings . In the Advanced tab, click the Environment Variables button on the lower right side. Select the "Path" variable in System Variables , and click Edit . In the Edit environment variable dialog box, click New and add the path to the curl.exe file. Example: C:\curl

Daily Learning - Day 08

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Date: 14th January 2017 Below are the topics i learnt today.. Topic 1: CDN's - Content Delivery Networks What is CDN - Content Delivery Network What is use of CDN's over hosted Server. What resources can be hosted on CDN's. What is the response time of webpage when used resources from CDN What is the response time of webpage when used resources from Single Hosted Server What is distributed CDN's. Advantages of Usage of CDN's  Who are the providers for CDN's Resource :  http://www.cdnplanet.com/cdns/ How to know which website using CDN's. Resource: To find out, what resources of webpage are from CDN. Navigate to http://www.cdnplanet.com/tools/cdnfinder/ Enter the URL of your site - www.packetcode.com It will scan your full site and provide list of resources from website using CDN and CDN Names.

Daily Learning - Day 07

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Date: 13th January 2017 This week a new tool to explore and learn how i can use in testing work. Topic 1: Charles Proxy - Basics Why Use Charles Proxy? What is in Charles Proxy Tool? https://www.facebot.org/charles-basics/ How to Install Charles Proxy ? How to capture the browser requests from Charles Proxy? http://www.facebot.org/set-charles-to-https/ http://developers.gigya.com/display/GD/Configuring+Charles+Web+Debugger http://www.facebot.org/tidy-up-charles/ Test 1: Google Analytics Debugging with Charles Analyzing the data captured by Charles Proxy  http://www.lunametrics.com/blog/2016/11/17/using-charles-proxy-inspect-debug-google-analytics/ Test 2: Google Analytics Measurement Protocol What are the different protocols displaying in the response header and analyzing the protocols. https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/protocol/v1/parameters Topic 2: Can I Use  This website is used to find the Compatibility Suppor

Daily Learning - Day 06

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Date: 11th January 2017 Below are the topics i learnt today.. Topic 1: HTTP Requests - Inline Images What is Inline Images. How to "Include Images inside the webpage" without individual HTTP Requests. Data Type Pattern for Inline Images to include inside the webpage. Drawbacks of using Inline Images on Web Browsers. Drawbacks of using Inline Images impacting the Webpage Size. Alternatives to use "Inline CSS Images" inside the External Stylesheet. Advantages of "Inline CSS Images" over "Inline Images Inside the webpage". Topic 2: HTTP Requests - Combined Scripts and Stylesheets As Javascript and CSS are very important for Websites. There are two ways of using "JS/CSS"  Either - Inline method: Embed JS/CSS inside the Webpage (or) use of External JS/CSS  The LESS the JS/CSS loading on Webpages (esp. Home Page) gives Good User Experience, Reduces HTTP Requests, Improves end user response time. Combining all Stylesh

Daily Learning - Day 05

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Date: 08th January 2017 Below are the topics i learnt today.. Topic 1:  Reading a Short Book from My Shelfari. As its a Sunday, I thought to read a Short Book. I had a Fiction book "The Dairy of a Manager" in my shelfari since October 2016 Although, It is a Fiction book I can relate to few points which i can add in my daily work life to improve myself. This Book can be purchased from  https://leanpub.com/thediaryofamanager

Daily Learning - Day 04

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Date: 07th January 2017 Below are the topics i learnt today.. Topic 1:  Rule 1- Make Fewer HTTP Requests Learning about Individual Images on Webpage using Web Developer Tools New: Image Map using HTML Elements (DIV/Span) Use of Image Map , how HTTP Requests can be reduced instead of Individual Images on Webpage New: CSS Sprites using HTML Elements Use of CSS Sprites , how HTTP Requests can be reduced instead of Individual Images on Webpage Advantages and Disadvantages of Image Map and CSS Sprites Image Map - http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_map.asp http://html.cita.illinois.edu/text/map/map-example.php CSS Sprite - http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_image_sprites.asp  https://css-tricks.com/css-sprites/ Topic 2: Listening to a Podcast - The Testing Show: New Year’s TesterLutions https://www.qualitestgroup.com/The-Testing-Show/testing-show-new-years-testerlutions/

Daily Learning - Day 03

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Date: 06th January 2017 Below are the topics i learnt today.. Topic 1: HTTP - Requests/Responses How Connection is established by HTTP Requests. What is Persistent Connections. How "Connection: Keep-Alive" Request & Response Headers are used in Browser / Server. What happens when Connection is Closed in browser/server, and display of Headers. Topic 2: Santa Gifts Week We had a Santa Gifts Week (although late after Christmas), late not never.. Secret Santa, the well-known Christmas tradition where people get assigned a random colleague to buy a gift. The concept of an anonymous gift exchange emerged a few decades later, between the 1960s and 1970s. Secret Santa gifts that’ll make your work colleagues laugh. Glad, I have received a Secret Santa Gift (unknown person) Topic 3: Meditation Had a 1st session on "Meditation at Work".  It was for approx 30 minutes. But it was pleasant and more important, It is helpful to mana

Daily Learning - Day 02

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Date: 05th January 2017 Below are the topics i learnt today.. Topic 1: Overview of HTTP - Requests/Responses What is HTTP and Different Types of HTTP Requests What happens between the Client and Server How to analyse  Network Resources from Chrome Web Developer Tool and IE Web Developer Tool Learning about "Last Modified Date , Compression (Browser / Server Level) , If Modified Since, Expires HTTP Headers [To Learn More] - on HTTP Headers..

Daily Learning - Day 01

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This Series has started due   Zero fire + passion + mission in Life. It seems to me:  I was a success in society. And an acute failure to myself. M issing out on a great life.. but when a series of daily practices, when done consistently, generate genius-level outcomes. Nothing will change if you don't make some changes.  Date: 04th January 2017 Below are the topics i learnt today.. Topic 1: Importance of Front-End Performance "How Front End Performance is more important than Back-end Performance".  What are the different requests sent over from Web Server to Web Browser when visiting a webpage Chrome vs Internet Explorer - Network Tab, analysing the Requests and Responses. [Need to Learn More] - Differences between Disk Cache, Memory Cache, Browser Cache. Topic 2: Super Brain Yoga I have received a video on whatsapp "Super Brain Yoga" After going through the video, It is a same technique : Called as "Gunjeelu"(In Telugu)

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What's done in month of December 2016

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This Post remarks the progress and tasks done in the month of December 2016. Career Life: The three course / lessons learnt are done during the course of month. Course Topic Course Name Course From Course Status Web Performance Performance Testing Foundational Learning Elite Souls Completed Magazine Women Testers Dec 2016 Women Testers Completed Career Planning Learning to Program - Skills that Matter PluralSight Completed Work Life: Done with the Project Delivery on Time. One Training Program was attended during the course of month Course Topic Course Name Course From Course Status Leadership Leadership Training Unilog Completed Got Promoted as "Team Lead - QA" and It was a Biggest Step in My Career Life. Personal Life: Got 10 days break and resulting with Family Trip on Road in "Andhra Tourist Places" Happy New Year 2017 to all readers. Feel Free to check out " Career - Celebrations " Page. http://