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I disagree with Jakob Nielsen’s STOP password masking article

While I refer to http://useit.com/ for usability related articles and I do recommend to many testers as well. However, I filter out which doesn’t make sense to me rather than following something blindly. Darren McMillan, a tester and my friend posted a tweet with the following URL http://www.useit.com/alertbox/passwords.html and after reading it, I felt most [...]

Social Engineering Attacks – Helping you from NOT being victimized (Part I)

You might have got calls many times saying, “Sir, we are calling from ‘X’ bank. This is a call to update our records if any changes. Can you please verify your Date of Birth, Your Birth Location” – The questions might differ. And you answer all the questions. My question to you is, do you [...]

My experiences about Myths

By looking at the title of this post you might feel that you know already about myths about Software Testing. This post contains myths that are covered in other blog posts also but I felt like writing it so I am. These myths have been experienced by me. #Experience 1 I was coming from my [...]

I reported a bug but got rejected

Many a times, what you see is not conclusion. I am going to talk about a scenario where a tester reported it as a bug but it was rejected by development team ( This is not a real story but I am communicating it as a real story which I have created ). Story begins… [...]

My Interview Experience – I failed in Write Up exam

After Pradeep Soundararajan’s training got over, I was wandering Bangalore looking for testing openings. I got e-mail from THAT organization [ Government based ] which read I am shortlisted for interview for Test Engineer position [ I was happy ]. I called their office and they told me to contact HR. Then I contacted HR [...]