With mixed feelings I must announce that I am leaving Microsoft – a great company where I worked for last 2 (23 months to be precise) eventful years. I thank all you nice people for making my stay here very memorable and knowledgeable. Looking back, each...

I was asked by one of my blog reader to write on interview tips. Here are my broad thoughts on the topic. In last six months time I had chance to interview close 30-40 candidates. Most of the people had issues on similar lines.... Be sure about what you...

Lot has been written, discussed about topic. Time and again, when this question is raised, people typically answer in one or other variant of following .... First - controversial or unreasonable (IMHO) ones - 1. To find bugs or to demonstrate that program...

I have not written on this blog for a long time due project pressures and lots of weekend travel. In one of the interviews that I was taking for "contract" positions, I asked this question "how do you describe Gene of a tester"? This question when expanded...

Just thought of writing on this. Here are some opinions and views .. · Success is not a destination but a journey. · Success is a state of mind. · Success is relative. What success means to me is not to others. · Can you measure success in some tangible...

I have two groups in my team one working as per PSP/TSP (Pioneered by Watt's Humphrey ) methodology and other using Agile/XP ( work by likes of Martin Flower, Kent Beck, Bret Pettichord and others And Agile alliance ). I was prompted to see how these...

I am pullling this one from my archive mails. I attended this training almost a 10 moths ago. Here it goes ... What is PSP? In a nutshell: A “common sense” – a self disciplined approach to work at an individual level. The important elements of PSP Plan...

Sometime back I heard about this beautiful story about "Gossiping" - talking about third person. I am not sure which Philosopher said this but it is woth reading and considering in life. When someone comes to you and has some "interesting" story to tell...

Here is what I thought as ultimate goal of software tester. "Predict bug, go and find it rather than stumbling on it". I will add more this post as I go along. Just wanted to register this thought. Comments are welcome.

I happen to read KC's blog post where she is writing about 100 things about herself. I liked the idea and thought of - "why not me". Here I go (I intend to add about 4-5 things per week). 1. I started playing Tabala ( an indian music instrument) from...

Just happened to read this blog post from Micheal Hunter. He talks about tricks that will be useful. Shrini

India celebrates it's birthday on 15th August. Long live india ... Jai hind.

Last two days of this week, I kept my focus squarely on getting some quick case study to validate my knowledge on Model based testing. It has been nearly one year that I started reading about this wonderful technique and this time really wanted to put...

This is my first post of this week and I talking about some non-technical topic. Over the last few months, I feel that my “email writing skills” have improved greatly. What does that mean? What are typically the problems when people communicate...

This is my Friday post and I am just finishing my Six sigma training. I am writing on one of favorite topic -- Have you heard a tester, boasting about his/her bugs, tester talking about his/her ability to find bugs given a specific time irrespective...

This week I am in a training attending “Six sigma Greenbelt ” training - it is very interesting. I am leading a project on “defect patterns” - something very close to my heart. All over the years, I have been trying work on something...

When I visited Redmond along with my team this February, we picked this topic and went on discussing it for I don’t remember how many hours. Finally I gave up to dev folks that something that closest to “Not a bug “ is “By design”...

Check this post Combinatorial tests This seems to be an interesting topic related to pruning a large number of test scenarios and cases into a small number of powerful combinations. Read this... Another intersting post I came accross was on TestFu...

Hi Everybody. I am entering into this exciting world of “Blogging”. As it happens with maiden post, I shall to bore you with some introduction of mine. My name is Shrini Kulkarni. I am software tester, currently working as Test lead for...