Milin's field notes

Ideas shaped by testing,
teams, and experience.

Browse practical observations about software quality, test engineering, workplace collaboration, and lessons gathered across a career in QA.

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Experience

Experience

We don't test people.

My fellow tester at work startled me today! In my free time I was going through some testing blogs and suddenly my fellow tester Tom (name changed) shot a statement and for a second I was like what the hell!? I tried to explain why he was wrong.<br/> The discussion between us went something like this,

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Software Testing

Software Testing

The Aquatester. A failed attempt?

A long time ago I sent an email to James Bach with an idea that got me thinking. I'm not sure if it was wise or stupid idea, but what the hell! If it was stupid, then the question is for whom? Here is what I wrote to James and his reply on it,

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Software Testing

The Fast and The Excess

There are to very commonly used sayings. They go like this, Hurry spoils the curry. Excess of nothing is good. The same is applicable when it comes to testing.

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Software Testing

Learn to read, people!

I've been thinking how communication fails between 2 people although it is in formal written format. People really need to learn to read. I mean not just go through the written stuff but really read what's written.

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Software Testing

Life is too short for manual testing! Or is it?

While going through some blogs over the internet, I came across a statement that caught my attention. It read 'Life is too short for manual testing.' and quite a few people had agreed to it and commented that automation will be taking over completely and manual testing will perish soon. Now, I was left in a dilemma that was I reading it right? And I started to wonder if Wall-E is for real, and that I-Robot and Terminator are not just movies.

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Software Testing

Quality != Test and QA != Quality Assurance

You might have noticed on regular basis in software business, that when people hear Quality, the they think it is Test. And by people I meant all the technical stakeholders like developers, designers, analysts as well as the management.

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Testing Tools

Testing Tools

Jmeter Results Analysis

In this article we will analyse the results generated by Jmeter. Since, Jmeter Summary Report listener covers almost all the necessary things required for performance analysis, I will be using it as an example for Jmeter results analysis.

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