The Life-Long Journey of Learning!

Looking back at 2013. Lots of things happened this year, with twists and turns in my life.  Overall, this has been a okay. I've grown and learned and developed in ways I did not perform well in 2012.  I have tightened the emotions and feelings inside, loosened some and discovered much about myself and those around me. The year went so quick with busy days with learning's, work and travelling. Conferences I have attended two conferences this year.   1. BarCamp Bangalore. Attended a half day event, meeting testing professionals from india. ( Website ) 2. STC QAI Conference, Bangalore. Thanks to Testing Circus for giving me opportunity to attend two days long conference and meeting testing professionals all over the world. I have found myself as a kid, learning new things from the testing professionals. ( Website )

I spend most of the time reading testing articles, magazines, blogs / websites, newsletters, exploring new things.  Whenever I read/do, which helped me to learn and I do perform a quick actions in giving back a positive feedback, which might helpful to make a discussions and make a new learning from it.   Two years back, when I was writing my first feedback to a website, I was searching writing a feedback is good or bad. Then I have read a quote: “ Without Feedback, it’s like you are walking blind” Yes, for me: Feedback is a food..

Joel Montvelisky who is a co-founder of PractiTest, is going to launched a Survey program on the “state of testing” 2013 and he plan to make the survey for every year. A Testing Survey, WHY? If you are curious to learn more about testing? Be a part of this survey program conducted in association by Tea Time with Testers and QA Intelligence. This survey program will allow us to see not only a snapshot of our professional testing reality but also the trends in the field as they keep shifting year by year. Want to be part of this Survey program  Click Here   - Subscribe to get notified. Is participation enough, No.. !!! Please tell to other testers about it and get them participate with  with the #qasurvey hashtag "Knowledge is Power - Francis Bacon"  

I’ve been a bit busy lately with work and Weekend Testing, Learning new concepts and trying to learn more. Hence the lack of updates on my blog.  Recently, I had a conversation with testers on twitter: Searching with Special characters shows 502 error is it fine ? #testingerrors — Srinivas Kadiyala (@srinivasskc) November 26, 2013 @srinivasskc That's Bad Gateway (#502). It is not fine and it needs to be handled by server side to avoid that message to be shown to user. — Santhosh Tuppad (@santhoshst) November 26, 2013 @srinivasskc You should also investigate the logs at server side if possible. It can reveal, that problem is worse than just stupid err msg — Teemu Vesala (@teemuvesala) November 26, 2013 @teemuvesala How can we check the logs at server side? — Srinivas Kadiyala (@srinivasskc) November 26, 2013 @srinivasskc Ask from sysadmin if you can get access to error log. Send the special chars, see the last lines investigate what errors are....

Now a days, Web Performance is most talked and Speed of Web Page is treated essential feature to be considered.  We visit many websites and Have you thought: which is the fastest webpage?                                                          about:blank

Open Internet explorer -> Internet Options -> Advanced -> Enable "Display a notification of every script error" This will show "Script Errors" on the page load. - Which are High Priority.

There are many Front-End Performance Testing tools. As the list goes by, I will update it in this mind map. Here's the mindmap in PDF.

Inspiration from " What If " book from  Ajay Balamurugadas  - "Practice testing" with Friends We started as an attempt, to Learn and Share our learning's. Charter/Mission :  Forgot Password     Source:   http://www.ccipedu.in Date : 29th October 2013 Testers : Dwarika Dhish Mishra Ritika Gulati Srinivas Kadiyala  Session Time : 9.30 p.m to 10.45 p.m  (45 minutes session) Chat Script :   Download  for transcript Lessons : HealthCare.gov  website -- One Down?  and   Reset Password is still insecure Security Testing Checklist by Santhosh Tuppad ------------------------ Next Session : Date : 30th October 2013 Mission : Exploratory Testing Product : Zoom It

Four days back... When i got the Google - Security Page : To set up new privileges. (2-way verification) I have seen a website: www.whatbrowser.org  - This is of Google, to check which browser are we using and do the browser has latest updates. So, Just i tried to see in all browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera) Here, the problem:  I am having Opera 17 (Latest version) and opened the website URL. I surprisingly found, its showing as Chrome 30. Then immediately i asked other testers in my network - do they have opera browser. One of the tester ( Anshul Jain , Indore) - has replied he has Opera 13. Then i asked him, to open the website. But for him, it was showing Opera 13 as a result.  Then i asked him to install the latest one i.e Opera 17. When he tried the same step: To him, Now - It showed as Chrome 30.  So, i have referred through the site any web mail, to send about this issue. And i have sent the email as: ...

Thanks to Ravi Suriya ( Blog | Twitter ) and Jyothi Rangaiah ( Blog | Twitter ) .. we teamed out, to find the actual cause. Few things - I thought before we started: 1. Might be: As i am using Wordpress template on Blogger 2. Might be: Avatar image problem 3. Might be: Template Problem 4  Might be "Google API Configuration problem with Blogger" ( as in previous post ) Then we started seeing the problem: 1. Browser : Chrome  2. Operating System : Windows 8 : 64- Bit 3. Resolution of the System: 1366 * 768 Then we started exploring the page using the Inspect Element property. We found image/photo of the blogger getting enlarged on the comment container. "What is an Oracle? ---  Course of finding a problem..." "What is a Heuristic? -- A fallible way of solving a problem" Here, the Oracle: The blogger image is getting enlarged on the comment container and hiding the comments. Here, the  Heuristic: We started with comb...

Recently i wrote a post on " Zombie art secretly hidden in Android Gingerbread "..  For the post, Abhilash hari  ( Blog | Twitter ) , has posted a comment. As my comments are moderated and then posted on the blog on approval instead of letting spammers free. Abhilash has posted a comment to my post and It appeared fine in the mail. But, to my surprise : when i looked in the Blogpost.  The comment looks like this. I pinged Abhilash hari immediately, to ask him any reason behind it. I got to know from him as : "It might be a problem with Google Configuration with Blogger" . But said, to find out the answer.. Any solution to it ?

As I am using Android 2.3.6 mobile, I was (am still) trying out where to find the developer options in the mobile. As, I saw they said: In Jelly Beans android version 4, Its hidden and its open after clicking the build version fastly for seven times. As I couldnt find : Name as Build version. I thought it could be Android Version. So here is the trick to find the Zombie art. On your Android phone 1. Settings 2. About phone 3  Press Android version over add over as fast as you can.. Magic ! Zombie art appears

Many of Testers start begin career using Excel and most of the time for writing Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Scenarios, Bug Reporting, Test Report Summary. Many times, we do write wrong/mistakes/want to change in the Excel sheet and we perform " UNDO" action on the cell. Here is the Trick & Tips for UNDO : Go to "Quick Access Toolbar" and press Left Arrow Famous "CTRL+Z"   (Press 'Control' and 'Z' letter) Third : Which is rarely used....  " ALT + Backspace " * Try out Yourself and Start your day with a cool tip. Credits to Vinod Kumar , Microsoft - Had an opportunity to research and learn on this.

Today first time I got a chance to work on Mobile Application Testing.  I have never seen/worked on the iPad...Sad that I never explored any application. But thought let me go through some resources before I just explore the application which I get. Thanks to Gergely Brautigam (United Kingdom), for pointing me to excellent resources.  Although I took one node of the branch, And Testing Mobile Applications is interesting. Testing iPad App - Crash course :   Apple iPad is leading the tablet revolution. Many companies now creating thousands of applications for iPad and they are now looking for skilled testers to test those applications run smoothly. As per research, 40% of retail online activity comes from tablets to buy products. Here are the KIES (Keep it Easy and Simple) 1.      Identify the Model of iPad Device. 2.      Check the iPad Settings 3.      Install the iPad App on the de...

Agile Impressions Author :      Gerald M. Weinberg Formats :     PDF , EPUB , MOBI Published :     September, 2013 About the Author : Gerald Weinberg has been called "Grandfather of Agile Programming". About the Book : In this book, he offers his observations and advice for all readers who want to learn and grow up to be successful Agilists.                                                   

Testing Book of the Month is Back... Introduction of Authors: Tim Riley : Over 13 years of experience on Software Development, Quality Assurance and Management. Now working as a Director of QA / Engineering. Adam Goucher : Over 12 years of experience on Software Testing, a speaker in Testing conferences. Now working as Principal Consultant, training on software testing and Selenium Automation Testing. Brief Intro:  "Beautiful Testing" -  Successful software depends as much on scrupulous testing as it does on solid architecture or elegant code. But testing is not a routine process, it`s a constant exploration of methods and an evolution of good ideas. Order Here -- Amazon India

Google has shutdown its services of Google Reader, popular RSS subscription reader on July 1,2013. I took long time to research for the alternatives which can match my interests and give same ability of Google Reader. First, I found " Old Reader " - It was simple and looks like a Google Reader. But It has followed by outages for few days due to hard drives crashed. And they now planned to make it private from public. Second, " Feedly "   : It looked like No.1 Alternative in many websites. It is having good clean design with Magazine kind of layout. Now, Feedly announced Pro Accounts for $5 per month or $45 per year. Third, " Digg Reader ": Surprised the world with Simple interface and closely resembles the other feed readers. Now, I keep a backup : After the Outage of Old Reader for 5 days, I learnt to have a backup for every thing. Now, I use both Feedly and Digg to read my feeds. Lesson Learnt : Don't get attached to FREE prod...

Video of the Month is an article showcasing the best Videos in testing community.         Do you want to be an expert in software testing? . . . Yes?                          Then watch this, Video of the Month….                         Quote :  "The more I learn, the more I know how little I know."

Phew ... ! What a month on writing testing posts. In this post, i will share you the posts of the month of July. "Do good things for good reasons" Friday, July 05, 2013 STICK for Testers: For Testing Image Upload Functionality. Sunday, July 07, 2013 Usability Testing or Functional Testing ? Tuesday, July 09, 2013 Why do you need to choose Test Automation? Wednesday, July 10, 2013 Want to Capture Screens on Windows? Friday, July 12, 2013 How do i test Email Address Validation... ? Monday, July 15, 2013 Is there Testing called Exploratory Testing? Tuesday, July 16, 2013 Testing Book of the Month : July Wednesday, July 17, 2013 Tests without Specifications : Part -1 Thursday, July 18, 2013 My Journey towards "Miagi-Do School of Testing" Tuesday, July 23, 2013 Tests using (Design and Functional) Specifications (Part-2) Thursday, July 25, 2013 Software Testing Good Practices Tuesday, July 30, 2013 Its your Life.... Le...

Life is full of challenges, interesting twists, love, passion, emotions, egos, adventures, comfort etc. "7" is my memorable number in my life.  Here are 7 things, that i have learnt f rom the past life. PAST FAILURES Everyone goes through tough times – Success and Failures comes in life. Never think that you are alone in your life and remember there is always something that we are behind to achieve in life.  Stop thinking about the past and start thinking on what you are doing right now and move forward.  “Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start       today and        make a new ending” – Maria Robinson STOP PROCRASTINATING If you want to achieve what you want in your life, stop procrastinating and take control to change the situation with responsibility to move forward. “Act as though, It is Impossible to fail” - Dorothea Brande Be a Leader Stop p...

The following are some good practices, I have learnt for doing testing. Before you start the testing the product, Understand the product Architecture. Understanding the architecture and working of the product, can help you see more error prone areas and can cover large amount of errors in less time. The Error prone areas may mostly occurs on the interfaces between the different modules, as different programmers work on different modules in a product development. See the potential misuses and verify how the software works with those issues. If application is working perfectly as per it is intended, then don’t stop the testing. Just like a detective solves a murder mystery and the testers has to find out the any ways of potential misuses and how the software works unexpectedly with those issues.  Sherlock Holmes is Top Fiction Detective Think like an End User, who has no idea of how to use the product, explore it (or)  Think like a Hacker try to find...