Company ‘A’ served pink slip to its 10000+ employees. Company ‘B’ decided to reduce 5000+ workforce in Q3. Board of Directors of ‘C’, hints for workforce consolidation. A common lunch room discussion these days, in most of the IT companies. Scary but that’s the reality, isn’t it. Be it a giant venture or a small…
In current era of rapid software development models, there’s no time to test the software. Even if there is, then there’s no time to create valuable artifacts after then. If so, do we really care to audit the relevance of test case and test data? Question is “Why?”. Why should one care about existing set…
Have you tried with the addresses we discussed last day? What did you find? Let’s discuss two of those Address 1 : $x(“//div[@class=’columns-container’]”) Address 3 : $x(“//input[@name=’search_query’]’) Could you see that the element itself was telling its address? See this in details Just think, manually what you were doing with a web page. For me…
I would like to share one memorable incident. I got an invitation to attend the live music concert of our favorite band in Community Hall. We were pretty excited and were eagerly waiting for the day. On the big day, we dressed up the best way we could, and drove through to the Community Hall.…
Imagine the day you recieve a mail in your corporate inbox, stating “Drive for improving QA Automation Skills.” or “QA Automation Training to commence, mandatory for every QA”. Not claiming to read the mindset, but two thoughts are quite obvious. First, some people will come up with ‘WOW’ expressions, and will look forward to put their…
Recently I came across one conversation in my company where my manager was sharing that there are few clients who prefer to advance with QA resources having good automation skills over manual. Expectation is neither new nor unrealistic in the era where rapid software development model is dominating the industry. Although I am very much…
One more article on SCRUM, Uff, and that is targeting the folks who are already practicing the Scrum. I guess readers of this article are not newbies to Scrum, if not experts. Consider a situation, where you are a strong Scrum Team lived and honor the Scrum Theory and Scrum Values yet constantly fail to…
In recent years, we have seen a significant transition of software development process from traditional waterfall to iterative / Agile / SAFe and list goes on. No mater what software development process team follows, ultimate goal is to ensure product stability and and quality of the product release by release, which normally measured and tracked…
Your Journey – From Quality Assurance to Business Analyst Role of QA / Tester has been a point of debate since long. A majority of world argues and defend the limited role of a QA / Tester, who normally supposed to contribute to test the quality of product. Name any software development life cycle model,…
Amit Agarwal 