Skip to content

Category Archives: Exercises

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 [...]

Bug Report – NOT JUST STEPS TO REPRODUCE

One day, a tester was testing mobile phone. He kept it idle for 9 hours and after 9 hours he noticed that there was a restart of the phone that happened automatically without any human intervention. Then, he reported it as a bug with following steps to reproduce, Switch on the phone Keep the phone [...]

Bugs are smart? Aren’t they?

I love bugs and love to play with them ( I play hide and seek game with them, where bugs hide and I seek them ). But, I also understand that some bugs are smart. So this post talks about how a tester fails to recognize a bug even if it was in front of [...]