Go gaga over Machine Learning

One last blog post before the year ends and we start a new beginning in the testing world, this article sums up where testing is headed to! Complexity, testing and its impact on innovation in 2018 Commercial industry has been fundamentally changed by digital technology. The most revolutionary organisations, like Uber and Netflix have shifted the goalposts, moving entire businesses online and introducing accessible, engaging and immersive consumer experiences. And, while tech innovation has historically happened at a discrete product or operational level, today it's taking place across an entire business - and beyond.

What is it? Fuzz testing (i.e. fuzzing) is a software testing technique that consists of inputing invalid, unexpected, or random data into to a computer program, to check whether it will crash, show memory leaks, etc. In short, it’s a shortcut for finding bugs that, if missed, could result in serious problems down the development road, as well as security problems for users. What did Microsoft release? Earlier called Project Springfield Microsoft Security Risk Detection Security Risk Detection is Microsoft's unique fuzz testing service for finding security critical bugs in software. Security Risk Detection helps customers quickly adopt practices and technology battle-tested over the last 15 years at Microsoft. READ SUCCESS STORIES How does Microsoft Security Risk Detection work? How does it work? Built on Azure and powered by artificial intellingence, Microsoft Security Risk Detection aims to uncover bugs and vulnerabilities in software before it is release...

Applitools raises $8 million for its quality assurance computer vision Software testing company Applitools has raised $8 million for its technology that uses computer vision to recognize changes to websites or mobile apps like typos, missing icons, or other content. Developers using Applitools can catch mistakes or spot variations between version history or web browsers. Tricentis reveals first JIRA testing tool, enabling agile teams feedback Tricentis has released its first exploratory testing tool for Atlassian JIRA's testing industries, enabling agile teams to keep pace with accelerated release cycles and for faster feedback on quality matters. Focusing on quality, testing times and resources, the software testing company will help agile teams reliably deliver comprehensive feedback on applications under test, whilst providing a flexible pace with constant change.

Facebook is building brain-computer interfaces for typing and skin-hearing Facebook is building brain-computer interfaces for typing and skin-hearing Today at F8, Facebook revealed it has a team of 60 engineers working on building a brain-computer interface that will let you type with just your mind without invasive implants. The team plans to use optical imaging to scan your brain a hundred times per second to detect you speaking silently in your head, and translate it into text.

April 12th, 1947: ENIAC, the world's first general-purpose programmable electronic computer, ran the first code written in the modern paradigm, marking the birth of computer programming as a profession. This first test code ran computations for the hydrogen bomb. ENIAC could perform complex coded operations like loops, seen today in languages like JavaScript, Ruby and Python. These first professional programmers were all WOMEN , a fact that took 50 years to be recognised. Coding ENIAC to solve a single problem would take weeks. Today, you can build a website in a matter of hours! Apple II at 40: Explore Mac History On April 17, 1977 , the Apple II computer was unveiled. 40 years later, your browser can load and run Classic Mac OS, its successor’s operating system, in seconds.  

Much of the internet stopped working because of a typo Happy Testing!

For those of you who know me I have been exploring and talking about Machine Learning a lot these days. (Blame it on one of the meetups I had been to) Let's explore the what and how of ML: What is it? Machine learning  is the subfield of  computer science  that gives computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed -  Arthur Samuel , 1959 Evolved from the study of pattern recognition and computational learning theory in artificial intelligence , machine learning explores the study and construction of algorithms that can learn from and make predictions on data Machine learning is the study of computer algorithms that improve automatically through experience - Tom Mitchell In 2006, the online movie company Netflix held the first " Netflix Prize " competition to find a program to better predict user preferences and improve the accuracy on its existing Cinematch movie recommendation algorithm by at least 10%. A joint tea...

It's that day of the year again! Surely every day is Tester's Day, but it feels good to have a special day that can make us testers around the world share and collaborate and feel proud to be one. On September, 9 1945 the scientists of the Harvard University while testing the computer Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator had found a moth which got stuck between the contacts of the electromechanical relay.  The work they performed required some description, and the word had been found – «debugging» (literally: disposal of an insect) – and now it is used to describe the process of identifying and eliminating bugs which cause a computer to malfunction. The removed insect was pasted into the computer log with the entry: “First actual case of bug being found”, and was then transferred to the computer museum. Now that you know, Happy Tester’s day !

When programmers at the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory set out to develop the flight software for the Apollo 11 space program in the mid-1960s, the necessary technology did not exist. They had to invent it. They came up with a new way to store computer programs, called “rope memory,” and created a special version of the assembly programming language. Assembly itself is obscure to many of today’s programmers—it’s very difficult to read, intended to be easily understood by computers, not humans. For the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC), MIT programmers wrote thousands of lines of that esoteric code. Here’s a very 1960s data visualization of just how much code they wrote—this is Margaret Hamilton, director of software engineering for the project, standing next to a stack of paper containing the software: Margaret Hamilton (NASA) The AGC code has been available to the public for quite a while–it was first uploaded by tech researcher Ron Burkey in 2003, after he’d tr...

For anyone who is interested: http://lp.applitools.com/selenium3/ In 2016, the Selenium Project is working hard to (finally!) ship 3.0. Join Simon Stewart on May 25, and discover: What will this release contain What impact will it have on your test runs How can you preserve your existing investment in tests using the Selenium WebDriver APIs, and your even older RC tests Looking forward, when will the W3C spec be complete And what can we expect from Selenium 4 Speaker: Simon Stewart At ThoughtWorks, Simon invented WebDriver. At Google, he became the lead of the Selenium project and built the infrastructure required to run millions of browser-based tests every day. At Facebook, Simon advocated for a monorepo, setup the mobile end-to-end testing frameworks, and lead the Buck build tool team, all of which helped slash the time from code to release.

I have been religiously celebrating this day for the fifth year now.  If you have missed my previous posts, here is the trivia: On September, 9 1945 the scientists of the Harvard University while testing the computer Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator had found a moth which got stuck between the contacts of the electromechanical relay.  The work they performed required some description, and the word had been found – «debugging» (literally: disposal of an insect) – and now it is used to describe the process of identifying and eliminating bugs which cause a computer to malfunction. The removed insect was pasted into the computer log with the entry: “First actual case of bug being found”, and was then transferred to the computer museum. Happy World Tester's Day again!

Good news for the test automation folks! In another developer-friendly move, Microsoft announces that its new Edge browser supports the WebDriver automated testing technology. Microsoft may be distancing its new Edge browser from Internet Explorer (IE) and its contentious past, but it is inheriting at least some developer features. In addition to an   improved set of F12 tools , the company announced that Edge supports WebDriver, an emerging automated site-testing standard from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Windows Insiders, members of Microsoft's beta program, can test the functionality in build 10240 or newer. The company first   added WebDriver support to IE 11   a year ago. The use of WebDriver with Edge requires running Microsoft WebDriver server software with Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 (build 10240 and above). Microsoft halted downloads of the server after a "publishing issue" cropped up, but the company hopes to restore the software later toda...

Can you believe that HP has come up with this new tool/plugins that they call LeanFT, obviously the name suggests that it's the lean way of doing functional testing. Let's see what they claim: Key Highlights and what's good: Automation in Java or C# - definitely something that most automation folks were looking forward to Compatible with UFT's object Identification engine- hmm :) Continuous Integration - Has integration with Jenkins  Supports BDD tools like Cucumber/Jbehave Integration with SCM tools like Git/SVN IDE would be your standard Eclipse / TFS Same reporting as before but with all of the above Unit testing frameworks like JUnit/ Nunit Integration with other HP tools -  HP Application Lifecycle Management, HP Quality Center, and HP Mobile Center. Interesting fun facts: QTP's Object spy from Visual studio/Eclipse Free license if you already have the UFT 12.5 license customized html reports Release Date: July 2015 along with  UFT ...

I read through this list and was so happy I knew most of them , even if quite a few of them did not know me :) There are definitely names that are missing but it's a good list for sure! My favorite being "Jason Huggins" and yours? Richard Bradshaw David Burns Dominik Dary Jim Evans Dave Haeffner Jason Huggins Jonathan Lipps Diego Lo Giudice Thomas E. Murphy Alan Page Julie Ralph Alan Richardson Simon Stewart Noah Sussman Andreas Tolfsen Nathan Wilson Full post here:   http://testautomation.applitools.com/post/112039810542/top-16-influencers-thought-leaders-in-test

Problem:  Recently I was trying to look at all my favourite blogs and posts. I realized with my busy schedule I end up deleting most of the feeds that I receive by email. Solution: As usual my automation brain to the rescue; I decided to use yahoo pipes which would do some kind of automation and merge all the feeds into one customized output! Here is the link to the yahoo pipe: https://pipes.yahoo.com/testautomation/testingnews Problem The second problem was simple now that I had the results , I wanted an email that gave me updates real-time. Solution: Use a service such as RSSFWD   or Blogtrottr   to deliver it to your email!! Happy staying updated on all that happens in the Testing world! Note : You are free to clone the yahoo pipe and customize it the way you want it..

Here is a an interesting list of free software testing eBooks that Sergey has on github https://github.com/ligurio/free-software-testing-books/blob/master/free-software-testing-books.md Happy Reading!

Now this is a day that I love, though I was introduced to this just three years back and if you are still wondering what is it all about: On September, 9 1945 the scientists of the Harvard University while testing the computer Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator had found a moth which got stuck between the contacts of the electromechanical relay.  The work they performed required some description, and the word had been found – «debugging» (literally: disposal of an insect) – and now it is used to describe the process of identifying and eliminating bugs which cause a computer to malfunction. The removed insect was pasted into the computer log with the entry: “First actual case of bug being found”, and was then transferred to the computer museum. Now that you know, Happy Tester’s day !

Aussie firm aims to build 10,000-strong software army Revolution IT banks on crowdsourcing to help win business. Australian software testing provider Revolution IT is hoping to turn 10,000 local software professionals into a pool of software testers-for-hire. Just as sites like 99designs have popularised a model where freelance graphic designers compete for work at basement prices, Revolution IT is adopting a similar approach. The CRN Fast50 entrant plans to invite thousands of local software testers and professionals to sign up for what it says is Australian's first managed onshore crowd testing service. By combining these people with a talent pool of 100,000 via overseas crowdsourcing partners, Revolution IT hopes to become the "biggest testing organisation" in the world, in the words of Revolution IT director Hamish Leighton. "This puts us on a globe scale, bigger than any other of the outsourcers. The pool of talent we can reach now is phenomenal...

A very interesting mind-map from the team of: Chronicles Of Testing Testing - Mind map Click on the image below for better viewing. Wish I knew few of these pointers on the day one of my testing career - If you ever felt this way. Remind yourself it is never too late to learn to think and to test well. Here is a mind map with aspects to know about software testing, for any aspiring tester on where to begin and the how and where to from here. Each of these points can be extended to include further details. If you have gone through the mind map and require to know the below information, get in touch with me or any one from the testing world. Questions like the below are welcome. Books to read and authors to be referred. Blogs to read. Twitter - who to follow. Happy Testing.  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Source -...