The Life-Long Journey of Learning!

Let’s start with a simple question: What do you want to be in your Life? Many people will be having dreams of some day they will be a good teacher, a writer, a programmer, a magician, an officer, an expert, an entrepreneur. Like everyone I wanted myself to be a Leader in the field, I do my job from my job. There is a common mistake to think Leader with Manager. A Leader can be a manager but being a manager does not mean you are a leader. Have you thought: How do you get there? Do you set yourself a goal to complete it? If yes, then that doesn’t get you job done. I usually read lots of books on Leadership and Psychology, which are my non-technical favourite topics. The following are things I learnt while studying my bachelor’s. Honesty. Passion. Humility. Communication. Be Open, Straight and Genuine. Stop Procrastination. Be Happy and Help Others. That’s it. Seven pretty simple things and you’ve got a changed life. None of these steps is imposs...

Adobe launched BrowserLab – A Free service based software for testing web content across desktop browsers and platforms. Due to the intent growth in mobiles, tablets in portrait and landscape: Focussing on new challenges with new solutions, Adobe has to shut down their BrowserLab service immediately. If you need to test across multiple desktop browsers: Adobe recommends to check – BrowserStack and Sauce Labs *. Sauce Labs welcoming BrowserLab users with special offers : 1) 10 hours (600 minutes) of free manual testing time (with no expiration) for up to two concurrent open browsers. 2) Once you’ve used those 600 minutes, your account will revert to a free account which includes 30 minutes per month of free manual browser testing. 3) This limited time offer will remain valid for 30 days from March 13, 2013.   If you need to test mobile web projects, check – Adobe Edge Inspect , which we can work on computer to remotely control and debug t...

It’s a Sunday – Fun Day; many people think to enjoy their life – hangouts with their friends, Shopping, Going for Movies and so on. Hang on for five mins..!!! Here I will share you something interesting to you… 1)     Whenever you meet someone you say: “Good Morning”. Right?  Have you heard about someone saying: “Good Museum Day Morning”...? Think about: What is “Museum Day”. If you have no thoughts hold on for a second… 2)     “Do you know how long most people’s lives last?” Many people say: “It may be 75-80 years”. Now the interesting part begins... “Statistically, the average human lives around 28,200 days” It’s surprising as we really never thought of it in days before. “We seem shorter in life, when you think in days versus years.” 3)     Now have you ever been to historical museum? We see the halls with old photos of people at work, family photos or some with their friends describing th...

          The behaviour of software application many be affected by many factors. E.g.: Input Parameters, Environment Configurations, State Variables etc. Combinatorial testing is a practical approach that produces high quality testing at lower cost. The Basic Combinatorial testing can be used in two ways: Combinations of Input values.   Combinations of Configuration Values These can be used separately or at same time. Combinatorial testing can help detect problems in the early of testing life cycle. This is known as All Pairs Testing Technique (or) Pair wise Testing. Thanks to Weekend Testing. Although I haven’t participate in the session due to travelling. But I always try to learn using the Transcript and Reports by participants. This is the first time I am doing this. Let’s Learn to Test One Puzzle: Application :   Black box machine   by James Lyndsay Download : Puzzle 5. ...

It has been noticed from many people in the IT field, who works in Testing and QA as career, feel software testing is in general, one of the less appreciated jobs even though they really make effort to produce quality product. As the Title says: Is Software Testing a Thankless Job? Certainly, it’s not same everywhere. But, it largely depends on the perspective, company and many other factors. Traits for Thankless job: Missed Bug Even before we test, when things go wrong – People all blame: “Tester! You haven’t tested this”.   (Or)  if any defect appears in the production, the testing team has to hear something like: “Tester! Why  didn't  you see that bug?”  “According to Brian Marick , a software testing specialist from US has written a post on Classic Mistakes people make thinking on Testing. You can refer:  Classic Testing Mistakes “ But when things go right, we (testers) hardly get any credit. And most of the tim...

February : This month has  special things   in my life. I am not talking about my Love Story / Lover / Girl Friends. As the month is of “ Valentine’s Day ”. Although, I have lots of Love at my heart .. No Lover. Here are my insights from my life : On 27th February 2012 : I have got to know that I got my first job at ITC Infotech India Ltd . Thanks to the   people  who have helped me in showing career path and I will always be thankful for them throughout my life. It was one of best day ever, I will never forget in my life. On 29th February 2012 : It is my first time to come to Bangalore and most importantly it was my first day at Office . For an Effect, This is the first time in my life to live away from home. During " February 2012 - February 2013",  as it was my first time out of my home town, I had health tensions and job tensions. After few months, I have been allocated with two projects : I ...

Bugs are treated as “Bread and Butter” for testers in IT World, the more they find – they live on and raise their living. If you are new to QA/Testing, You need to log the bugs on the product you are testing. So at first you will try to find any template the department/ organisation has. If not, you will search at power searching tool i.e. Google. And you find so many bug reporting sheets. Q: Is there a standard template for reporting bugs? A: No, There is no standard template. Q: What all to be logged in the bug? A: The following are the bug attributes which needs to be used for logging the bugs.    (This is not limited) 1.     Bug Id – This can be referred as bug id and should be in a particular format. 2.     Title – Short and meaningful title which gives exact problem statement. 3.     Description – Descriptive Summary of the Bug: what the bug is, how it is reproduced, the effects of...