Breed Of Testers -- Part 2

Hi its the Social Media Girl for OPSPL. Well I hadn't posted anything in the OPSPL Diaries for sometime now. Maybe I wasn't inspired enough, but as I was going through a few random blogs I came across one that was called "The breed of Testers" by Minion. Hence thought of posting a Part 2 for the same. This time its from Online -- Goa. Enjoy :)

THE COMEDIAN

The Comedian regularly carries a cheerful approach to testing. They are grinding away at work to do a good job, yet they are also here to have a touch of fun. The Comedian is an amusing sort of fella who will always have a joke and a laugh even when every one else is worried about deadlines. In the wake of pulling a 14 hour shift the Comedian is still in top form. I mean joke wise at any rate. The Comedian frequently makes awesomely funny test data and artifacts. The Comedian's defect reports, in spite of the fact that they are fairly accurate, have been known to make designers cry with laughter. Now and again however, the Comedian can seem to fail to offer the professionalism and maturity to move through the testing ranks and be regarded with respect by different departments. The Comedian's principle objective is to have a fabulous time at work and make the working environment a fun place. Despite the reality that they can sometimes be pretty annoying, particularly after the 100th practical joke including elastic creepy crawlies and a camera, you can't deny their methodology to work is very refreshing.

THE MAGICIAN

Very often called Forrest Gump as they generally have all the earmarks of being in the right place at the right time. They try to test an application that has already been tried vigorously and quickly discover a masterpiece or a masterproblem. Each bit of programming they touch, they discover a deformity in it almost immediately. Each tester sometime or another has a short however otherworldly spell as the Magician yet a few testers have the ability to do it at all time. Its only a problem when the Magician ill-uses their powers through the following ways:

1. They get pompous and hold showing off sessions. This can prompt hate and constant irritation.

2. They utilize their magician skills to cover up coding defects and vanish all evidence of poor execution. The truth soon comes out.

3. They transform their team into farm animals. Despite the fact that its funny, it is frequently seen as misusing power.

4. Wearing preposterous magician outfits and pointy caps. Neither man nor woman nor the farm animals likes extravagant dress. It's on occasion like this when the Magician is stripped off of their energy and downgraded to that of human tester.

A Magician is never late either. They arrive exactly when they intend to.
Furthermore in spite of the fact that most of us have to accept that we have minimal control over if we can turn into a magician or not there are a few steps all testers could be doing to take a shot at being the Magician. They are:

1. Read everything you can about the subject

2. Have an yearning to study

3. Practice, practice, practice And assuming that you go about doing this, then one day perhaps you too could turn into a magician.

THE NITPICKER

The Nitpicker takes more time to test than generally most testers, they are known to raise a tremendous amount of imperfections of which just 1% are certified bugs. The Nitpicker raises hell for everything that isn't archived, regardless of the fact that it works and makes sense. They utilize the medium of defects to make conversations with whatever is left of the team. They frequently raise numerous examples of one bug, regularly with the sole point of raising their bug count. They sit down to test, cross reference each bit of documentation and make flawlessly definite bug reports. On the plus side, they are amazingly careful. The Nitpicker is not responsive to change however. The Nitpicker needs everything to be recorded and each change to be carefully written down. Any discussion that happens needs a signed paper follow up of all agreed details. Change controls unnerve the Nitpicker. Missing documentation is a Nitpickers most certified bad dream. The Nitpicker regularly invests a great deal of time handling cross reference reports and networks that on the surface appear functional yet wind up using more time and money. The Nitpicker accepts a standard set of metrics ought to be applied to all test projects. The Nitpicker adores Best Practices. Frequently the Nitpicker keeps tabs on the things that don't make a difference and constantly frets until the farm animals get back. Working with a Nitpicker is a test. They require a consistent flow of documentation as well as frequently decline to begin work until the documentation is triplicated under the false conviction that testing can't begin until a agreed date. They require quietness, time and paperwork and this frequently is just too much for the rest of the testers to handle.

Ninja Kicking myths about Social Media Marketing

Yes I am a Social Media Person.

No I don’t just get paid to be on Facebook.

Yes I am wearing a Ninja outfit.

Myth : It’s Easy and can be completed in an hour!

Ya right, this is the biggest myth of all. If this were true I would be out on the road before you could say Burger! Why burger? Well lets not deviate from the topic. It needs a lot of quickness and agility. A successful accomplishment of social media might expect following things from you:

• Convert artistic excellence into content excellence.
• Create multiple variety of content on multiple networks.
• Control the method of sharing content of many people in same organization.
• Media optimization.
• Responsive social media.
• Keep a Check on which strategies worked and which didn't.

Social media can’t be scaled easily; it needs skillful and agile process for successful venture marketing.

Myth : Managing it… is Free!

Creating relevant content which is optimized and then posting and circulating it on multiple networks, needs a lot of time and patience. The free managing tools that are offered for this method however aren't adequate. Hence, social media marketing needs an expert who is nimble, intelligent and fully fledged for managing information flare-ups.

*Taking a bow*

Premium tools for modifying and controlling social media aren't free. Commenting and posting on Facebook  twitter, etc. might not cost any penny, however sustaining it entails commitment (money) and progressive approach. So if you still think some tools are free that doesn't mean that social media itself is free platform!

Myth : Social Media= Facebook!

If you think its solely Facebook that does all the social media effectively, then you're highly mistaken!

It’s terribly essential to grasp the importance of every social networking site; because it might have a secret ingredient to serve for various purpose. If you're B2B enterprise then you ought to choose LinkedIn, because it is one among the quickest growing social networks. Twitter on the opposite hand, will assist you in building targeted group which is pricey and slow with Facebook.

Even though Facebook dominates its other competitors by nearly one billion users, it still doesn't mean that it's the sole web site to think about for social media promoting.

Myth: Create Social Networking Site And We Are Sorted!

Social networking websites on their own cannot serve you the purpose of successful marketing. There ought to be communicable and catching content on your web site and blogs such that individuals finds it fascinating enough to share and like and comment on it. The content here plays very important role in establishing your brand recognition.

There are varied other factors, that are thought of as essential as building contacts and clients on social networking sites. you must hunt for following aspects while doing social networking for your business:

• Implement traditional media techniques like email campaigns, newspaper ads etc
• Must do SEO
• Create contagious content for contagious followers
• If you can’t, hire an expert (Sole Purpose of my existence!)

Social media is an important a part of your marketing strategy, however not the sole one. In fact, this works even higher if pooled with different marketing services, particularly email marketing. Hence, by overcoming these misconceptions regarding social media you'll surely augment your return on investment.

Source: Online -- Goa

Also see: Techie Jargons ,
               Life of a QA tester,
               Life of SEO \ Social Media Intern

Network Engineer / Don't care why the upgrade is making your computer slow guy

A network engineer is the hard labor guy of the IT world. He handles all the “Plumbing Work” for the company’s computers. You will usually find him creeping around the shadows of the server room, connecting offices with T1 lines, then hooking them up to the internet and the tedious process of configuring all internal systems such as net routers and firewalls.

The position of a network engineer usually spills over into some UNIX systems administration work, but practically, it’s a plumbing job. Getting a start up company with a small staff and only one location configured is a pretty easy network design job. But if you work for a larger established firm with offices everywhere, the network is incredibly complicated with tiers and tiers of network engineers.

 A network engineer needs to know how to use some basic network devices like “packet sniffers”. It’s a ‘noodly’ job which doesn’t utilize a lot of tools; you have to be able to think your way through problems and understand how stuff works. You may not actually spend a lot of time typing, but rather in front of white boards (like a chalk board you write on with markers) drawing pictures to visualize your solutions.

A typical day demands typical hours, but in the life of a network engineer actual work begins off-hours when they’re tinkering with something, because it might interrupt the systems while others work. These nocturnal creatures often arrive around 10 or 11 a.m., but they’re usually there until 7, 8 or 9 p.m. And most likely they’re always on call. Networking is a world in itself which is utterly fascinatingly glamorous to people in the field.

Source : Online - Goa

Also see: Techie Jargons ,
               Life of a QA tester,
               Life of SEO \ Social Media Intern

Techie Jargons

Today we thought we’d share some of the tech jargon we use out here at Online -- Goa

Bombastic Report
This could very well be called a smug report or a pompous report but I just love the word Bombastic. Is the Shaggy song Mr. Boombastic playing in your head yet? Coming back to the report, a bombastic report is a bug that is submitted by a snob who thinks he / she knows a lot about the design and is worldly wise enough to make irrelevant technical suggestions which he / she thinks is causing a problem.

Also see

High on Crack report: A report so completely in comprehensible that the person who submitted it must have been smoking pot.

Don’t know Don’t care report: A report usually with no information other than the phrase “ doesn't work.”


A Sitting Duck


All of us have those moments when we go to present our product that we know is as perfect as the almighty itself. But then the clients who feel they know better start pointing out changes because they feel if they don’t then they aren't adding value. So we add a sitting duck – A feature included to the design to draw attention and be removed, thus avoiding changes to the rest of the product.




Onion Code

As many of you might have already figured out. This is a code with too many layers. Here as you dive into the code, every layer has to be pushed on to the memory stack which may form abstraction and cause the user to cry sulpher tears.






Shhushhh Comments 
Also known as the Ninja comments, invisible comments, secret comments, or no comments.

Mad Girlfriend Bug
You know there is something going on but the software tells you everything is fine.





Source: Online -- Goa






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