If Mirabai Chanu, the gold medalist in Commonwealth Games 2018, can surpass all bounds in breaking the record of weightlifting under the 48 kgs category, your application can surely “lift the weight” of a million users from all across the globe. With a concentrated effort of conducting effective load testing, realizing this milestone becomes extremely easy. Read more »

As we all would agree software testing in becoming an increasingly collaborative effort. As a functional tester, one interacts with most entities in the product, business and engineering teams, both representing the end user as well as enabling everyone take ownership for quality. This balancing act is equally important in software performance testing too. As a performance tester, one not only interacts with several groups of people to understand requirements, business and end user expectations, existing baselines, architecture and its implementation but also needs to keep a constant check to ensure there is no role trespass. Taking this role trespass to the next level, sometimes as a performance tester you may even be forced to take things on your plate which should be done by someone else. Read more »

It is a wonder how security has become pivotal today yet the heed paid to it is almost negligent. With the recent uproar of data leak by Facebook of over 87 million users, people are getting extremely anxious about their sensitive information at the disposal of any third party website. Even a minute detail is open to be exposed in today’s era with the black side of technological pursuits. The mishap with Facebook was an eye opener for everyone to be cautious of the threats “out there”; to be better safe than sorry. Read more »

What does the world look like to you? How do you perceive it? Taking in the world with different experiences; different angles, everyone looks at the world through a different lens. Among the many who have a different vision, is Neil Harbisson, the world’s first cyborg who suffers from colour blindness. With an antenna implanted in his skull, he senses and feels the colours around him which makes one ruminate the lives of the differently abled and how technology has seeped into their beings to make their lives better and efficient. Read more »