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Category Archives: Exercises

How do I start security testing?

There are many testers and hacking aspirants who write to me seeking guidance to learn security testing / hacking. I prepared a list to send for everyone. Then I thought of publishing the same on my blog so that I just give out my blog post URL and then can see it here. Even it [...]

Result announcement for the awesome 18 testing challenges

Before a month I had initiated a contest for testers where, I talked about 18 contexts and wanted people to give different perspective of what do they think. I was not expecting great number but, out of my personal interest and with personal expenses I published this contest. Most of the participants are known to [...]

Password – Flaws / Risks / Design suggestions and more

This blog post will try to educate you on vulnerabilities / problems / issues with respect to “Password / Forgot Password / Change Password and etc.” & give you hints on how you can start learning to help yourself in your testing activity. Here I go, When I forget my password, the first thing that, [...]

Coaching fresh graduates

Few days ago, I started getting calls from people asking to know about good testing institutes in Bangalore. My answer was – none of them. Then the next question from them was, they want to get trained and now what they should do. I thought about what can be done now, and I thought of [...]

Do you read books? Do testers know about good books?

Most of the software testers do not read books – Why? They do not have time? Or they think reading won’t help [ Yes, certification books doesn’t help ]? Or some reason that they also do not know about what it is? I always suggest testers to read books and I get different answers and [...]