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Go for Just Enough

Is being really successful inevitably a matter of being the best,highest,youngest,richest,smartest and prettiest on every scale you know that is,celebrity winner-take-all Such standards are maximised forms of accomplishment.Simply put,maximisation is any form of going for the extreme: genius intelligence,superhuman effort,the best house,the unique lifestyle,and the most profit possible But even if you are drawn to the positive aspects of maximisation as your standard,most peoples sense of success demands high scores in many differing categories.Sometimes,these goals contradict each other: wealth and best friends who love you for yourself,not your money.A generous nature and being in the top position.Leading a team and being able to do everything your way.Before you anchor your ambitions on the outer limits,think of the Roman and British empires.Rome continually pushed its borders in a political philosophy of limitless power only to discover it had to build a wall to keep the invaders out before it could really build and protect its roads.The British set up a legal and bureaucratic system in each of its colonial territories,but the idea of limitless exploitation became the empires undoing.If you wish to live with a continually-renewing sense of success you have to give up the standards of maximization.

By LAURA NASH

http://www1.lite.epaper.timesofindia.com/mobile.aspx?article=yes&pageid=16&edlabel=ETM&mydateHid=03-03-2011&pubname=&edname=&articleid=Ar01608&format=&publabel=ET&max=true

Essential guiding principles - QA Automation Framework

• Test automation is a fulltime effort, not a sideline.
• The test design and the test framework are totally separate entities.
• The test framework should be application-independent.
• The test framework must be easy to expand, maintain, and perpetuate.
• The test strategy/design vocabulary should be framework independent.
• The test strategy/design should remove most testers from the complexities of the test framework.

Wonderful points above. More details @ link below

http://safsdev.sourceforge.net/FRAMESDataDrivenTestAutomationFrameworks.htm

Seven Habits of Highly Effective Agile Scrum Product Owners

This is a wonderful post. I wish I get an opportunity to experience it for software projects.

http://blog.smartbear.com/software-quality/bid/170250/The-Seven-Habits-of-Highly-Effective-Agile-Scrum-Product-Owners

Excellence!!!

Any thoughts?

"Right thing all the time"

Doing the right thing all the time. Every minute, every day, thruout the year. This is the hidden meaning behind the saying - 'Right thing @ Right time'. When you do right thing all the time, automatically when right time comes, the results accelerate. People call it luck. :)

Experienced power of Automation Testing!

Recently I experienced a wonderful effect of Automation Test Suite. I think I'd like preserve this experience in the form of few words and share it with friends.

Present Scenario:

Cycle 3 Started beginning of this week.

The 26 Test Sets totalling 3000+ automated test cases started to be executed.

Test data was prepared as a pre-requisite by SME manual testing team.

The very first day of Cycle 3 execution the application which was nearing UAT completion, started crying.

23 Critical, High and Medium defects were logged the very first day.

The management lost confidence in the build.

No Go.

Scenario a couple of months back:

Automation suite creation in progress.

The scripts are failing due to problems within themselves.

The automation review process is identifying a lot of issues within scripts.

The naming conventions are not being followed completely.

No test data management strategy is documented.

Testing team starts estimating 100% manual regression cycle.

Management sees low confidence in automation testing.

How did the perspective change within a couple of months?

Results.

Business looks for results to accept success on ROI.

But someone in the top leadership had the "vision" to be patient and invest in building an Automation test suite. They accepted waiting and waiting for the build and review cycle of automation test suite, to be complete.

Recently, just on click of a button the 3000+ test cases drilled thru the huge complex application with a huge business value. Helping the leadership to decide quickly not to launch the product at this point in time, and wait for the desired quality in the product to be built.