Review:- SQABD Lighting Talk 4, Held on March 31, 2010 at Washington Hotel, Dhaka

Hello all,

I know this post is a bit out-dated in perspective from the topic, but i wanted to review the talks and i thought its better late than never. I had some questions to ask but couldn't at the seminar as i am not a rapid thinker. Hmm might effect me being a rapid-tester like Sajjad vai, ;).And i was waiting for the videos to be finished uploading too. Anyway here it goes:

SQABD Lighting talk 4 review:

Talk1-Mozammel Haque
Topic title-Solo Scrum-The Pomodoro Technique
Resource-http://www.sqabd.com/lt_present.php?id=lt27

First of all thanks for introducing me to the Pomodoro technique. I wasn't aware of it till your talk that day. What i understand from your talk is that:

1. Choose a task to be accomplished
2. Set the Pomodoro to 25 minutes (the Pomodoro is the timer)
3. Work on the task until the Pomodoro time up
4. Take a short break (5 minutes is OK)
5. Every 4 Pomodoros take a longer break
6. And not to answer any IM, phone calls within this 25 min time period. And if anyone calls tell them to call after the time left in Pomodoro.

Now i think there might be some problem regarding this technique. I think this technique might be self interrupting your thinking process. What if someone is deep into something and the timer rings that your time is up and you have to concentrate after 5 minutes. Well, in that case this technique doesn't help.

In that 25 min time period, if you got call then you are already interrupted. And in these days you can not switch off your mobile, that's not logical. Its better finish your talk and fully concentrate then.

Well that's my perspective anyway. BTW liked your presentation style :).

Talk2-M Ayman Noor
Topic title- When to stop testing?
Resource-http://www.sqabd.com/lt_present.php?id=lt28

My answer is simple : until your project manager or test manager or customer says stop, you continue testing. We also have to consider the constraints and do our test plan according to that. Many time it happened to me that there were predetermined time and we planned our test process accordingly suddenly customer don't want anymore testing to be done, then we have to stop there.

In real world, testers are not in a position neither have the authority to minimize the risk, if s/he could have those we might have call ourselves QA guy not tester. And we also do not have privileges to release the product, we can only convince
our PM | TM | customer about the risks they are taking to release the product before sufficient test coverage.

Anyway thanks for asking a thoughtful question.


Talk3-Samuel D. Bretzfield
Topic title-Lighting Talks 4 keynote
Resource-http://www.sqabd.com/lt_present.php?id=lt29

Awsome work environment you have indeed. :)
hire me ...lolz. just kidding.

Talk4-Shaikh Sonny Aman
Topic title- Developing a lightweight, hi-performance and dynamic JSON api server with C.
Resource-http://www.sqabd.com/lt_present.php?id=lt30

Well i really don't like programming language "C" actually. Andi have no prior knowledge about Json either, So I should not make any comment about your talk. :)

BTW: liked your sketch though ;), and your presentation slides were fun to watch.

Talk5-Tauhidul Islam
Topic title-SQL Server Database Change Automation
Resource-http://www.sqabd.com/lt_present.php?id=lt31

Nice tool indeed. How can i get that tool you made? :)
Hope you will make that tool fully automatic from semi automatic one day/night.

BTW: I have found another tool like yours by Ewout Stortenbeker and his project name is "SQL Server database versioning with Subversion (SVN).
URL: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/database/ScriptDB4Svn.aspx

Anyway nice informative presentation.

Talk6-Zahidul Islam
Topic title: Meta Testing
Resource-http://www.sqabd.com/lt_present.php?id=lt33

Hmm Interesting name you mentioned "Meta Testing". May be its my lacking that i haven't understand what "Meta Testing" really is. You have talked about some fallacies and those are interesting way to looking at scenarios indeed.

Talk7-Abu Awal Md. Shoeb
Topic title: Challenges of a Paperless Admission System
Resource-http://www.sqabd.com/lt_present.php?id=lt32

What an inspirational work and speech my friend. Sal-lot to you and to your
co-workers. But it would have been much better if you would have been given the speech in English then I could have forward link to others from outside Bangladesh to watch this speech of yours.

Anyway i am waiting for your many more inspiration works.

Talk8-Hasin Hayder
Topic title: Bangla Input Manager JQuery Plugin
Resource-http://www.sqabd.com/lt_present.php?id=lt34

Great work man! And indeed thanks for reminding us the blessing of open source.
Phonetic Bangla uses in web pages are really great plus point in respective of usability.

BTW: Nice presentation trick :).

Talk9-Imrul Kayes
Topic title: Context driven testing(CDT)
Resource-http://www.sqabd.com/lt_present.php?id=lt35

Thanks for sharing your expertise in CDT. But the two circumstances you have mentioned where it would be difficult for us to apply, i think we the testers are facing those circumstances everyday, i.e.:
1. It is always someone beside the the tester who is responsible for ensuring quality
2. How do you determine that the context is well defined? If the context is well defined then why it would be difficult to apply CDT there??

Talk10-Golam Rabbi
Topic title: Good To Great
Resource-http://www.sqabd.com/lt_present.php?id=lt36

Inspirational speech about your success story indeed. Will sure try to discipline myself but it would be very hard ;).


Best Regards
Ashik

Weekend Testing

Weekend Testing Session No. 35
Date: Saturday 15th May 2010
Time: 3 PM – 5 PM IST GMT+05:30

At last I have participated in the weekend testing session. It was my first session.
I was very excited about it. Some how i missed when it started and joined a bit later. And at last i got time to blog about it. :)

Mission: In my view: Go to URL: http://prezi.com, explore it and make a good presentation and report that to http://www.bugrepository.com/.
The mission was simple but i think was full of traps. Like what is a good presentation ? i was answered by Ajay that good according to me. Well i was more confused and thought about what should be the good according to me? And i thought if can found some problem in it then it would make a good presentation as it seems to have some problem. [well according to me anyway.. ;)]

So I opened up my favorite tool "Perlclip" and generated 1000 long string and pasted at the name and description field. and was continuing to load screen shots in my presentation.

Finally when i tried to open that presentation my browser stopped responding!!! Well, in the end to me, i have made a good presentation. ;)

Finally thanks to the moderator for teaching me to submit my report first then start discussion and also giving me more time finish the presentation. Liked the presentation tool though it is a bit slow and made my browser crashed :).

My presentation link: http://prezi.com/vxc49kxpao9t/
bugrepository.com Bug ID: 0000308

Intra weekdays testing !!

Couldn't think of a better title than this one, sorry :|.

Couple of weeks ago I was thinking about learning testing through community based testing. Where people would come together on a particular day/night and test a random application with a common mission. Actually i was really bored of my company's projects or lack of projects, so i thought it would be nice to arrange or participate in these type of events which will help my learning curve grow (perhaps in right direction).

So, I was asking about this to local testers to know their feedback. Most of them likes the idea but from their perspective it would be impossible to arrange and continue like this event as most of us want to give time to family or friends in the weekends. Then I was suggested about "Weekendtesting.com" community by Mr. Sajjadul Hakim from the local community "SQABD.com".

I found "weekendtesting.com" community's idea very interesting and this actually can be applicable in Bangladesh also. As testers can be grouped together online and can test an app from their home. I hope someday Bangladesh chapter will be opened at "weekendtesting.com".

Before i go deep into that i thought how about i run an experiment with my colleagues with this idea. So i have decided to give them a random app and asked them to test with some limited time. I found suitable app address from "weekendtesting.com" "http://www.barcodeart.com/artwork/netart/yourself/yourself.swf", which was used in one weekend testing session. Interesting scnenario was this:

Participants: 3 newbie testers (fresher)
Time: 2 hours

I was very eager to see how those three new comers approach a problem without having no prior testing knowledge (thats the main mission for me and teach them how should they). Mission was same as was in "weekendtesting" forum: "to find out highest possible value" and "the invalid input". As this session happened in weekdays and within my company, i called it "Intra Weekdays testing".

First Tester's approach: He downloaded a bug report template and wrote down problems he found.
Second Tester's approach: She draw a table to analysis the output and input.
Third Tester's approach: He tried to explore as much as possible to find out anything about the application.

I see that combination of their approach can be called a good approach: explore+analysis+report. But they didn't seem to communicate with each other. So they failed to fulfill the mission. So this taught a big lesson for them which is team work always better.

This is an experiment to teach the freshers the way to approach a problem. Time will say whether it works or not. I will try to continue to do these type of events whenever possible. I was also influenced by the events organized by Mr. Sajjadul Hakim at his company which is in his words "we used to do short testing demonstration sessions with small apps available on the internet".

Thats all for now..

Mobile Testing Seminar

Mobile Testing - Ongoing changes in technology and market demand.
Speakers:

Keynote Speaker :

Mohammed D Alam : Mohammed D Alam has over 17 years of Wireless telecommunications experience in the space of network operator, Mobile handset manufacturing, Mobile Applications, Internet, Web Application and the wireless equipment manufacturing and vendor business. Most recently, he served as a CTO/Vice President of Product & Technology AsKMeNow Inc, an Irvine-based campaigns and natural language technology. Prior to AskMeNow Inc, Mohammed has held senior and Executive positions at Motorola Inc, Samsung Telecommunication America, AMP'D Mobile and VOCE wireless where he managed software engineering projects for such varied functions as mobile multimedia content, enterprise product solution, network systems, and multiple mobile applications and wireless services.
Mohammed has successfully launched new wireless technology, data services and new voice & data products such as CDMA systems and First CDMA phone in Chicago. In addition, Mohammed introduced 100 innovative cell phones and software solutions in the U.S. and Canada and developed server and core applications for both network and mobile handsets.
Mohammed has submitted multiple wireless patents for his work on mobile technology and has received several awards such as Presidents Award, Team Excellence and US Congress Award. Mohammed holds a BSEE degree from the University of Illinois and an MS from George Washington University.

Local Resource Persons:

 1. Kamruzzaman,
Managing Director,
Visual Magic Corporation Limited


 2. Shamsul Arefeen
Program Manager-CMMI, LEIC
Organizer:

North South University, Dhaka.

Date,         time and venue:

Date: 23 Dec 2008, Tuesday
Date has been changed to 11 Jan 2009.


Time: 3:30 PM


Venue:
STR300
North South Unviersity
Star Tower, 12 Kemal Attaturk Avenue
Dhaka-1212, Bangladesh

Event           Details:

This event is targeted to have discussion on the past, present and the future of Mobile device industry, its software and application, and the test engineering, that had been evolved. Also the forthcoming technology and market demand will be discussed in the vent.

This event will be helpful for the professionals in IT industry in Bangladesh           along with the top management of the software companies towards their           diversification in technology.

Event Moderator:

M. Manzurur Rahman
ICT Consultant and Entrepreneur

For               registration click here.

Event URL: http://mobi.events.live.com/

to register go to this link : http://72.167.179.155/mobitest_seminar/regform.php

Online job scams

Hello,

Recently i have been looking for extra cash besides my normal income. So i thought why not do some freelancing job online sitting from home.

The next question i faced was how to find a legitimate one. But believe me all sites seems legitimate to me. 90% of them asked for money first as run their server, for maintainance bla bla. Keep in mind that what kind of a employer would want payment to give you payment ! All of them are scams. I searched for about two weeks but never found a legitimate one. To tell you the truth i almost felt for a website called realdataentry.net, but then i heard about their scams and saved by inch.

There is a forum which is about online scams. They opened my eyes. In that forum users talk about many online scams and if you want to sure about some site whether it is legitimate or not try posting your query there and you'll surely know the truth. (forum link)

You can search for legitimate sites through www.bbb.com site also.

In the end i have found some good sites which are pretty good for freelance work as per your skill. Here is the list I found legitimate:

• uTest
• getafreelancer
• rentacoder
• ifreelance
• odesk

Thats all my friends. Never get scammed or make a fool out of yourself. Rmember, Its the employer who will pay you.