Tips N Tricks by Sourav Poddar

It’s hard to remember a world without blogs. Originally a sort of online journal full of mundane personal updates, web logs have morphed into an extremely powerful form of communication. They were once shunned by the mainstream — now they   are   the mainstream . _   The story I’m living, these days, is about competence and I think most people speaking at testing conferences are not competent enough. A lot of what’s talked about at testing conferences is the muttering of idiots. By idiot, I mean   functionally stupid   people: people who   choose   not to use their minds to find excellent solutions to important problems, but instead speak ritualistically and uncritically about monsters and angels and   mathematically invalid metrics   and   fraudulent standards   and other useless or sinister tools that are designed to amaze and confuse the ignorant. I want to see at least 50% of people speaking about testing to be competent. That’s my goal. I think it is achievable, but