I pray to GOD, Give us more courage..

Today I saw two news in TV.. These both news has again shaken me ..Why should human have heart...should GOD keep Stone in place of heart ..?

1. Near Gurgaon, One software employee, while going by his office CAR to office (That day was his last day @ HCL, Gurgaon) few days ago, Met with an accident, such that, 5 Ft Steel Rod had penetrated his chest. His driver flew away (Bastard..Can't abuse more in public..).. But that guy (Supratim) was able to talk..so many people crossed him, but no body helped. Then he called His Mom and friend in Delhi. His friend could reach there in 1.30 Hrs. Some labors there helped him taking to hospital (AIIMS), where after 7.30 Hrs of operation, The Rod was taken out from his body and now he is out of danger.. Brave guy..

2. Near the border of Noida, In Delhi..One Call centre guy was coming back from office at 5AM. He lose control on bike and hit the Road devider, and his face got stuck in fence (Between two rods). So many cars, bike crossed him, But nobody stopped there to help him .. One person called 100 (Police), and after some time Noida police came to spot, But Noida police saw that Delhi police has already reached there. Both the police party were dicussing whose area is this for more than an hour and the person died in front of them. Finally it boiled down to Delhi area, Police took him directly for postmartom.They didn't even took him to hospital to confirm that he is really dead..Such a police..They have authority and all the wireless, Emergency hadling training..its part of their job ..let it be anywhere in noida or delhi..

I accept, at some time in my life (I remember once), I saw an accident and just crossed by, I felt going to help her (a lady was hit by a bus near Ram krishna ashram, Bangalore), But thought I may not be able to take care, the local people may do better .. and I saw some people came up and helped (in that sense Bangalore is far better than Delhi). I pray to GOD, give me atleast this much courage that I can help anybody in any such circumstance. Everything just vanishes one a person dies ..His friends, family ..enemies ..money ..everything .. O! Almighty.. Give me and all human beings the sense to help each other..so that everybody can live peacefully..

SDLC and STLC

SDLC (Software Developement Life Cycle)

* Requirement phase
* Designing phase (HLD, DLD (Program spec))
* Coding
* Testing
* Release
* Maintenance

STLC (Software Testing Life Cycle)

* System Study
* Test planning
* Writing Test case or scripts
* Review the test case
* Executing test case
* Bug tracking
* Report the defect

Tips by Ashish Kumar Jha from Purnia, Bihar - 4

Did you forgot root password in linux?
You are in login screen and u forgot root password? Don't worry..Follow these easy steps ..
1. Reboot, as soon as u see GRUB on screen press Escape. Highlight first entry and press ‘e‘.
2. Go to the kernel line (something like “kernel /boot/vmlinuz-. . .“) and press ‘e‘ again.
3. Using arrow keys, go the very end of the line and leaving one space, type: single
4. Press that ESC key again, and then press ‘b‘ key to boot your machine.
5. You will get a command prompt. Type "passwd" and give "yourpassword".
6. Thats it..u change the root password and reboot to login in normal mode. No need to change anything while grub comes.

Tips by Ashish Kumar Jha from Purnia, Bihar - 3

If you have firefox browser, You can increase the speed of web surfing by following below steps.

1. Open about:config in the address bar

2. Change “network.http.pipelining” to “true”.

3. Change “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”.

4. Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to 30 . This means it will take 30 requests at once.

5. Right click and click New > Integer. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0″. The value means how long will the browser wait before it responds.

Online health solution -- Get appointment online

I came to know about this online health solution from one of my friend. So next time when I get fever, and I don't know where will I get a doctor, I will visit http://healthcaremagic.com

Here I will search for Doctor for General medicine in Pin Code 560075. And I get the list of 41 doctors in my surrounding with phone numbers. I will call and get an appointment. In fact this site provide interface for taking appointment also.

For detailed information why don't you log in and see that..

Tips by Ashish Kumar Jha from Purnia, Bihar - 2

Well, You watch youtube videos but your connection is bit slow. So what you can do is search your video and play it. Once the play starts, pause it. So the video will be downloaded (cached) to ur local machine in temporary file. Once the play Line becomes complete red (Completely downloaded), You can play it and watch it.
Now you wanted to play the same video again and u don't want to wait..Simple ..There are various methods to get the video to ur machine and play using ur own player (Say mplayer, vlc, realplay..)

1. You can download Realplayer10, which have options to save youtube videos. (In windows, it works great)
2. There are several tools available, to download youtube video. Grab one and download (Works fine in Windows)
3. If u have Linux Desktop, There is easiest method. (The same may be true in Windows..I don't use windows..Well almost]
a. After pause let the video get downloaded completely.
b. Go to /tmp [cd /tmp]
c. type "ls -ltr' which will sort the files in modified time, so ur video will come in last. The video name will be something like this FlashkqgXus.
d. Copy this file to ur directory [cp FlashkqgXus /home/downloads/youtube1]
e. Now play this video any time using ur favorite player.

My setup is, Suse Linux Desktop, Firefox 1.5, VLC ..

Tips by Ashish Kumar Jha from Purnia, Bihar - 1

You Can listen online radio (Hindi songs). But what happens is every time you need to open a browser and Do several clicks in order to tune into a radio station. I will tell u simple steps (For Windows user with internet) which is really good.

1. Download and install iTunes download itunes
2. Open in any browser shoutcast.com
3. In "Search For", Search for Hindi. You will see around 40 Radio stations around the world playing Hindi Songs 24/7
4. Open iTunes
5. Now click on 1st link in shoutcast result. The link will open in iTunes and will be kept there always even if u close the itunes.
6. Then click on second "Tune In", This site will also get loaded in iTunes. Similarly repeat the same for all radio sites in shoutcast.
7. Now from next time onwards, No need to open any browser. Just open iTunes and listen radio. If good song is not coming in one radio, just double click other radio station.

Abhi bas itna hi ..

Met with College friends at GARUDA MALL

Yesterday, I met with other 5 friends from VEC Bellary ECE branch. They were, Manju (Currently Working with Unisys), Santosh (Currently Working with Motorola), Guru (Currently Working with Accenture), Sanjeev (Currently Working with Veriphone), Shravan (Cuurently persuing M.Tech at NIT Trichy, in VLSI).

We gathered near Garuda Mall at 12.15 PM. First of all we took ticket for "Jannat" at INOX, 12.55 PM. We had some snacks.. watched movie .. had great fun ..

We roamed in Garuda mall for 2 hours and then, I came back to home.

It Was nice time with friends, and I hope this will contine every now and then and with more friends and different places ..

Trip to Bannerghatta national park

I went to Chandrabhanu Bhaiya's Home in National Games village in Koromangala. There We thought to go somewhere... Finally We decided to go to Bannerghatta national park .. It was 2PM there only .. we reached National park at 2.45 PM. Got the ticket for Grand Safari. We had to wait in que for around 45 minutes to get into the "Mini Bus" so called safari. Then we went inside th forest and saw several open animals like Lion, Tiger, Dear, Bear, Panther..It was really great.. But As this was totally unplanned activity, I could not get Camera.
Surprisingly, I met with one of my collegue (With Family) and we all were in same Safari..Wat a coincidence..It was great fun ..
I came back to Bhaiyya's Home and had dinner (We prepared there..though it was a mess!!)..Came back to room at 10PM ..

Mathematical mistake in RACE Hindi Movie

In Race movie, There were so many twists and turns, Though some of the twists were expected, Why ? As In the Trailers running since 3-4 months on TV, There were some dialogues by Saif Ali Khan, Had not come till He was dead :) .

There was first 100 Million Dollar, Given by Insurance company to Katrina Kaif (+Akshay Khanna), Out of which, He gave 25 Million to Anil kapoor, And Anil kapoor gave some amount to manager of orphanage (Not disclosed.. It was some two packs.. But not sure how much was that). Now with Akshay, there were 75 Millions Dollars only.

Till, last both Anil Kapoor and Saif Ali Khan were in dileama, That they have 200 Million dollars.. Director made them fool.. There were only 175 Million dollars ..and I don't know how much was given to Anil Kapoor..

Testing Brains.. Works even u watch movie ... :)

Trip to Hampi

I along with my Brother-In-Law went to Hubli by Bus on Friday. Saturday we booked a Innova and went to Hampi along with My Sister and her friends.

We first went to BVB College and saw the college, then went to College canteen. Later it took sometime to gather all friends. we moved from Hubli at 10.40 AM. My plan was to meet my friend Tilak, whose home is on the way to Hampi, In Koppal. We went to koppal and spent some time with Tilak. Had some group photos.

Then we moved to Hospet. I saw the time was 3PM and my return ticket for Bangalore was on 9.30 PM from Hubli. I Went to cyber cafe in Hospet and Canceled the ticket. After cancelling the ticket I wanted to book ticket to Bangalore at 11.30PM, I couldn't as the ksrtc.in server was down. Again, I went to KSRTC bus stand to get the ticket, but there also server was down.

Finally, We moved to Hampi. We reached there at 4PM. We had lunch in Hampi. We saw one big temple (name I forgot :( ), And Queens Palace and some other monuments. While coming back, I booked ticket to bangalore at 11PM in Hospet.

In the whole trip, We (I, my BiL, my SiS and 6 of her friends) played various games, antakshari and enjoyed a lot.

We reached back to Hubli at 10 PM (I had requested to Warden, That all the girls will be back to Hostel by 8.30pm Max). After dropping them in Hostel, I and my BiL came to hotel, Packed our Bag and came to Hubli New Bus Stand. Got the bus, Reached bangalore today at 8AM.

It was a good unplanned outing and we all had a great fun.

Car driving

Today was my first car driving training class. Tariner's name is Manju, and He stays near Halasuru and belong to Bangalore only. He know Hindi, But not fluent. I was able to understand what he is telling.


The driving school is "Dhanush Driving School" (Again School?) in Indiranagar BDA complex. It was around one hour session. I was just moving the stearing left and right and nothing else. I feel, Car driving needs more discipline and concentration in comparison to bike. The problem with the car is, There are three things, Accelerator, Brake and Clutch and only two legs.

Though I don't have any plans to buy Car in near future, But learning just in case, I get enough money, I will buy a Second hand car and practice in Bangalore. (Preparing for after marriage effects !!)

It was great fun!!!

ICICI bank Minimum Balance

ICICI has increased the minimum balance for its saving account to 10,000. It seems they are focussing more on upper middle and upper class customers only. As I feel, Its very difficult to maintain 10K Minm. In This age of consumerism, everybody is loaded with lots of expenses and credit card bills. Banks have fueled the expenses by providing Credit card.

I can't blame this to just Banks, Even we public has become adicted to that and we think why to pay by cash or debit card If I can keep the money for another 30-40 days and I will not have to pay anything extra. But our expenses have increased. I go to Big Bazaar and Even If I don't need anything argent, I will purchase it just because I am not supposed to pay right now. This has lead to Money-Mis-Management.

Anoth thing I came to know, That unlike before, I can not transfer money to any Bank's account at any time. First of all, Bank should fall under NEFT (National Electronic Fund Transfer) and not under EFT. Second thing is, It depends upon the branch also, What I mean, You may be able to transfer money from ICICI bank to SBI, RT nagar branch, But may be you can't to SBI gandhinagar branch. Also, Unlike earlier, You can transfer money only on working days and working time i.e upto 3.30PM on weekdays and upto 1.30PM on saturday.

Disclaimer: Ashish Kumar Jha

I am Starting writing blog again with discliamer

DISCLAIMER:
This blog is completely personal to me, and anything written in this blog, is best from my knowledge, But Neither any individual nor any Organization is responsible for any thing written.

If you find anything which is objectionable, let me know, I will take required action on that.

Thanks for your understanding.

Ashish Kumar Jha,
Bhatottar,Purnea, Bihar

Honesty

Yesterday, I had been to One Small Hotel for Tea with Surya Satya Narayana and Nataraj Gurumurthy, Had two coffee and one Pani-Puri. I gave Wasu (Person @ Counter) 50 Rupees. I didn't took Change. Today again I went for tea, When Nataraj wanted to pay for Tea, He told to me that, I had forgot to collect the change Y'day. He gave me back my change.

Truely speaking, I didn't remember that i have forgot to take change. Honesty is still here.. :)

Team Outing

Y'day, we went to watch "Jodha Akbar" with my team at PVR. It was "OK" Kind of. Some of my team mate are not good in Hindi and that too mixed with Urdu. It was hard time for them to understand the dialogues. Overall It was great fun.

One of GOOD review link.

Some words which I learned are "Takliya" and "Hukm ki tamil Ho"

I talked to one of my best friend after 15 years

I am very very happy today as Mritunjaya called me. When There was Birthday Celebration Happening, He was calling me and I was cancelling the call for 5 times. Then I recieved the call, But could not hear properly who was that, So I told him that, I am in a meeting, And will call him later.

I can feel, what mritunjaya might think..I am calling to Ashish After 15 years !!!! And He is unable to talk to me. Then I called him on his mobile. As soon he told, I am mritunjaya, I was extremely happy. In the last 15 years, I had tried several times to find his contacts, But could not get. After a good effort He could get my contact number and I was .. No words..

Let the world know, That he was the only person during my school days, with whom I was so much attached. In every wrong or right, He used to be with me. For some home works, I used to solve maths for him [He told on phone, That I got my math solver again..].

Thanks to technology, That we could get contact with each other. When I will go to home in November, I will definately meet him.

I am not sure, How he looks now, But I can still visuallise his childish face. So many things happened, in 15 years.

Hey Mritunjaya, I am missing you a lot and want to meet you as soon as possible. Today I want to celebrate. There was some good official announcements too today. So Its a really good day today.

To be a better tester

I felt, To be a better tester, One should have these soft skills [List is minimal and I will add later] and this is completely my ideas and other may or may not agree..

1. Accountability
2. Responsibility
3. Communication Skills
4. Confidentiality
5. Dareness to say unpleasent things.
6. Hard worker
7. Should not get irritated with same repeated work.
8. Respect every one but never be like "yes sir" attitude even if other person is wrong, whoever the other person may be.
9. Passionate about learning new technology
10. Flexible enough in work assigned, Time to work and team to work with.

Lastly, I felt from todays monday musings, that If you are getting criticised, you feel you are progressing.

India beats Pakistan in Twenty20 World Cup Final

India bowled out Pakistan with three balls remaining Monday to win the first Twenty20 World Cup final by five runs.
India hit 157 for five wickets at Wanderers Stadium before reducing Pakistan to 104-7 off 16 overs. Sohail Tanvir then hit 12 runs off four balls with two huge sixes to bring Pakistan back in contention.
Tanvir fell to make it 138-8 and Pakistan lost its last three wickets for 14 runs, Misbah-ul-Haq holing out to a catch by Sreesanth for 43 to end the match.
"We thought we would be able to chase between 150 and 160 easily," Pakistan captain Shoaib Malik said. "But we lost early wickets, and that didn't help us."
Rudra Pratap Singh and Ifran Pathan each took three wickets from their four overs for a combined total of just 42 runs, but it was Joginder Sharma who was asked to bowl the final over.
With Pakistan needing 13 runs off the last six balls, the rookie medium pacer opened with a horrible wide. He then bowled a dot ball before conceding a six. But he held his nerve and lured Misbah-ul-Haq into an attempted paddle, which went high into the air and straight to Sreesanth at fine leg inside the circle.
The catch gave India its first international title since it won the 1983 World Cup.
"We really wanted to do well because we played so badly in the World Cup," India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni said. "And it was a real team effort that won the tournament for us."
India batted after Dhoni won the toss and mostly owed its total to 75 off 54 balls from opener Gautam Gambhir, who struck eight fours and two sixes.
His partners fell regularly and he was the last batsman dismissed when he was caught at short fine leg by Mohammad Asif off Umar Gul at the end of the 18th over.
India again struggled to accelerate its innings, with Yuvraj Singh - who smashed six sixes off an over against England - contained by the slow spin bowling of Shahid Afridi and Mohammad Hafeez.
Yuvraj made only 14 off 19 balls, and it was left to Rohit Sharma to hit an undefeated 30 off 16 balls at the end to lift the total to a defendable level.
"We should have got 180," Dhoni said. "But Pakistan's bowling was really excellent, especially Umar Gul."
Gul was the best of the Pakistani bowlers with 3-28.
Pakistan then started its innings badly, losing Mohammad Hafeez in the first over to Singh, but Imran Nazir compensated for that poor start by taking 21 runs off Sreesanth's first over.
With wickets falling regularly and Nazir run out for 33 by a great direct hit from Robin Uthappa, Misbah-ul-Haq had to try and lift his team with 43 off 38 balls.
Tailender Tanvir also hit two sixes right at the end, but Pathan led the Indian bowlers with 3-16, while Singh's 3-26 helped set up the middle-overs squeeze which eventually led to the victory.
"For us, the turning point was Imran Nazir's run out - we were always struggling after that," Malik said.
He also condoned Shahid Afridi's dismissal for a duck, caught in the deep for a duck off his first ball.
"That's the way Shahid plays; he is player of the tournament, so it's an honour to have him in our team," he said.
Source: http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5hoRc_-gspv5Tq9IpQrxPHIc9gXgQ

Testing Mistakes

Note: This text is taken from http://www.testing.com/writings/classic/mistakes.html

The role of testing

• Thinking the testing team is responsible for assuring quality.
• Thinking that the purpose of testing is to find bugs.
• Not finding the important bugs.
• Not reporting usability problems.
• No focus on an estimate of quality (and on the quality of that estimate).
• Reporting bug data without putting it into context.
• Starting testing too late (bug detection, not bug reduction)

Planning the complete testing effort

• A testing effort biased toward functional testing.
• Underemphasizing configuration testing.
• Putting stress and load testing off to the last minute.
• Not testing the documentation
• Not testing installation procedures.
• An overreliance on beta testing.
• Finishing one testing task before moving on to the next.
• Failing to correctly identify risky areas.
• Sticking stubbornly to the test plan.

Personnel issues

• Using testing as a transitional job for new programmers.
• Recruiting testers from the ranks of failed programmers.
• Testers are not domain experts.
• Not seeking candidates from the customer service staff or technical writing staff.
• Insisting that testers be able to program.
• A testing team that lacks diversity.
• A physical separation between developers and testers.
• Believing that programmers can't test their own code.
• Programmers are neither trained nor motivated to test.

The tester at work

• Paying more attention to running tests than to designing them.
• Unreviewed test designs.
• Being too specific about test inputs and procedures.
• Not noticing and exploring "irrelevant" oddities.
• Checking that the product does what it's supposed to do, but not that it doesn't do what it isn't supposed to do.
• Test suites that are understandable only by their owners.
• Testing only through the user-visible interface.
• Poor bug reporting.
• Adding only regression tests when bugs are found.
• Failing to take notes for the next testing effort.

Test automation

• Attempting to automate all tests.
• Expecting to rerun manual tests.
• Using GUI capture/replay tools to reduce test creation cost.
• Expecting regression tests to find a high proportion of new bugs.

Code coverage

• Embracing code coverage with the devotion that only simple numbers can inspire.
• Removing tests from a regression test suite just because they don't add coverage.
• Using coverage as a performance goal for testers.
• Abandoning coverage entirely.