All of us send and receive e-mails, virtually all day. Many a times the flow becomes a deluge and we feel happy just to get it over with and attend to other things. In this rush after we send an e-mail, we miss to ask a very powerful question, “What next?” ...  Read More

With the proliferation of SaaS business model, allowing enterprise and consumer services to obtain access to computing, storage and network facilities on a "pay as you go" model, it becomes clear that mobile network and billing capabilities can be added to this mix of on-demand services

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Comparision: Prototype, Dojo, jQuery, mootools and Smart Client. This comparision is based on the solutions availability, richness, community support and speed....  Read More

This blog entry attempts to summarize the technologies in the CEP domain, touching over their prime feature(s) as well as their lackings.  It seems sometimes that the term CEP is being overused (as did happen with 'ESB') and the write-up below reflects our perception and version of it....  Read More

Indian Rail budget was presented last Wednesday and was followed by lot of drama with the Railway Minister being asked to resign by his party supremo. I was a little surprised by the order of priority narrated by him in his response as "My country comes first, then family and then the party"...  Read More

Agile manifesto values individuals & interactions, customer collaboration and responding to change. Fulfilling these value statements requires a much higher level of freedom...  Read More

From the systems thinking perspective, everything we do individually or in groups, boils down to just four types of basic activities. These are to execute, decide, facilitate and ensure....  Read More

Recently I attended a marathon brainstorming session lasting 6 hours. When it was over, we were amazed by the extent of progress we had achieved....  Read More

Through Agile, organizations can collaborate with their customers by delivering live and working software to them. Despite its benefits, embracing Agile in the Testing practice is not an easy task and fraught with challenges. ...  Read More

Whenever we talk of freedom, the common assumption is that it is about situations when we are not allowed to choose what we do or don’t do,...  Read More

These days we often hear and talk of integrity. More the attention more is the questioning and doubts. Dictionary defines "integrity" in two ways; as "The quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; moral uprightness"...  Read More

For several years, the Waterfall approach, being a well-established and mature process, has been the popular route taken by performance engineers. ...  Read More

Haven’t we all come across cases where a person is put in a new role, may be because of his successful stint in another role, and slowly he starts struggling. It is assumed that a successful person would do well in any role....  Read More

We were pained to hear about a tragedy in a Kolkata hospital where 89 persons died, most of them patients, due to a fire....  Read More

Scrum is one of the most popular agile software development methods. It has some important concepts that can be useful even for other business organizations dealing in a wide variety of products or services....  Read More

Recently I had an interesting experience where I happened to be present in an unusual discussion between a father, mother, their teenage daughter and an aunty who was visiting...  Read More

For business organizations, Synergy is an important concept as there is greater emphasis on human interactions and need for better & quicker decision-making on the frontline....  Read More

Cloud computing is proliferating as is mobility. The mobile platform, as well as the Cloud have revolutionized the way enterprises work, bringing about tremendous changes in the way data is created, moved, stored and retrieved....  Read More

Social  Media Analytics is an outcome-based approach which creates visible Return on Investment (RoI) for companies.  It not only helps organizations retain customers by addressing their concerns upfront, but also enables them to improve customer service, bring down the cost of operations, add new customers by capturing their requirements, predict client behavior, and monitor competition....  Read More

There is an important concept of technical debt in Scrum, which simply means “The difference between what was delivered and what should have been delivered”. ...  Read More

Practice is a younger sibling of process, which is what individual team members do to accomplish their tasks or take decisions. Though practices are equally, if not more, important than processes due to their impact on the outcome; they rarely get the attention they deserve....  Read More

Scrum insists on fully completing (including testing) the incremental functionality taken up in a sprint, else it is treated as not done and needs to be taken up afresh in one of the subsequent sprints based on overall priority....  Read More

Appreciation is a strong motivator and when judiciously used with harsh measures for intentional abuse can be effectively used to channel the energy of the majority towards org interest....  Read More

According to analysts, the growing dependence on software testing to improve product quality is resulting in greater IT budgets getting allocated to the testing activity. In fact, it is being suggested that in the years ahead,...  Read More

Since its formulation, OAuth has been the authentication protocol of choice for the web, with all the major web identity and service providers adopting the standard enthusiastically and baking the necessary functionality into most of their web services quickly....  Read More

Scrum is developed and sustained by Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland. Recently in July 2011 they have published on Scrum.org latest version of the Scrum guide, which defines the Rules of the Game. While I was reading it, one statement caught my attention....  Read More

Memory is one of the main resources for mobile devices. Managing this resource in an optimum manner is one of the main challenges for mobile application developers… Even though there are numerous devices in the market today that have good memory capacity… it is still important that the memory management is not neglected. ...  Read More

In software development, refactoring is an important practice to keep the code clean. Some of the aspects of refactoring are applicable to organizations in general and can be useful to get some pointers leading to excellence....  Read More

Misrepresentation and Misconception—factors that can play havoc with what a product looks like at the end of its development cycle. I had also said that it is improper collaboration between the business stakeholders, and the development and testing teams that could derail...  Read More

When a person delegates to another, he is empowering the other person to make decisions or take actions on his behalf while still retaining the accountability for the results. Insufficient delegation can overload a person and very soon he becomes a bottleneck chocking progress on various tasks and initiatives....  Read More

[Organizations often look for testing solutions that can help them quickly test and launch/position their products in the market to meet user needs, while maintaining lower development costs and higher quality standards.]...  Read More

A test strategy can be developed for a project/product which can be in any phase such as Requirement, Coding, Testing or Maintenance phase. Test Strategy usually is developed at the initial stage of the "Testing". ...  Read More

Asking question and finding their answers, is one of the best way to understand a subject. Same principal, we can apply to collect information to make the Testing Project’s service Level expectations....  Read More

Asking question and finding their answers, is one of the best way to understand a subject. Same principal, we can apply on Process Understanding....  Read More

Asking question and finding their answers, is one of the best way to understand a subject. Same principal, we can apply to collect information to make the Testing Project’s portfolio....  Read More

Most of us might have seen the Test Strategies and Test Plans, and obviously have understanding about these two documents....  Read More

Asking question and finding their answers, is one of the best way to understand a subject. Same principal, we can apply on Requirement Understanding....  Read More

I think interrupt handling is one of the crucial parts of any mobile solution.
So many times it happens that while running a mobile app, there are interruptions such as an Incoming Calls, Text Messages, low memory or a low battery notification. A good mobile solution must be able to handle these notifications gracefully… and without any disruption. Few of the important aspects to be considered here...  Read More

Graphics & UI have always played a very important role in mobile applications.
I believe that it is essential for the application’s UI design and flow to cover the business needs effectively… and deliver quality user experience in terms of interface and design....  Read More

Certification clearance is one of the basic requirements for all mobile applications…All mobile applications should adhere to the various certification guidelines and the same should be implemented from the design phase itself....  Read More

An effective distribution strategy plays a vital role in the success of any mobile solution. As the applications’ distribution directly affects the billing procedure, it is imperative that this strategy is worked out in the design phase itself. ...  Read More

Having kick started my blog by talking about the power of the idea, I am tempted to continue in the same vein and reiterate my passion for innovation, which I believe will be the major change agent for all of us going forward....  Read More

Ideas are infinite, endless and full of possibilities. And that’s what excites and drives me all the time. Just the thought that imagination can be converted into something real and useful is a huge high for someone like me who lives, breathes and survives on ideas....  Read More

Once you get the database design or knowledge of database design, and then start developing test cases....  Read More

While on vacation, I am currently rereading an excellent book "Maverick!" by Ricardo Semler, owner of Semco Brazil. He is well known for his unusual management ideas. Basically, they are bottoms up like,...  Read More

Many development teams tend to underrate a tester, especially a manual tester, assuming that anybody can do what he does. As a result, he doesn't get the importance and respect he deserves....  Read More

Social networking today has become ineluctable. Not only the common people but celebrities and important personalities can also be easily tracked on to the social networking sites. Twitter is an example of one such social networking site where almost every personality you name of can be easily found. Such is the impact of the social networking today,...  Read More

In simplest terms – Hadoop is a software framework for solving large data problems exceeding 100GBs/TBs.

Wikipedia’s definition- Apache Hadoop is a Java software framework that supports data-intensive distributed applications under a free license. It enables applications to work with...  Read More

NoSQL is a new buzzword in software field now-a-days. It is now catching up not just because many software geeks are talking & writing articles about it, rather the key reason behind the popularity of the term is due to the fact that moving...  Read More

In my last blog post, I detailed out the challenges that are often faced by the product/test owners during software...  Read More

Social media is a novel media for communication and collaboration, enabled via Internet.
With the explosion of web 2.0 and social networking, there’s been a massive increase in people spending time socializing on Internet. Be it about making friends or about mounting a Business, or even...  Read More

“Apache dies at about 4,000 parallel sessions. Yaws is still functioning at over 80,000 parallel connections.”

While evaluating Yaws, I was really surprised when I came across these results of an experiment conducted by...  Read More

Performing software testing looks always to be an easy task for most of the product/test owners but it has always been a challenge to do it RIGHT most of the time. There are various instances of defect leakages in the past that have caused multi-million dollar losses to various companies and agencies....  Read More

Database Testing is a buzz word these days. However there are still some queries I heard, is checking data in tables is database testing....  Read More