http://www.testingperspective.com/tpwiki/ 2008-10-06T16:40:23+00:00 http://www.testingperspective.com/tpwiki/ http://www.testingperspective.com/tpwiki/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2008-10-06T13:46:58+00:00 Rahul Verma http://www.testingperspective.com/tpwiki/doku.php?id=navigation&rev=1223300818&do=diff * Rahul Verma * Matt Heusser ---------- * Testing Quotes * Contributors ---------- Contact text/html 2008-10-02T07:53:57+00:00 Rahul Verma http://www.testingperspective.com/tpwiki/doku.php?id=rverma:hwpl:intro&rev=1222934037&do=diff Testing Perspective Home About Sign my Guestbook! Contact ---------- Wiki Home >> Rahul Verma How Would Pareto Learn(TM) Python! Overview “The only thing constant in life is change.” - François de la Rochefoucauld This is especially true for the IT industry. People frequently move from one team to other, one company to other or some people totally new to the concepts are put into projects in crucial state, due to one or the other reason. What is essential in such … text/html 2008-09-30T16:27:13+00:00 Rahul Verma http://www.testingperspective.com/tpwiki/doku.php?id=tpliterature_home&rev=1222792033&do=diff Testing Perspective Home About Sign my Guestbook! Contact Testing Perspective Literature Wiki Testing Perspective aims to be the knowledge repository for different areas of software testing. This can be made possible only through contributions from experience and knowledge of you all. As the name suggests, this literature is about looking at IT from testing perspective. Even within the software testing community, different testers have different perspectives w.r.t approaches, … text/html 2008-09-29T23:04:36+00:00 Rahul Verma http://www.testingperspective.com/tpwiki/doku.php?id=testing_quotes&rev=1222729476&do=diff Testing Perspective Home About Sign my Guestbook! Contact This page contains interesting quotes which are directly or indirectly associated with software testing. Many a times, a combination of words becomes more than just a sentence. It grows much beyond its current time frame or context and becomes something to be remembered and analyzed over and over. If you find yourself deeply appreciating (or even criticizing) what someone said or wrote, this is the place to share that with … text/html 2008-09-29T22:47:36+00:00 Rahul Verma http://www.testingperspective.com/tpwiki/doku.php?id=mheusser:minefield&rev=1222728456&do=diff Testing Perspective Home About Sign my Guestbook! Contact ---------- Wiki Home >> Matt Heusser Author: Matt Heusser (Matt Heusser refers to this as the Treasure Hunt problem) Imagine for a moment that the computer software you are testing is a large minefield. The mines are the bugs. Taking a path through the minefield is using the software; finding a mine is finding a bug. text/html 2008-09-29T22:47:24+00:00 Rahul Verma http://www.testingperspective.com/tpwiki/doku.php?id=mheusser:fundamental_strategies&rev=1222728444&do=diff Testing Perspective Home About Sign my Guestbook! Contact ---------- Wiki Home >> Matt Heusser Author: Matt Heusser The basic question posed by software testing is “Will this software work (well enough for our customer's needs)?”. There are several different strategies for addressing that. They include: text/html 2008-09-29T22:46:18+00:00 Rahul Verma http://www.testingperspective.com/tpwiki/doku.php?id=rverma:learnjungle_newmgr&rev=1222728378&do=diff Testing Perspective Home About Sign my Guestbook! Contact ---------- Wiki Home >> Rahul Verma Author: Rahul Verma Recently while watching National Geographic channel, I was amazed to see a striking parallelism between one of the series broadcasted on the channel, and the IT industry. It made me rethink certain incidents which I had seen in my career, and about which either I had a very different opinion or I could not think in the way I am thinking now. text/html 2008-09-29T22:46:08+00:00 Rahul Verma http://www.testingperspective.com/tpwiki/doku.php?id=rverma:coe_systemwidepool&rev=1222728368&do=diff Testing Perspective Home About Sign my Guestbook! Contact ---------- Wiki Home >> Rahul Verma Author: Rahul Verma People usually talk about Center of Excellence (COE) in xyz domain. This discussion is not to discard the concept of COE. I am strongly in favor of building domain-specific COEs in the organization, so that we deliver nothing but good quality. This discussion is to extend the idea. This is for the organization which has reached a mature state in COEs and should lo… text/html 2008-09-29T22:45:55+00:00 Rahul Verma http://www.testingperspective.com/tpwiki/doku.php?id=rverma:bugcount_perfeval&rev=1222728355&do=diff Testing Perspective Home About Sign my Guestbook! Contact ---------- Wiki Home >> Rahul Verma Author: Rahul Verma One of the famous Urdu poets once pointed out that “Democracy is a form of government in which people are counted, not weighed”. I do not want to go into the trap of discussing on the topic of democracy, rather I have something to say very specific on software testing. We as software testers do not count bugs, we measure bugs. We find a bug and then talk in te… text/html 2008-09-29T22:45:43+00:00 Rahul Verma http://www.testingperspective.com/tpwiki/doku.php?id=rverma:exp_or_years&rev=1222728343&do=diff Testing Perspective Home About Sign my Guestbook! Contact ---------- Wiki Home >> Rahul Verma Author: Rahul Verma Do you count on testing experience or years++? To put it in a different way, do you evaluate yourself or others based on their real testing experience or based on their years of experience in software testing industry? text/html 2008-09-29T22:45:30+00:00 Rahul Verma http://www.testingperspective.com/tpwiki/doku.php?id=rverma:dev_bugs&rev=1222728330&do=diff Testing Perspective Home About Sign my Guestbook! Contact ---------- Wiki Home >> Rahul Verma Author: Rahul Verma “Can you develop the product in which you are finding bugs? “, “It’s OK that you are finding mistakes, but can you fix it yourself?” – There is list of such questions, which I have heard throughout my career, often derogatory, from professionals (at times friends) who happen to be developers. text/html 2008-09-29T22:45:15+00:00 Rahul Verma http://www.testingperspective.com/tpwiki/doku.php?id=rverma:cat_basket&rev=1222728315&do=diff Testing Perspective Home About Sign my Guestbook! Contact ---------- Wiki Home >> Rahul Verma Author: Rahul Verma The base of this article is a story I heard in one of the testing sessions by Srinivasan Desikan , at Hyderabad. He has a great way of teaching testing principles – he teaches them with stories, one for each principle. text/html 2008-09-29T22:45:00+00:00 Rahul Verma http://www.testingperspective.com/tpwiki/doku.php?id=rverma:lr_dymnamic_boundaries&rev=1222728300&do=diff Testing Perspective Home About Sign my Guestbook! Contact ---------- Wiki Home >> Rahul Verma Author: Rahul Verma In performance testing, it is very important to simulate user sessions in their entireity. This can be made possible only by capturing server generated data sent back as response to certain requests. This task at becomes very challengin depending on the way the data is formatted and sent and its dynamic nature. Following sections deal with a similar challenge whil… text/html 2008-09-29T22:44:46+00:00 Rahul Verma http://www.testingperspective.com/tpwiki/doku.php?id=rverma:lr_selective_logging&rev=1222728286&do=diff Testing Perspective Home About Sign my Guestbook! Contact ---------- Wiki Home >> Rahul Verma Author: Rahul Verma An essential part of the performance testing projects is developing scripts which simulate the user actions (VUser scripts in LoadRunner). In the scripting phase, an important part is debugging of the scripts in case you run into some issues. text/html 2008-09-29T22:44:32+00:00 Rahul Verma http://www.testingperspective.com/tpwiki/doku.php?id=rverma:got_spam&rev=1222728272&do=diff Testing Perspective Home About Sign my Guestbook! Contact ---------- Wiki Home >> Rahul Verma Author: Rahul Verma SPAM is the bane of the internet world. SPAM filters are improving over time, so are the spammers. It's like an online game. All the email boxes in the world whether personal or corporate are flooded with SPAM. In the corporate world, much of this SPAM gets filtered before reaching individual mail boxes but not all. More often than not, every time I open my perso… text/html 2008-09-29T22:44:06+00:00 Rahul Verma http://www.testingperspective.com/tpwiki/doku.php?id=rverma:schools:intro&rev=1222728246&do=diff Testing Perspective Home About Sign my Guestbook! Contact ---------- Wiki Home >> Rahul Verma >> The Big Fight - Schools of Testing The Big Fight - Schools of Testing Introduction Schools of Testing invites a lot of debate on all platforms. This page talks about how I became a part of the debate... It was only in 2006 that I heard about the concept of schools of testing. With time, I saw a lot of debate regarding this concept on some web sites, blogs and discussion groups. … text/html 2008-09-29T22:43:55+00:00 Rahul Verma http://www.testingperspective.com/tpwiki/doku.php?id=rverma:schools:origin&rev=1222728235&do=diff Testing Perspective Home About Sign my Guestbook! Contact ---------- Wiki Home >> Rahul Verma >> The Big Fight - Schools of Testing The Big Fight - Schools of Testing The Origin The first important thing to discuss about a concept is always its origin. There are always several questions about the origin of a concept, which can be classified at a high level as “Who”, “Why”, “How”, apart from the first one - “What”! The idea of schools of testing originated i… text/html 2008-09-29T22:43:42+00:00 Rahul Verma http://www.testingperspective.com/tpwiki/doku.php?id=rverma:schools:the_schools&rev=1222728222&do=diff Testing Perspective Home About Sign my Guestbook! Contact ---------- Wiki Home >> Rahul Verma >> The Big Fight - Schools of Testing The Big Fight - Schools of Testing The Schools Now, it’s time to discuss that going by the definition of a school of testing, into how many and what schools of testing, the proponents of this concept have categorized the testing community. If we go by what the three experts have to say about it, what the blogs say or what some dicussion grou… text/html 2008-09-29T22:43:29+00:00 Rahul Verma http://www.testingperspective.com/tpwiki/doku.php?id=rverma:schools:context_meta&rev=1222728209&do=diff Testing Perspective Home About Sign my Guestbook! Contact ---------- Wiki Home >> Rahul Verma >> The Big Fight - Schools of Testing Is Context Driven Schools a Meta school? Through the course of reading stuff about schools of testing and the questions that people asked on different forums, I have realized the importance of this question. I will discussion my own thoughts on this in the last section of this series. As of now, let's see what others think about it. Context-Drive… text/html 2008-09-29T22:43:14+00:00 Rahul Verma http://www.testingperspective.com/tpwiki/doku.php?id=rverma:schools:views_in_favour&rev=1222728194&do=diff Testing Perspective Home About Sign my Guestbook! Contact ---------- Wiki Home >> Rahul Verma >> The Big Fight - Schools of Testing The Big Fight - Schools of Testing Views in Favour This section contains views in favour of schools of testing concept collected from various discussion groups, mailing lists and websites. Cem Kaner Cem Kaner in his blog says -”I think this division helps me interpret some of what I read in articles and what I hear at conferences. I think i…