Author Archives: Venkat Reddy Chintalapudi

Testuff – The Test Management Tool for small and medium projects

Almost an year ago, I have evaluated some low cost and open source Test Management Tools. Managing the Test Efforts & Test documentation is always an issue for small and medium companies.

Software Quality and Testing Podcasts

Podcasts are useful resources for testing community. These are free mp3 files you can download and listen to at your convenience. It contains various topics on Software Testing, Quality, & Development. I

Software Requirements are Required Reading by project teams.

I have always challenges with the Software Requirements for the products and would be the same for others too. Most of the time, the requirements talk about just the functional needs and

Trends in Static Analysis Tools and Code Quality Metrics

Interesting trends are happening around Static Analysis and Code Quality. The tools vendors closely looking at each of the code quality metrics and merging them to have a better metric. We can

Communicating the Value of Testing Throughout the Organization

As Testers, It’s important to identify the value associated with Software Testing and communicate the same across organization. Please check the following webibar for some view points on communicating the value of

Test 2008 – Software Testing Conference

Test 2008 is the first conference being organized by PureConferences in India. Our conference will provide a platform for international and national test professionals to interact and participate. Speakers from around 10

What Jar – Solution to NoClassDefFoundError

As a Tester & Developer, it’s pretty common to see NoClassDefFoundError. It’s not that easy always to figureout the required jars for the application. Whatjar comes with a lot of search capabilities

Software Testing – Is it a cost or an Investment for Stakeholders ?

Software Testing is considered as a Cost for some Stakeholders & an Investment for others in their context of operation. It’s good to know the status in your context. I had this query in LinkedIn Answers & thought of sharing the good discussion

Ability to identify the hot spots of release from Bug Database

Bug Database for the products might have thousands of issues over a period of time against various builds and releases. Though these issues fixed over a period of time, it might be

Whitebox Testing – Is it really white ?

The popular myths around Blackbox & Whitebox Testing are by it’s name. It’s black since we can’t see it (don’t have access to the code) & it’s white since you have access