Archive for September, 2008
HYSEA Workshop on Product Testing – 27th Sept. Key Takeaways
I attended a HYSEA Workshop on S/W Products’ Testing, organized at Microsoft Campus. Software testing workshops/talks are not as frequent as those for technology or technology trends and it was heartening to see a step towards correcting this anomaly. In this post I will try to outline the topics that were discussed and give opinions [...]
Usability Testing- A Market Accelerator by itself
Its always been a challenge to ensure products are easily usable by the Users as to how they want and wish rather than how they have been created and designed. Qlabs has realized that one such success factor is product usability testing if done right goes a long way in realizing the intended goals. A [...]
Riding the Semantic Wave
Hi Folks! Are you all enjoying net-surfing ? Oh man! Don’t ask me! I am sick of repeating my personal profile every time I register in any social site! Why can’t it be tagged and semantic data be shared with all other sites ? Well its already happening .. lets go for a ride on [...]
Mashup Magic
Mashup enormously empowers users who really wanted to collaborate things available on web dynamically on-the-fly, simply query/merge whatever relevant data coming on the way.
Java Debug 101
Author: Apurba Nath
Anyone who has done some serious development knows about debugging. There is a lot of stuff that goes under the hood for debugging, this blog takes a look at some of these. After reading this blog the reader may have a better understanding of the reason behind rare but weird errors about the “line number information not being present” when we try setting a break point. To keep things simple I am going to cover only the basics and will oversimplify and generalize without much discretion.
There are two parties in debugging, one the program which is running and the other which is issuing debugging commands to it.
GoToMarket Testing- Why should you outsource?
In the last blog i tried to point out the need and challenges associated in ensuring software products do what they are meant for.Here in let us see what does it mean to have your products launched with Quality. A key accelerator to launch products succesfully to market could be outsourcing your product testing to [...]
Ensuring Software products eventually do what they are meant for- A GotoMarket Testing Approach
Software product ideas take off with huge aspirations and extraordinary technology ideas. Research however shows that its the simplest of the usage scenarios that the product fails to live up to when taken to the field and market trials. Beta customers fail to turn up to become first payers because it was not meeting their [...]