Learning from blogging /Blogging as a form of learning for you and for the tech community

At the beginning of my software testing career, I started capturing my learning as a post in my blog for reference. Initially captured as a post, not an enriched lot on that, Going forward its given me a platform to learn and write about on recent trends in automated testing. This is one way to learn on the new practices and share with others.And posts become a timeline of what I have learned and how I have evolved. My blogs act as resume for me, what technology and tools I worked on. Not a regular writer, but trying to post two in every month and while writing on post never mind on grammatical, first complete that and make it as readable to others. The Initial objective to capture my learnings and now, I can see myself enriched on writing and learning. And now my writing got an improved lot in English and getting better. When I evolved as a writer then its given me platform to pick a new topic and do study, write more on it.

For the reader and tech community

          Usually techies inhibited to write and they always think that, this piece of info is not useful to others and many of them know. It's not only for your colleagues and it helps to build support to others in the community. This blog is helpful to people who is entering into software testing or learning new tools and more useful them to find this blog easy to use. Whatever challenges and solution, its provided in the blog makes you interact with the different set of techies in the world. And it helps me to understand the usage of tools and technology across the world. If we write more about open source than we can build large community support for learners. 

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Top Five Testing Blogs

I have found top five testing blogs for software testing . This blogs are really useful for software tester who want to know or practice new concepts .

James Bach  : http://www.satisfice.com/blog/

Agile : http://agiletesting.blogspot.in/

Martin Fowler : http://martinfowler.com/

Tester Tested : http://testertested.blogspot.in/

Test This blog : http://www.testthisblog.com/

Some useful Top 100 list will be listed in below urls.

http://www.testingminded.com/2010/04/top-100-software-testing-blogs.html

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Skills Required For Automation Engineer?

1. Automation tool knowledge (Silk Test, QTP)
2.  Unix/Linux user level commands & Shell scripts
3. DB concepts & Oracle SQLPlus queries
4. QA&QC Concepts
5. Manual Testing technique (including, Write TCs, Log issues and QA Metrics). 
6. Last but not least, soft skills especially spoken English should be strong.

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Useful Alt+Tab Replacement : Power Toy from Microsoft

For those of you who use the Alt+Tab key combination to switch between openwindows on your desktop, I am sure you have encountered times when you cannotdistinguish one window from the other due to having more than one instance ofthe same program open.Microsoft became aware of this draw-back after releasing the XP operating systemand subsequently released a "Power Toy" to resolve this issue. The Power Toyresolves this issue by replacing the program icons with actual screenshots ofyour open windows. This way you can locate exactly which window you wish toswitch to, which is immensely useful when navigating between several SAP windowsat one time.Here are pictures of using the Alt+Tab key combination both pre- and post-installation of the Power Toy:(Embedded image moved to file: pic20556.jpg)(Embedded image moved to file: pic22795.jpg)As you can see in the first example above, it is impossible to differentiatebetween the IE instances and the SAP instances by looking at the icons. In thesubsequent example, the screenshot clearly differentiates the windows.Here are the instructions to install:-Copy URL to browser:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/whistler/Install/2/WXP/EN-US/TaskswitchPowertoySetup.exe-
Choose "Run" from pop-up dialog box-Choose "Run" a second time, this will kick-off the installation of the PowerToy-Once you get the "Installation Complete" dialog, the toy is successfullyinstalled. No need to reboot your PC.

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1.IT Quotes

UNIX is simple. But It just needs a genius to understand its simplicity.

--Dennis Ritchie

Before software can be reusable, it first has to be usable.

--Ralph Johnson

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
--Fred Brooks

It's hard enough to find an error in your code when you're looking for it;
It's even harder when you've assumed your code is error-free.
-- Steve McConnell Code Complete

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are sure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
--Bertrand Russell

If debugging is the process of removing bugs,
Then programming must be the process of putting them in.

--Edsger Dijkstra

You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic;
You cannot have both at the same time.

--Bertrand Meyer

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.--Bill Gates

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