October 2004 - Posts

• what is success?

  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 Read More... Posted Sunday, October 31, 2004 3:52 AM by shrinik | 1 Comments Filed under: General

• Agile/XP development v/s PSP/TSP

  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 Read More... Posted Sunday, October 31, 2004 3:45 AM by shrinik | 1 Comments Filed under: Defect/Bug management

• PSP/TSP - A bottom approach to Quality

  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 Read More... Posted Sunday, October 31, 2004 3:00 AM by shrinik | 2 Comments Filed under: Defect/Bug management

• I am not interested if ....

  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 Read More... Posted Monday, October 25, 2004 9:17 AM by shrinik | 3 Comments Filed under: General

• Software testing Nirvana ...

  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. Read More... Posted Sunday, October 03, 2004 10:53 AM by shrinik | 2 Comments Filed under: Defect/Bug management