Google Android

Is this a robot that behaves like human? hardly...

Android was built from the ground-up to enable developers to create compelling mobile applications that take full advantage of all a handset has to offer. It is built to be truly open.

Certainly the news of Google Android release created a lot of hype, but will it sustain? Google Android is a Linux-based mobile software stack incorporating everything from os to apps.

To attract developers to Android, Google has launched a $10m (£5m) competition to find applications that can be run on the various handsets that will use the platform.

We just have to wait and see how Andriod turns out to the mobile users!

Product testing in single day?

Can a product be certified and released within 1-day of automated testing?

This is a goal Google Test Engineering group is talking about setting for themselves. Patrick Copeland, Test Engineering Director at Google, talks about testing at Google in his keynote address at GTAC 2007 (Google Test Automation Conference).

Every Software Engineer (and Test Engineer) should watch the video of this talk.

Google Docs Rocks!

Google explains how Google Docs (Create and share documents, spreadsheets and presentations online.) works, with example in this Google Docs in Plain English YouTube video. check it out.

A flip for Worldcup win

India won the T20 Worldcup Final match yesterday against Pakistan. Misbah played a flip shot (he should not have done this) and a stroke of lightning luck struck Indian team. Well, Misbah must have cursed himself (and everyone else must have cursed him too..) for that shot.

Our own Bhajji also added to the frustration by giving away runs in the last few overs that turned tables in favor of Pak.

Anyways, what seemed to have been a Pakistan's turned to become an Indian one, because of one flip. In the years to come T20 Cricket can change the Indian cricket scenario (and the world's too..) dramatically.

WATIR

While Selenium is a good solution for functional / UI automation, WATIR seem to be picking up steam. Web Applications Testing In Ruby (WATIR) is becoming more and more a standard for functional automation of web apps.

Please read more about it @ http://wtr.rubyforge.org/

Test Automation with Selenium

I have designed test automation frameworks based on Visual Test, QTP, and Winrunner for a long time and started working with Selenium (about an year back) an open-source test automation tool. Very interesting and powerful tool that allows testers to use multiple languages (Java, .Net, Perl, Python, and Ruby) to code in.

Best thing is that it is open-source and hence free for anyone to use. A number of product companies are identifying the power of this tool. Check it out at here.

look at the back of the business cards

Well, it is Saturday evening and I was watching a movie and surfing on the net and found some interesting stuff. One of my colleagues recently mentioned about www.changethis.com site and I got hooked to it since then. It has some wonderful and useful information on it. This is where i found an article posted by Hugh MacLeod called How To Be Creative.

Though this an old post (Oct 2004) I decided to download it and check it out. Once I started reading I was really thrilled by the idea and the website Hugh mentioned in the article called www.gapingvoid.com. Very interesting idea and novel by any standard, I think. I was laughing at some of the cartoons he made (I guess he made tens of thousands by now) and really enjoyed them.

I wanted to share this article and the site information with someone immediately. Hence this blog. Check it out when you find time.