Software Testing Background

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It is a common approach of human being to relate the functionality of software by their day today life. You might be wondering Why Software Testing? Answer lies in its background. Let’s understand why there is need to test a software or anything by which stakeholders earn money from public.

For better understanding of this, let discuss a case study of the world famous cartoon industry i.e. “The Disney”. This case study is old of 1990’s.

The Disney Company released its first multimedia CD-ROM game for children, 'The Loin King Animated Storybook'. Later the year in December, Disney’s customer support phones began to ring, and ring, and ring. Soon the telephone support technicians were swamped with calls from angry parents with crying children who couldn’t get the software to work. Numerous stories appeared in newspaper and on TV news.

Ever wondered why this happened?

Disney failed to test software on a broad representation of the many different PC models available in the market. The software worked on a few systems likely the one Disney programmer used to create the game but not on the most common systems that the general public had.

It was obvious that the software didn't operate as intended. As a software tester you’ll discover that most failure are hardly ever this obvious.

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Approach of QA in Organization

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 From today onwards I will start blogging about Software Testing practices which a QA must follow as per their role in the organization. QA is divided with different roles and responsibilities from 1^st day till n^th years of their experience, first to trainee, then to engineer, afterwards to Sr. Engineer then Lead carrying forward to Manager and this journey ends by getting involved in BOD (Board of Directors) of the organization. The road from Trainee to Manager is very long, it approximately takes 4-5 years of your professional career. But what if you can do the same in 4 years or lesser? Isn’t that sounds amazing. In order to prove this statement true, lot of experience is required which can only be received if you remember rule of 10,000.

It’s a common approach of a human being that after performing a task twice or thrice, they think they are master of that work and here the rule of 10,000 comes in action. It states that whenever you do any work and think you have become a master of that then think have you performed that task 10,000 times?. If no, then you need to rethink, participation and 24*7 availability can get you to Managers post very early then then the common folks.

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Community Learning in Global Village

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Yesterday night after my 1st post on blog, I interacted with Mr. X, QA Engineer on Facebook, ice breaking conversation initiated from my reply to one of his question asked on social forum. It was a nice experience talking to him. Our talk continued nearly 3 hrs (11:30 PM to 02:45 AM), we both tried to understand the basics of ‘Automation Testing using selenium’, with hand on sessions on both machine. It was a wonderful experience for me to utilize my free time effectively.

I was looking for code reduction and the other he was finding difficulty in understanding my approach about codes. We then used Skype, Facebook chat and Team Viewer to match the frequency. It was pleasure interacting and helping him in resolving his issues. The community based learning holds sense in this global village, we live in.

Introduction to Me and My Work

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Before my introduction allow me to introduce you  to my blog which is for software testing trainee initially to come up to a level, so that they can perform good in organization and blog will grow for professional testing engineers as well. During my blogging I will be sharing my experience in my 1^st organization; time to time. 

Extending the same, blog will be about relevant software testing practices, with hand on sessions which will be supported by video, wire-frames and many other. 

I Ramandeep Singh, Author and Founder of https://ramandeepqa.blogspot.com. I did my graduation in Information Technology from IEC College of Engineering and Technology, Gr. Noida. Current placed in a leading corporate of software testing in India. It’s being 6 months I am working over there. I am passionate about technology; this is the inspiration for the foundation of blog because I think: 

“There is no better insurance than the knowledge of how to do something the right way. There is no greater peace of mind than knowing you did it right way”. 

I know this blog is new, but I request you to ‘Stay tuned as there is a lot more to come’.