Author Archives: Venkat Reddy Chintalapudi

The Life Cycle of a Bug – Different Stages in it.

In this post, i will explore different stages of the Bug from it’s inception to closer. The Bug has been found and logged into the Bug Tracking System. It’s my fourth post

Context driven information for Bug Reports

Context driven information is the need of the hour and there is a huge value associated with the same. It’s good to capture the context driven information in the bug reports. My

Use Cyclomatic Complexity to determine the Risk and Test Scenarios

Cyclomatic Complexity (CC) is a software metric (mostly code based metric) used to the number of independent path executions in the application. Introduced by Thomas McCabe in 1976, it measures the number

Hey Testers, Communicate the Value of Testing

It’s almost a month since my last post on this blog and busy with my upcoming release of QuickRules BRMS. I have been talking to the people around on the Software Testing

The Role of Software Testing

This is my first post in the Bug Life Cycle Series. I need to talk about this because when it comes to the role of testing, it’s not clear. The Role of

Lessons to be Learned from the Bugs

In this post, I will be looking at Bugs  with an insight that helps testers to learn some new lessons on why the same might have occured. It’s quite common that the testers are  blammed  for  all  the  missed out  bugs

Open Source Test Management Tools

  In this post, i will share my views & findings with Open Source Test Management Tools. Usage of tools in the Test Management is becoming the basic need & It will

JavaNCSS – A source code metrics suite for Java

I have been working on Java Projects for quite some time and interested in exploring the source code metrics like size and complexity across project not specific to perticular package or class

Tester is not a Quality Police

The perception from most of the management is that the Testers are the quality police for the products / projects that they develop. This is true for most of the companies where

Applying Static Analysis for Software Testing

sing Static Analysis in Testing will also be called or simulated as Static Testing. Static analysis / testing a method to validate the software without executing the same.