Software Testing Practices and Methodologies
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This post is in response to a query by my reader Pratt who wants to know how the role of a person changes when he transitions from a QA lead to a manager in a team and what are the duties discharged by a manager in a QA team.
Delving into the soft skills needed would be too vast a subject to deal with in a blog post but the bottom line to be mentioned is contrary to popular beliefs, it is not everyone’s cup of tea. Knowing if you ‘fit the bill’ is the primary thing to do since that would decide whether you end up becoming a successful leader or an organizational overhead.
From a Project delivery standpoint, below are some of the key roles played by a QA manager. These are just high level overviews to act as guides and not detailed specs.
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Transitioning from a lead to a manager
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Software project postmortems are again one of those elusive things which project management professes to doing but seldom realizes how to do. Very similar to the treatment of agile. Everyone claims to be agile but has no clue of how to go about being agile. The following is part 1 of doing PROJECT POSTMORTEMS.
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Software Project Postmortem
The basic thing that guides every aspect of the project postmortems is PLANNED V/ s ACTUALS.
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The IT folks have a timeless existence. In the sense they have absolutely no sense of time. And every other person has attended some form of training in time management. Well this 101 topic is to simplify the concept of time management
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TIME MANAGEMENT
This is a basic experiment that explains the entire concept of time management and the millions pages of literature written about it in a nutshell.
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After having spend the many years learning software testing in depth and trying to figure out what really ‘works’ and what doesn’t from the entire jungle of information; I’m launching my new initiative to learn ‘front line project management’.
This time however I’ve decided to share my learning with you as i go along. So I’ve started this new series on
Project Management 101 – Figuring out what works and whats PMP
This series is not about statistics, analysis, tools, compliance and all the other jargon that add to the ‘noise factor’. This is about simple learnings that could be used to build ‘killer teams’. The series will be a ‘cookbook’ about what gets things going and what does not.
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Three hackers were competing to see which was the smartest. They took their debate to their guru, who proposed a test. They were shown five hats: three white and two black. Each hacker was blindfolded, and a hat placed on his head. While still blindfolded, and before their guru could even hide away the remaining hats, the wisest of the hackers announced the color of his hat.
What was his reasoning?
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Project Management 101 – Project Management 101 – Figuring out what works and whats PMP
After many years of coming across that universal crib in the IT industry that ‘my manager is technically disconnected from my project’ OR ‘doesn’t add value to the project’ , i began to think about the need for front line managers. Most organizations that i have come across are very ‘bottom heavy’. I wouldn’t attribute this to any fundamental flaw in global organizational mechanics. I attribute this to the fact that people are always unduly focused on ‘growing up the org ladder’. So the default response to this was to elongate this ladder. Hence was born organization that were pregnant at the bottom with front line managers.
Some of the cons of this are outlined below:
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Of late people seem to ‘push’ the agenda that developing complex extensive automated tests as the way ensure that quality is maximized and time-to-market minimized. Its time someone asked the tester what he thinks and here it what I think:
An automation framework is a bundle of code. An intrinsically code bundles have a common nature: “They are desinged to do the same thing over and over agian irrespective of the environment they find themselves being executed”.
Hence by nature that is what code can do for you (be it automated tests or the product itself). Now we come to the question, is that what good testing is all about? Automated tests can do the same thing to the system under test over and over again. Will that ensure quality products?
Albert Einstein I believe said that the height of stupidity is to repeat the same thing over and over again and expect different results. Well i guess thats exactly what we are trying to acheive by doing this. In short the sapience of a tester CANNOT be replace by ‘mechanization’. I’ve been observing teams involved in this senseless activity of spending 80% of tester time in developing automated tests. Im keen to see the results in terms of product quality for the said team.
In the Indian software testing scene there is this trend of considering testers who develop automated tests as ‘demi-gods’. Well after years of having done both sides of the story i think human intelligence cannot be replaced by code snippets to achieve continuous product quality improvement.
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I had to connect remotely to an SQL server 2008 installation. Hence the story begins….
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Chapter 1 – Revelations
I decided that i needed sql server management studio for doint that. Well i had the management studio for SQL server 2005 on my local machine, hence i tried using that to connect… valla it never works… Microsoft afterall hasn’t heard of the term backward compatibility.
Chapter 2 – Exodus to the Internet
Well so then like every other jack on earth, I go to google search to see where i can download the management studio from. My search takes me to the microsoft website (being considered for a nobel prize for that one).
The microsoft website tells me that the management studio comes only bundled with the express edition of SQL 2K8. So i go to download that……….. 97% ……. 98%….. 99%……
chapter 3 – Lamentation
After i start the installer ( on a windows 2003 server machine) they tell me i need to have the .net framework installed. Then i run back to google and repeat the entire Chapter 2 this time i call it with a new argument chapter2(”.net framework”). And i install that.
Chapter 4- Looong way to go
Well id installed the .net framework so i decided im all good to go, Now is restart my sql 2K8 installer and it tells me that the windows installer needs to be upgraded. So i call chapter2(”windows installer 3.5″) and install it…..
Chapter 5- Do u think this is the end??
Now i had the .net framework and the windows installer update installed, so i think Im really really good to go, and i launch the installer again…. This time after it takes me through 5 screens wherein microsoft is doing a log of complicated earth moving calculations at the backend, i get a compatibility failed error. reason: I need to install Windows power shell (WTF). So its again chapter2(”power shell”).
Chapter 6- I ain’t dead yet….
No I have .Net framework, windows installer update and “power shell” (whatever that is) installed. The i relaunch the application (15minutes ago). Its still……. installing a GODDAMN CLIENT TO CONNECT TO AN SQL DATABASE. Id rather have used the 4lines of JAVA code id written 2 years back.
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