June 3, 2013 8:35 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
developer,
Project Lifecycle,
project management,
project manager,
software,
software development,
Software Project,
software testing,
tester,
testingFollowing are the five essential guidelines for setting up your Staging Server while releasing it to key users for conducting UAT:
1. Select the right audience: If you are scared about failure of UAT and therefore select not too expert end user you are digging your own grave. Select the best of...
May 28, 2013 6:58 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
testerSAP AG has taken a great initiative by deciding to recruit Autistic youth as software testers, QA specialists and programmers. For this they have joined hands with an organization known as Specialisterne. After a thorough study results SAP found out that people with autism carry a unique set of...
May 12, 2013 3:30 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
developer,
testerEvery company that hires you when you are out of your graduation and are aspiring to become a developer or tester, will boast about being the best technology business in the ecosystem. Every company would be seeking the best of the cream with extreme talent, sincerity and dedication. If you are the...
May 5, 2013 5:27 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
software testing,
tester,
testingThis post came up on MAy 3, 2013 on MTV blog site regarding their offer to the game, technology and testing community staying in areas of Dallas/ Fort Worth. Techies/ Gamers /Testers to visit their Bethesda studios to...
April 28, 2013 2:52 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
project management,
project management. Software quality,
Software Project,
software testing,
tester,
testingTesters have a dual responsibility while testing a product handed over to them. On one hand they are part of the organization that is responsible to launch this product. Development team, after finishing their coding part, hands over the product to testing team who in turn have to ensure that...
April 28, 2013 2:32 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
project management,
project management. Software quality,
software,
Software Project,
software testing,
tester,
testingNobody would like to have a bug prone app as far as end user is concerned. When an end user is paying for an app in the market, it means he expects to get what is committed to be delivered in a most satisfying manner with highest level of accuracy. Especially when the app is related to core...
March 16, 2013 11:02 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
developer,
project management,
project manager,
testerIn previous three posts we discussed about what one team thinks about other teams while working on a project. There was a picture shown in the post where we...
March 16, 2013 7:54 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
developer,
project management,
project manager,
testerReferring to the interesting chart/diagram in my previous post depicting what one team perceives or thinks about...
January 31, 2013 9:55 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
project management,
Software Project,
software testing,
tester,
testingThough you will find ample amount of templates online with the help of a simple Google search for "Defect Report" or "Bug Report" online, but still some of the components are must to have for any kind of Defect Report. Those essential ones are:
1. Scope of testing is important to be highlighted...
January 31, 2013 9:02 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
project management,
software development,
tester,
testingTesting is a more serious job than coding. If there is a flaw in coding, tester is there to take care of it but there remains a flaw in your testing it is the customer that is going to shave off your head that too sometimes in a very bad manner depending on the severity of bugs or loopholes left in...
December 16, 2012 9:38 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
developer,
Project Lifecycle,
project management,
project manager,
Software Project,
testerWell, you, as a project manager, have identified the exact needs of your project management tool. In the next step you have also been able to identify the best option in the market. You also identified the champion who is going to drive project management with this tool, someone who is expert on...
November 24, 2012 1:20 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
developer,
project management,
software,
Software Project,
tester,
testingHere are few quotes/ posters I found on net which are quite relevant to the job of a QC and Code writing guys. Curiosity is something than can chip in an extra edge in both - a developer, and a tester.
September 24, 2012 10:19 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
automation tool,
Software Project,
software testing,
testerFollowing parameters may be kept in mind while going for selection of an automating testing tool:
1. Cost: Cost of the tool should be clearly justifiable with the number of projects in hand, foreseen to come in future, cost of projects in hand and those coming in future. There is nothing wrong...
July 22, 2012 10:59 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
developer,
Project Lifecycle,
project management,
project manager,
software,
software development,
Software Project,
software testing,
tester,
testingWaterfall Video
Hey guys, this is not a technical video attached here in this post. This is a waterfall in a place called Panchkula near Jammu in India. This waterfall video I have watched n number of times and every nth time I watch it,...
July 22, 2012 10:30 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
software,
Software Project,
software testing,
tester,
testing
This new book on QTP for Web Testing is a simple, crisp and a must read for all beginners, novice and experts in the field of software...
July 22, 2012 8:51 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
developer,
Project Lifecycle,
project management,
project management. Software quality,
software,
software development,
Software Project,
software testing,
tester,
testingHi Guys, This is basically the video version of my long back posted article here on IT Knowledge Exchange website. Probably that is one of my earliest blogs and it got quite popular among readers belonging to Project Management, Software Projects, Quality Assurance, Quality Control fields.
Here...
July 21, 2012 1:41 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
project management,
QTP,
Software Project,
software testing,
tester,
testing
The book is precisely of 200 pages, if you include the last 2 pages meant to jot down notes. It is a well written, well titled, and...
December 28, 2011 6:12 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
business requirement,
Software tester,
testerA tester always has an extra edger over developer in terms of looking at the product or requirements through a critique’s angle. If the requirements or product is not analyzed in a different manner, it might look straight, precise and up to the mark at times. The moment you go deeper or look at...
December 28, 2011 5:15 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
project management,
project manager,
test team,
testerThere are different kinds of project managers – those who take testers as a threat and thus treat them as foes and those who take testers are friends and hence always welcome them to put hands on the product in pipeline. Neither of the two is a strange factor. Both scenarios are natural and...
December 26, 2011 7:15 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
code,
coder,
coding,
developer,
programmer,
tester,
testingShall we treat tester as a code destroyer? If on one hand a developer develops a code, a tester always tries to find out the holes in the pot. That is where a conflict on personal level originates when a programmer or coder takes it too personal by getting faults being found out in the code written...
July 14, 2011 6:05 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
project management,
Software Project,
tester,
testingAn extra mile of testing effort spent at initial level saves lot of efforts at a later stage. Minor hiccups passed over to customer too sometimes create big issues depending on their frequency and volume of occurrence.
Imagine a small fly in the sweet dish being...
July 14, 2011 5:59 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
project management,
tester,
testingA business comprises of different software. These software applications comprise of two business streams – business critical application and business supporting application. Usually business critical applications cover ERP like main stream application. Business support applications may comprise...
July 11, 2011 2:37 AM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
developer,
Development,
implementation,
project management,
Software Project,
tester,
testingTester is not the part of package of a team going for software product implementation. Probably that is wrong on part of project manager if he decided to send a technical team member along with implementation team with a sanction of development and requirement changes...
July 11, 2011 2:27 AM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
developer,
Development,
project management,
software,
tester,
testingSupport comes after project completion. Project lifecycle but must treat support phase as a component of it. Prior to support the major project phases include – project initiation, requirement collection and freezing (though freezing is not actually freezing till the handover and...
June 29, 2011 8:09 AM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
Bug,
software quality,
software testing,
tester,
testingHere is a segregated list of my blogs on testing mainly for the purpose of people enthusiast in testing, testers, QA, QC, bug management; and software Quality:
June 27, 2011 6:42 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
Bug,
developer,
software,
tester,
testingWhy Software Developers are not Doctors? was another interesting read to understand the satire behind the simple title line. Software developers are quite famous (and that is not in...
June 26, 2011 6:51 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
developer,
Development,
project management,
Software Project,
tester,
testingEach bug in the software costs. The first hidden cost is the developers time that could have gone in a neat code, except goes into embedding a bug in his code. This all happens unnoticingly. No developer intentionaly writes bugful codes. It happens inherently due to a set of fixed...
June 26, 2011 6:23 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
developer,
project management,
software development,
Software Project,
tester,
testingWhen I started blogging on ITKnowledgeExchange.com under the blog title ” Quality Assurance and Project Management” in the middle of the year 2008, I wanted to pour out all my experience on Project Management, Quality Assurance, Quality Control, Team Management and other...
June 25, 2011 6:39 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
bug fixing,
bug reporting,
developer,
Development,
project management,
Software Project,
tester,
testingUsually it is not the developer’s fault if he build bug in addition to writing code for any application, The seriousness of application may vary from business point of view, the way that application is going to cater to the business management. Even a game code for a gaming...
June 25, 2011 6:15 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
developer,
Development,
project management,
Software Project,
tester,
testingEvery Bug has a cost to fix and for that sake to report too. It takes someone’s time (tester’s) to find out the bug in a software product. It takes another piece of time to write and report it to development team who in turn is responsible to fix the bug.
Fixing of...
June 24, 2011 6:37 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
project management,
Software Project,
testerThere are seven instances when a tester need to knock to Project Manager for certain requirements or help from him without which his role as a tester cannot move further. Any lack in those assistance to tester will certainly mean lack in delivery of right product/ bug free product.
For isntance...
June 24, 2011 6:06 PM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
developer,
project management,
testerThere are good programmers and there are good testers. But in 99% of cases good programmers are not good testers and in 100% of cases good testers are not good programmers. Whats exactly would stop a good programmer to be a good tester. Three years back I wrote a post on this...
April 27, 2011 10:52 AM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
project management,
quality,
Software Project,
tester,
testingA tester has to look at a product for testing purposes by getting into different modes (or rather I will say by being different avatars) to ensure his mission got completed successfully in terms of time, efforts and results. Though both – tester and developer work on same product...
January 31, 2011 10:45 AM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
bug report,
developer,
project management,
Software Project,
testerA good writer is one who pays equal weightage to proof reading or editing of his work besides being focussed on content quality and writing style. For every new work that a good writer produces, he doesn’t mind spending some more time on it and getting some different opinion on...
January 13, 2011 10:46 AM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
Bug,
developer,
product,
project management,
software,
testerBugs are a gentle reminder to respective developer and a sort of alarm for him to check nothing has been skipped as per user and business perspective. Bugs also act as useful and productive communication initiators between tester and developer till the individual loop gets closed...
September 23, 2010 7:32 AM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
end user,
project management,
Software application,
Software Project,
tester,
testing,
usabilityA newly built Software application has to pass through one very interesting testing phase known as Usability Testing. This testing is more focused on finding non functional issues related to the application. The focus is more towards the end user who is going to...
September 10, 2010 9:53 AM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
developer,
Development Manager,
product development,
product manager,
project management,
software development,
Software Project,
testerA product manager during the product lifecycle has various options of selecting a pair of shoes to wear. It depends on his choice whether he wants to cover the journey in comfort and feel the pinch later or wears a not-so-comfortable pair of shoes felling for a pinch during the...
September 6, 2010 9:35 AM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
assurance,
control,
Project,
project management,
quality,
software,
tester,
testingA testing career like any other careers in Software Project has a long journey to cover to reach to a level of satisfaction. Tester needs to perform his career objectives consistently during all stages of his career. A consistency in performance will help him sustain his current...
August 20, 2010 11:41 AM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
project management,
Software Project,
test manager,
tester,
testingA tester must be visible to the test manager most of the time. The visibility comes through many ways. By means of communication – verbal, mail, status updation, discussions etc. Visibility helps a tester in many ways.
Some of the benefits to the tester by keeping himself...
August 12, 2010 10:56 AM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
project management,
Regression Testing,
Software Project,
testerRegression Testing takes lot hell of time out of overall time provided for testing of a product in any software project. Though it takes longest duration for complete product coverage but somehow or the other lot of things remain untouched or unnoticed during this testing. This...
July 29, 2010 11:47 AM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
business analyst,
business requirement,
developer,
Development,
project management,
Software Project,
software requirement,
Stephen Covey,
tester,
testing”We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be and our attitudes and behaviours grow out of these assumptions.”. This quote is from the author of the famous book “Seven Habits of Highly Effective People”, Stephen Covey....
July 22, 2010 11:05 AM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
developer,
project management,
QC,
software development,
Software Project,
software testing,
tester1. Showstopper: Product manager always has the perception that the development team wants the progress of work whereas QC or testing team jams the progress. They even try to project in the way of showing development team sitting idle when the product is lying with testing team for...
July 22, 2010 10:31 AM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
project management,
software development,
Software Project,
software quality,
software testing,
testerThere is always a hide and seek game between Product Manager and QC Manager when a product is being built. Project Manager, Management and Customer on one hand stress on complete involvement of testing team during product building. On the other hand product manager keeps playing tricks to bypass...
May 28, 2010 8:20 AM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
cloud computing,
project management,
Software Project,
software testing,
testerIn a normal scenario testing of a product is done within the organization by the quality/ test team members. Lately as cloud computing came into the picture, a new concept of testing on cloud has emerged, though not many companies have jumped into it.
Testing on cloud carried quite a...
March 25, 2010 10:24 AM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
project management,
project stakeholder,
software development,
Software Project,
test team,
tester,
testing1. One big mistake that a project manager makes is that testers are not treated as major stakeholders in the project.
2. Development team has a misconception of treating tester as someone policing and pinpointing loopholes in developer’s area...
March 22, 2010 11:20 AM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
Bug,
bug report,
developer,
project management,
software development,
software testing,
testerA tester’s prime task after testing a product is to describe the bug. The development team while receiving a test report of a product from tester expects a detailed bug report. The report should be presented in such a way that is easily understood by developers. The point of...
January 19, 2010 10:50 AM
Posted by: Jaideep Khanduja
patch,
programmer,
software,
tester,
training,
update,
upgradeLike a piece of software or hardware requires regular upgrades and updates to perform smoothly with the changes scenarios, a programmer or tester also needs the same. Or for that sake every human being on personal and professional front requires it. How it is done is important. In...
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