Freedom from Fear

So if you want freedom from this fearfulness or this material existence... Material existence means struggle for existence. This is material. Everyone has struggle: "I want to stay. I want to..." In your country there has been so much fight, the French Revolution and so many fighting, fighting between the Protestant and the Catholic. And...

Extraordinary Performance

Times when performance management results can be disappointing, does it really mean we are Below Expectations, Above Expectations or Meets Expectations? we need to understand whose expectations? Expectations keep changing and  influenced by several business parameters that does not remain constant and driven by market factors. However we need to perform definitely above standards set...

Living with Honour

Recently I started some catch up on my reading and was lucky to have stumbled upon Shiv Khera's Book "Living with Honour". In the corporate world, the difference between right and wrong dims very quickly due to the nature of the business we are in. Hence the following inspired me and  would like to reproduce...

Reducing Support, maintenance and QA Costs (RTB) with Self-healing software

In the recent past organizations always focused on efficiency and effectiveness. This in turn put a lot of focus on time to market and productivity however the quality and consistency aspects of any software delivery somehow always took a back seat.  A focus on time to market is extremely important to be an early adopter...

QA?

The Vision

Hi folksWelcome to Balaraman's Blog world. I intend to share my experiences, thougts , future and many other aspects of the software quality assurance and testing field. As I go along i will be sharing my research in this area - problems and challenges faced in specific types of engagments and how it was overcome...