Can’t see the forest for the trees   Thought “ We don’t have runway left ,” said his co-pilot HS Ahluwalia – the last thing recorded in the cockpit. The plane then plunged into a forested gorge and was engulfed in flames. Black box only helped unravel...

I am not a movie buff but i have no shame in admitting that movies do inspire me. I learn a lot from movies. Most of the movies ( good or bad ) carry some lessons which are so very applicable to our personal as well as professional life. Lately I was...

I would be lying if I say I always wanted to do this and as far as i can remember, i was never known for participating in any extra-curricular activities, leave alone  plays or stage acts. Lately it somewhere started to grow on me as I started watching...

I deserve few more comments here as I travelled 6 km and 30 mins extra to write this blog as in the excitement of writing this i forgot to get down at my stop and ended up at a place where the driver had to tell me that it was the last stop :P “Yeah our...

Bhopal’s gad tragedy is one of the most sad example of ‘things-went-wrong’ due to human negligence. We primarily blame the company, the management (& rightly so) but one thing we often overlook is that other than human error it is the system (machines...

This blog is for everyone who wants to know how software testing job touches human lives and why defects in applications such as healthcare cant be ignored. History : The Therac-25 was a radiation therapy machine produced by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited...

Adventures With Testing BI/DW Application

Saga of Unsung Heroes (A tribute to all testers in this world)

If you are among those testers (or developers) who have often wondered how cyclometric complexity can practically help me achieve higher code coverage and uncovering max number of bugs by executing minimum no. of unit test then please read on. I have...

  Words of Caution : When i say “Technical skills”  please don't confuse it with “Test Automation” knowledge only. It more and the less has become a standard in the industry to presume that knowing QTP or RFT is same as having technical skills...

It was morning of 12th Nov, 2004 when I found myself standing in a classroom and for the first time it was my back facing the black board and a new batch of  future software professionals sitting in front of me and most of them were as anxious as...

Context: Data Warehouse / Business Intelligence (ETL Execution) Background: If you have ever involved in DW/BI Testing, waiting for ETL execution to complete won't be an alien subject to you. Its not ONLY frustating to discover ETL fails at Step X after...

1.1 BVT / Smoke Testing Scenarios: 1. Ensure only the user with the desired permission is able to connect to the cube 2. Validate Data Source Connection string for cube E.g. Provider=SQLOLEDB.1;Data Source=<Test ETL Server>.redmond.corp.microsoft...

Just the other day we were discussing that how can we (testing team) reduce number of invalid defects. I was in deep thinking that why is it really important to reduce  the number of invalid defects. Isn't it a tester's fundamental job to log every...

"Small variation in the initial condition of a dynamic system may produce large variation in the long term behavior of the system" Example: The phrase refers to the idea that a butterfly 's wings might create tiny changes in the atmosphere that...

Saga of Unsung Heroes (A tribute to all testers in this world)

On Oct 15 th and 16 th , I attended the Test 2008 conference in New Delhi , India. Test2008 is the first international test conference being organized by Pure Conferences in India. It had speakers from around 10 countries and the theme of the conference...

Authors: Raj Kamal Microsoft India (R&D) Private Limited, Microsoft Campus, India rajkamal@microsoft.com Bhoomika Goyal Microsoft India (R&D) Private Limited, Microsoft Campus, India Goyal.Bhoomika@microsoft.com Abstract: There is perhaps no other...

http://www.slideshare.net/raj.kamal13/test2008-resurrecting-the-prodigal-son-data-quality-share-presentation

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When is the last time you wrote a test case or  a scenario which you had never written before? When is the last time you came across a scenario you had never thought in your testing career?   If % of above scenarios (for a given project) is...

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This change control process is to ensure that in a "big" automation project whenre "Modular" Library architecture is followed, libraries are not mistakenly / intentionally changed by the automation testers and every change in the library...

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