Hi everyone,
Currently, I am testing four projects at a time, being a fresher I never believed myself that I can perform well in this kind of situation or handle so much of pressure at a time but, some time I think is it correct to do this kind of experiment.
I can say it’s an experiment to test my ability, to test my performance, to test my testability and there are many a things to be tested in a tester.
While doing this experiment I learnt a lesson which left me with a moral and a question for me, I really don’t know which one to accept as a question or moral, I cannot make up my mind.
This moral and a question was in form of a sentence which as follow,
Question --> Test plan and implementing on this test plan are two different things
Moral --> Planning and working are inversely proportional to each other
With the following example I have concluded my question and my moral from the above two sentences.
For ex. When we finish a round of testing and revert back to test plan to check the nos. reports to be produce for the client, at this point of time a question comes to your mind,
“Making a test plan and implementing on this test plan are these two different things?”
When we plan our testing criteria (a type of testing enforced on a module) and when we produce a conclusion through planned criteria. This conclusion turns up to be some thing different which we had never thought off. “Planning and working are inversely proportional to each other”
This is what I have concluded but, there are many time where I find my moral as a question and my question as my moral.
Getting into deeper sections, I found some thing very common in these two things (my moral and my conclusion) that is “ Mentality ” the state of mind, the way you look at software’s, the way you approach a software, the way you bug yourself to find a bug in a software. On different stages of software development different direction / dimension is needed and we testers are not responsible for the change in method of testing it’s the product which demands proper attention from all direction. Yes, we testers are responsible for the mentality we carry while testing particular software. We being the first user for the newly build software it’s our responsibility to modify or be flexible to fit in as per customer’s requirement, as per user requirement, as per developers requirement.
I don’t want to get into the fight of developer VS testers instead just think after the PM (project manager) we should have the art of getting our bugs fixed.
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Sunday, July 12, 2009
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Microsoft office live small business...
Microsoft office live small business…
Microsoft has innovated a new product called Microsoft office live small business. Great place to build your site, choose domain (free for the first year), Add email and store/share docs. All this is for free, at the same time you get some (functionality) bugs which are also free. (But for lifetime)
Today, I got a mail from one of my friend saying he has found a Microsoft website were anyone can build their website and get their domain registered for free (only 1 year but free).
Doesn’t that sound great and fill you with a thrilling curiosity to experience a new product, as far as I’m concerned I was.
Singing in was an easy task so went on to create my profile while creating a profile there was a field enter credit card information where in, I was asked to fill in my credit card detail at that point a thought ran to my mind asking a question to me,
Question: what if I have a debit card instead of credit card, if that was the case then am I not eligible to sing up. Which was a bit fare question, forgot that case and went ahead.
The same field got loaded after few seconds with a message which says “if you get this message more than once, (link) report it as a recurring problem message 2004”
When a tester manipulates this statement as per his understanding this message it meant, if you get this screen more than once then please report it on this link (message 2004) with this they are trying to say we had found this is an error in the year 2004 but yet we couldn’t solve it. WOW!!
The main motive of this field was to ask the user to sign the Microsoft terms of use, and to fulfill this need the same field had a button at the screen end (read and sign the Microsoft terms of use)
When I clicked that button new screens within that same space opened with another statement saying “Review and accept the agreements” below this,
“Clicking I accept means that you agree to the window live services agreement (this was a link to agreement) and privacy (link)”.
The funny thing was the whole page and even both the link pages (window live… and privacy) none of them had a link or a button as “I accept”. Great isn’t it?
So thought lets go for a help link (at the right hand corner). A help page opened but, with a perquisite words in search box and even the language was different it appeared to be Hindi (Indian language). I clicked the search button which instead of helping me showed some errors as if help option needs some help. Fantastic!!
I was frustrated after repeating that same task for more than 5 to 6 times, felt like irritating so thought lets sign out and visit after some time. Clicked the home page link and from there sign out (link) I really didn’t knew that there was some more fun to come surprisingly, sign out link redirected me to an awesome page which again had two statements “You have signed out of Microsoft Office live” and “To return to office live” with this statement there was a button which had no name on it. Ok considered.
After reading these two statements a normal or you can say a rational user will think that yes we have logged out of our account.
Now, being a tester we are not either a normal or rational user (just kidding). It was amazing to see a button named as sign out (at the top right hand corner).
That means I haven’t logged out of my account, great!
Ok let’s consider this case might have occurred due to some reason but, clicking that sign out button should put me out of my account, don’t you think so?
Believe me I was really shocked because I couldn't sign out, that button just kept on refreshing the page.
Second thought lets try that ‘to return to office live unnamed button’ again the page kept on refreshing and irritating me.
I can say, I was forced to close the window unwillingly.
these two are my first videos, hope you'll like it.
Microsoft has innovated a new product called Microsoft office live small business. Great place to build your site, choose domain (free for the first year), Add email and store/share docs. All this is for free, at the same time you get some (functionality) bugs which are also free. (But for lifetime)
Today, I got a mail from one of my friend saying he has found a Microsoft website were anyone can build their website and get their domain registered for free (only 1 year but free).
Doesn’t that sound great and fill you with a thrilling curiosity to experience a new product, as far as I’m concerned I was.
Singing in was an easy task so went on to create my profile while creating a profile there was a field enter credit card information where in, I was asked to fill in my credit card detail at that point a thought ran to my mind asking a question to me,
Question: what if I have a debit card instead of credit card, if that was the case then am I not eligible to sing up. Which was a bit fare question, forgot that case and went ahead.
The same field got loaded after few seconds with a message which says “if you get this message more than once, (link) report it as a recurring problem message 2004”
When a tester manipulates this statement as per his understanding this message it meant, if you get this screen more than once then please report it on this link (message 2004) with this they are trying to say we had found this is an error in the year 2004 but yet we couldn’t solve it. WOW!!
The main motive of this field was to ask the user to sign the Microsoft terms of use, and to fulfill this need the same field had a button at the screen end (read and sign the Microsoft terms of use)
When I clicked that button new screens within that same space opened with another statement saying “Review and accept the agreements” below this,
“Clicking I accept means that you agree to the window live services agreement (this was a link to agreement) and privacy (link)”.
The funny thing was the whole page and even both the link pages (window live… and privacy) none of them had a link or a button as “I accept”. Great isn’t it?
So thought lets go for a help link (at the right hand corner). A help page opened but, with a perquisite words in search box and even the language was different it appeared to be Hindi (Indian language). I clicked the search button which instead of helping me showed some errors as if help option needs some help. Fantastic!!
I was frustrated after repeating that same task for more than 5 to 6 times, felt like irritating so thought lets sign out and visit after some time. Clicked the home page link and from there sign out (link) I really didn’t knew that there was some more fun to come surprisingly, sign out link redirected me to an awesome page which again had two statements “You have signed out of Microsoft Office live” and “To return to office live” with this statement there was a button which had no name on it. Ok considered.
After reading these two statements a normal or you can say a rational user will think that yes we have logged out of our account.
Now, being a tester we are not either a normal or rational user (just kidding). It was amazing to see a button named as sign out (at the top right hand corner).
That means I haven’t logged out of my account, great!
Ok let’s consider this case might have occurred due to some reason but, clicking that sign out button should put me out of my account, don’t you think so?
Believe me I was really shocked because I couldn't sign out, that button just kept on refreshing the page.
Second thought lets try that ‘to return to office live unnamed button’ again the page kept on refreshing and irritating me.
I can say, I was forced to close the window unwillingly.
these two are my first videos, hope you'll like it.
Friday, April 24, 2009
What Does BUG Mean...
What is a bug?
A bug is an error, a defect, a mistake, failure, fault and many more things can turn up to a single word called bug.
As per my knowledge a bug is an action performed by humans unknowingly or unconsciously.
There are many types and ways of creating bugs but, if some listed there are GUI, Hardware, Functionality, communication, lack of resources, requirement (specz.) and many more to go…
What does a BUG do?
Bothers when Unidentified under a Given time…
When a bug is found?
Brings out Unsatisfactory Grounds...
Why a BUG is found?
Brick Upper-class Group...
These are some description of BUGs.
No one likes bugs neither a developer and nor a tester. It wouldn’t be wrong if I say, being in testing field a tester has to find bugs but, if a single small bug skip outs from his hand then
God save testers.
BUGs BUGs BUGs BUGs BUGs BUGs
Some time it sounds like we (testers) are investigating a real time murderer or a serial killer. Off course bugs, finding them red handed is not an easy job but, we can say testing is fun coz bugs are our friends. Friend’s coz they (bugs) help testers to learn and improvise quality of a product and not just quality many more hidden aspect of a product. Some time developers don’t like this friendship between bugs and a tester, they think (assumption) being for a while in testing testers become magnet, a magnet which attracks bugs they automatically stand in front of testers saying, now that you have found me try your hands to solve me(kill) .
Talking about developers and tester, why can’t a developer find a bug and why always a tester does! We can compare this by an example of a parent (developer) who thinks my child is the most innocent child in this whole world but, they don’t realize what a (testers) teacher has to undergo with child’s splits personality in a classroom.
As we say a coin has two face same ways a bug also has two different faces, first face which is very harsh, rude and nasty, second one which teach us a life time lesson.
Quite a few similarities between a tester and bug see, tester find nos. of bug and bug show nos. of faces. By finding a bug testers achieve their motive and by creating a nuisance bug achieve their motive, bugs irritate testers and testers irritate developers, bug marks his presence in a product and testers also mark their presence while testing a product.
As we say quality cannot be defined same way a bug cannot be defined.
I also prefer James Bach and Michael Bolton definition of a bug which says “a bug is anything that bugs someone who matters”
Many testers had opposed or you can say do not agree with this statement due to some reason.
According to me this statement does define a big part of bug.
Let’s divide the statement and try to make it simpler, “a bug is anything” = true isn’t it?
** Theory **
Prove “a bug is anything”.
A bug can be a functionality bug, a technical bug, hardware bug, GUI bug many more … a system is made up of 100,000 parts (assumed) and software can be a build of 10,000,000,000…… number of codes in this bug can be any where. That means a bug can bother you from any part of system or software and anything can turn as a bug.
Conclusion: - a bug can be anything so, be prepared!!
Prove “that bugs some one”.
As it is proved that a bug can be anything now being a bug he cannot sit ideal, a bug has to live up a standard life by creating a standard error, fault, mistake and many more words…
Usually when a human goes through a machine and finds that the machine is not working or performing as per his need or requirement or finds something disturbing or irritating, humans name’s it as bug, mistake, fault, error and many more…
{For example, an innocent child at home can be a bug or bother someone might be the teacher or an outsider. (Something weird)}
And this bug, mistake, fault, error…. Is made for everyone, might be in different form… (Something they really create a great nuisance.)
Conclusion: - bugs always bug someone so, be prepared you might be the next!!
Prove “Who matters”.
Your system is not responding well or software is not getting installed even though you have the required hardware who is bothered YOU.
Your child is not performing well in his exam who is bothered YOU.
Being a tester, software tested by you turns up a failure or PM (project manager) says there are many bugs now, who should be bothered YOU.
Conclusion: - when some thing belongs to you or your work (job), its you, for whom it does matters.
There is a very thin layer between winning and losing.
A bug is an error, a defect, a mistake, failure, fault and many more things can turn up to a single word called bug.
As per my knowledge a bug is an action performed by humans unknowingly or unconsciously.
There are many types and ways of creating bugs but, if some listed there are GUI, Hardware, Functionality, communication, lack of resources, requirement (specz.) and many more to go…
What does a BUG do?
Bothers when Unidentified under a Given time…
When a bug is found?
Brings out Unsatisfactory Grounds...
Why a BUG is found?
Brick Upper-class Group...
These are some description of BUGs.
No one likes bugs neither a developer and nor a tester. It wouldn’t be wrong if I say, being in testing field a tester has to find bugs but, if a single small bug skip outs from his hand then
God save testers.
BUGs BUGs BUGs BUGs BUGs BUGs
Some time it sounds like we (testers) are investigating a real time murderer or a serial killer. Off course bugs, finding them red handed is not an easy job but, we can say testing is fun coz bugs are our friends. Friend’s coz they (bugs) help testers to learn and improvise quality of a product and not just quality many more hidden aspect of a product. Some time developers don’t like this friendship between bugs and a tester, they think (assumption) being for a while in testing testers become magnet, a magnet which attracks bugs they automatically stand in front of testers saying, now that you have found me try your hands to solve me(kill) .
Talking about developers and tester, why can’t a developer find a bug and why always a tester does! We can compare this by an example of a parent (developer) who thinks my child is the most innocent child in this whole world but, they don’t realize what a (testers) teacher has to undergo with child’s splits personality in a classroom.
As we say a coin has two face same ways a bug also has two different faces, first face which is very harsh, rude and nasty, second one which teach us a life time lesson.
Quite a few similarities between a tester and bug see, tester find nos. of bug and bug show nos. of faces. By finding a bug testers achieve their motive and by creating a nuisance bug achieve their motive, bugs irritate testers and testers irritate developers, bug marks his presence in a product and testers also mark their presence while testing a product.
As we say quality cannot be defined same way a bug cannot be defined.
I also prefer James Bach and Michael Bolton definition of a bug which says “a bug is anything that bugs someone who matters”
Many testers had opposed or you can say do not agree with this statement due to some reason.
According to me this statement does define a big part of bug.
Let’s divide the statement and try to make it simpler, “a bug is anything” = true isn’t it?
** Theory **
Prove “a bug is anything”.
A bug can be a functionality bug, a technical bug, hardware bug, GUI bug many more … a system is made up of 100,000 parts (assumed) and software can be a build of 10,000,000,000…… number of codes in this bug can be any where. That means a bug can bother you from any part of system or software and anything can turn as a bug.
Conclusion: - a bug can be anything so, be prepared!!
Prove “that bugs some one”.
As it is proved that a bug can be anything now being a bug he cannot sit ideal, a bug has to live up a standard life by creating a standard error, fault, mistake and many more words…
Usually when a human goes through a machine and finds that the machine is not working or performing as per his need or requirement or finds something disturbing or irritating, humans name’s it as bug, mistake, fault, error and many more…
{For example, an innocent child at home can be a bug or bother someone might be the teacher or an outsider. (Something weird)}
And this bug, mistake, fault, error…. Is made for everyone, might be in different form… (Something they really create a great nuisance.)
Conclusion: - bugs always bug someone so, be prepared you might be the next!!
Prove “Who matters”.
Your system is not responding well or software is not getting installed even though you have the required hardware who is bothered YOU.
Your child is not performing well in his exam who is bothered YOU.
Being a tester, software tested by you turns up a failure or PM (project manager) says there are many bugs now, who should be bothered YOU.
Conclusion: - when some thing belongs to you or your work (job), its you, for whom it does matters.
There is a very thin layer between winning and losing.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Bugs on DishTv...
Let’s have a look on entertainment world…
Dish TV…
Description: Dish TV is India’s first direct to home entertainment service. It is an Essel Group initiative is a satellite broadcasting service.
No a day’s dishtv is celebrating its 25 million viewer’s creditability for marketing and promoting its product but, are they providing a quality product for the value what their customers pay? I don’t think so!
Let’s have a look on the official website of dishtv and ya, before moving ahead let me inform you, so called king khan (shahrukh khan) is the brand ambassador of this product.
I am sure, even he wouldn’t have bothered to look at the website of product he is endorsing.
Are these people suitable or should I say eligible for being role model?
Here’s the link: http://www.dishtv.in/
List of bugs…
1. The very first link on the website “Buy dishtv” gives an error saying “page not found”. WOW!!
2. Secondly, the entire link on the extreme right displays the IP address instead of Domain name. I know this not a bug but, from google can I directly reach a page carrying an IP address. NO.
3. Click link “Existing Subscriber” it redirects you to another page on that page we have a link for New user Click here now… on that page there is an option saying Already have an ID Sign IN and if you click that link there’s an error saying “ The webpage cannot be found”.
4. On the Existing Subscriber page we have two options saying “Forgot Password? Click Here... & Forgot User Name/Password? Click Here...” You can see this both links are redirected to a same page. What’s the use?
5. Under Contact Us option there is an option saying ‘Feedback Form’ guess what ‘Page not found’.
And many more to list down…
This is the website on which you’ll make the payment from your bank account, ask a small question to yourself, Is this website safe to make payment or recharge your account?
What a website, truly taking customers for granted and they know it very well, Indian customers are not aware of their rights, customer rights so chalta hai…
Come On People Demand Quality For The Value You Pay…
Dish TV…
Description: Dish TV is India’s first direct to home entertainment service. It is an Essel Group initiative is a satellite broadcasting service.
No a day’s dishtv is celebrating its 25 million viewer’s creditability for marketing and promoting its product but, are they providing a quality product for the value what their customers pay? I don’t think so!
Let’s have a look on the official website of dishtv and ya, before moving ahead let me inform you, so called king khan (shahrukh khan) is the brand ambassador of this product.
I am sure, even he wouldn’t have bothered to look at the website of product he is endorsing.
Are these people suitable or should I say eligible for being role model?
Here’s the link: http://www.dishtv.in/
List of bugs…
1. The very first link on the website “Buy dishtv” gives an error saying “page not found”. WOW!!
2. Secondly, the entire link on the extreme right displays the IP address instead of Domain name. I know this not a bug but, from google can I directly reach a page carrying an IP address. NO.
3. Click link “Existing Subscriber” it redirects you to another page on that page we have a link for New user Click here now… on that page there is an option saying Already have an ID Sign IN and if you click that link there’s an error saying “ The webpage cannot be found”.
4. On the Existing Subscriber page we have two options saying “Forgot Password? Click Here... & Forgot User Name/Password? Click Here...” You can see this both links are redirected to a same page. What’s the use?
5. Under Contact Us option there is an option saying ‘Feedback Form’ guess what ‘Page not found’.
And many more to list down…
This is the website on which you’ll make the payment from your bank account, ask a small question to yourself, Is this website safe to make payment or recharge your account?
What a website, truly taking customers for granted and they know it very well, Indian customers are not aware of their rights, customer rights so chalta hai…
Come On People Demand Quality For The Value You Pay…
IRCTC house of Bugs…
IRCTC house of Bugs…
One of the most visited website IRCTC used by N number of user and also a house of N number of bugs.
On 6-4-2009,
I was planning to book my (dad’s) tickets to Delhi so, the first website can into mind was IRCTC.
Website Worth: $5,289,855.21
Daily Page views: 2,415,459
Daily Ads Revenue: $7,246.38
I visited the website and the performance (server response) was good(I.E 7).
The first step was login, entered username and unfortunately, I entered a wrong password.
And as usual I got an error of wrong password or username. Good enough.
I repeated my first step with a correct password and I was surprised to see the result, there were some codes on the screen. Great isn’t it?
(I have taken some screen sorts of that page as evidence.
Screen sorts, because I knew this is something which is not gone repeat again.)
But, at the same time one question raised in my mind and that was,
Would it be safe to transfer money through your bank account?
When the basic level has bugs then, what about security level (card no. & passwords)?
Talking about the maker of this website “Hintechsys”.
Visit the website (http://www.hintechsys.com) and experience sample errors.
1. Portfolio option where the spelling of “Here” is “hrer”. Great!
2. Click the “Contact Us” option at the end of the page and you’ll see a beautiful error saying “Internal Server Error”. WOW!
3. Click the “Article” option at the end of the page and you’ll see a beautiful error saying “404 Error - Not Found”. WOW!
And many more….
One of the most visited website IRCTC used by N number of user and also a house of N number of bugs.
On 6-4-2009,
I was planning to book my (dad’s) tickets to Delhi so, the first website can into mind was IRCTC.
Website Worth: $5,289,855.21
Daily Page views: 2,415,459
Daily Ads Revenue: $7,246.38
I visited the website and the performance (server response) was good(I.E 7).
The first step was login, entered username and unfortunately, I entered a wrong password.
And as usual I got an error of wrong password or username. Good enough.
I repeated my first step with a correct password and I was surprised to see the result, there were some codes on the screen. Great isn’t it?
(I have taken some screen sorts of that page as evidence.Screen sorts, because I knew this is something which is not gone repeat again.)
But, at the same time one question raised in my mind and that was,
Would it be safe to transfer money through your bank account?
When the basic level has bugs then, what about security level (card no. & passwords)?
Talking about the maker of this website “Hintechsys”.
Visit the website (http://www.hintechsys.com) and experience sample errors.
1. Portfolio option where the spelling of “Here” is “hrer”. Great!
2. Click the “Contact Us” option at the end of the page and you’ll see a beautiful error saying “Internal Server Error”. WOW!
3. Click the “Article” option at the end of the page and you’ll see a beautiful error saying “404 Error - Not Found”. WOW!
And many more….
This kind of service we provide to our Indian customer. Great isn’t it !!
In India “Sab chalta hai”.
In India “Sab chalta hai”.
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