Software Tester @ Microsoft

Whatever you call a Software Tester, or Testing Engineer or a Software Design Engineer in Test - it's all the same and here is a video recently i found posted in MS's JobsBlog - "What’s it like to be a Tester at Microsoft?"

Video: A Cowboy Meets a Microsoft Tester?

Here are few more Links though those posts had been posted a long ago.. at least near about 3 years back - But i think those are real good practical examples for any fresh graduate or an undergraduate University student to choose their career in Software Testing.

3 Days in the Life of a SDET by Sara Ford
http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/archive/2004/06/01/145819.aspx

Test Developers Are Real Developers by Steve Rowe
http://blogs.msdn.com/steverowe/archive/2004/03/26/96663.aspx

This video or examples was made on perspective of Microsoft. But it doesn't mean that the only heaven is in Microsoft. The Career could be even in some other software company and it's not defined yet that you couldn't be a father of another Microsoft or Google someday!
Who knows - what's there in You?!?! :)

Pageflakes with the new pagecast features

After so long I was updating the SQABD Pagecast which was powered by Pageflakes. This time Pageflakes gave the option to have a PUBLIC URL. Customize the Theme by my own choice. Pageflakes became more matured day by day.. Somehow i got stuck in adding the Welcome Flake. For some reason it's not appearing after saving or publishing as Public. I need to re-check again..

By the way, I found a minor bug on Reloading any Flake. Here is the Video Screen Capture.


Here is the SQABD Pagecast: http://www.pageflakes.com/sqabd

SkypeCast was held for the SQABD Roundtable Meeting - 12th Session

In last 16th June, 2007 - SQABD (www.sqabd.com) has arranged its' 12th Roundtable Meeting on topic of "State of Software Testing in Bangladesh" at Baton Rouge restaurant. Participants in the meeting was near about 20 persons. And there was an option for joining the meeting through SkypeCast. This Skypecast option for joining in SQABD meeting made people even to join from abroad and even for those person who were not able to join the meeting in person.

For a long time SQABD was thinking to come up with an option where our Bangladeshi Technical Experts from abroad can join the Roundtable Meetings and can add value to make it more productive. At last SQABD came up with the idea of using Skypecast at this 12th session in last Saturday so that anyone can join from anywhere.

SkypeCast:
https://skypecasts.skype.com/skypecasts/skypecast/detailed.html?id_talk=3000526&hash=e327899f81a5e8e693f3

Sometimes it becomes even tough for members who are not from Dhaka, and might not be able to attend this short 2/3 hours roundtable meeting coming from a remote area. So from now the SkypeCast will be a good way to join the SQABD Roundtable Meeting for anyone just by using a good broadband connection and Skype for connecting to SQABD Skypecast in time.

This is the 1st time any Technical Community in Bangladesh has arranged such an option for everyone to join through online which is more flexible to join for people who are in abroad or in a different city/remote area.

Java based Web Application Testing

Today one of my friend emailed me asking a name of a community/group/forum - where he can get the Java based Web Application Testing information. So, here i am sharing a part of my reply:

Here are few communities where you can discuss on Software QA/Testing issues:

1. SQAtester,
2. SQABD and
3. SQAforums

JPGroup is an open community for Java knowledge base.


Here are few links i am sharing in cases helps you anyway.

http://grinder.sourceforge.net/

http://www.fiercedeveloper.com/story/momeunit-a-new-java-test-framework/2007-05-29

http://java-source.net/open-source/web-testing-tools

http://www.clabs.org/wtr/index.cgi?page=/WhatDistinguishesUs

http://community.java.net/java-ws-xml/

http://www.testdriven.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=560

http://safsdev.sourceforge.net/doc/JBrowserTIE.htm

http://jtiger.org/

http://www.froglogic.com/


I could have been the right person for asking something,
but I'm not until there is Google.com :p

Never mind :) Feel free to ask :)
I would love to search.

SQABD released the 1st Meet the Mentors session on Khandakar Asif Hasan

Some of us were lucky to have them in our professional career. Others only heard of their deeds from the lucky ones. They touched our career, improved our skills, inspired us to excel, motivated us to thrive, and showed us the path to success. They were our mentors.

Who are these extraordinary people in the Software Industry of Bangladesh? How did they shape the people around them? We need to know. We need to learn from them.

SQABD successfully released the 1st Meet the Mentors session with Khandakar Asif Hasan and introducing such resource podcasting in Bangladesh for the 1st time.

Khandakar Asif Hasan is the Director at Spectrum Engineering Consortium ltd. He has more than 13 years of professional experience. The discussion includes:

• His working experience.
• What it takes to be a Software Architect.
• Training the human resources in a software company.
• Government policies regarding the software industry.
• Comparison with India.
• Automation, tools, risk analysis.
• Collaboration between software companies.
• Internship program.
• and more...
  

URL : http://sqabdmentors.blogspot.com/2007/02/khandakar-asif-hasan-on-meet-mentors-by.html

Please send your feedbacks how was this podcasting and propose your mentors in SQABD community so that SQABD can present them infront of all and know more :)