5 reasons why a developer cannot test his own application better than a tester!

1. Attachment with source code
- As everyone know developers are emotionally attached to their code which makes them not to test like a tester. "A developer would never degrade his own baby" :P Its just like how we tester are emotionally attached to a bug. Don't we get angry when a developer counters us telling that the bug reported is never a bug? :D

2. Concentrates only on positive cases 
- Most developers would normally think only about positive and straight forward scenarios whereas testers mentality would be always in breaking the code and concentrating more on negative test cases.

3. Lack of End user experience
- Testers would normally check many applications & game and would exactly know what is required, as they would have already experienced checking similar kind of application whereas most developers wouldn't ( If a developer is reading this he would surely crib about not having time to check other applications Gotcha! )

4. Not much exposure to bugs: 
- A tester would have experience in testing many application and would know when a code could break whereas a developer wouldn't have much exposure to bug which make a developer fail in testing.

5. Tight schedule: 
- Most companies wouldn't give sufficient time to developers which leads them to not test the whole application.

So what do you think can a developer test his own application better than a tester ?

Myths of Game testing.

1) You just play around, nothing technical!

Fact: While testing games, it is important to know what logic the developer has used which in turn helps you to find an unusual sequence.

2) You get to play games before it is released!

Fact: Its true that you get to play it before release but the amount of time spent to test the game really makes you sick about the game and sometimes even to hate the game

3) You have lot of fun while testing!
Fact: Though you would feel good about it initially but, would you have fun circling round a same F1 circuit for 100 times! No right!

4) You get paid for playing games!
Fact: You spend most of the time creating test documents, logging defects, regressing defects, testing with localization, testing in different devices.. the list will go on!

5) You can change whatever you want in game!
Fact: This is not true at all! Even if you feel that certain features are required for easy gameplay your ideas would either be rejected by development team because of time constraint or by customer if he feels it is not so cool!

What do we normally do when we are free from work!

1. Check social networking sites
2. Window shop in online stores
3. Watch videos in Youtube
4. Read some technical blog for about 2 minutes and then again stick to point number 1 2 and 3
5. Read 2 pages of C / C++ / Java
6. Forward mails
7. Check if any new girl has joined in internal website
8. Stare at the monitor
9. Read some cricket / football news
10. Read political news
11. Tweet the news
13. Disturb a developer / designer
14. Search for a device to play games
15. Wander around to see if anyone is free as you.
16. Point out some mistake in some other project.
17. Chat with a girl in the wing
18. Create some funny face in Photo booth
19. Plan 4 weekend trip
20. WIKIPEDIA

So what do you do when u r free from work ??? 

P.S

I just forgot to add point number 12 :P If you dint figure this out, you really need to concentrate while reading my blog :D

How to enjoy testing and give a defect free product.

Recently our team figured out that we are able to produce more and more bugs and simultaneously enjoy what we do. Here you go!

We started to have competition on who would log most number of valid defects. Initially my teammates were really uncomfortable to log very minor defects. But i constantly told my teammates, even though the defects are small, these are the defects which would be found by producers and customers and we are blamed for not finding those defects. So as we started competing against each other, we had a quality product where we were damn confident the not even a minor glitch was left behind and simultaneously we enjoyed testing due to this competitive behavior. Recently we were assigned to individual project where 1 QC was assigned to test the 1 application but even after that we used to compare our defect count and try to find more defect.
So what do you think about this idea ?

P.S

This post was written in 2011.

List of Windows phones and Tablets (Nokia Lumia and others)

Serial No.	Device Name	Operating System	RAM	Storage
1	Nokia Lumia 520	Microsoft Windows Phone 8 , upgradeable to WP8 Amber	512MB	8GB
2	Nokia Lumia 521	Microsoft Windows Phone 8 , upgradeable to WP8 Amber	512MB	8GB
3	Nokia Lumia 525	Microsoft Windows Phone 8 Black	1GB	8GB
4	Nokia Lumia 610	Windows Phone 7.5	256MB	8GB
5	Nokia Lumia 620	Microsoft Windows Phone 8, upgradeable to WP8 Amber	512MB	8GB
6	Nokia Lumia 625	Microsoft Windows Phone 8, upgradeable to WP8 Amber	512MB	8GB
7	Nokia Lumia 720	Microsoft Windows Phone 8, upgradeable to WP8 Amber	512MB	8GB
8	Nokia Lumia 800	Microsoft Windows Phone 7.5 Mango, upgradable to v7.8	512MB	16GB
9	Nokia Lumia 810	Microsoft Windows Phone 8, upgradeable to WP8 Amber	1GB	8GB
10	Nokia Lumia 820	Microsoft Windows Phone 8, upgradeable to WP8 Amber	1GB	8GB
11	Nokia Lumia 822	Microsoft Windows Phone 8, upgradeable to WP8 Amber	1GB	16GB
12	Nokia Lumia 920	Microsoft Windows Phone 8, upgradeable to WP8 Amber	1GB	32GB
13	Nokia Lumia 925	Microsoft Windows Phone 8, upgradeable to WP8 Amber	1GB	16GB 32GB
14	Nokia Lumia 928	Microsoft Windows Phone 8, upgradeable to WP8 Amber	1GB	32GB
15	Nokia Lumia 929	Microsoft Windows Phone 8 Black	2GB	32GB
16	Nokia Lumia 1020	Microsoft Windows Phone 8, upgradeable to WP8 Black	2GB	32GB 64GB
17	Nokia Lumia 1320	Microsoft Windows Phone 8 Black	1GB	8GB
18	Nokia Lumia 1520	Microsoft Windows Phone 8 Black	2GB	32GB
19	Huawei Ascend W1	Windows Phone 8	512MB	4GB
20	Huawei Ascend W2	Windows Phone 8	512MB	8GB
21	Huawei Ascend W3	Windows Phone 8	1GB	-
22	Samsung ATIV S	Windows Phone 8	1GB	16/32GB
23	Samsung ATIV S Neo	Windows Phone 8	1GB	16GB
24	Samsung ATIV Odyssey 1930	Windows Phone 8	1GB	8GB
25	Samsung ATIV S I8750	Windows Phone 8	1GB	16/32GB
26	Acer Allegro	Microsoft Windows Phone 7.5 Mango	512MB	8GB
27	Htc 8S	Microsoft Windows Phone 8, upgradeable to WP8 Amber	512MB	4GB
28	Htc 8X	Microsoft Windows Phone 8, upgradeable to WP8 Amber	1GB	16GB
29	Htc 8XT	Windows Phone 8	1024MB	8GB
30	Htc Windows Phone 8X CDMA	Microsoft Windows Phone 8, upgradeable to WP8 Amber	1GB	16GB
31	Nokia Lumia 2520	Windows RT	2GB	32GB
32	Samsung ATIV Tab P8510	Windows 8	2MB	16/32GB
33	Acer W4-820-Z3742G03aii	Windows Phone 8.1	2GB	32GB
34	Acer W4-820-Z3742G06aii	Windows phone 8.1	2GB	64GB
35	Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 13	Windows 8	4 to 8GB	128 or 226 GB
36	Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 11	Windows RT	2GB	64GB
37	Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 11S Ultrabook	Windows 8 , Windows 8 Pro	Upto 8GB DDR3L	256 GB SSD HDD
38	Lenovo IdeaPad Z500	Windows 8 64	4GB,6GB,8GB(DDR3)	HDD: 500GB.1TB
39	Lenovo IdeaPad Z580	Windows 8	4GB,6GB,8GB(DDR3)	HDD: 500GB.1TB
40	Microsoft Surface 2	Windows 8.1 pro 64-bit	2GB	32GB,64GB
41	Microsoft Surface	Windows RT upgradable to Windows RT 8.1	2GB	32GB,64GB
42	Microsoft Surface Pro 2	Windows 8.1 pro 64-bit	4GB,8GB	64Gb,128GB,256GB,512GB
43	Lenovo ThinkPad Helix	Windows 8 pro ,Windows 8	8GB DD3	128GB,180GB,256GB SSD SATA3
44	Lenovo ThinkPad DataSheet	Windows 8 pro ,Windows 8	8GB DD3	128GB,180GB,256GB SSD SATA3
45	Lenovo Lynx	Windows 8, Office Home & Student 2013	2GB DDR2	Upto 64GB eMMC