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   1.  About
   2.  Code Quality Series
   3.  Sitemap
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   1.  Effective Bug Reports
   2.  Open Source Testing Tools for Java Applications
   3.  Exploring the craft of Software Testing
   4.  Testuff – The Test Management Tool for small and medium projects
   5.  Software Quality and Testing Podcasts
   6.  Explore the Testability aspect for Java Code
   7.  Software Requirements are Required Reading by project teams.
   8.  Trends in Static Analysis Tools and Code Quality Metrics
   9.  Trends in Static Analysis – ENERGY for better java code
   10.  Communicating the Value of Testing Throughout the Organization
   11.  Test 2008 – Software Testing Conference
   12.  My quest towards Code Quality Metrics
   13.  Tester Center from MSDN
   14.  CRAP4J for Java Code Quality
   15.  What Jar – Solution to NoClassDefFoundError
   16.  Non linear paths from Application Code
   17.  Software Testing – Is it a cost or an Investment for Stakeholders ?
   18.  Ability to identify the hot spots of release from Bug Database
   19.  The Life Cycle of a Bug – Different Stages in it.
   20.  Whitebox Testing – Is it really white ?
   21.  Bug in the BSNL Portal
   22.  Context driven information for Bug Reports
   23.  Use Cyclomatic Complexity to determine the Risk and Test Scenarios
   24.  An insight into Bugs in the Software Applications
   25.  Life Beyond Code
   26.  Hey Testers, Communicate the Value of Testing
   27.  The Role of Software Testing
   28.  The Bug Life Cycle Series
   29.  Non Reproducible Bugs – How to deal with them ?
   30.  Software Testing Courses and Certifications
   31.  Lessons to be Learned from the Bugs
   32.  Seven Habits of Effective programmers
   33.  Open Source Test Management Tools
   34.  Taking on “Testing Triangles – A classic excercise”
   35.  Role of a Tester – An interesting discussion with an upcoming tester.
   36.  JavaNCSS – A source code metrics suite for Java
   37.  Testing Magazines
   38.  Tester is not a Quality Police
   39.  KLOC – What does it mean to Software Testing
   40.  Is Counting a Bad Idea for Test Effort?
   41.  That’s expected behavior and Not a Bug
   42.  Testing World 2006
   43.  Applying Static Analysis for Software Testing
   44.  Static Analysis for Code Quality
   45.  Sorting it all Out – Blog on Technology by Michael
   46.  Chasing Bugs in Software Applications
   47.  Top Five Reasons on why we don’t have dedicated testers
   48.  Dealing with NonReproducible Issues – The James Bach way
   49.  Yet Another Blog on Software Testing

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Introduction

Venkat (short for Venkat Reddy Chintalapudi) a post graduate in Computer Applications from University of Hyderabad and currently working with SAP Labs India as a Quality Manager.

My passion towards Technology started as a student at University of Hyderabad way back in 1996 and exploring the same since then. Throughout this period, i have played various roles like Developer, Tester, Technical Support Engineer, Team Lead, Technical Lead, Consultant, Trainer & currently working with SAP Labs as Quality Manager.

There are many lessons learned through these roles over a period of time. Testing helps the stakeholders to take informed decision by providing the relevant information based on the context. I will be exploring the craft of software testing, development & quality via this blog.

Disclaimer:

The content of this blog is about my own personal opinions, views  and thoughts around technology based on my experiments with technology. The content on this blog do not represent my employer’s view in any way, shape or form. Since i am just a human being, my thoughts and opinions often tend to change as the time goes or as i get more exposure.

Contact:

Feel free to share your views on my posts, approach towards testing, or on any aspect you like / dislike via comments or send me an email at venkatreddyc at gmail dot com

Today, i have come across Michael’s blog Sorting it all Out on Technology. Michael works with Microsoft as Technical Lead and shares his views over the Technology, Software Development, Software Testing in his blog.

Software Testing & Quality is overlooked most of the time and it’s quite common to see buggy software in the market. Some of the projects ship software without even having dedicated testers & in some other projects due to budget constraints there are less resources. I was going through Joel on Software site and come across this Joel on Software – Top Five (Wrong) Reasons You Don’t Have Testers

As per Joel Perspective the reasons are

1. Bugs come from lazy programmers.
2. My software is on the web. I can fix bugs in a second.
3. My customers will test the software for me.
4. Anybody qualified to be a good tester doesn’t want to work as a tester.
5. I can’t afford testers!

Won’t they look similar in your context.

Welcome to my world of software of testing online. I will be sharing my views, thoughts on various topics of Software Testing, Development, Quality, Software Metrics, Tools  and various other topics also. I will use this blog as a knowledge base for my ideas, reading & arguments on the topics. In the process, i will be sharing some interesting links, tools, articles and any other info that might be value addition to me. It may so happen that the information on blog might be useful to the people of software testing community.

This is Venkat Reddy Chintalapdi (Venkat in short) working with YASU Technologies as Test Manager. I have over 7 years of experience in the Industry worked on Development, Testing, Maintenance and Technical Support. All these years of experience made me good at understanding the applications and how to validate the same.

I am excited to test the applications and discover it’s behavior in many scenarios. These tests helped me to improve my thought process and i feel that it’s a creative skill. Testing is not at all a dumb skill and these testers need to have more skills than the one who developed the same. These skills will spread over your Domain, Technology and how the systems behave in genaral.

I will be sharing my views and the experiences here. I am inspired by James Bach and Cem Kaner.