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Forwarding one funny email from yahoo group ~ enjoy testing - Nimesh ########################################################## #include <stdio.h> #define LAST 10 int main() { int i, sum = 0; for ( i = 1; i < = LAST; i++ ) { sum += i; } /*-for-*/ printf("sum = %d\n", sum); return 0; } ########################################################## And the developer fixes it this way ########################################################## #include stdio.h; #define LAST 10 int main() { int i, sum = 0; /* */ for ( i = 1; i < = LAST; i++ ) { sum += i; } /*-for-*/ printf("sum = %d\n", sum); return 0; } ##########################################################

Someone has well said "Communication matters" -- I would like to go further ahead. Yesterday, I went to PathMark to get some stuff. There were some schemes going on Tide (laundry detergent) with light bulbs on discount. One Customer came to customer service and started demanding he needs two bulbs free with Tide but the fact was that there was some discount if you purchase Tide with that light bulbs. The customer support guy explained the person that he could not give free two light bulbs as that was not scheme currently. Still the guy asking for free – he did not listen to customer support person and continuously telling him "I want free light bulbs". Customer Support Person explained him three or four times with his best knowledge that he could not give him but still that guy demanding. At last customer support person call to his Manager for help; Manager came and explained to the person that you got your discount and that is the scheme running currently but perso...

To my colleagues who want to create quickly new workflow and don't want to touch xml \ property files. On Administrator \ Workflows If you don't have default workflow then create default Workflow with default JIRA "workflow" - it will show status as "active" so we cannot update its scheme \ workflow steps. Copy this workflow -- it has status as "Inactive" so we can update workflow scheme. Go to link "steps" and add new status \ transitions for new steps as required in your workflow. On Administrator \ Workflow Schemes Create new "Workflow Scheme" then click on "Workflows" link operation of new workflow just created. Assign workflow to scheme,... Issue type "Bug" and select our workflow from the list. Assign other workflows for issue types : Task, New Feature or Improvement with default workflow ( named JIRA ) or your workflow. Now our workflow scheme is ready to associate with our project. Go to you...

Last week, one of my friend needs some help to establish Project\QA workflows on Jira (Atlassian) So here I am happy to share some of my odd solution. Project Flow problems or hard to implement in Jira were * One stage splits with multiple stages in flow. * More than one stages merges to one stage. Here We have Brainstorming splits to UT - ST stage and Dev Review - QA Review merges with Review stage executed by System Group Members in project flow. One issue splits with more than one issues, can also be implemented with sub-tasks feature but it may not push next stage in the project flow as the project progresses; all sub-tasks are linked to the parent task only, may not execute inline flow; may not give more control to administrator\lead and may be more complicated to maintain. Sub-tasks may not be merged to one task on transitions after Dev. Review / QA Review merges to Review stage. Core objective is to implement flow that anyone can see each stage of the flow and can ...

Combinations n Permutations are very useful in software testing. It help to find possible test-data / testcases. This session will provide details about 1. Some basics about Combinations 2. Logic to find possible combinations for taking k numbers of items from n number items at a time. 1. Some basics about Combinations. You might be come across with below example in old school days. We have set { "ant", "bug", "cat", "dog", "pig" } and If we want to take 3 elements at a time then we would have possible combinations as { "ant", "bug", "cat" } { "ant", "bug", "dog" } { "ant", "bug", "pig" } { "ant", "cat", "dog" } { "ant", "cat", "pig" } { "ant", "dog", "pig" } { "bug", "cat", "dog" } { "bug", "cat", "pig...

Continuous post of CSV\XML\RSS Feeds are QAed To validate Feed URL(s) are not broken ; we can use XML DOM. Below is script that validates broken link. To validate ASCII Character , I have used below script. You can create excel custom tool where you centralize all feeds , verifies broken resources before creating actual feed.

In Content centric organizations, feeds are one of the core part that needs to update every time when New Contents are Uploaded. New Categories \ Groups are introduced for Old Contents. As we know first one is very repetitive task -- so need repetitive validation. Second one is less repetitive but much costlier and involve high risk – so need more rigorous validation as well. Both missions have some kind of common problems : Feed Generator Software\Content System retrieve Content Data ( URL(s) \ Content Details ) which may have ASCII Characters and Memory Garbage and old inactive URL(s)– URL(s) where contents are not actually accessible by user. Feed may contain non compatible XML data( like special characters > Feed may not have broken content URL(s) and Content Details but they may be mapped wrongly. It means Content Details for one Content may not present its own Content URL or in opposite. So for QA, we expect to 1. Validate Broken Content URL(s) Content URL(s) are usually...

In smaller to bigger project, here are some basics about how to automate Unit testing with NUnit framework on .Net Platform. Where NUnit spot on SDLC? In other words, we can ask when to start unit automation on project? It depends on various parameters say for example Complexity of Method(s) / API(s) or Classes in production cycle - How Method(s) API(s) / Classes are called by other Method(s) / API(s) / Classes in production cycle. We can start NUnit automation after completion of any independent Method / API / its Class created at production and making automation continued towards parallel of development cycle of more dependent Method(s) / API(s) / Classe(s). Say for example we have small class library project in C#. Now lets start NUnit Automation in 7 simple steps : Create New Test C# Project (Here Named TestProject) and add production class (.dll) reference. Add reference NUnit.Frameworkto the TestProject. Add attribute "TestFixture" to mark as Test C...

These old days' automation techquies should be replaced with #ML based automation,  Isn't It ? :) If You have such automations that causing lots of issues then let's talk on how You can come out from your nightmare pains.