The registrations for attendee and speakers for vodQA Pune on 17th March 2012 is now open . Looking forward to see you there :)

I attended vodQA in Chennai on 21st Jan 2012. The event was great. Over 100 passionate testers from Chennai testing community turned up and...

[Date updated to 17th March 2012] After a long delay, ThoughtWorks is happy to announce the next edition of vodQA - THE TESTING SPIRIT!  o...

A colleague recently asked me a very nice set of questions -  " Have any of you designed tests with assertions happening in page o...

I finally figured a way around the problem PowerPoint was giving me in converting the slides for this presentation to pdf format.  The sli...

I am very happy and proud to share that vodQA conference is going national.  ThoughtWorks will be hosting its first vodQA out of Pune ... ...

On 9th November, 2011, I presented my first webinar with my colleague - Manish Kumar, on the topic " Effective Strategies for Distribut...

Come, join Manish Kumar and me for a webinar on 9th November, 2011 on " Effective Strategies for Distributed Testing ".  We will...

This Dilbert strip says it all!! For those not able to see the link it correctly, here it is: If you don't ask the right questi...

How do you estimate test automation efforts for building a regression suite for functionality that is already in Production? The approach...

For people involved in Test Automation, I have seen that quite a few of us get carried away and start automating anything and everything pos...

Testing (manual or automation) depends upon data being present in the product. How do you create Test Data for your testing? Manually cre...

I was a Trainer for bunch of smart QAs recently. The training was about "Agile QA". This term is very vague, and if you think abou...

I am very happy to announce that WAAT is now available on RubyGems.org and is also linked from Open source functional testing tools . Her...

WAAT-Ruby is now ready for use.  Project hosted on github - http://github.com/anandbagmar/WAAT-Ruby WAAT-Ruby gem available for download f...

The WAAT ruby gem is almost ready. My colleagues are helping testing it out in different environments and am updating the documentation acc...

Recently when doing some online transaction using my credit card, something struck me ... I realized that the form asking for my credit card...

WAAT  - Web Analytics Automation Testing Framework is currently available for java based Test Automation Frameworks. ( http://essenceoftest...

I use RubyMine to write and implement my Cucumber features on Linux. I have noticed one weird behavior at times. Though my step definition ...

I have started work on creating a Ruby gem for WAAT . This is going to sit on top of the version created for Java. Hopefully will be able to...

There are many tools and utilities that provide ways to do test result reporting and analysis of those results. However, I have not found a...

While most sites use http to report tags to the web analytic tool, there are some cases where http is disabled and all traffic is using http...

[UPDATE]  Check related post here (http://essenceoftesting.blogspot.com/2011/04/waat-web-analytics-automation-testing.html ) I am very ha...

I am almost ready with my first public release of WAAT. Some finishing touches remaining which is causing the delay for this. For those not...

There is a very interesting and informative webinar on how to utilize automated functional testing within your organization. This is schedu...

After doing testing on multiple Agile projects, I have come to realize certain aspects about the process and techniques that are common acro...

[UPDATE]  See my post about how you can get WAAT here (http://essenceoftesting.blogspot.com/2011/04/waat-is-alive.html). Problem stateme...

My article on the Future of Test Automation Tools and Infrastructure is featured in "The Smart Techie" magazine. You can check it ...

Paul Jay, senior editor of The Real News Network, will moderate a virtual panel discussion promoting a dialogue for the technology community...

There are certain things I have observed quite a few times in various different situations while testing. These things seem more like a patt...

Many a times I have been part of discussions that we should build a generic test automation framework which all other project teams can leve...

We were planning for vodQA 2 since about 6-7 weeks. But we suffered our first hiccup when I had to go to the US on a QA Coaching assignment ...

vodQA - THE TESTING SPIRIT announces its 2nd event in ThoughtWorks, Pune on October 7, 2010 at 5.30pm. Refer here to more details of the ...

'vodQA - THE TESTING SPIRIT!' - is a platform created by ThoughtWorks for our peers in the software testing industry to strength...

What are Critical Test Failures? Imagine a Banking application you are testing. Majority of your automation suite relies on successful logi...

There are some specific trends noticeable in the way we do UI-based test automation. Technology has advanced, new interfaces have been crea...