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Topic of the week : Recession wipes out Business Case for Offshoring Go to Topic

Recession is a concern for everyone in nearly every industry-fear of lost...

Recession Proof Technologies


	5 Data Security
	4 Virtualization
	2 Cloud Computing

Do you see maturity in Offshoring model?

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Do companies really understand testing importance or they mostly do it for a mere formality...

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	Argument added by Leena Pawar, Tech Architect, IT Infotech \| Topic: Recession wipes out Business Case for Offshoring \| 11 days ago
	Hi yashar, Interesting debate, What you said is true but years ago, when customers were not aware of the technology and the current trend. But today companies cannot fool the customers they about the product before they buy it. So companies have...

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How a testing resource can prove himself in testing SAP projects

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	Argument added by Leena Pawar, Tech Architect, IT Infotech \| Topic: Today's Testing Challenges \| 11 days ago
	Hi Rohini, interesting subject to discuss. But can you elaborate it more by giving some description. So that we can understand what exactly we need to discuss. Thanks :)

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What are the challenges faced in EAI testing?

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	Idea added by Anup Jain, Analyst, Infosys Technologies \| Topic: Today's Testing Challenges \| 11 days ago
	Receiving the relevant message with correct timestamp can be a major checkpoint in EAI testing. Usuage of tools like Toad, which fires SQL queries, to fetch the required data can be an added advantage.

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Which tech jobs are recession proof? And why ?

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	Argument added by Leena Pawar, Tech Architect, IT Infotech \| Topic: Recession wipes out Business Case for Offshoring \| 20 days ago
	Hi Smitha, well said. Web and graphics nowadays are involved in almost every field. So if recession affects one sector the other sector will help us. This is considered to be the best profession compared to other. :)

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Take care of the world, it is your home!

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	Referred by SAURABH THAKUR, SOFTWARE TEST ENGINEER, QA InfoTech \| 2 months ago
	Denmark is a big shame The sea is stained in red and in the mean while its not because of the climate effects of nature. It's because of the cruelty that the human beings (civilised human) kill hundreds of the famous...

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Usability Testing Check points

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	Referred by Navaraj Javvaji, QA Engineer, Flytxt Technologies Pvt Ltd \| 8 months ago
	1. Visibility of System Status The system should always keep user informed about what is going on, through appropriate feedback within reasonable time. # Review Checklist Yes No N/A Comments 1.1 Does every display begin with a title or header...

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What is "Process Intelligence" ? Can we say "Process Intelligence = Process Mgmt + Business Intelligence"

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	Answered by SAURABH THAKUR, SOFTWARE TEST ENGINEER, QA InfoTech \| Topic: Managing the Software Process \| 3 months ago
	P rocess Intelligence (PI) is a code-name for a range of technologies which unlock knowledge that is hidden in process data and tell us how to use it more effectively. The overall objectives of PI are to improve productivity, product and service...

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ccna 640-802 in 3 weeks?

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	Answered by Bhushan Patil, Project Lead, Birlasoft Limited \| Topic: Recession wipes out Business Case for Offshoring \| 3 months ago
	Anup, very few companies see experience today that too for a very high position. If you know the work properly, no company will reject you. Not even Microsoft !!! I personally have seen many freshers directly getting into good companies in off campus...

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Software Quality Assurance Go to Topic

Testing tools : Open source or Proprietary?

Open Source

Proprietary

i support open source testing because it provide large number of people in whole over the world .such large amount of peoples can check every possible cases in testing and work faster then a few amount of people comparing to them.so it's good to...

I will chose Proprietary testing since it will help in maintaining the privacy of the whole project and only selected people can work on it and it will be protected from going into unwanted hands.

Today's Testing Challenges Go to Topic

What's the best approach to software test estimation?

Top Rated Answer : I have to agree with suman that there is no simple answer for these but this are some of the approaches even I have considered: Implicit Risk Context Approach Metrics-Based Approach Test Work Breakdown Approach Iterative Approach Percentage-of-Development Approach Testing Estimation also depends...

Manual Testing vs Automated Testing

Manual Testing more beneficial

Automated Testing more beneficial

Both are important in it's own place. Before any automated testing one round of manual testing is recomemded to filter out the basic bugs. More over Manual Testing is followed in more places in this industry.

I am agree with rashmi as i have done manual and automation both so now i feel much comfertable in automation. so best is automation but we cannot trust that automation is always good. so i can manual is best at its own place or Automation is...

Corporate Layoffs Go to Topic

Sapient Layoffs 8% staff in India on Feb 12, 2009

Sapient Corp. became the latest e-consultant forced into major cutbacks by the economic downturn, announcing layoffs around 8 percent of its work force in India (Gurgaon) on Feb 12 and warning it won't make its expected first quarter profit. Earleir Sapient fired 160 people in July 2008 without notice. Firings were underway with over 200 more people in PIP bench was already fired on november 2008. On an average sapient fire 1 in every 3 employee. Sapient said it has laid off employees as part o

Layoffs soar as India plunges deeper into recession

Have listed layoffs till Jan. The employers covered are across different industry verticals. Add what you hear to the list. Company City # Layoffs When Sapient Gurgaon 8% Feb-09 Mastek Bangalore, Hyderabad 429 Feb-09 Motorola Bangalore, Hyderabad 500 Jan-09 Polaris Chennai 480 Jan-09 Unitech Delhi 20 Jan-09 Sun Microsystems Bangalore 200 Jan-09 Apollo DKV Insurance Delhi NA Jan-09 eminlabs hyderabad 4 Jan-09 PROCALL - AGRANI Bangalore 15-20 Jan-09 Lionbridge Technologies Mumbai 100 Jan-09 Motor

Software Development Methodologies Go to Topic

Story of programmer

1.Two Recursive functions calling each other Mujhe kuchh kehna hein mujhe bhi kuchh kehna hein pehle tum, pehle tum 2. The debugger Jab koi baat bigad jaye Jab koi mushkil pad jaye Tum dena saath mera hamnawaz 3. From VC++ to VB Yeh haseen vaadiyan Yeh khula asmaan Aa gaye hum kahan 4. Untrackable bug -- aye ajnabi, tu bhi kabhi, awaaz de kahin se 5. Unexpected bug (esp. during presentation to client) Ye kya hua, Kaise hua, Kab hua, Kyon hua 6. And then to the client

How much % of development effort should be invested in testing ?

Should be much lower than 25%

should be 25% of higher

There are few frameworks that deliver quality with less than 25% of testing effort. One such framework is Personal Software Process, where I experienced less than 10% of testing effort. This was not easy to achive, but the fruits were very tasty...

i think the total effort should be halved between the development and testing team beacuse after the first initial release to testing team there can be bugs that arise and time is need to fix as well as test.

Implementing True Requirements using a Normalized Process Model Go to Topic

Requirements A Saga

A month ago, I was handed over few docs by execution team which they had got from the business, and termed that as requirements. The motive of documents was to provide insight, so that some proof of concept can be produced in response of RFP. The requirements were easy and straight forward and we were able to get to one of the pain point and by targeting that we were able to produce some results. As the results were announced, we indeed bagged the deal and for the next level, we had to fly to me

Requirements Testing

Tradationally testing is taken up at the systems integration phase by which time it is 60 to 75% code complete. Even in a interative approach by the time testing starts the code for that particullay interation has been completed. As such we end up performing a quality control function and that too by taking close 100% of the sample. It is both expensive as well cost of defect fixing is very high. Moreover a root cause analysis will reveal that more often than not the requirements are in questio

Developers Vs Business Analyst Go to Topic

Would you offer an BA job to software Engg

Yes

It is possible that project managers' can entrust BA work (provided a full time BA is not in place or one the company is looking to recruit) to Developers (having exemplary development experience) when they attributes strong business...

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Can developers become better Business Analyst?

Yes

Developers can understand the full Developement as well as the Design Stage in any Developement Projects, So After being as a Developer for around 1 year time he will have Technical Expertise over the Subject and also Functional expertise as he...

I don't agree with you Ashish, Business analysts invest a lot of time interacting with business users in terms of understanding processes, and other complexities which are outside the scope of project where as computer programmers tend to invest...

Social Networking & Business Information Technologies Go to Topic

World's most admired technology cos

Which are the companies that are most respected, the corporates that have the best reputations? And also, what is it that earns a company adoration? While in some cases it is the fanatical consumer base, in others it is the innovations that a company churns out for its users, in many others it is the ability to stand firm and tall despite adversities. Here are the world's most respected technology firms. The listing is based on Fortune's Top 50 world's most admired companies. Apple Leading th

Web 2.0 Based Social Networking Applications

Do you really need to have a "New! Improved by Web 2.0" slogan on your site in order to survive and thrive? Not really, it's somewhat of a buzzword, but it's good to understand what this jargon means and to begin thinking about how your site can evolve to take advantage of the direction the web is heading in. Long gone is the the concept of the Internet geek - the loner in a darkened room engaged in uber-technical pursuits. The web is cool with teens, it's a vital tool and recreation area for G

Testing Tool (QTP) Go to Topic

Does QTP 9.2 works well with AJAX?

Top Rated Answer : yes it will work, but general record play back,it will not capture the object properties we need scripting for this,in Ie 6.0 it,s little bit slow

The Bathtub Test

The Bathtub Test During a visit to the mental asylum, I asked the director, "How do you determine whether or not a patient should be institutionalized ?" "Well," said the director, "we fill up a bathtub, then we offer a teaspoon, a teacup and a bucket to the patient and ask him or her to empty the bathtub." "Oh, I understand," I said. "A normal person would use the bucket because it's bigger than the spoon or the teacup." "No." said the director, "A normal person would pull the plug. Do

Managing the Software Process Go to Topic

How to measure software Quality assurance progress???


	1 Are we looking at it Right??
	1 Many metrics are available
	0 Test coverage (tracability matrix) w.r.t to each and ecery functioanlites

What is "Process Intelligence" ? Can we say "Process Intelligence = Process Mgmt + Business Intelligence"

Latest Answer : P rocess Intelligence (PI) is a code-name for a range of technologies which unlock knowledge that is hidden in process data and tell us how to use it more effectively. The overall objectives of PI are to improve productivity, product and service quality, and business profitability by making...

Software process improvement Go to Topic

What will be the Right Mix of Software Process Improvement ?


	0 Quality,Operation method & technique

What common mistakes one should avoid during Software development?


	1 Many Reasons
	1 Not having clarity with requirements !!!
	1 Overly optimistic schedules

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