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Fletcher Lynd Seagull

noreply@blogger.com (Pradeep Soundararajan) — Wed, 02 May 2012 02:23:55 PDT

I am not Jonathan Livingston Seagull. James Bach is. I am Fletcher Lynd Seagull. At a time when I was asking how do I fly fast and swoop like birds should ideally do, I met Jonathan Livingston Seagull who along with Michael Livingston Seagull and plenty others taught me how to fly and swoop. They set me free from the crowd and here I am, appearing to most likely do what they did to me. Not all

Weinberg on more than writing - the Fieldstone method

noreply@blogger.com (Pradeep Soundararajan) — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 13:14:17 PDT

11th March, 2012 in Bangalore was a beautiful Sunday. Now that it is almost over, I can use the past tense "was". Just the weather making it beautiful is one part but what about the weather within me? I decided to make it beautiful within. Everybody has a pile of books that they bought but never paid its due attention. Weinberg on Writing ( WoW as I want to call now) - The Fieldstone Method was

Conferences & Workshop update : Bangalore, Chennai & Pune

noreply@blogger.com (Pradeep Soundararajan) — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 02:38:00 PST

To those in Bangalore, Chennai and Pune, I am here doing some workshops and conferences. Agile India 2012 - Bangalore : February 17 - 19 First, I am speaking at Agile India 2012. I am presenting a 90 minute workshop on Exploratory Testing the coming Sunday - 19th Feb 2012. There are about 750 registrations so far and this looks very exciting. Kudos to Naresh Jain for pulling things

How Pradeep teaches software testing - Part 4

noreply@blogger.com (Pradeep Soundararajan) — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 19:16:39 PST

If you didn't know how Part 4 came up? Here is how it came. I first wrote Part 1, then Part 2 and then Part 3 ;-) So, logically here is Part 4 of the series How Pradeep teaches software testing. "I know how to do certain types of testing but if someone asks me to explain what I did, I struggle to explain" was a problem statement I heard from a tester today. I replied in a confident tone, "I

Truth about test plan document & test case document

noreply@blogger.com (Pradeep Soundararajan) — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 07:57:00 PST

Not that you don't know. Truth About Test Plan Documents 98% of test plan documents that are created are not updated, maintained or cared beyond sign off. The first 5 pages of a test plan document contains history that doesn't interest even those whose names are mentioned in it. Scope of testing section is the most funniest part of the whole document. Some times when testers report serious

A short post on topic Test is Dead

noreply@blogger.com (Pradeep Soundararajan) — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 05:46:52 PST

I know you think I am an expert tester. I am, safely. One of the ways in which I remain as an expert tester is by reading what real expert testers are writing about and add my own thoughts to it and thereby making a large population (who don't blog anyway) think I belong to the expert testers league. For over 6 years, I have been successful in fooling many to believe I am an expert tester.

Trio Exploratory Testing - Session Notes & Discussions & The Big Dice

noreply@blogger.com (Pradeep Soundararajan) — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 06:32:52 PST

Oredev conference was super duper. The people I met and what I could learn from them was amazing. Siggie got a bunch of speakers for the test track and I was one of them. I met some context driven testers and good humans I was longing to meet. Selena was full of energy. Zeger was artful. Siggie has a cool style. I'd vote him for the next James Bond. After lot of talk (beer), talk (err, beer)

Gifting someone a life and they f****** it up

noreply@blogger.com (Pradeep Soundararajan) — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 23:03:17 PST

Oh my! I was reminded of this story. It is a hard to digest story for me but I can't just hold myself from telling it. About two years back, I did work for a client in India and they had to pay me about a couple of thousand dollars. Meanwhile, a fresh college graduate who was trained by some testing institute came to me seeking help in getting a job. He convinced me that I should help him. I was

TASTRO - Tester's Astrology by Rrajesh Barde

noreply@blogger.com (Pradeep Soundararajan) — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 10:55:33 PDT

One of Moolya's customer, a large IT company in India wanted me help a group of testers think beyond the boundaries they had accustomed to. They wanted me to help them bring out the potential and creativity of testers within their organization. Having thousands of testers, they did know where to start from - the top 30 they had. Top 30 in terms of demonstrated passion for software testing.

Testing Circus, Tea Time With Testers & The Testing Planet magazines

noreply@blogger.com (Pradeep Soundararajan) — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 01:29:07 PDT

It is a proud moment that a magazine on testing started by a tester in India who did not have any funding or money to run it has completed 1 year and has matured well over the last couple of months. It is testers like Ajoy and his team of volunteers listed here are the ones who are going to make a difference to this world in all good ways. It re-iterates a good point that passion can make

How Pradeep teaches software testing - Part 3

noreply@blogger.com (Pradeep Soundararajan) — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 11:32:25 PDT

I hope you have read Part 1 and Part 2 of the series of "How Pradeep teaches software testing" and I welcome you to the Part 3. I don't yet know how many parts it is going to take for me to complete this series. I am hoping that I would write down the most important parts and keep adding whenever I need to update. In this part, I am going to focus on my journey of doing exercises and hands on

How Pradeep teaches software testing - Part 2

noreply@blogger.com (Pradeep Soundararajan) — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 08:39:57 PDT

I just hope you all read Part 1 of this series. Now, I bring to you Part 2 where I talk about my journey of my first set of workshops. In 2007, I was not sure if people would be willing to listen to my ideas in testing. I had some good readership for my blog and I announced 2 hour free talk on exploratory testing titled Mirchi Test Masala. Mirchi in Hindi means "spicy" and I wanted to offer the

How Pradeep teaches software testing - Part 1

noreply@blogger.com (Pradeep Soundararajan) — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 01:29:26 PDT

I'd like to spill the beans here. I want to tell you how I teach people to test software and my journey of it. I have also written about it in the past here , here and here. In this post, I'd like to tell you about finer details of my teaching style and how I got them. If you would read all the parts I am about to publish, you'd know more about my teaching than you ever did or you ever wanted to

Bangalore Workshop on Software Testing - 3 on 6th August, 2011

noreply@blogger.com (Pradeep Soundararajan) — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 00:39:59 PDT

This year, BWST 3 (#bwst3) is delayed by a couple of months and for all good reasons. We were busy with personal and professional stuff. So, here comes the details. Personal excellence & skill development We have been noticing over the last few years that those who can change things for the world are those who have been changing things for themselves. As people say revolution starts from within,

Testers & their passion for test automation

noreply@blogger.com (Pradeep Soundararajan) — Thu, 26 May 2011 08:04:59 PDT

Once a group of software testers were traveling on a plane to attend a test automation conference. Their plane was hijacked by terrorists and all people on board, including the testers were held hostages. The situation was grim as terrorists appeared to be dangerous with AK-56 strapped across their chests. The terrorists demanded a lot of things that the government couldn’t meet. After seven

A letter from the worst Agile Tester in India

noreply@blogger.com (Pradeep Soundararajan) — Mon, 09 May 2011 12:14:50 PDT

Dear Blog Reader, Greetings! Hope you all are doing something in life and I don't care about it. I would like to introduce myself to you. I guess you don't know about my split personality disorder. My name is Pradeep Soundararajan too. No, not the guy you know but this is his split personality. The split personality is - I am the worst Agile tester from India. Yet, I am smart enough to be able

Testers Monthly Meet across India

noreply@blogger.com (Pradeep Soundararajan) — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 03:05:08 PDT

Hey folks. As I wrote in my previous post on future of Indian testing the thing that seems to be making a lot of testers talk to each other is Testers Monthly Meet and now its organizing a low cost ( 500 rupees for one full day ) conference in NCR. Adobe India is the venue host and they already seem to have more companies wanting to send their testers out for this event. The speaker line up

My monopoly in teaching exploratory testing in India

noreply@blogger.com (Pradeep Soundararajan) — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 03:10:45 PDT

This is a conversation I had with a good friend of mine. She is passionate about teaching testing and has changed her teaching style tremendously over the last couple of years. I have changed a few words and broke down sentences from the conversation to make it more reading friendly. So, Mansi, when you read this and you spot anything that I have goofed up, please correct me. Mansi: You are a

Why fake pilots scam is headlines in India while fake testers scam is not?

noreply@blogger.com (Pradeep Soundararajan) — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 01:35:08 PDT

At home, while the whole family was watching a reality show, I happened to take the liberty of changing the channel to NDTV 24x7, a leading news channel. A news that had been making headlines over the last couple of days was a prime time discussion. The issue is this. A pilot produced fake document to get and got to fly a commercial airliner. Once /a/ pilot was identified to be faking, the

Coaching testers how to email and influence stakeholders

noreply@blogger.com (Pradeep Soundararajan) — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 01:59:41 PST

One of the ways Moolya is going to become a great organization is by attracting, hiring and retaining good testers. Sreenuraj Varma who won our heart for this blog post asked us if he could work for Moolya. We got him to test things out and send us test reports. We found that we liked him to work with us and he liked to work with us. So, we hired him a couple of weeks ago. Before the project

Manoj Nair's experience of adding great value as a tester

noreply@blogger.com (Pradeep Soundararajan) — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 22:12:21 PST

Manoj Nair is the co-founder of Weekend Testing and works for an organization that has a worldwide presence. The core business of the organization he works for, is to help people shop, online or at their stores. He functions as a Senior Tester for projects that are to be deployed in United Kingdom and Europe. An year ago, they decided to expand its presence in the United States of America and

Story of how a hang becomes a crash (because testers love reporting crashes)

noreply@blogger.com (Pradeep Soundararajan) — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 06:46:31 PST

I am doing my first exploratory testing workshop for 2011 and first from Moolya Software Testing Pvt Ltd. and I am excited about it. You can find the details by clicking on this link . If you are in India and plan to attend it, please do it quickly. I usually don't take a lot of participants although I know I'd gain more money out of more participants. Ever since I announced it yesterday, there

the 5 years of blogging as Tester Tested

noreply@blogger.com (Pradeep Soundararajan) — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 02:15:54 PST

I am a changed man today. I didn't know I would be here when I started this blog exactly 5 years ago. I want to thank you all. I don't know if this blog has influenced you in any way but it has definitely had a huge influence on one tester I know - me. Thanks to all those who motivated me to reconsider blogging when I almost announced I will stop after a lot of plagiarizing incidents. Today, I

Three new good things about Indian testers

noreply@blogger.com (Pradeep Soundararajan) — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 00:25:55 PST

Once upon a time, Bangalore was ahead in testing leadership compared to other cities in India. What I mean by that is, we did things and made it visible to the world. We did good things that helps us develop ourselves plus do something good to others. I acted like a brand ambasdoor for Bangalore testing within India and used that opportunity to challenge testers outside Bangalore. In fact,

Who do you think is the legend behind the success of all these leading testers?

noreply@blogger.com (Pradeep Soundararajan) — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 02:36:55 PST

This is a true story that happened sometime ago. I met Andy Glover (the famous Cartoon Tester today) on my flight to Sweden. We were sitting in adjacent seats. He was drawing cartoons and I was trying to see if I can do one related to testing. That's when he started a conversation with me asking, "Are you a tester?" and then I instantly replied, "Yes". Back then, no one knew Andy Glover. He was