Reflection

As you might have noticed, the mobile market is on a surge. There is virtually an “app” for everything in your life from budget planning to fitness! There are also thousands of games you can play on your mobile device. As a software tester, this mobile mania is giving you endless opportunities and I would like to share some tips for game testing from my limited experience.  Know your device  [ Read More ]

Testing Books Software Test Automation - Mark Fewster, Dorothy Graham Software Testing and Evaluation - Richard A. Demillo, et al Software Testing with Visual Test 4.0 - Thomas R. Arnold II Testing Applications on the Web: Test Planning for Internet-Based Systems - Hung Q. Nguyen Testing Client/Server Applications - Patricia A. Goglia Testing Computer Software, 2nd Edition - Cem Kaner, Jack Falk, Hung Quoc Nguyen Testing Computer Telephony Systems and Networks - Steve Gladstone The Web Testing  [ Read More ]

How do we really track time that we spend? Tracking time is really tricky and that’s how it is. First of all we tend to do many things simultaneously reading, mailing, searching, twitting and calling etc.. Consciously or unconsciously we spend hours really inefficiently. I tried to close FB, twitter, and email client for an hour but again Google or yahoo alerts pops up with any interesting article so immediately  [ Read More ]

A creative  story line by using  abstracts of  CAST2012.  The story goes like this: Testy - (Test Leader)  Menty – (Mentor) Testy:  Menty! “What’s the news?” (Doctor, Doctor Give me the news) Menty: Testy, I have identified two areas for you to focus #1)“ Observation Proficiency – How sharpening your everyday awareness makes you a better tester” #2) “How to manage testing debt” .to improve your shortcomings. And attend CAST Test lead interview Testy:  Thanks Menty.  [ Read More ]

Makar Sankranti or Pongal is the season for Rangoli designs. We would love to draw rangoli designs or patterns to welcome Sankranti Lakshmi or the crop we yield during the rainy and winter seasons. Kanuma is celebrated next day of Sankranti. Hope you all know Govardhana Puja or Go puja (worship of cows) is the major ritual during Kanuma. It is believed that Lord Sri Krishna was lifted the Govardhana  [ Read More ]

Four Key Factors to Consider for Mobile Application Testing Mobile devices are gaining momentum than never before; thanks to various manufacturers and platforms. Companies of all types and sizes are developing and implementing mobile applications to increase productivity, help their field force to stay connected and allow customers to access essential information even when they are away from their computers. With such huge competition and mobile boom; companies less focus  [ Read More ]

    As I was driving by the country side of Andhra Pradesh, I met few young chaps. They had a story to tell and the story is about how can they sustain their livelihood? The biggest gap that appeared was “cost of information”… I will rather term it as “poverty punishment”. The information that is readily available to us is at a huge premium for them. If and only  [ Read More ]

HCC  learning and development team planned  a 3 tier program on ‘Contemporary Models in Testing’.Each Tier will close with an assessment, qualifying which the participant is eligible to move to next tier. The introductory session started with “opportunity architecting in testing” – L&D had chosen me to facilitate this program. Approx 30 participants participated from different competencies. I have divided the participants into four groups. I wanted to ensure that each participants participate and  [ Read More ]

 Defect injection is equal to No of defect created in development effort(developer total hrs spent).  Defect detection is “confirmed defects detected” in defined  period of time.  Defect discovery(detection) rate is equal to no. of defects found in testing effort (Tester total hrs spent)  Defect Density = No. of bugs / Developer effort (not tester)  Bug Density = Defects in Releases / Total Story Points (Where “Story Points” are complexity points,  [ Read More ]

Our security testing engineers are expert in identifying ALL possible vulnerabilities in these staid categories     -          Importance and approach of security testing [Reconnaissance phase, Exploration phase and Exploitation phase] -          Systematic security testing technique to find problem fast -          Prioritizing and focusing on the most important security aspects of web application -          Effective web application security strategy -          Discovering common vulnerabilities and exploits -          Web 2.0  Good and  [ Read More ]