Rupesh's Blog

Challenges in Testing of mobile applications

2010-10-24T19:22:00.000-07:00

Challenges in Testing of mobile applications

http://www.ciol.com/Developer/Testing/Feature/Challenges-in-Testing-of-mobile-applications/142143/0/

According to Gartner, the worldwide mobile applications market is currently estimated to be around $6.2 billion. In 2013, this market is expected to be around $21.6 billion. It is nobody’s guess that this market has huge untapped potential. For the companies that are involved in creating and testing mobile-based applications, this is the tipping point.

Perfformance Test Plan

2010-10-03T20:23:00.000-07:00

Although there is a real company logo on this document, the resource and component names and data have been sufficiently altered to render this test plan as a 0 threat to client security.

This is a mostly complete, enterprise-scale performance test plan for a very large project in a Global 100 company. It is intended only to be a learning tool. If you have questions, you can mail me at brian.wilson@orasi.com or bwilson@techsouth.com.

http://www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/AY2005/cs4803epr_spring/Project/SamplePerformanceTestPlan.pdf

I used this example in my Performance Engineering course at Georgia Tech: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/AY2005/cs4803epr_spring/

Brian Wilson

Jabber Protocol

2010-09-30T08:58:00.000-07:00

Hi All,

Below are the highlights of the Jabber Protocol :

• XMPP ( Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol ) formerly named as Jabber Protocol.
• XMPP is an open, XML-based protocol originally aimed at near-real-time, extensible instant messaging (IM) and presence information, but now expanded into the broader realm of message oriented middleware.
• XMPP-based software is deployed on thousands of servers across the Internet.Popular commercial servers include the Gizmo5, Nimbuzz and Google Talk
• The XMPP network is server-based (i.e. clients do not talk directly to one another) but decentralized: by design there is no central authoritative server.However, anyone may run their own XMPP server on their own domain.The standard TCP port for XMPP is 5222.
Strengths of XMPP :-
• Decentralization: The architecture of the XMPP network is similar to email; anyone can run their own XMPP server and there is no central master server
• Security: XMPP servers may be isolated from the public XMPP network (e.g., on a company intranet), and robust security has been built into the core XMPP specifications
• Flexibility: Custom functionality can be built on top of XMPP; XMPP applications beyond IM include network management, content syndication, collaboration tools, file sharing, gaming, and remote systems monitoring.
XMPP via HTTP transport :-
• Another aspect of XMPP is the HTTP binding for users behind restricted firewalls.As the client uses HTTP, most firewalls allow clients to fetch and post messages without any hindrances. Thus, in scenarios where the TCP port used by XMPP is blocked, a server can listen on the normal HTTP port and the traffic should pass without problems.
• There are various websites which allow people to sign in to XMPP via their browser. Furthermore, there are open public servers, such as www.jabber80.com or 443.jabbear.com that listen on standard http (port 80) and https (port 443) ports and hence allow connections from behind most firewalls.
Further References:-
• http://xmpp.org/tech/overview.shtml
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMPP
• http://tedweitz.com/harvard/cscie258/proj/docs/overview-summary.html

Automation Frameworks

2010-09-22T10:27:00.001-07:00

All about AutomationFrameworks FROM IBM:

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/591.html

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/05/r-3175/

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/570.html

TEST Automation Frameworks:

http://safsdev.sourceforge.net/FRAMESDataDrivenTestAutomationFrameworks.htm
http://safsdev.sourceforge.net/DataDrivenTestAutomationFrameworks.htm

RRAF
http://robotframework.googlecode.com/svn/tags/robotframework-2.0.4/doc/userguide/RobotFrameworkUserGuide.html#creating-test-

cases

http://code.google.com/p/robotframework/

http://code.google.com/p/robotframework/source/checkout

http://code.google.com/p/robotframework/

http://safsdev.sourceforge.net/Default.htm

Need of Solutions Architect?

2010-09-22T10:00:00.001-07:00

What makes a good architect
http://blog.wipro.com/blog/2010/05/20/what-makes-a-good-architect/

Here is brief from this lecture:
1) The first quality that we look for is the ability to quickly grasp complexity and simplify it. What we look for is whether the person is able to break it down to simpler steps that they can address and build a solution.
The second quality that we look for is to taking pride in the work, however small or big. In essence, interest in technology does not mean that it is meant for junior engineers only.
The third quality that is endearing to my team is the ability to “roll up your sleeves and get to work”. We never look for people who my team typically refers to as “powerpoint architects”.
The fourth quality we look for is attention to detail. Most of my team are typically connected to or work with a director or a VP level person in a client organization. Love to work at a detailed level along with having a bigger picture in hand

http://www.cutter.com/content-and-analysis/resource-centers/enterprise-architecture/sample-our-research/ear0810.html

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture/cc505974.aspx

Why do we need Solution Archtects?
Submitted by Andrew Winterburn on 02 Apr 2009

http://www.capgemini.com/technology-blog/2009/03/why_do_we_need_solution_archit.php

http://www.capgemini.com/technology-blog/2009/03/featured_job_role_enterprise_a.php

Introducing the Tellurium Automated Testing Framework

2010-09-22T10:00:00.000-07:00

Introduction
The Tellurium Automated Testing Framework (Tellurium) is a framework for testing web applications, which was started in June 2007 by Jian Fang and became an open source project on Google Code in June 2008. It is released on a regular basis and is currently at 0.7.0.
The core of the project was started over two years ago and quickly spawned multiple sub-projects including: UDL, Core, Engine, Widget extensions, Maven Archetypes, Trump, Tellurium IDE, TelluriumWorks, and reference projects.
The framework was developed from the Selenium framework, but with a different testing concept. Most existing web testing frameworks, like Selenium, primarily focus on individual UI elements. Tellurium on the other hand, treats the whole UI element as a widget; calling the element a UI module.

http://www.infoq.com/articles/tellurium_intro

LTO: Boundary value testing: How to crash an airplane's entertainment system

2010-09-21T00:00:00.000-07:00

Hugh Thompson has a cool blog entry on how he was able to bring down the gaming/movie console on an airplane. He calls it one of the most interesting examples of an untested boundary condition he has ever seen.
Fortunately the IFE system is totally disjoint from the avionics, so he reached Orlando without incident!

http://blogs.csoonline.com/node/151

Sogeti acquires another company

2010-09-20T22:26:00.002-07:00

http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single10670

"Irish company Insight Test Services Ltd has been acquired by Sogeti, a provider of local IT professional and test services globally. The acquisition will see Sogeti Ireland grow to 200 staff by the end of 2008. Insight Test Services is a specialist software quality assurance, test and compliance full service provider. It currently offers consulting, managed services, training and resourcing services to over 80 clients."

Support for WinRunner Tool

2010-09-20T22:26:00.001-07:00

For those of you who have not yet received word. The End-of-Life support for all versions of WinRunner is now official as of Feb. 2008. No more new versions of WR will be released and current versions will be supported fully until 2009 and at limited bases until 2011. There is a WR to QTP conversion tool called Gallop that does about 70/80% conversion of the scripts that can be leveraged. Please cascade this information to your teams. For more information please see the link below:

https://h10078.www1.hp.com/cda/hpms/display/main/hpms_content.jsp?zn=bto&cp=1-11-127-24^1074_4000_100__

Difference between winsock and wininet level recording

2010-09-19T10:32:00.002-07:00

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 11:55 PM, James Pulley wrote:
WinInet “weighs” more in terms of oveall system resources as it is integrated with the Microsoft security APIs. The sockets option, what used to be known as Turboload, was developed to allow for lighter weight virtual users to exist in larger quantities on a given reference hardware definition (Load Generator). The core change is on playback, if you need integration with the Microsoft security infrastructure, i.e. using web_set_user() you will need to use WinInet and you will need to use Windows Load Generators. And yes, these users will use more system resources.

The default is sockets. Unless you need to integrate directly with a security infrastructure for user authentication you will likely not need WinInet. I have yet to find a reason why you would need to alter these options on the recording front from the default of capturing both. I suppose there are some exotic instances where you would want to choose WinInet or Socket but not both (see recording options web+winsock virtual user), but I have yet to encounter those.

James Pulley, http://www.loadrunnerbythehour.com/PricingMatrix

From: lr-loadrunner@googlegroups.com [mailto:lr-loadrunner@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Abhishek Banginwar
Sent: Friday, September 17, 2010 1:48 PM
To: LR-LoadRunner@googlegroups.com
Subject: difference between winsock and wininet level recording

hi all,

Can anyone please explain what is winsock, wininet and winsock and wininet level in http/html protocol?
winsock and wininet microsoft apis but how does it affect recording and the script that is generated.

--
Abhishek

Good Blog

2010-09-19T10:32:00.001-07:00

http://loadstorm.com/load-testing-downloads

Script Issues with Controller

2010-09-17T00:01:00.000-07:00

From: lr-loadrunner@googlegroups.com [mailto:lr-loadrunner@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of James Pulley
Sent: Friday, September 10, 2010 1:48 AM
To: lr-loadrunner@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: VUGEN vs Load Controller

Jumping back to Testing 101, if we have an expressed difference in behavior we should take a look at the test documented initial conditions, steps and inputs to see if they are identical. So, here’s where I would run to

· Initial Conditions. Is the version of your load generator software version matched to the version used for development which also matches the version of the controller?

· Do you have any differences in the membership of the load generators with respect to windows domains from the PC in which you developed the scripts?

· Can you sign onto a Load Generator and run your script without issues manually?

· Does this happen with only a single user or only under load?

· Do you have substantial differences in your infrastructure between your load generator and your application under test versus your vugen development PC and your application under test?

· Have you tested the data on your vugen development host which is in use at the time of the errors? If so, do you get a difference in behavior?

· Are you checking for returned pages with ‘continue on error’ checked? Peoplesoft is a bit oddball because all of the pages come back HTTP 200 even when an error message is present. You will need to check for content.

· I would drop down an OSI tier and go direct HTTP with URL to see if this is a more stable solution. Some place a lot of stock in AJAX scripting, but I tend to think that AJAX toolkit manufacturers are a lot cagier and faster moving than the tools which purport to support them. This applies to HP and everyone else on the planet too.

· Does this follow all user types or just one or two. If not all then it is probably not an environment issue and is related directly to something in the scripts. If all, then I would be taking a lot closer look at some of the initial software and network environmental conditions.

James Pulley, http://www.loadrunnerbythehour.com/PricingMatrix

From: lr-loadrunner@googlegroups.com [mailto:lr-loadrunner@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Barstow, Donald - barstodk
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 1:10 PM
To: lr-loadrunner@googlegroups.com
Subject: VUGEN vs Load Controller

Hi,
We are having issues with some of our scripts not running successfully through the load controller, but are successful when running through VUGEN. Some of the errors are 403 Forbidden errors, activex errors, or java script errors. They only appear in the load controller and not in vugen. Has anyone encountered this before and have any suggestions?

LR version 9.52

PeopleTools 8.50

Ajax (Click and Script) both URL based and GUI based scripts.

Thanks,
Don
_____________________________________________
Don Barstow
Systems Analyst
James Madison University
IT/Information System
(540)568-3617 Phone
(540)568-3085 Fax

Finding text on a downloaded PDF file

2010-09-17T00:00:00.000-07:00

Subject: RE: [LoadRunner] Finding text on a downloaded PDF file

If you want to validate a PDF as a PDF in Acrobat on the target download
machine
{
1. Install software for a GUI Virtual User
2. Update LR license for appropriate number of GUI Virtual users
3. Install Acrobat Professional on all GUI Virtual User Machines
4. Install Acrobat Professional Add-ins designed for QA and content
Validation.
5. Develop GUI Virtual user scripts leveraging Acrobat Professional
QA-related add-ins.
6. Secure lots of OS instances for your GUI Virtual User Load
}

Odds of success greater than 75%, with the added dependency of your GUI
Virtual User development skills

If you want to try and validate content in stream
{
1. Save off five of your target PDF files
2. Open the PDF files in Notepad
3. Attempt to find the string you are interested in validating
4. Ensure that the validation string is consistently represented
In all five target files
}

Odds of success, less than 5% due to encryption/compression in the PDF
stream and possible representation of the characters are curves instead of
free text.

If you want to simply validate that you have received valid PDF files
{
1. Save off five target PDF files
2. Open these five files in Notepad and observe the commonality
in structure for the first ten lines and the last ten lines
of the file.
3. Open five random PDF files on your computer (not generated by
Your system) in notepad. Observe the first ten lines and the
Last ten lines in the file.
4. From your observations, develop an algorithm for checking for
A valid PDF file (for any PDF file)
5. Implement your checks as a set of web_reg_find() statements
Combined with a post download check for file size.
If (valid PDF header && valid PDF footer and download size>
Some minimal file amount) then (we have a valid PDF)
}

Odds of success > 99%, with the added dependency of your pattern matching
skills and your C Programming skills and your use of HTTP virtual user
content validation techniques.

James Pulley, http://www.loadrunnerbythehour.com/PricingMatrix

-----Original Message-----
From: LoadRunner@yahoogroups.com [mailto:LoadRunner@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Sanjay
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 8:54 PM
To: LoadRunner@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [LoadRunner] Finding text on a downloaded PDF file

Hi All,

I am recording and enhancing a script using URL recording mode (HTTP
protocol). I have been able to use the correlation feature to handle the
variables and am almost done except for one thing.

I have a popup window which is actually a PDF file. Is there a way I can use
Reg_Find or something similar to find text on the pdf file?

Any ideas on how to handle this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
Sanjay

Automation Framework

2010-08-31T07:48:00.001-07:00

http://testingideas.wordpress.com/2008/08/12/what-is-a-framework-in-automation/
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/591.html
http://safsdev.sourceforge.net/FRAMESDataDrivenTestAutomationFrameworks.htm
http://www.io.com/~wazmo/papers/seven_steps.html

[agile-testing] Good Test Case Management Tools?

2010-08-30T23:56:00.000-07:00

Hi David:
Jay Philips wrote a good round-up of open source test management tools at:
http://www.jayphilips.com/2009/09/10/15-open-source-test-management-tools/
Testlink is on that list.
I am very impressed with Zephyr (http://www.zephyr.com), Collabnet TeamForge (http://www.collab.net/products/ctf/) and we use Jira (http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/) for bug tracking and release management.
When you begin to look for tools, methodologies, and support to move from manual testing to automated testing, please take a look at PushToTest TestMaker. Details are at http://www.pushtotest.com/webapptesting
-Frank
On Aug 30, 2010, at 9:34 AM, Jairo Ernesto Gutierrez Pizarro wrote:
Hi David

I've Been working with testlink for more than one year, and based on my experience using this tool i think is a pretty good option. Also it's free and completely customizable.

--- El lun, 8/30/10, david.murdoch0 escribió:

De: david.murdoch0
Asunto: [agile-testing] Good Test Case Management Tools?
A: agile-testing@yahoogroups.com
Fecha: lunes, 30 de agosto de 2010, 10:18 am
Hi there,

Can anyone recommend a good Test Case Management Tool?

We are largely doing Manual testing which focuses on Functional and Exploratory testing. Ideally the tool would be open-source too but this is not an absolute requirement.

Many thanks,

David.

Compare Load Runner and HP Service Test: Features Comparison

2010-08-26T23:38:00.000-07:00

Hi Rupesh,

Both tool has its own advantage and disadvantage...

HP Service test is a automated functional testing tool for SOA
application and to check the performance of the application you need
buy HP LoadRunner with web service protocol.

For more info see the link

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=109447626+1282842482309+28353475&threadId=1320756

Coming to iTKO LISA - SOA testing tool, we can test both functional
and performance of the application in one tool.

It is better to do a small and quick POC on both the tools and see,
which one is comfortable for your company/ customer or for your
testers while testing the application in all aspect (money and
userfriendly).

Contact HP and iTKO for training and getting an evalution version for
your POC. thanks

Correct me if i am wrong,
K.Srihari

On Aug 25, 5:04 pm, "Rupesh Garg" wrote:
> Hello All:
>
> We have used HP Load Runner for conducting the web services testing. We have
> done fairly well in running tests for functional and load tests through HP
> Load Runner. I want to know that what are the unique features, which are
> being carried over by the HP Service test. How buying this tool will add
> value to the testing of web services exercise?
>
> Also, any comparison with iTKO LISA tool on this front will be appreciated.

Web services protocol

2010-08-26T05:50:00.000-07:00

http://blog.testsautomation.com/tag/loadrunner-soap-soa-webservice/

http://www.myloadtest.com/soap-over-jms-with-loadrunner/

http://www.loadtester.com/how-performance-test-net-and-net-web-services-loadrunner-orasi-software

On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 4:55 PM, prasenjit dutta wrote:

Hi All,

Did anyone work on web services protocol? can anyone provide me any simple script for that or how the web service protocol generated script is different from http/html protocol generated script?

i am leaving on a jet plane

2010-08-26T05:49:00.001-07:00

i am leaving on a jet plane

All my bags are packed I'm ready to go
I'm standin' here outside your door
I hate to wake you up to say goodbye
But the dawn is breakin' it's early morn
The taxi's waitin' he's blowin' his horn
Already I'm so lonesome I could die

So kiss me and smile for me
Tell me that you'll wait for me
Hold me like you'll never let me go
Cause I'm leavin' on a jet plane
Don't know when I'll be back again
Oh babe, I hate to go

There's so many times I've let you down
So many times I've played around
I tell you now, they don't mean a thing
Every place I go, I'll think of you
Every song I sing, I'll sing for you
When I come back, I'll bring your wedding ring

So kiss me and smile for me
Tell me that you'll wait for me
Hold me like you'll never let me go
Cause I'm leavin' on a jet plane
Don't know when I'll be back again
Oh babe, I hate to go

Guitar Solo

Now the time has come to leave you
One more time let me kiss you
Close your eyes I'll be on my way
Dream about the days to come
When I won't have to leave alone
About the times, I won't have to say

So kiss me and smile for me
Tell me that you'll wait for me
Hold me like you'll never let me go
Cause I'm leavin' on a jet plane
Don't know when I'll be back again
Oh baby, I hate to go

Cause I'm leavin' on a jet plane
Don't know when I'll be back again
Oh babe, I hate to go

Software testing market set to boom

2010-08-26T05:32:00.000-07:00

http://www.v3.co.uk/v3/news/2268744/software-testing-set-boom

The software testing market is currently worth €79bnSoftware testing market set to boom
Sector could be worth €100bn in four years

The market for IT software testing services and equipment could be worth as much as €100bn in the coming years.

A report from analyst firm Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC) put software testing spending at €79bn in 2010. The firm expects that figure to climb to €100bn by 2014
"Businesses are increasingly looking to use external skills, in order to leverage suppliers' greater economies of scale, gain access to lower-cost offshore skills and investment in tools and processes, and to support their increasingly complex technology landscapes," said PAC senior analyst Nick Mayes.

The company said that the growth is due in large part to a change in corporate attitudes about IT software and security. Once considered to be an overlooked part of the general development process, testing is increasingly regarded as a vital step in minimising costs and spotting security risks, PAC said.

Going forward, the company sees growing opportunities for testing services providers that specialise in enterprise platforms such as Oracle and SAP along with cloud platforms and security testing services.

Indian government services totally online

2010-08-26T04:28:00.003-07:00

All government office related links are available.... save it......Maybe of some help in future...

Obtain:
* Birth Certificate
* Caste Certificate
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Apply for:
* PAN Card
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* Inclusion of name in the Electoral Rolls
* Search More - How do I

Register:
* Land/Property
* Vehicle
* With State Employment Exchange
* As Employer
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* .IN Domain
* GOV.IN Domain
* Search More - How do I

Check/Track:
* Waiting list status for Central Government Housing
* Status of Stolen Vehicles
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* Acts of Indian Parliament
* Exam Results
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* Search More - How do I

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* Train Tickets Online
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* Income Tax Returns
* Complaint with Central Vigilance Commission (CVC)
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* Prime Minister's Relief Fund
* Search More - How do I

Others:
* Send Letters Electronically
* Search More - How do I

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Indian government services totally online

2010-08-26T04:28:00.001-07:00

Compare Load Runner and HP Service Test: Features Comparison

2010-08-26T04:25:00.002-07:00

Hello All:

We have used HP Load Runner for conducting the web services testing. We have done fairly well in running tests for functional and load tests through HP Load Runner. I want to know that what are the unique features, which are being carried over by the HP Service test. How buying this tool will add value to the testing of web services exercise?

Also, any comparison with iTKO LISA tool on this front will be appreciated.

http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/03/soa-testing-tools

There are quite a few SOA testing tools to choose from now. I am often asked which is the best tool?

The answer of course depends on requirements. Here are the requirement RFI/RFP categories I often used to help with test tool selection:

* Test-aware interfaces: standardized interface and messages for testing
* Message-based test automation: record, replay and management of test scripts
* Virtualization: the ability simulate virtual service providers and consumers
* Simulation: the ability to simulate applications as part of a regression test
* Load Test: the ability to stress test applications
* Validation: pass/fail verification at the component (messaging) and application (data store) levels.
* Components: Java and/or .NET component visibility
* Introspection: WSDL and XML support to generate data and operation tests
* Management: Manage test cases, scripts, data and results
* Security: SSL, WS security federation, digital signatures
* Industry Specific Data Formats: e.g. EDI, HL7
* Continual Test: Automated build, deploy and test

http://www.soatesting.com/

http://www.infoworld.com/d/architecture/three-open-source-web-service-testing-tools-get-high-marks-995

Generate the Custom Graphs using LR Analysis Component

2010-08-26T04:25:00.001-07:00

Please validate the below before confirming with the client… an interesting article to try..

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Hi All,

Easy to Generate the Graphs for PerfMon/Nmon (Unix flavor Operating System) counter data: (Silk Performer – CSV to TSD option)

HP LoadRunner Analysis is a free tool right? By using LoadRunner Analysis component, we can use to generate the graph for external data file (CSV/XLS).

Usually, we are monitoring the server’s operating system and server specific counters using other 3rd party tools like PerfMon/Nmon/VMSTAT/Top commands (Due to some security reasons, we are monitoring the servers using 3rd party tools and will generate the measurements in CSV/XLS format). After completion of collecting the data (in CSV/XLS format), we need to write a macro or manually plot the graphs in Excel. Instead of drawing the graphs manually, we can use the LR analysis component effectively. We can certainly install the trial version of LoadRunner 9.x. Simply use the Import Data functionality built into Analysis…

Please find the below example.

1. Collecting performance metrics from remote Linux Operating System to get the raw metrics provided from commands like vmstat, iostat and Top to get memory, disk and cpu utilization respectively.

2. Then quickly parse that data using some custom Perl scripts to help format those results into the csv format that LoadRunner Analysis expects.

For example, vmstat info that comes in its raw format like this:

kthr memory page disk faults cpu
r b w swap free re mf pi po fr de sr m0 m1 m2 m1 in sy cs us sy id
0 0 0 40563488 10311984 4 21 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 413 280 280 0 0 99
0 0 0 31902256 1908536 1 20 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 637 793 831 1 0 99

Can be turned into LoadRunner Analysis friendly format like this:
date,time,r,b,w,swap,free,re,mf,pi,po,fr,de,sr,m0,m1,m2,m1,in,sy,cs,us,sy,id
13/4/2008,17:36:22,0,0,0,31792512,2202496,0,2,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,577,699,706,1,0,99
13/4/2008,17:36:17,0,0,0,31779792,2201592,0,2,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,568,699,695,0,0,99

Using the Import Data Tool in LR Analysis.

To use the Import Data tool:

1. Choose Tools > External Monitors > Import Data. The Import Data dialog box opens.

2. Browse the CSV file to generate the graph

3. Merge the custom graph with LR client side Running Vuser graph

4. Prepare the Analysis Report.

Visual Studio 2010 - Load Test Tool Details

2010-08-25T07:29:00.001-07:00

Scripting(Web test):

- Do we have Initialization section and Termination section for a user.(Ex: A user log in and does some set of action and log out from the web page. when a user enters the login and logout is done only once,the set of actions must be Iterated).
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb514192.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/chrispat/archive/2010/01/10/branching-and-looping-in-a-declarative-web-test.aspx

- Error Handling (Ex:If error occurs need to stop the iteration and continue with the next).
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/slumley/archive/2007/04/10/how-to-debug-a-web-test.aspx

- How to include the custom messages to debug the script and display in the log. (Enhanced the code using Console.Writeln() but unable to see in the log).
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb514192.aspx

- To suppress a particular dependent request instead of all the requests which are not required(Ex: some .gif, blocked contents etc).

A top-level request can appear to have failed because one of its dependent requests could not be found. This might indicate a problem with the Web application's HTML. These errors can be suppressed by disabling the ParseDependentRequests property on the request.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms364082(VS.80).aspx

- Log window options such as to enable/disable during the test run.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/edglas/archive/2007/12/02/web-test-authoring-and-debugging-techniques-for-vs-2008.aspx
http://teamtestplugins.codeplex.com/

- Functions related to build the dynamic form data for a request.
Please share more details on the above point.

- How to extract data when a response page consists of multiple frames.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.visualstudio.testtools.webtesting.rules.extracthiddenfields.aspx

- Parameterization: If we select the random username from the data source file, then how to retrieve the corresponding password of the username.
If both username & password are picked up from same datasource then corresponding password will be select with random username automatically.

- If we enhance the code in .cs filethen how to .webtest should get reflected.
It is not supported, since both are different files.

Execution(Load test):
- Can we limit the number of users per Load Agent(Ex: To execute 1000 users, can we distribute 500users from each LA instead of 1000 from a single LA).

You can use the Test Agent property called weighting to distribute the load.

Test Agent Property Description
Weighting Used to distribute load when you use test agents with different performance levels. For example, a test agent with a weighting of 100 receives two times the load as a test agent with a weighting of 50.

Please find below the link for more information on changing the test agent settings:
Changing the Settings for a Test Agent
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd695837.aspx#ChangeAgent

- Do we have any options to Ramp down the users?
There are no built-in support for this, but one can write custom load test plug-in for ramp down users, please refer below link for more information:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/yutong/archive/2010/03/15/load-test-plug-in-simulate-multiple-and-repeated-user-load-patterns-step-2-1.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/slumley/archive/2009/04/10/load-test-plug-ins.aspx

- Can we dynamically increase/decrease the user load during the test run.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/yutong/archive/2010/03/15/load-test-plug-in-simulate-multiple-and-repeated-user-load-patterns-step-2-1.aspx

Reporting:
- How can we generate the automated report with graphs.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/slumley/archive/2009/05/22/dev10-feature-load-test-excel-report-integration.aspx

Details of MS VSTS 2010

2010-08-25T07:27:00.000-07:00

Hello MSFT Guys:)
Can you please send me some information about the Visual Studio Test Professional 2010? Also, if you know people who are really involved in development/maintainance of this tool, that can be a great help for me also. Below are some of the links found by me:

http://www.radiotfs.com/2008/10/23/RoadToRosarioSpecialVSTS2010Test.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/james_whittaker/default.aspx?PageIndex=1

http://www.dotnetcurry.com/ShowArticle.aspx?ID=464&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1

Here is the landing page : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/default.aspx - start from here to get info on Test Pro and other ALM SKUs

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/anutthara/archive/2010/02/09/resources-for-visual-studio-2010-test-tools.aspx has more resources. For all qs related to Test Pro, write to the MSDN forum listed in the resources list

A very basic description about the Memory Allocation:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/abhinaba/archive/2009/01/25/back-to-basic-series-on-dynamic-memory-management.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/abhinaba/

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/amit_chatterjee/archive/2010/02/12/vs-2010-rc-is-ready-for-general-download.aspx

Some thing to chew - Dell moves to AMD and leaves Intel - Business case?

2010-07-23T22:14:00.001-07:00

Hi all -

For people who want to chew a little more than what is given in our study curricula. Check this site out -

http://www.icmrindia.org/business%20Updates/micro%20casestudies/Business%20Strategy/MCBS0005.htm

This has a good deal of cases and interestingly this talks about the move made by Dell in disowning Intel and going towards AMD. Interesting move considering they operate at a different levels and AMD processors were always considered better unless in the Gaming circuit. This would alter the growth of Intel and an excellent case for business schools.

FYI - this site in general talks more in detail about several such business cases around Asia.

Have a good one

Vik

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Error: Decompression functionon

2010-07-23T20:54:00.001-07:00

I suspect that you haven't recorded the script with the necessary headers. Go to the recording options>http properties>headers.

Ensure that your list of headers to record contains:
1. Accept encoding
2. Content encoding
3. Accept languages
4. Pragma
5. Transfer encoding
6. User agent
7. Accept- Charset
8. Accept
9. Cache control.

These are the most commonly used header tokens used in http 1.1.

Now, what happens if you don't record the accept encoding/content-encoding header is that if your server response/request is expected to be in compressed/deflated(which is defined in web server settings) form, but if Loadrunner/Client sends an uncompressed/inflated file/message, then the protocol goes out of sync. As a result, the Loadrunner compression function would expect the data to be in gzip format but the data sent from server would not be in gzip format and hence the error.

Add web_add_auto_header("Accept-Encoding", "gzip") on top of the request where your script stops and throws the error. But, I would suggest you to re-record the script with the aforemention headers in your recording list.

-Chaitanya M Bhatt
http://www.performancecompetence.com
2010/7/21 Anuj Sharma
Can any body guide me for this issue in load runner.

Error -26601: Decompression function (wgzMemDecompressBuffer) failed,
return code=-3 (Z_DATA_ERROR), inSize=1773, inUse=5, outUse=0,
Snapshot Info [MSH 0 13] [MsgId: MERR-26601]

This is application error or load-runner configuration issue?

Failover Cluster Testing Methods

2010-07-19T00:49:00.001-07:00

http://blogs.technet.com/vipulshah/archive/2009/06/17/failover-cluster-testing-methods.aspx
Failover Cluster Testing Methods
1.1 System Failover Testing
During system testing, we will gather as much information as possible about the potential outcomes of system failures. We will not test, however, many component failures in the system such as a motherboard going out, losing a processor or having a cooling fan going out. These represent outages that have been planned for and many will be protected through Cluster Server, other failures will be covered through the fault-tolerance of the systems themselves (such as redundant power supply modules and cooling fans). We will test certain events that can cause failover within the cluster. These tests are listed below along with an explanation of the procedure along with the expected result of each test.
1.1.1 Disk Failure
Purpose: The purpose of testing a disk failure is to ensure that the RAID configuration will continue without interruption. We will also look at hot-spares and ensure that in the event of a disk failure the hot-spare will pickup for the failed drive.
Test Procedure: The procedure for this test is to pull out one of the hard drives in the SAN array while that drive is operational and is currently used by one of the nodes within cluster.
Expected Result: Uninterrupted service; Windows should not discover any problems at all; RAID management software should report loss of a drive and complete the procedure of substituting the hot spare and rebuilding the drive array. Disk performance might be significantly reduced during this time
1.1.2 Power Failure
Purpose: This test will verify that in the event of a server losing power, the opposite node in the cluster will bring all resources in the cluster online and resume operations.
Test Procedure: The procedure for this test is to simply pull all power plugs from one node while that node is operational and is hosting groups within cluster.
Expected Result: Cluster group hosted by the “failed” node should automatically fail over to a passive node. Service interruption should be in the range of 0-2 minutes.
1.1.3 Network Adapters
Purpose: Testing network adapters will serve dual purposes. We will test the functionality of the heartbeat and the ability for cluster heartbeat communications to be routed over the public network. We will also test the failover scenario in the case of both public network adapters (members of the network team) losing connections to the network.
Test Procedure: First we will test the heartbeat interconnect and ensure that cluster communications are carried through the public network without interrupting cluster communications by disconnecting the private network adapter. Secondly, we will test network adapters to ensure that when one out of the two network adapters are unplugged, the other network adapter will communicate with the network as usual. Then we will unplug the remaining network adapter, which at this time is carrying all network communication, including the heartbeat. After this series of tests is complete, we will bring the system back to a normal configuration and test the public network adapters by removing their connection to the network. However, in this last test we will leave the heartbeat interconnect in place.
Expected Result: For a disconnected private adapter, Windows is expected to switch internal cluster communications to a public adapter automatically. There should be no service interruption. For disconnecting one of the public network cards, network team driver is expected to switch to using another network card automatically. There should be no service interruption. For disconnecting all network adapters, cluster is expected to initiate the failover once it discovers that active node is unavailable. Service interruption should be in the range of 0-2 minutes.
1.1.4 Fiber Channel Components
Purpose: These tests will provide a level of understanding and documentation on expectations with regards to the redundancy of the fiber channel components within the HBA cards, the servers, and the CLARiiON SAN. We will be looking for results of unplugging certain components, simulating power losses, and other failures that will affect the cluster.
Test Procedure: During this test, we will disconnect the redundant fiber connections.
Expected Result: Depending on which fiber connection was disconnected, system should automatically switch to the reserved path. There should be no service interruption. In case of both fiber cables disconnected, so that cluster node completely loses communication to the SAN storage, cluster failover should be initiated. Service interruption should be in the range of 0-2 minutes.
1.2 Windows 2003 and SQL Server Failover Testing
Microsoft Cluster Server will ensure that application services continue running within the cluster in the event that either there are failures in Windows 2003 that prevent the application from operating properly, or if SQL Server itself ceases to function properly. The cluster can detect these failures and fail the application over to a passive node. During these tests, it is important to note that our single point of failure within Windows 2003 and SQL Server is the database(s). If database itself becomes corrupt or experiences some other catastrophic failure, the only solution is to restore this database from a backup copy.
Expected result in all tests is for a cluster to initiate the failover. Service interruption should be in the range of 0-2 minutes.
1.2.1 SQL Server Services
Purpose: The purpose of simulating service failures is to ensure that failover will occur and to monitor the activity that occurs during failover. We will be looking for the time required for failover, proper failover and ensuring dependencies are being brought online properly.
Procedure: The best approach to testing a clustered service is to stop this service from the Services snap-in within the Management MMC. A service that has become a clustered resource can only be managed through the cluster administrator. Performing services operations through the Services snap-in will appear to the cluster as a failure and therefore will simulate a service failing. Following are the services we will attempt to fail.
• SQL Server service
• SQL Server Agent service
• MS DTC service
1.2.2 Windows 2003 Failure
Purpose: The purpose here is to simulate the failure of Windows 2003 to demonstrate the ability of Cluster Server to realize Windows 2003 is not functioning/running on one of the clustered nodes and to initiate failover.
Procedure: Testing Windows 2003 failure will be difficult to simulate by any other means than simply choosing Shut Down. This will stop all services on the node being shut down and this node will cease participation in the cluster. The cluster service will be notified on the opposite node and failover of the application will occur.
1.2.3 Cluster Service Failure
Purpose: Cluster Service is responsible for maintaining cluster membership, monitoring resources and managing the clustered node. If this service were to fail, all clustered groups of resources would be forced to move to another cluster node. We will simulate a Cluster Service failure in this test and monitor the failover activity.
Procedure: Stop the Cluster Service from the Services snap-in and record results.
1.2.4 Quorum Failure
Purpose: The Quorum serves as a log for changes that occur while one node of a cluster is offline and as a tiebreaker, in the event all heartbeat communications are lost. This test will observe the cluster behavior when the quorum is lost. To view the results of the quorum serving as a tiebreaker, view the results under “System Failover Testing” above.
Procedure: Utilize the SAN configuration utility and unpresent the quorum drive from the active node. This will provide us with the results that would be seen if the active node loses access to the quorum drive. Failover should be initiated.
Utilize the RAID configuration utility and mark the logical drive of the quorum as offline. This will provide us with the results that would be seen if the drive that contains the quorum were to fail.

i am leaving on a jet plane

2010-06-21T15:01:00.000-07:00

While you Sleep

2010-06-16T14:46:00.000-07:00

Good rest and sound sleep is very important... if u don't sleep well,

The toxins in your body will accumulate... Affecting your health and your mood...

The main causes of liver damage are:
1. Sleeping too late and waking up too late are the main cause..
2. Not urinating in the morning.
3. Too much eating.
4. Skipping breakfast.
5. Consuming too much medication.
6. Consuming too much preservatives, additives, food coloring, and artificial sweetener.
7. Consuming unhealthy cooking oil. As much as possible reduce cooking oil use when frying, which includes even the best

Cooking oils like olive oil. Do not consume fried foods when you are tired, except if the body is very fit.
8. Consuming overly done foods also add to the burden of liver. Veggies should be eaten raw or cooked 3-5 parts. Fried

Veggies should be finished in one sitting, do not store.

We have to adopt a good daily lifestyle and eating habits. Maintaining good eating habits is very important for our body to absorb and get rid of unnecessary chemicals.

Because….

Evening 9 - 11pm: is the time for eliminating unnecessary/ toxic chemicals (de- toxification) from the antibody system (lymph nodes). This time duration should be spent by relaxing or listening to music. If during this time a housewife is still in a un relaxed state such as washing the dishes or monitoring children doing their homework, this will have a negative impact on her health.

Night at 11pm - 1am: The de-toxification process in the liver, and ideally should be done in a deep sleep state.

Early morning 1 - 3am: de-toxification process in the gall, also ideally done in a deep sleep state.

Early morning 3 - 5am: de-toxification in the lungs. Therefore there will sometimes be a severe cough for cough sufferers during this time. Since the de-toxification process had reached the respiratory tract, there is no need to take cough medicine so as not to interfere with toxin removal process.

Morning 5 - 7am: de-toxification in the colon, you should empty your bowel.

Morning 7 - 9am: Absorption of nutrients in the small intestine, you should be having breakfast at this time. Breakfast should be earlier, before 6:30am, for those who are sick. Breakfast before 7:30am is very beneficial to those wanting to stay fit. Those who always skip breakfast, they should change their habits, and it is still better to eat breakfast late until 9 -10am rather than no meal at all. Sleeping so late and waking up too late will disrupt the process of removing unnecessary chemicals.

Midnight to 4am is the time when the bone marrow produces blood.

Therefore, have a good sleep and don't sleep late.

Sharing Is Caring!

Insurance Industry Information

2010-06-16T14:45:00.002-07:00

http://www.hexaware.com/insu-agency.htm

http://blogs.hexaware.com/insurance-writer/planning-for-success-in-insurance-data-migrations

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/ar-entermod/index.html

http://www.insurancetech.com/blog/archives/2010/05/new_tech_increa.html

http://www.infosys.com/offerings/industries/utilities/industry-offerings/Pages/CIS-legacy-modernization.aspx

http://www.infosysblogs.com/next-generation-insurance/2009/09/

My India - A real eye-opener!

2010-06-16T14:45:00.001-07:00

A real eye-opener!
We live in a nation ,

· Where Pizza reaches home faster than Ambulance & police,
· Where you get car loan @ 5% and education loan @ 12%,
· Where rice is Rs 40/- per kg but mobile-sim card is free,
· Where a millionaire can buy a cricket team instead of donating the money to any charity,
· Where the footwear, we wear, is sold in AC showrooms, but vegetables, that we eat, are sold on footpath,
· Where everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to follow the path to be famous,
· Where we make lemon juices with artificial flavors and dish wash liquids with real lemon.
· Where people standing at tea stall reading an article about child labour from a newspaper and say,"yaar bachhon se kaam karvane wale ko to phansi par chadha dena chahiye" and then they shout "Oye chhotu 2 chaii laao....."

Beware of the 3G Scam

2010-06-16T14:37:00.000-07:00

> An incident experienced at Vadinar by one of our employees in the recent
> past is narrated below for your information and care .
>
> I cannot stop myself from sharing this with all of you.
>
> It's all started when I received a call from someone claiming that he was
> from my mobile service provider and he asked me to shutdown my phone for 2
> hours for 3G update to take place. As I was rushing for a meeting, I did
> not question and shutdown my cell phone. After 45 minutes I felt very
> suspicious since the caller did not even introduce his name. I quickly
> turned on my cell phone and I received several calls from my family members
> and the others were from the number that had called me earlier - 3954380.
>
> I called my parents and I was shocked that they sounded very worried asking
> me whether I am safe. My parents told me that they had received a call from
> someone claiming that they had me with them and asking for money to let me
> free. The call was so real and my parents even heard 'my voice' crying out
> loud asking for help. My parent was at the bank waiting for next call to
> proceed for money transfer. I told my parents that I am safe and asked them
> to lodge a police report. Right after that I received another call from the
> guy asking me to shutdown my cell phone for another 1 hour which I refused
> to do and hung up. They keep calling my cell phone until the battery had
> run down. I myself lodged a police report and I was informed by the officer
> that there were many such scams reported. MOST of the cases reported that
> the victim had already transferred the money! And it is Impossible to get
> back the money.
>
> Be careful as this kind of scam might happen to any of us!!! Those guys are
> so professional and very convincing during calls. If you are asked to shut
> down your cell phone for updates by the service provider, ASK AROUND! Your
> family or friends might receive the same call. Be Safe and Stay Alert!
> Please pass around to your family and friends!
>

Bajaj car to be world's cheapest

2010-06-05T06:23:00.000-07:00

Bajaj car to be world's cheapest

Bajaj's ultra-low cost car being manufactured jointly with Renault and Nissan promises to give hot chase to the Tata Nano. On Monday, Rajiv Bajaj (BAJAJAUTO.NS : 2101.05 0), MD, Bajaj Auto confirmed the $2,500 (Rs 1.1 lakh) price tag for the car, announced first by Renault chairman & CEO Carlos Ghosn at the company's shareholders' meet late last week. The Renault announcement comes a few days after it pulled out of its loss-making Logan venture with Mahindra & Mahindra.

The Bajaj car will be cheaper than the Nano, which comes at Rs 1.23 lakh-1.72 lakh (ex-showroom Delhi ). After the launch of Tata Nano, the race for the No.2 position in the ultra-low cost car segment is under way in India , which as emerged as the Mecca of this segment. However, other automakers' plans to enter this segment are still on the drawing board.

At Renault meeting, Ghosn said: "In India , Renault and Nissan are developing an ultra-low-cost vehicle with the Bajaj group, benefiting from its expertise in light vehicles and knowledge of the Indian market." He reiterated the affordability of the vehicle for the Indian market by citing the targeted low price tag.

"We are combining our strengths with Nissan, notably in India , Russia , Brazil and Mexico ," Ghosn said. "The alliance product strategy has been finalised in India and Russia , and Renault and Nissan will pool their production capacities and platforms there to fully deliver on these developments," he added.
The car was initially scheduled to hit the market this year, but has been postponed to 2012. Bajaj Auto displayed the prototype of the small car at the 2008 Auto Expo. However, the three partners were stuck at various levels of branding and engineering the car till last year. According to industry observers, the project also got delayed as partners were stuck on pricing issues as well. While Renault wanted a low-cost car, Bajaj was keen on a car that would sport high mileage and low maintenance.

It was during his India visit that Ghosn finally announced the finalisation of the project. "As per the agreement, the design, engineering, sourcing and manufacturing will be handled by Bajaj Auto, while marketing and selling will be (done) by Renault-Nissan Alliance," he said. But he had declined to comment on the pricing of the car.
Officials from the alliance have said the car will be smaller than Maruti Suzuki's Alto, which is the biggest selling model in India .

In March, Collin Dodge, executive vice-president, Nissan Motor had said: "It is over two years that Bajaj is trying to produce the car. The physics of it is very difficult. We have not yet found a solution as there are a lot of engineering solutions required." Nissan is also in talks with Hinduja group company Ashok Leyland (ASHOKLEY.NS : 62.35 -0.1) to develop a small car for the global market that could be priced around $4,500-5,000.
"We have a formal agreement with Ashok Leyland for making light commercial vehicles in India . In addition, we also use Ashok Leyland's engineering services for various purposes. At the moment, we are talking to them and many other partners in China , Indonesia ...for a price centric vehicle," Nissan Motor Co executive vice-president Collin Dodge had said at the Geneva Motor Show in March.

Greener Nano to cost a tad more

It will probably go down as one of the most famous promises not kept, in corporate India's factfile. The world's cheapest car, Tata Nano, is set to become a little less cheap later this month when the comapny upgrades it to meet the Bharat Stage-IV emission norm, despite the company's promise of price protection for the first one lakh buyers of the car. Till April 30, Tata had sold only 33,875 units of the car. As per the tentative price list available with some dealers, the Nano's price will rise in a range of Rs 1,979 to Rs 2,133 (ex-showroom) across variants. The on-road price is expected to rise by Rs 5,000-7,000. The dealers have been told to educate the cutomers about the change in regulations that are forcing the company to hike the Nano's price, even if it goes against the avowed price protection for 1 lakh customers. "Now that emission norms in the country include BS-IV for 13 cities and BS-III for the rest of the country, the Tata Nano will be available in both BS-IV and BS-III, as is applicable," the company said in response to a questionnaire from the Hindustan Times. "The delivery of BS-IV Nanos is yet to begin, and is on the anvil. Should there be a price change for BS-IV Nanos, the company will intimate respective owners. In any case, 75% of Nano's demand is in non-Metros," the statement said. The first BS IV car is expected to be despatched to dealerships in the 13 cities where the new norms are in force - including Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai and Kolkata - by the middle of this month.
"The price increase is something that does not benefit the company but is a compulsion for the change in regulation," said a dealer in Delhi. "Every other car has seen its price go up and so will Nano. If a customer does not want to pay, we will have no other option but to cancel his booking."

Load Runner Anlysis Documentation

2010-06-05T06:21:00.000-07:00

Hi Shankar.

If you really want to find bottlenecks you need to come out of the Functional and Manual testing mindset.

Performance is completely a different set of ballgame with different rules and with different mindset.

Here are a few links that might get you started, but as James mentioned you need to shadow the performance specialist or talk to the Tech Arch in having a deeper understanding of the performance issues of your systems.

http://documents.bmc.com/products/documents/62/63/26263/26263/index.htm

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/library/techarticles/0712_dunn/0712_dunn.html

http://docs.sun.com/source/817-3727/tuning.html

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/db2luw/v9/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.websphere.ii.replication.qtune.doc/tuning/iiyrqtunmq.html

You may find more by searching Google based on your type of MQs.

All the best.

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 4:09 AM, shaankar sans wrote:

Hi James,

I am working as a Manual tester for a front end system, which interacts with various back end system (database,partner system)

whenever a transaction is done by the user it sends a message to the partner system in parallel it update its database,

transaction is done only when its conformed in the partner system within the specified time interval.

Here we used MQ to send and receive message between partner system.

Bottleneck here are

Partner system fails to respond within the specified time frame,

Request may not reach the partner system due to MQ issue,

Our system fails to send the message/s to the partner system.

Regards

shaankar.

Insurance Industry Information

2010-06-05T06:20:00.000-07:00

Swami Vivekananda

2010-05-16T00:11:00.001-07:00

“We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.”
Author - Swami Vivekananda

“You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.”
Author - Swami Vivekananda

“The goal of mankind is knowledge ... Now this knowledge is inherent in man. No knowledge comes from outside: it is all inside. What we say a man 'knows', should, in strict psychological language, be what he 'discovers' or 'unveils'; what man 'learns' is really what he discovers by taking the cover off his own soul, which is a mine of infinite knowledge.”
Author - Swami Vivekananda

Nice Thought

2010-05-13T14:12:00.000-07:00

In the garden of your heart, you must plant and foster the rose of Divinity, the jasmine of humility and the lily of generosity. In your medicine chest, you must keep in readiness, the tablets of discrimination, drops of self-control and three key powders of faith, devotion and patience. Through the use of these drugs, you can escape the serious illness called Ajnana (ignorance).

- Baba

Another Problem Caused By Deforestation:)

2010-05-13T14:11:00.002-07:00

Darkest time of the day

2010-05-13T14:11:00.001-07:00

Do you know that the darkest time of the day is the minute before
sunrise? .. . .
So when you feel you are at the darkest moment in your life,remember
that sunrise is just a minute away!

Troubles are like Washing Machine; They Twist, Turn & Knock us Around,
But in the End we come out Brighter Than Before.

KEEP TRYING & NEVER EVER QUIT !!
Good Morning & A Great Day Ahead !

Ten Principles for Peace of Mind..

2010-05-05T07:07:00.000-07:00

Ten Principles for Peace of Mind..
1. Do Not Interfere In Others' Business Unless Asked.
Most of us create our own problems by interfering too often in others' affairs. We do so because somehow we have convinced ourselves that our way is the best way, our logic is the perfect logic and those who do not conform to our thinking must be criticized and steered to the right direction, our direction. This thinking denies the existence of individuality and consequently the existence of God.. God has created each one of us in a unique way. No two human beings can think or act in exactly the same way. All men or women act the way they do because God within them prompts them that way. Mind your own business and you will keep your peace.
2. Forgive And Forget:
This is the most powerful aid to peace of mind. We often develop ill feelings inside our heart for the person who insults us or harms us. We nurture grievances. This in turn results in loss of sleep, development of stomach ulcers, and high blood pressure. This insult or injury was done once, but nourishing of grievance goes on forever by constantly remembering it. Get over this bad habit. Life is too short to waste in such trifles. Forgive,20Forget, and march on. Love flourishes in giving and forgiving.
3. Do Not Crave For Recognition:
This world is full of selfish people. They seldom praise anybody without selfish motives. They may praise you today because you are in power, but no sooner than you are powerless, they will forget your achievement and will start finding faults in you. Why do you wish to kill yourse lf in striving for their recognition? Their recognition is not worth the aggravation. Do your duties ethically and sincerely.
4. Do Not Be Jealous:
We all have experienced how jealousy can disturb our peace of mind. You know that you work harder than your colleagues in the office, but sometimes they get promotions; you do not. You started a business several years ago, but you are not as successful as your neighbor whose business is only one year old. There are several examples like these in everyday life. Should you be jealous? No. Remember everybody's life is shaped by his/her destiny, which has now become his/her reality. If you are destined to be rich, nothing in the world can stop you. If you are not so destined, no one can help you either. Nothing will be gained by blaming others for your misfortune. Jealousy will not get you anywhere; it will only take away your peace of mind.
5. Change Yourself According To The Environment:
If you try to change the environment single-handedly, the chances are you will fail. Instead, change yourself to suit your environment. As you do this, even the environment, which has been unfriendly to you, will mysteriously change and seem congenial and harmonious.
6. Endure What Cannot Be Cured:
This is the best way to turn a disadvantage into an advantage. Every day we face numerous inconveniences, ailments, irritations, and accidents that are beyond our control... If we cannot control them or change them, we must learn to put up with these things. We must learn to endure them cheerfully. Believe in yourself and you will gain in terms of patience, inner strength and will power.
7. Do Not Bite Off More Than You Can Chew:
This maxim needs to be remembered constantly. We often tend to take more responsibilities than we are capable of carrying out. This is done to satisfy our ego. Know your limitations. . Why take on additional loads that may create more worries? You cannot gain peace of mind by expanding your external activities. Reduce your material engagements and spend time in prayer, introspection and meditation. This will reduce those thoughts in your mind that make you restless. Uncluttered mind will produce greater peace of mind.
8. Meditate Regularly:
Meditation calms the mind and gets rid of disturbing thoughts. This is the highest state of peace of mind. Try and experience it yourself. If you meditate earnestly for half an hour everyday, your mind will tend to become peaceful during the remaining twenty-three and half-hours. Your mind will not be easily disturbed as it was before. You would benefit by gradually increasing the period of daily meditation. You may think that this will interfere with your daily work. On the contrary, this will increase your efficiency and you will be able to produce better results in less time.
9. Never Leave The Mind Vacant:
An empty mind is the devil's workshop. All evil actions start in the vacant mind. Keep your mind occupied in something positive, something worthwhile. Actively follow a hobby. Do something that holds your interest. You must decide what you value more: money or peace of mind. Your hobby, like social work or religious work, may not always earn you more money, but you will have a sense of fulfillment and achievement. Even when you are resting physically, occupy yourself in healthy reading or mental chanting of God's name.
10. Do Not Procrastinate And Never Regret:
Do not waste time in protracted wondering " Should I or shouldn't I?" Days, weeks, months, and years may be wasted in that futile mental debating. You can never plan enough because you can never anticipate all future happenings. Value your time and do the things that need to be done. It does not matter if you fail the first time. You can learn from your mistakes and succeed the next time. Sitting back and worrying will lead to nothing. Learn from your mistakes, but do not brood over the past. DO NOT REGRET. Whatever happened was desti ned to happen only that way. Why cry over spilt milk?
Rgds
Smitha

An overview about Batch Systems:

2010-05-05T07:04:00.001-07:00

An overview about Batch Systems:

A major part of the workload on mainframe computers consists of batch processing. A large mainframe often will run several thousand batch jobs every day. This “network” of jobs represents a business workflow with complex interrelations requiring careful scheduling and prioritizing to ensure that all batch jobs run in the correct order and meet strict deadlines. Consequently, sophisticated systems have evolved to manage and run batch workloads— systems that “feel” mainframe-specific, with no obvious parallels in Windows®-based computing. Approached with the idea of migrating batch applications to the Windows operating system, most IT managers react with, “How can that be possible?” From another angle, many other people assume modern applications no longer require batch processing— an opinion that is completely wrong. The Windows operating system is quite capable of supporting the complex needs of batch applications as has been demonstrated by the many organizations that have migrated batch systems to the Windows platform. The continuing need for batch processing is illustrated by key Microsoft® products, such as BizTalk® Server, which support workflows very similar to those of mainframe batch systems.

Overview

Batch systems are collections of programs that run without interaction with users and with minimal interaction with a computer operator, where “minimal” means no more than the computer operator setting parameters at the start of a batch job and changing tapes or other data storage devices when prompted. Many of today’s batch systems automate these tasks so there is no interaction with humans unless something goes wrong. Most mature mainframe systems rely on batch jobs to perform significant portions of the total application logic. The types of tasks undertaken include:

• Merging the day’s transactions into master files

• Sorting data files for optimal processing the following day

• Merging data from multiple locations

• Providing daily, weekly, monthly, and annual reports

• Issuing daily, weekly, and monthly bills or invoices to customers

• Performing daily, weekly, biweekly, and monthly payroll calculations

• Consolidating multiple orders into single shipments and invoices

• Printing checks

• Performing special mailings

• Applying interest to financial accounts

• Batching orders for transmission to another company

• Performing backups

• Archiving data

• Auditing transactions and systems

Some companies may be able to survive for a day or two without running batch systems, but

most will find business operations degrading rapidly if the batch applications are not run.

Batch Components

The main components of the IBM mainframe batch ecosystem are:

• Job entry subsystem (JES)—queues and assigns jobs to initiators

• Initiator—responsible for running a job

• Job—one or more executable programs

• JCL—describes the job, including file name cross-references, executable commands, and

control flow, and provides control parameters to the JES

• Scheduler—schedules job start times, codifies dependencies between jobs and their runtime

requirements, and provides reporting and alerting capabilities

• Data files and databases

Calypso-An integrated tool for investment banking

2010-05-05T07:03:00.000-07:00

Calypso is an investment banking tool used worldwide by many investment banks including, HSBC Bank, Calyon Bank ,investment banking arm of Credit Agricole Bank based out at Paris amongst others.

FX derivatives are changing constantly and becoming sophisticated. Tight integration with other desks is becoming necessary to handle large volumes of trade.

For Example booking a dual currency deposit needs a good integration between the FX derivatives and money market desks. Global books require an excellent regional and global trading operations. Calypso provides a trading system where a lot of products covering various asset classes can be traded actively and also it is open to new developments and enhancements involving sophisticated pricing measures.

Investment banking comprises of three major areas namely Front office, Middle Office and Back Office. Front office or Front desk in an investment bank can be defined as the desk responsible for booking of deals, closing of deals ,getting new clients for the bank. Examples of Front Office systems are Kondor + and Summit.

Middle Office is the desk responsible for calculating the risks involved in a particular deal. Looking at the present scenario after the last years Lehman Brother's bankrupt case, Risk Management is taking a vital role in functioning of an investment banks. Risk Managers who were not having a good portfolio earlier are now important functions in an investment bank.

Back Office is used for confirmations, message generations and reconciliations in an investment bank. Examples of Back Office systems are Calypso, Murex and Fidessa.

Simulating of Uploading of Documents

2010-05-05T07:01:00.002-07:00

http://groups.google.com/group/LR-LoadRunner/browse_thread/thread/daa0e61db2006e3a#

We have a web application and one of the functions is to upload files
using the regular "Browse" button. can this be achieved with the Web HTTP/HTML protocol. i do see that it records the value of "C:\\Documets\nameofdoc.pdf"
but when i run the script it does not really upload it?

all inputs are appreciated. Thanks
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Asked many times. Yes, this can be accomplished in LoadRunner. How is
entirely dependent upon how your application works and what additional
protocols might or might not be employed as part of the upload. The
information provided is not really sufficient to give you a meaningful
answer, but here goes anyway
* You missed a correlation
* You are running your script on another PC which doesn't have access to the
file in the defined location
* You are violating a business rule on uploading the same file twice
(name+size)
* A second protocol is involved in the file transfer
* Custom programming is required to integrate the file with your script for
upload purposes
* You are executing a script under different credentials which doesn't have
access to the target file

http://www.geekinterview.com/talk/8689-loadrunner-script-with-attachment-files.html

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=109447626+1273040933798+28353475&threadId=1210176

A hilarious example of what bureaucracy can do .

2010-05-05T07:01:00.001-07:00

A hilarious example of what bureaucracy can do .

A Team comprising of a Writer, a Producer, a Director, etc applied to the Government of India for financial assistance with the script to produce a Movie on Mahabharata.

Dated .....................

Subject: Mahabharata

To: The Writer, Film Director & Film Producer , Mumbai

Ref: Film story submitted by you, regarding financing of films by Government of India , Your letter dt. ............ . ......... .

The undersigned is directed to refer the above letter and state that the Government has examined your proposal for financing a film called''Mahabharat' . The Very High Level Committee constituted for this purpose has been in consultation with the Human Rights Commission , National Commission for Women and Labour Commission, in addition to various Ministries and State Governments and have formed definitive opinions about the script. Their observations are as below:

1. In the script submitted by you it is shown that there were two sets of cousins, namely, the Kauravas, numbering one hundred, and the Pandavas, numbering five. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has pointed out that these numbers are high, well above the norm prescribed for families by them It is brought to your kind attention that when the Government is spending huge amounts for promoting family planning , this will send wrong signals to the public. Therefore, it is recommended that there may be only three Kauravas and one Pandava.

2. The Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs has raised an issue whether it is suitable to depict kings and emperors in this democratic age. Therefore, it is suggested that the Kauravas may be depicted as Honourable Members of Parliament (Lok Sabha) and the Pandava maybe depicted as Honourable Member of Parliament ( Rajya Sabha ). The ending of the film shows the victory of the said Pandavas over the said Kauravas. The ending may be suitably modified so that neither of the Honourable Members of Parliament are shown as being inferior to the other.

3. The Ministry of Science and Technology has observed that the manner of birth of Kauravas is suggestive of human cloning, a technology banned in India . This may be changed to normal birth.

4. The National Commission for Women has objected that the father of Pandavas, one Sri Pandu is depicted as bigamous, and also there is only one wife for the Pandavas in common. Therefore suitable changes maybe made in the said script so that the said Sri Pandu is not depicted as bigamous. However, with the reduction in number of Pandavas as suggested above, the issue of polyandry can be addressed without further trouble.

5. The Commission for the Physically Challenged has observed that the portrayal of the visually impaired character 'Dhritharastra' is derogatory. Therefore the said character may not be shown as visually impaired.

6. The Department of Women and Child Development have highlighted that the public disrobing of one female character called 'Draupadi' is objectionable and derogatory to women in general. Further the Home Ministry anticipates that depiction of such scenes may create law and order problem and at the same time invite strong protests from the different women forums. Such scenes may also invite penal action under SITA (Suppression of Immoral Traffic Act), therefore they may be avoided and deleted from the film.

7. It is felt that showing the Pandava and the Kauravas as gamblers will be anti-social and counter-productive as it might encourage gambling. Therefore, the said Pandava and Kauravas may be shown to have engaged in horse racing. (Hon. Supreme Court has held horse racing not to be gambling)

8. The Pandavas are shown as working in the King Virat's employment without receiving any salary. According to the Human Rights Commission, this amounts to bonded labour and may attract provisions of The Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1976. This may be corrected at once.

9. In the ensuing war, one character by name Sri Abhim! anyu has ! been shown as fighting. The National Labour Commission has observed that, war being a hazardous industry, and the said character being 16 years old, this depiction will be construed as a case of child labour . Also there is no record of his being paid any compensation. This may also be deemed to be violatory of the provisions of The Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986 and Minimum Wages Act, 1948. Such references in the film may be removed.

10. The character 'Sri Krishna' has been depicted as wearing a peacock feather. The peacock is our National Bird and wearing dresses made from peacock feather is an offence under the Wild Life Protection Act, 1972. This may not be depicted.

11. Smt Maneka Gandhi has raised very serious objection for using any elephants or horses in war scenes, since there is every scope for mistreatment and injury to the said animals. The provisions of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1890 and Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Amendment) Act, 1960 would be applicable in the instant case. Suitable changes may be made in the script to address the objections raised.

12. In pursuance of the Memorandum of Ministry of Finance regarding austerity measures, it is informed that in the battle field sequences, only ten soldiers may be allowed for each side. Also, all the characters may be shown to have obtained a valid licence under the Arms Act, 1959 as well as the Indian Arms Act, 1878.You are therefore requested to modify the script along the lines indicated above and resubmit it to the undersigned at the earliest for reconsideration.

Sd/-

Under Secretary

Good Books on Perf Testing/Engg

2010-04-26T21:01:00.000-07:00

Hi.

I would like to know from the experts what are the best books to get more insight and knowledge into performance testing ,performance engineering and Performance Analysis.

Some of the ones which I shortlisted are:

The Art of Application Performance Testing by Ian Molyneaux
Integrated Approach to Web-Based Systems and Performance Testing by BM Subraya
Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications by Scott Barber, JD Meier, Carlos Farre, Prashant Bansode and Dennis Rea.
Software Performance and Scalability by Henry H. Liu
Patterns for Performance and Operatability by Chris Ford, Ido Gileadi, Sanjiv Purba and Mike Moerman.
Performance by Design - Computer Capacity Planning by Example by Daniel A. Menascé, Virgilio A.F. Almeida, Lawrence W. Dowdy
Building Scalable Web Sites By Cal Henderson

Are there any that I am missing which I should read?

Thanks.
Krishnakanth.

Why Are Americans Jobless?

2010-04-26T21:00:00.002-07:00

Why Are Americans Jobless?

John Smith started the day early having set his alarm clock (MADE IN JAPAN) for 6 a.m.

While his coffeepot (MADE IN CHINA) was perking, he shaved with his electric razor (MADE IN PHILIPPINES).

He put on a dress shirt (MADE IN SRI LANKA), designer jeans (MADE IN SINGAPORE) and tennis shoes (MADE IN
VIETNAM). After cooking his breakfast in his new electric skillet (MADE IN INDIA), then he sat down with his calculator (MADE IN MEXICO) to see how much he could spend today.

After setting his watch (MADE IN TAIWAN) to the radio (MADE IN INDIA ), he got in his car (MADE IN GERMANY ) filled it with GAS (from Saudi Arabia ) and continued his search for a good paying AMERICAN JOB.

At the end of yet another discouraging and fruitless day checking his computer (MADE IN MALAYSIA), John decided to relax for a while. He put on his sandals (MADE IN BRAZIL) poured himself a glass of wine (MADE IN FRANCE) and turned on his TV (MADE IN KOREA), and then wondered why he can't find a good paying job in AMERICA.

AND NOW HE'S HOPING HE CAN GET HELP FROM HIS PRESIDENT (MADE IN KENYA). J

Speech by Chetan Bhagat at Symbiosis:

2010-04-26T21:00:00.001-07:00

Speech by Chetan Bhagat at Symbiosis:

Don’t just have career or academic goals. Set goals to give you a balanced, successful life. I use the word balanced before successful. Balanced means ensuring your health, relationships, mental peace are all in good order.
There is no point of getting a promotion on the day of your breakup. There is no fun in driving a car if your back hurts. Shopping is not enjoyable if your mind is full of tensions.
"Life is one of those races in nursery school where you have to run with a marble in a spoon kept in your mouth. If the marble falls, there is no point coming first. Same is with life where health and relationships are the marble. Your striving is only worth it if there is harmony in your life. Else, you may achieve the success, but this spark, this feeling of being excited and alive, will start to die. ……………….
One thing about nurturing the spark - don't take life seriously. Life is not meant to be taken seriously, as we are really temporary here. We are like a pre-paid card with limited validity. If we are lucky, we may last another 50 years. And 50 years is just 2,500 weekends. Do we really need to get so worked up? …………….
It's ok, bunk a few classes, scoring low in couple of papers, goof up a few interviews, take leave from work, fall in love, little fights with your spouse. We are people, not programmed devices..... ...." :)
"Don't be serious, be sincere."!!

An overview about Batch Systems:

2010-04-26T20:59:00.000-07:00

A good leader is not a control freak

2010-04-11T03:02:00.000-07:00

A good leader is not a control freak

Posted: 20 Mar 2010 07:11 PM PDT

DNA, 21st March, 2010

H.H. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

When you are working, use your head. But in situations outside the workplace, its best to listen to your heart

What are the qualities of a good leader? How can you be a dynamic, confident and an enthusiastic leader?

A major aspect of good leadership is letting go of control. Are you in control when youre sleeping or when youre dreaming? No! Are you in control of any other function in your body? Your heart is pumping all by itself. Are you in control of the Sun and Moon moving around the globe or even the globe rotating on its axis? Are you in control of the thoughts that come into your head? So, when you realise you really do not have any control over all major things that are happening in your life then you will realise that the idea that you are in control is an illusion. And this will relax you.

A leader sets an example. He doesnt just order things; he does it first so that others can do it. A good leader is the one who creates leaders and not followers. He takes good care of those whom he is leading. He delegates responsibility.

A leader does not worry about position. The respect that one gains through virtue is very different from the respect one gains through the position. The respect you get through a position is short-lived and temporary. But the respect that you gain because of your virtues and your attitude is there with you all the time. You may be a chairman of this committee, a president of that committee, or you may be a barrister here or a governor of some state - these are all momentary, temporary. These positions come and go. And the respect you get because of this position is not genuine, it is not from the heart, it is not true. But the respect you gain because you are a nice person is genuine, it lasts long.

A good leader is one who does not drop things when challenges appear. Rather, he is alert in times of crisis rather than being disturbed by it. A leader should have a fine balance of listening to the head as well as the heart. If you mix head and heart, you are in a mess! When you have to work, you work with commitment and you live with your head. In life, in situations other than when you are working, listen to your heart.

Be multidimensional - put yourself in the other persons shoes, look from the other persons point of view. Be a good communicator and have a direct approach.

Self-judgment is an obstruction. Dont judge yourself. When you judge yourself, you are judging others also. Then you oscillate like a pendulum. Judgment is very similar to self-blame and blaming others. A good leader is one who does not care for comfort, but who stretches himself beyond the comfort zone. Anything creative, dynamic and great can happen only when you stretch beyond your comfort zone where you are often stuck. You think you cannot do something: just make an effort and put one step ahead, and you will find that that you are expanding your comfort zone. Creativity transcends your comfort zone.

A leader should have a long term vision and should have short term plans to work on it. A leader should have integrity and should be sincere in wishing well for the country before oneself. That sense of sacrifice is needed.

A good leader should be satya-darshi (truthful), sam-darshi (equanimous), priya-darshi (pleasant personality), par-darshi (transparent) and door-darshi (farsighted). A leader should have a mission and a vision and a spirit of sacrifice, compassion and commitment.

(H.H. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar is the founder of the Art of Living)

SAVING IS SIN, SPENDING IS VIRTUE

2010-04-10T23:56:00.001-07:00

"SAVING IS SIN, SPENDING IS VIRTUE"

- BY Jagdish N Bhagwati

Japanese save a lot. They do not spend much. Also Japan exports far more
than it imports. Has an annual trade surplus of over $100 billions. Yet
Japanese economy is considered weak, even collapsing. Americans spend,
save little. Also US import more than it exports. Has an annual trade
deficit of over $400 billion. Yet, the American economy is considered
strong and trusted to get stronger.

But where from do Americans get money to spend? They borrow from Japan ,
China and even India . Virtually others save for the US to spend. Global
savings are mostly invested in US, in dollars. India itself keeps its
foreign currency assets of over $50 billions in US securities. China has
sunk over $160 billion in US securities. Japan 's stakes in US securities
is in trillions.

Result: The US has taken over $5 trillion from the world. So, as the world
saves for the US , Americans spend freely. Today, to keep the US
consumption going, that is for the US economy to work, other countries have
to remit $180 billion every quarter, which is $2 billion a day, to the US !
Otherwise the US economy would go for a six. So will the global economy.
The result will be no different if US consumers begin consuming less.

A Chinese economist asked a neat question. Who has invested more, US in
China , or China in US? The US has invested in China less than half of what
China has invested in US. The same is the case with India . We have
invested in US over $50 billion. But the US has invested less than $20
billion in India . Why the world is after US?

The secret lies in the American spending, that they hardly save. In fact
they use their credit cards to spend their future income. That the US
spends is what makes it attractive to export to the US . So US imports more
than what it exports year after year. The result:

The world is dependent on US consumption for its growth. By its deepening
culture of consumption, the US has habituated the world to feed on US
consumption. But as the US needs money to finance its consumption, the
world provides the money. It's like a shopkeeper providing the money to a
customer so that the customer keeps buying from the shop. If the customer
will not buy, the shop won't have business, unless the shopkeeper funds
him. The US is like the lucky customer. And the world is like the helpless
shopkeeper financier. Who is America 's biggest shopkeeper financier?
Japan of course. Yet itÊ¼s Japan which is regarded as weak. Modern
economists complain that Japanese do not spend, so they do not grow. To
force the Japanese to spend, the Japanese government exerted it self,
reduced the savings rates, even charged the savers. Even then the Japanese
did not spend (habits don't change, even with taxes, do they?). Their
traditional postal savings alone is over $1.2 trillions, about three times
the Indian GDP. Thus, savings, far from being the strength of Japan , has
become its pain.

Hence, what is the lesson? That is, a nation cannot grow unless the people
spend, not save. Not just spend, but borrow and spend. Dr. Jagdish
Bhagwati, the famous Indian-born economist in the US , told Manmohan Singh
that Indians wastefully save. Ask them to spend, on imported cars and,
seriously, even on cosmetics! This will put India on a growth curve.
"Saving is sin, and spending is virtue." Before you follow this neo
economics, get some one to save so that you can borrow from them and
spend.

This is what US has successfully done in last few decades.

Time Magazine's quote on Sachin

2010-03-22T22:01:00.001-07:00

When Sachin Tendulkar travelled to Pakistan to face one of the finest bowling attacks ever assembled in cricket, Michael Schumacher was yet to race a F1 car, Lance Armstrong had never been to the Tour de France, Diego Maradona was still the captain of a world champion Argentina team, Pete Sampras had never won a Grand Slam.When Tendulkar embarked on a glorious career taming Imran and company, Roger Federer was a name unheard of; Lionel Messi was in his nappies, Usain Bolt was an unknown kid in the Jamaican backwaters. The Berlin Wall was still intact, USSR was one big, big country, Dr Manmohan Singh was yet to "open" the Nehruvian economy.It seems while Time was having his toll on every individual on the face of this planet, he excused one man. Time stands frozen in front of Sachin Tendulkar. We have had champions, we have had legends, but we have never had another Sachin Tendulkar and we never will.

YouTube Comprises 10% Of All Internet Traffic

2010-03-16T09:38:00.003-07:00

YouTube Comprises 10% Of All Internet Traffic

http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2007/06/19/youtube-comprises-10-of-all-internet-traffic

For the first time in four years, HTTP (Web) traffic has overtaken peer-to-peer (P2P) applications in bandwidth consumption, according to data released by Ellacoya Networks. YouTube takes the biggest chunk of all of them.

Based on usage data from about a million North American broadband subscribers, the study showed that streaming video and audio downloads have spiked HTTP bandwidth usage to 46 percent of all traffic on the network.

P2P applications now amount for 37 percent of the total traffic.

“The popularity of browser-based video such as YouTube is having a significant impact not only on overall bandwidth consumption but also on the distribution of application traffic on the network,” said Fred Sammartino, vice president of marketing and product management at Ellacoya.

“The way people use the Internet is changing rapidly - from browsing to real-time streaming. We expect to see new applications over the next year that will accelerate this trend.”

Within HTTP, traditional webpage downloads like text and images represent 45 percent of all Web traffic. Streaming videos pulls in 36 percent and audio just 5 percent.

All by itself, YouTube comprises 20 percent of all HTTP traffic, or nearly 10 percent of all traffic on the Net. Let's repeat that: one site takes up 10 percent of the bandwidth on the entire Net.

As for other types, Newsgroups take up nine percent; non-HTTP video streaming grabs 3 percent; gaming 2 percent; and VoIP 1 percent.

Controlling streaming video traffic on a network

2010-03-16T09:38:00.001-07:00

Controlling streaming video traffic on a network
http://searchnetworkingchannel.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid100_gci1269980_mem1,00.html

Streaming video traffic from sites such as YouTube is flash-flooding bandwidth pipelines throughout the Internet. A recent report by deep packet inspection equipment provider Ellacoya suggests that P2P traffic is no longer the Internet's largest consumer of bandwidth. Instead, video-streaming formats that utilize the Internet as a transport mechanism have taken the top spot, accounting for 46% of all Internet traffic. In fact, streaming video represents 36% of all HTTP traffic. And of that 36%, YouTube represents 20% – equating to 10% of all traffic.
Why is this situation important to VARs and service providers? The simple fact is that the explosion of real-time bandwidth-intensive applications such as streaming video can put a substantial dent in the performance of your customer's key business applications. Estimates regarding YouTube's total daily bandwidth usage (through its content delivery partner, Limelight Networks) vary between 25 and 200 terabytes. The trick to delivering prerecorded video content is to rapidly transfer it to the client's machine and then have the client play it from a local hard drive, instead of directly from the site. Most video sites deliver files to the client faster than real time, so a two- to three-minute video is received in as little as 20 seconds, thereby giving the best local playback experience.
The problem with streaming video is not the file size (usually four to 10 megabytes, although it can be as much as 100 megabytes); rather, it's the rate of delivery. The content distribution network's sole purpose is to get that file down your customer's Internet connection to the client as quickly as possible, using as much bandwidth as possible. Even companies with substantial bandwidth can experience backups and clogged network traffic. No matter how much bandwidth your customer might have, the content distribution network on the other end has even more. Thus, every click on a YouTube video unleashes a tsunami of data that floods your customer's connection. These factors can pose a real problem for businesses that rely on Internet-based service providers for business-critical applications, such as payroll or CRM systems, and those businesses that host customer-facing services on their office's Internet connection. Service degradation and brief outages can occur if the connection becomes saturated with bursts of streaming HTTP traffic.

essential books on QA/testing

2010-03-16T09:32:00.000-07:00

Many thanks to Tony Davis for compiling this list.

http://www.sqaforums.com/showthreaded.php?Cat=0&Number=430242&page=0&vc=1

The following list of books has been compiled through discussion threads on the SQA Forums site. Criteria for entry on this list were decided on the following factors:

1. Cost – Less than $75 USD. This did exclude some excellent materials, but when it is usually the individual purchasing the books to further their knowledge, a limit was set.
2. Generality – Must be a general knowledge area and not a specific area of testing. Items like "Testing SAP Solutions" would be to constrained in the information provided to cross technical areas of testing.
3. Level if Interest – Items are from an entry/fresher level of perspective on the areas of involvement. This means that anyone who has no prior knowledge can learn something from the list of books in this document. It doesn’t mean that people who have been in the field for years won’t gain anything from reading the books listed, but it is not the primary focus.

General Testing:

* Software Testing Techniques - Beizer
* Testing Computer Software - Kaner/Falk/Nguyen
* How to Break Software - Whittaker
* How to Break Software Security - Whittaker/Thompson
* How to Break Web Software - Andrews/Whittaker
* The Web Testing Handbook - Splaine/Jaskiel
* Software Testing in The Real World - Kit
* Testing Client/Server Systems - Bourne
* Systematic Software Testing - Craig/Jaskiel
* Effective Software Testing:50 Specific Ways to Improve Your Testing - Dustin
* Software Testing and Continuous Quality Improvement - Lewis
* Quality Web Systems: Performance, Security, and Usability - Dustin/Rashka/McDiarmid/Nielson

Case Studies:

* Lessons Learned in Software Testing: Kaner/Bach/Pettichord
* Dare to be Excellent - Jarvis/Hayes

Requirements:

* Software Requirements - Wiegers
* More About Software Requirements: Thorny Issues and Practical Advice - Wiegers

Automated Testing:

* Automated Software Testing: Introduction, Management, and Performance - Dustin/Rashka/Paul
* Just Enough Software Test Automation - Mosley/Posey

Metrics:

* Metrics and Models in Software Quality Engineering - Kan
* Software Metrics: Establishing a Company-wide Program - Grady/Caswell

Test Management:

* Managing the Testing Process - Black
* Bad Software:What to Do When Software Fails - Kaner/Pels

Logic:

* The Philosophy Gym: 25 Short Adventures in Thinking - Law
* The Craft of Research, 2nd edition (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)- Booth/Williams/Colomb.
* Crimes Against Logic - Whyte

Programming/Technical:

* Code Complete - McConnell
* Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days - Liberty/Jones
* Learning PERL - Schwartz/Phoenix
* Core PYTHON Programming - Chun
* Microsoft VBScript Step by Step - Wilson
* Webmaster in a Nutshell

Security Testing:

* The Art of Software Security Testing

Perf Time: Layer Wise Breakdown

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On Mar 8, 2010, at 6:44 PM, Rahul Bhatt wrote:
> I have been given a task to calculate time spent in each tier of the
> application. The application is web based j2ee application which
> uses oracle in backend.
>
> I have used Fiddler, Loadrunner and HP Diagnostic to calculate these
> timings.

> Fiddler - total time (t1)
> Loadrunner - Web + App + DB (t2)
> HP Diag - App (t3) + DB (t4)

> Client time (IE rendering + network) = t1 - t2
> Web tier = t2 - t3 - t4
> Application tier = t3
> Database = t4

> I would appreciate if this can be validated by experts in the forum.
> All suggessions are very well welcome.
>
> Thanks
****************************************************************************
-----Original Message-----
From: LoadRunner@yahoogroups.com [mailto:LoadRunner@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of James Pulley
Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 10:15 AM
To: LoadRunner@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [LoadRunner] Time spent in each j2ee tier

I have a far simpler proposition if you want to know how much time is spent inside the java tier (assuming that this is on a dedicated host)
(1) Grab a protocol analyzer
(2) Set your filters to include traffic to and from the Java host from the next upstream and downstream architectural components.
(3) begin recording conversations
(4) Reassemble streams into sessions using your protocol analyzers capabilities
(5) Look at timestamps (to the millisecond) from the last frame of the request to the first frame of the response. The difference is the time spent in your Java tier.

And it works in production too.

As to Fiddler? Have you considered the advantage of the Graphical Virtual User technology which will not only collect the response times inside of LoadRunner, but you can then present the data compared to API calls on the same graph, where the difference is time in client (which includes client processing plus rendering)

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Alternate path. Dump your Java Server logs. Analyze the information with Microsoft LogParser for requests and responses data.

Best practices for managing clustered test environments

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Best practices for managing clustered test environments(Enterprise Networking).
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Best+practices+for+managing+clustered+test+environments.+(Enterprise...-a0105884208

Jim Lee is vice president of product marketing at Princeton Softech (Princeton, NJ)
www.princetonsoftech.com

Today, companies are challenged to satisfy the business needs of demanding customers by providing quality applications and high levels of performance in an increasingly complex hardware and software environment. Pressure from strong competition and flat or shrinking IT budgets are compounding the situation. IT executives are searching for the best methods and tools to help them achieve the right balance between delivering reliability and performance for applications and systems that must be available 24x7.

One common solution for achieving this balance in supporting large scale, high-volume enterprise systems is to implement various clustering configurations that manage applications, hardware and databases effectively. Clustering is simply a way to physically and logically group hardware and software resources to work together as one system, and there are a variety of clustering configurations that allow for load balancing The fine tuning of a computer system, network or disk subsystem in order to more evenly distribute the data and/or processing across available resources. For example, in clustering, load balancing might distribute the incoming transactions evenly to all servers, or it might redirect them among the hardware, software and database resources. Clustering effectively improves processing efficiency and performance, while reducing operating costs operating costs npl → gastos mpl operacionales
..... Click the link for more information., especially for large enterprise scale, mission-critical systems.

In a production environment, database and hardware clustering deliver improved availability, performance and scalability. Application clustering, also called software clustering, adds a third dimension to the configuration possibilities that is inexpensive and relatively easy to reconfigure To change the status of something. . However, how should these clustering techniques be deployed in a testing environment? Can you afford to replicate rep•li•cate
v.
1. To duplicate, copy, reproduce, or repeat.

2. To reproduce or make an exact copy or copies of genetic material, a cell, or an organism.

n.
A repetition of an experiment or a procedure.
..... Click the link for more information. a clustered production environment for development and testing environments?

Clustering in an Application Testing application testing - system testing Environment

Complete and accurate quality assurance testing is critical for meeting today's demands to deliver applications that work, not only in the initial release, but also throughout the life of the application. Finding and resolving application defects early can significantly improve application quality and reduce or eliminate the costs associated with resolving problems after an application is placed in production. Another important goal is to create a repeatable testing process that improves application quality, reduces time to market and minimizes the cost of development and testing.

Companies are striving to speed the deployment of reliable, high quality applications while staying within tight development budgets. Reducing development and testing costs without sacrificing quality requires a best practices strategy with the right tools for application testing. The fact that most applications today rely on relational database relational database

Database in which all data are represented in tabular form. The description of a particular entity is provided by the set of its attribute values, stored as one row or record of the table, called a tuple. technology further complicates the challenge for testing organizations. The application data model may contain dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of tables, and just as many relationships.

Deploying clustering in a testing environment can be beneficial when used appropriately. Managing your database, hardware and application clustering configurations effectively, as well as carefully choosing the right clustering technique for each phase of the testing process, are key to designing efficient, effective testing strategies for relational database applications.

Relational Data Testing Challenges

Designing a comprehensive strategy for clustered testing environments can be as challenging as designing and developing an application. The starting point Noun 1. starting point - earliest limiting point
terminus a quo

commencement, get-go, offset, outset, showtime, starting time, beginning, start, kickoff, first - the time at which something is supposed to begin; "they got an early start"; "she knew from the is the logical and physical clustering environment--including servers, applications and databases needed to support the application you are testing. Although testing tools are not used in the production environment, the optimal clustering configuration will enable you to determine price/performance tradeoffs for your testing strategy.

Typically, several new test databases must be created and/or refreshed re•fresh
v. re•freshed, re•fresh•ing, re•fresh•es

v.tr.
1. To revive with or as if with rest, food, or drink; give new vigor or spirit to.

2.
..... Click the link for more information. each time a new application is developed or an existing application is modified. Iterative it•er•a•tive
adj.
1. Characterized by or involving repetition, recurrence, reiteration, or repetitiousness.

2. Grammar Frequentative.

Noun 1. testing involves executing the application using the test database and verifying the results to ensure the application is working as designed (jargon) working as designed - (IBM) Conforming to a wrong or inappropriate specification; useful, but misdesigned. Frequently used as a sardonic comment on a program's utility or as a bogus reason for not accepting a criticism or suggestion. . Any problems discovered must be resolved and the test data must be refreshed before testing continues. This process is repeated throughout the various testing phases--unit, functional, integration, system, load and regression--until the application is migrated into production.

Clustering and Cloned Test Databases

Since it is ideal to use "realistic" test data, each test database is usually a clone clone, group of organisms, all of which are descended from a single individual through asexual reproduction, as in a pure cell culture of bacteria. Except for changes in the hereditary material that come about by mutation, all members of a clone are genetically of the production database, and special test cases may be added before testing begins. For example, in a clustered environment, a one-terabyte database might be cloned and deployed on a database cluster running on two servers. Load balancing can be used to enhance performance and maximize processing resources, depending on the number of test environments created.

Although clustered environments can support cloned databases, the cost and capacity issues make it impractical im•prac•ti•cal
adj.
1. Unwise to implement or maintain in practice: Refloating the sunken ship proved impractical because of the great expense.

2.
..... Click the link for more information. to clone an entire production database, unless it is absolutely necessary. Consider a typical example like testing an application with a one-terabyte database running on two servers. The same configuration is needed to support regression testing In software development, testing a program that has been modified in order to ensure that additional bugs have not been introduced. When a program is enhanced, testing is often done only on the new features. , adding two servers. If the QA functional testing (testing) functional testing - (Or "black-box testing", "closed-box testing") The application of test data derived from the specified functional requirements without regard to the final program structure. also needs to clone the database, add two more servers. Now, a total of six servers are required with four dedicated to testing. This configuration does not even include the copies of the production database needed in the development environment.

In addition, deploying cloned databases in a clustered test environment during the functional testing phase can actually increase the time required to perform the necessary testing. How can this be? In a functional testing phase, it is not necessary to use a full set of test data because the goal of that phase is to ensure that application functions work correctly. If a fully cloned one-terabyte database is used for testing instead of a smaller subset, then executing the test cases may take longer because there is a larger volume of data to process. There is also a quality issue because the production data may not contain the particular test cases required for effective functional testing, and developers may find it difficult to track and validate specific test cases.

What is important is to always assess the data requirements for a particular testing phase to determine whether cloning cloning: see clone.
________________________________________

To make a product that functions like another. See clone. See also cloning software. the database in an operational clustered environment is truly needed. If not, the next question to ask is, "How can you create smaller subsets of the database to perform testing efficiently and still have complete confidence that the applications are being tested with the realistic test data?"

Subsetting Relational Databases

Subsetting can be used to create much smaller, yet realistic, test databases. Subsetting tools-- for example, Princeton Softech's Relational Tools-- provide the ability to extract complete subsets of related data and keep that data referentially intact. These tools can navigate all relationships in the data model, whether they are defined in the database or the application. Key features include the capability to extract test data that may reside in multiple relational databases, handling data compatibility and translation issues and providing federated Connected and treated as one. See federated database and federated directories. data access.

Working with predefined realistic subsets of data that can be refreshed easily improves testing and overall application quality. Including the metadata in extract processing ensures that you can recreate test data quickly and accurately. The ability to save and reuse reuse - Using code developed for one application program in another application. Traditionally achieved using program libraries. Object-oriented programming offers reusability of code via its techniques of inheritance and genericity. processing specifications streamlines the testing process and ensures a consistent and manageable test environment.

Subsetting and Test Phases

Subsetting is appropriate for various phases of the application development life cycle and especially when there is no requirement to test with the entire application database. The level of subsetting should be commensurate com•men•su•rate
adj.
1. Of the same size, extent, or duration as another.

2. Corresponding in size or degree; proportionate: a salary commensurate with my performance.

3. with the amount of data needed for the specific testing phase. For example, during unit testing (testing) unit testing - The type of testing where a developer (usually the one who wrote the code) proves that a code module (the "unit") meets its requirements. , when developers verify the functionality of new features or application units, such as specific modules or subsystems, a very small subset of data is appropriate and actually expedites the testing process and reduces costs.

During functional testing, quality assurance teams verify the operation of the application functions, which requires more data than the initial unit testing phase. The subsetting facilities must be "tweaked See tweak. " to extract more data. During integration testing (testing) integration testing - A type of testing in which software and/or hardware components are combined and tested to confirm that they interact according to their requirements. Integration testing can continue progressively until the entire system has been integrated. , teams verify the integration points between units or functions to identify unexpected updates and anomalies and ensure that various functions now work together. Again, this phase often involves larger volumes of data than the previous phases, and the subsetting process once again can be applied with the objective of extracting a broader set of data.

System testing (testing) system testing - (Or "application testing") A type of testing to confirm that all code modules work as specified, and that the system as a whole performs adequately on the platform on which it will be deployed. , sometimes called end-to-end testing, is designed to verify new functionality at a higher level. Quality assurance teams run an application through its paces to make sure that every feature and all functionality performs without errors. Subsetting can also be used during this phase to create yet larger, realistic subsets for test databases, thereby reducing costs and saving time. Finally, load testing Load testing is the process of creating demand on a system or device and measuring its response.

In mechanical systems it refers to the testing of a system to certify it under the appropriate regulations (LOLER in the UK - Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment benchmarks performance, response time and throughput functionality, while regression testing ensures that application problems are not introduced with newer versions of your application. Because these two final phases test the entire application, a fully cloned database is required in some cases to ensure a representation of the final operating environment In computing, an operating environment is the environment in which users run programs, whether in a command line interface, such as in MS-DOS or the Unix shell, or in a graphical user interface, such as in the Macintosh operating system. , especially for load testing.

Clustering and Subsetting Reduces Costs

Where appropriate, it is much faster and more cost-effective to test with subsets of related data that accurately reflect the production database, without adding overhead to the testing process. Let us revisit re•vis•it
tr.v. re•vis•it•ed, re•vis•it•ing, re•vis•its
To visit again.

n.
A second or repeated visit.
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re our previous example of a one-terabyte database running on two servers to see how subsetting might be applied.

Load testing would require a clone, while regression testing would require 50 percent of the production database, so the requirement would be three servers; two for the clustered load testing environment and one for the regression environment. To support functional testing, the quality assurance team could use a subsetting tool to create a realistic subset of the production database that is only 100GB. This smaller data requirement eliminates the need for at least one server to support quality assurance testing. By using subsetting effectively, four servers are needed instead of six. What's more, quality assurance testing will run faster because the test database is only 100GB instead of one terabyte One trillion bytes. Also TB, Tbyte and T-byte. See tera and space/time.
________________________________________

(unit) terabyte - 2^40 = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes = 1024 gigabytes or roughly 10^12 bytes.

(Note the spelling - one 'r'). See prefix. . That is a net savings of two servers and reduced testing time.

Careful analysis of the testing requirements will help you deploy the right mix of test databases and subsetting in clustered and unclustered testing environments. You will effectively reduce the testing time and resources required, while delivering applications on time with high quality.

Testing applications in clustered environments can quickly multiply capacity requirements and delay development schedules. It is important to develop a best practices approach for each phase of the application testing process based on your company's needs.

Incorporating subsetting tools into your testing strategy delivers dramatic results including improved reliability, faster time-to-market, lower development costs and higher quality. In short, this best practices strategy helps you do more with less.

Good Automation Testing Links

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http://knowledgeinbox.com/

http://greetvenkat.blogspot.com/

http://www.advancedqtp.com/knowledge-base/

Google Groups:
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qtpautomationexperts

and mercuryqtp

Previous Year Interview Questions of Icfai Business School (IBS)

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Previous Year Interview Questions of Icfai Business School (IBS)

http://suprioghatak.blogspot.com/

This has been sent to me by one of my students, Shivan Bakshi. It is an eye opener for those who are preparing for interviews at the campus and beyond.

Hi this should be the bible of evry student from 2008 batch right now .Guys interviw is an art and science - master the science atleast these questions are rfepeated evry year and are ver comon but needs lot of introspection to answer...think think and share your answers with your friends !

ICICI Securities Finance, Pay-5.5-8.5 lacs p.a.

Â· Â·

Â· How would you go about checking a customer's credibility? Â· 2006 Â·

Â· What does the bank statements indicative ? Â· Â·

Â· How is forgery checked and identified? Â· Â·

Â· What is ELSS and alpha,beta? Â· Â·

Â· How does NCDEX work and how do you become a member of it? Â· Â·

Â· We say that numbers and figures are important,but in practical scenario if you have to judge an organization would you refer to it's number's or no and why? Â· Â·

Â· What ratios would you use if you need to undergo the financial approval of the company? Â· Â·

Â· What are the term loans that bank's offer to it's corporate client base? Â· Â·

Â· What is DSCR,what is the formula for the same? Â· Â·

A What impact does negative cash flows have on the company?

A How to analyze a company?

A What are financial strategies to make a loss making company into a profit making company? Give example

A What do you think about the Indian economy in terms of its GDP growth?Comment

A Does India require technological solutions?If yes or no, then why?

A. What impact recession has on the Indian economy?

Â· Â·

ICICI Bank Finance / Marketing , Pay-5-7 lacs p.a

Â· Â·

Â· Questions were based on future deravatives and options? Â· 2006 Â·

Â· Situation based questions? Â· Â·

Â· Five things that you dislike about ICICI Bank? Â· Â·

Â· What is the full form of IRR? Â· Â·

Â· How would you do the complete analysis of a security? Â· Â·

Â· What is the difference between marketing and selling? Â· Â·

Â· What is the credit apprassial procedure? Â· Â·

Â· What is the difference between ADR and ADS? Â· Â·

Â· What is the limit of the reach in marketing terminology? Â· Â·

Â· How would you go about selling fans in winters,what would be your marketing strategies? Â· Â·

Â· What profile are you looking for? Â· Â·

HDFC Finance / Marketing, Pay-5.6-7.25 lacs p.a

Â· Â·

Â· There is a similarity between life and F1 racing and what do you learn from F1 racing? Â· 2006 Â·

Â· What is the difference between traditional channels and multi level marketing? Â· Â·

Â· What is CAPM model and what are it's assumptions? Â· Â·

Â· What do you understand by flat rate and reducing rate? Â· Â·

Â· What do you know about insurance premium and ROI? Â· Â·

Â· How will you convince someone that you have the ability to sell a particular bank products? Â· Â· DE Shaw

Â· SIP

Â· Sensex is touching new highs what are the reasons and whats your view

Â· Which factor is most emphasizing in bringing FII inflows

Â· Which is better technical analysis or fundamental analysis

Â· Problem with Arvind mills

Â· Current market price of the script of AM

Â· How dollar depreciation is going to effect Indian equity market

Â· How much do you think the oil prices are having impact on Indian markets

Bajaj Allainz , Pay-4.5-6.25 lacs p.a

Â· My driving force

Â· Choice of position

Â· Application of Keynes theory

Â· Educational background

TCS Pay-5-6 lacs p.a

Â· SIP

Â· About yourself

Â· Difference b/w accounts and finance

Â· Basic theme of time value of money

Â· How does rate of interest in the economy effects growth rate

Â· Why TCS

Â· Any questions

Â· Capital expenditure and revenue expenditure

Â· Events affected you in life

Â· It is said that consultants create confusion? What do you want to say

Â· Who is better experienced guy with MBA or a fresher? How you are better than experienced person

Â· If as a consultant you are not allowed for implementation then are you comfortable

Â· 5year goals

Â· Values in work place

Â· Difference b/w smart work and hard work

Â· If there is a conflict b/w a corporate and a peer then what will you do

Â· What are 8085,8086 and fiber optics

Â· What is telecommunication , FM , AM

Â· What is international finance

Â· Software tools in which you are comfortable with

Â· Why US $ is declining

Â· What are the recent trends in textile industry

IndiaBulls , Pay-4.25-6.5 lacs p.a

SIP

Â· Family

Â· Why India Bulls

Â· Which scheme is better for investment

Â· What is your favorite dish

Â· Do you have a girl friend and how many so far

Â· Why we should take you

Â· Is background knowledge important for selling

Â· Make an advertisement for nokia and hutch

Â· Tell me something about computer science

Â· What are your likes and dislikes

Â· How adaptable are you

Â· Derivate and hedging risk

Â· Call option and put option

Â· What does your name means

Â· Would you be able to cope up with the work pressure

Â· Why career in management

Â· Given choice b/w job in educational field and india bulls

Â· Do u smoke or drink

Â· Have you ever proposed

Â· Derivatives

Â· What is better future market of cash market

Â· If you have an open position in reliance what would you do

Â· Location preference

Â· How many funds have you generated

Â· About city you belong

Aztec Exim Pvt. Ltd., Pay-5.00-7.65 lacs p.a

Â· Cash flow statement , income statement or balance sheet which out of three is most important for stakeholder

Â· Why government is promoting exports or why RBI is keen to maintain so much of $ balance

Â· What is good for organization +ive or â€“ive working capital

Â· Financial accounting and management enables the organization comment

Â· Some numerical on basic concepts of accounting and financial management

Â· How much are you interested in joining this organization and why

Â· If you are a girl after marriage will you go to the place where your husband is placed

Â· Difference b/w cash flow statement and funds flow statement

Â· Questions relating to CV domain knowledge and connecting it with economy

Â· Justify CGPA

Â· Why emphasis on ethics

Â· Long term aim

Â· Family background

EICHER GROUP Pay-4.6-5.6 lacs p.a

Â· FAMILY BACKGROUND?

Â· WHY COMBNATION OF MARKETING WHY EICHER?

Â· WHY NOT HAVE A CAREER IN COMPUTER FIELD?

Â· DID YOU SIT FOR COMPANIES WITH SYSTEM PROFILE?

Â· 2 QUESTONS BASED ON CUSTOMER DEALING?

Â· WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THE PROFILE BEING OFFERED?

Â· CAREER OBJECTIVE?

Â· GENERAL TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE INDUSTRY AND THE PRODUCT LCV?

IMRS Pay-6.00-7.5 lacs p.a

Â· WHY MBA AFTER B.COM?

Â· WHAT IS YOUR SPECIALIZATION AND WHAT SUBJECTS YOU LIKED MOST?

Â· YOU SAID YOU LINKED MARKETING RESEARCH AS YOUR FAVOURITE SUBJECT â€“WHY?

Â· WHAT DID YOU DID IN BHARTI INFOTEL LTD?

Â· WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE FUNTIME?

Â· SUPPOSE YOU ARE GOING TO CONDUCT AN INTERVIEW WHICH WOULD BE COMPLETED IN 1.5 HOURS ATLEAST AND THE INTERVIEWEE HAS 30 MINS TO SPARE THEN HOW WILL YOU GO ABOUT IT?

HCL INFINET Pay-4.25-5.5 lacs p.a

Â· SIP BOTH ENGG AND MBA BENEFITS OF THE PROJECTS UNDERTAKEN?

Â· VPN & VOLP PRESENTATION?

Â· HOW DO YOU SEE YOURSELF 5 YRS DOWN THE LIFE IN PROFFESIONAL AND PERSONAL LIFE?

Â· WHAT IS VPN EXPLAIN?

Â· SETTING UP CONNECTION IN A REMOTE LOCATION?

Â· ABOUT WORK EXPERIENCE?

Â· WHAT CAN HCL DO IN VIEW OF PRESENT COMPETITION?

Standard Charted Bank Pay-6.00-7.5 lacs p.a

Â· What makes you smile? 2006

Â· Are you open to relocation?

Â· Anything about you that we are unaware of?

Â· What is your idea and perspective towards sales?

Â· Why Banking?

Â· What is NAV?

Â· What would be your reaction if HSBC offers you double the package and promtion 5yrs down the line?

Â· Why should we go about hiring you?

Â· Do you have the ability to understand our executive training program?

Â· If a customer is going in for a loan is it a asset or a liabilty for the bank?

Â·

Â· Are women better at sales,what is your take on it? Â· 2006 Â·

Â· How would you go about managing married life and office together and balance the same? Â· Â·

Â· Why was there a shortfall in the percentage scored after std 10th? Â· Â·

GE Money Pay-4.5-800 lacs p.a Â· Â·

Â· What is operations? Â· 2006 Â·

Â· SIP Details? Â· Â·

Â· Project oriented questions? Â· Â·

Â· What is the ratio that we use to find out the financial feasebility? Â· Â·

Â· What do we understand by fixed asset turnover ratio? Â· Â·

MetLife Insurance Finance Pay-5.00-7.5 lacs p.a

Â· Why CFA and then going about switching over to sales? Â· Â·

Â· How would you rate yourself? Â· Â·

MetLife Insurance Marketing Pay-5.00-6.7 lacs p.a

Â· Â·

Â· Why didn't you go ahead and joined your father's busisness? Â· 2006 Â·

Â· What is the basic difference between advertising and sales promotion? Â· Â·

Â· How can you go about helping and enhancing the companies current state? Â· Â·

Â· Â·

Kotak Mahindra Bank Finance Pay-6.5-8.8 lacs p.a

Â· Â·

Â· Why would you want to join Kotak? Â· 2006 Â·

Â· What is your take on Mutual Funds? Â· Â·

Â· What are those qualities,on the basis of which you could call yourself a good leader? Â· Â·

Â· A particular customer of your bank,has been charged some particular amount by mistake,would you go ahead and reverse the entry or close the account if the customer is irrate? Â· Â·

Â· Â·

Â· Â·

Kotak Mahindra Bank Marketing Pay-6-8 lacs p.a

Â· Do you have any close friends? Â· Â·

Â· What do you know about the designation of relationship officer? Â· Â·

Â· Certifications,AMFI,NCFM? Â· Â·

Browser Compatibility Testing

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Yes there are many. Here are few examples:

1. Adobe BrowserLab [Provide screen shots]:

URL: https://browserlab.adobe.com/

Adobe BrowserLab is an online hosted service that lets you test the pages of your web site across a variety of web browsers and operating systems. The service works by taking screen shots of your web pages in different browsers, and then displaying them in the BrowserLab application window.

You can use BrowserLab as a standalone service, or integrated with Dreamweaver CS4. The standalone service lets you test pages that you've posted to a server within the context of a web browser. If you use BrowserLab as an integrated service with Dreamweaver, you can test your pages from within Dreamweaver without publishing your pages to a server.

BrowserLab supports the following browsers:

• Firefox 2.0 - Windows XP

• Firefox 3.0 - Windows XP

• Firefox 3.5 - Windows XP

• Chrome 3.0 - Windows XP

• Internet Explorer 6.0 - Windows XP

• Internet Explorer 7.0 - Windows XP

• Internet Explorer 8.0 - Windows XP

• Safari 3.0 - Macintosh OS X

• Safari 4.0 - Macintosh OS X

• Firefox 2.0 - Macintosh OS X

• Firefox 3.0 - Macintosh OS X

• Firefox 3.5 - Macintosh OS X

Source: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/BrowserLab/

2. Browser Sandbox [Run any browser from the web]

URL: http://spoon.net/browsers/

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 8

• Internet Explorer 7

• Internet Explorer 6

• Mozilla Firefox 3.5

• Firefox 3

• Firefox 2

• Apple Safari 4

• Safari 3

• Google Chrome

• Opera 10

• Opera 9

My Comments as a Tester:

a. Adobe BrowserLab will be helpful to compare the designs of multiple Browsers.

b. Browser Sandbox will be helpful to test the functionality and design on multiple Browsers.

Thanks,

Rajiv
http://puretest.blogspot.com

On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 11:50 AM, srikant singh wrote:

Folks, can any one please tell me if there is any Open Source Tool for Cross Browser and Cross Platform testing??

Thanks,

Srikant

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 7:58 PM, Srideep Mitra, TestPlant wrote:

Hi All,

Presently one of the largest Public broadcaster in europe is using eggPlant to test 26 combinations for browser compatibility testing. See the demo : http://www.testplant.com/products/eggplant_functional_tester/movie.

Thanks,
Sri

Srideep Mitra
Marketing Consultant

TestPlant Europe Limited DDI +44 (0)20 7002 7769
6 Snow Hill M +44 (0)7914 441 685
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On 28/02/2010 16:33, "STRG Pune" wrote:

Hi,

Check this article- Browser compatibility testing (BCT)

Regards,
STRG

-----Original Message-----
From: softwareqa-testing@googlegroups.com [mailto:softwareqa-testing@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of VLADIMIR SOGHOYAN
Sent: Sunday, February 28, 2010 3:23 PM
To: softwareqa-testing@googlegroups.com
Cc: ujwalpatil@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Browser Compatibility Testing.

HI ALL,

In the effort to make your site look more credible, trustable and
"professional", you may have been asking yourself what's the best way
to do such browser compatibility testing analysis, beyond installing
multiple browsers, having multiple PCs and Macs and joggling your
monitor screen settings hundreds of times.

And, indeed, there is a better way: browser compatibility testing
tools are a set of tools and web-based services that you can leverage
to test, check and verify how any web page of your web site is going
to look when viewed on a different computer / browser / operating
system / screen resolution.

Browser compatibility testing tools generally work all in the same
way. You need to provide the URL of the web page you want to check and
then select the operating systems, web browsers, and the specific
screen resolutions you want to test your page on.

Your selected browser compatibility testing tool will generate a
screenshot of that very page from a virtual computer set up according
to your specified settings (operating system, web browser type and
version, etc.). In this way, you can immediately evaluate what are the
key layout issues to be addressed.

Here below is a comparative table and a set of individual mini reviews
to help you evaluate all of these browser compatibility testing
services. Here the selection criteria

2010/2/23, QA Engg. :
> Hi All,
>
>
> I have to start browser compatibility testing for my
> application. I have not done it before. I would like to open this
> forum for your suggestions. I would like to discuss
>
> approach
> tools available
> testing techniques involved.
>
> Thanks
> Ujwal

Top 40 Automated Testing Blogs

2010-03-14T12:12:00.000-07:00

http://motevich.blogspot.com/2008/11/top-40-automated-testing-blogs.html

Top 40 Automated Testing Blogs

#	Site / Author	PR	AR	TR	Cmts	Links
1	Google Testing Blog (various)	5	219028	47930	112	8507
2	Performance Tidbits Rico Mariani	5		113248	31	16924
3	Scott Barber's blog Scott Barber	4		72223		19683
4	Collaborative Software Testing Jonathan Kohl	5		404815		8838
5	Cem Kaner's blog Cem Kaner	5				5077
6	Agile Testing Grig Gheorghiu	5	315063	205275	56	4393
7	James Bach’s blog James Bach	4		164842	44	14020
8	Creative Chaos Matthew Heusser	5	2306703	373134	54	7655
9	Advanced QTP (various)	4	620947	722230	79	8585
10	Corey Goldberg's blog Corey Goldberg	4	1282348	256345	142	3244
11	The Braidy Tester Michael J Hunter	5		437554	17	4692
12	Tester Tested! Pradeep Soundararajan	4	1195245	770942	99	3810
13	WilsonMar.com Wilson Mar	4	164760	512788		1431
14	Testing Hotlist Update Bret Pettichord	4	1657484	446540	11	7487
15	Test Obsessed Elisabeth Hendrickson	5	3148166	351547	6	2493
16	My Load Test Stuart Moncrieff	4	1009095	553587		921
17	Theo Moore's blog Theo Moore	3		804025	32	9155
18	Thinking Tester Shrini Kulkarni	4	1427381	1052395	30	3482
19	Observations on software testing and quality Michael Bolton	4		1038615	11	3653
20	Quality through Innovation Adam Goucher	4	8063489	722230	11	3973
21	Easy way to automate testing Dmitry Motevich	3	675427	1038615	131	503
22	Software Testing Zone Debasis Pradhan	3	760191	906103	14	1461
23	JW on Test James Whittaker	3			71	1027
24	Mike Kelly's blog Mike Kelly	4		1038615	1	2757
25	Questioning Software Ben Simo	5	4064149	1285236	4	1679
26	London software testing news (various)	4	2598600	2593630	3	1937
27	Ankur Jain's blog Ankur Jain	2	478294	655996	9	281
28	Jeff Fry on Testing Jeff Fry	4	11028482	1214675	7	1565
29	The Software Inquisition (various)	3	1449194	1214675	7	886
30	90kts Tim Koopmans	2	1648922	600724	5	63
31	Test this Blog Eric Jacobson	3	9632080	3324847	27	716
32	Stefan Thelenius about Software Testing Stefan Thelenius	3	5716662	1867832	5	916
33	LoadRunner Tips and Tricks Hwee Seong Tan	0	2422241	1214675	24	478
34	QuickTest Pro Mohan Kumar Kakarla	3	1884598	1211403	1	91
35	KnowledgeInbox Tarun Lalwani	2	1165000			121
36	Alexander Podelko's blog Alexander Podelko	3				490
37	Software Performance Engineering & Testing Charlie Weiblen	3	5451220	4978471		152
38	Software Testing Blog Unknown	2	2712832	2593630		430
39	Automated Chaos Bas M. Dam	2	5130521			148
40	Automated Web Test Meena	2	7702460	4697735	2	144

25 Weird Interview Questions

2010-03-14T11:53:00.000-07:00

*1. What was your best McGuyver moment? Asked at Schlumberger*

* 2. How many tennis balls are in this room and why? Asked at Yahoo*

*3. If you were a brick in a wall which brick would you be and why? Asked at
Nestle USA*

*4. How would you move Mount Fuji? Asked at Microsoft.*

*5. If two cars are traveling in a two lap race on a track of any length,
one going 60 mph and the other going 30mph, how fast will the slower car
have to go to finish at the same car to finish at the same time? Asked at
Morgan Stanley*

*6. Are your parents disappointed with your career aspirations? Asked at
Fisher Investments*

*7. Tell me how you would determine how many house painters there are in the
United States? Asked at Acquity Group*

*8. What should it cost to rent Central Park for commercial purposes? Asked
at Bain & Co.*

*9. If I put you in a sealed room with a phone that had no dial tone, how
would you fix it? Asked at Apple*

*10. If you could be any animal, what would you be and why? Asked at Pacific
Sunwear*

*11. How many hair salons are there in Japan? Asked at Boston Consulting*

*12. If both a taxi and a limo were priced the exact same, which one would
you choose? Asked at Best Buy*

*13. How to measure 9 minutes using only a 4 minute and 7 minute hourglass?
Asked at Bank of America*

*14. What are 5 uncommon uses of a brick, not including building, layering,
or a paper-weight? Asked at Kaplan High Education*

*15. What is the probability of throwing 11 and over with 2 dices Asked at
American Airlines*

*16. What is your favorite food? Asked at Apple Store*

*17. Say you are dead, what do you think your eulogy would say about you.
Asked at Nationwide*

*18. Given a dictionary of words, how do you calculate the anagrams for a
new word? Asked at Amazon*

*19. How many lightbulbs are in this building? Asked at Monitor Group*

*20. Given a square grid of numbers, considering all the numbers at the
boundary as one layer and numbers just inside as another layer and so on how
would you rotate each of the layers of the numbers by a given amount. Asked
at Microsoft*

*21. How would you sell me eggnog in Florida in the summer? Asked at Expedia
*

*22. Develop an algorithm for finding the shortest distance between two
words in a document. Take a few hours to develop a working example in C++
and send it to the interviewing manager. Asked at Google*

*23. Given a fleet of 50 trucks, each with a full fuel tank and a range of
100 miles, how far can you deliver a payload? You can transfer the payload
from truck to truck, and you can transfer fuel from truck to truck. Extend
your answer for n trucks. Asked at Palantir*

*24. You are in a room with 3 switches which correspond to 3 bulbs in
another room and you don’t know which switch corresponds to which bulb. You
can only enter the room with the bulbs once. You can NOT use any external
equipment (power supplies, resistors, etc.). How do you find out which bulb
corresponds to which switch? Asked at Goldman Sachs*

*25. If you saw someone steal a quarter. Would you report it? Asked at
Amazon*

Agile Link

2010-03-08T09:56:00.001-08:00

http://www.knowledgegenes.com/home.aspx?kgid=10476A

End User Experience, in Agile Testing?

2010-03-08T09:54:00.000-08:00

http://blogs.qutesys.com/

End User Experience, in Agile Testing?

Posted on February 25, 2010 by Qutesys

Organizations rely on Agile Process Methodologies as their preferred way to work in development arena where agile service deliverables are considered as “silver-bullet” since they rely on a diversified and changing business needs prevailing in market on a high focused degree of success by attentive to these frequent and rapid changes.

Agile development with frequent releases in short cycles of SDLC’s are very popular among changing service oriented enterprises where speed to market is critical for business. The business need will pave a critical reason to use a dedicated Agile Testing Environment which can address the planned as well as adhoc testing requirements in priority without halting the deliverables by conducting test execution parallel.

The critical success factors to support the agile process life cycles across domains are in hands of a well defined “One-Team” concept where project management deliverables takes on the agile testing cycles as independently attached units to multiple development groups working parallel for delivering testing on time, under budget, and as specified.

Qutesys Agile Testing Centre is the trigger to rapid application testing in a unified “One-Team” concept. It is useful for organizations across varied domains.

Qutesys Agile Test Centre Critical Success Factors

• Speed to market

• Reduce time

• Immediate resource ramp-up & ramp-down

• Release based test support

• Domain centric reusable test cases

• Higher degree of test coverage

• No defects on production environment

But, usually testing will only operate on the technical aspects of client product – the code, functionality and other source, wherein Qutesys ATC have a enterprise level rapid applications testing inheriting conceptual methodology for testing the enterprises holding large & changing web services applications such that, it implies to what looks or feels good to a end user and what business users think about the feel and performance of product is as important as its functionality.

8 Shortcomings of Agile / Scrum

2010-03-08T09:50:00.000-08:00

8 Shortcomings of Agile / Scrum

Scrum, like most things, has its short-comings (although the pros far outweigh the cons in our view). These 8 theses, according to Robert Martin, are some serious problems with Scrum out of the box:

• No Technical Practices: Scrum is a project management framework and doesn’t make any technical recommendations. Bob suggests that teams “need to borrow technical practices from some other method like XP. The suite of technical practices that should be added probably include: TDD, Continuous Integration, Acceptance Testing, Pair Programming, Refactoring.”

• 30 Day Sprints are too long – most trainers now recommend 1-2 week sprints and the majority of teams settle at 2 weeks.

• Scrum Master sometimes turns into Project Manager: Some Scrum Masters use Scrum as a form of micro management and control. “This is not a problem with Scrum out of the box so much as it is a problem with the way scrum sometimes evolves. Perhaps it is related to the unfortunate use of the word "master".”

• Certification in CSM: The Certificate that a Scrum Master, a trained CSM, holds means that on many teams only that person plays the role. Bob prefers the XP approach of rotating the Coach among members of the team.

• Insufficient Guidance Regarding the Product Backlog: “We've learned, over the years, that backlogs are hierarchical entities consisting of epics, themes, stories, etc. We've learned how to estimate them statistically. We've learned how and when to break the higher level entities down into lower level entities. Epics->Themes->Stories->Tasks.”

• Scrum carries an anti-management undercurrent: “Scrum over-emphasizes the role of the team as self-managing. Self-organizing
and self-managing teams are a good thing. But there is a limit … Scrum does not describe this with enough balance.”

• Automated Testing: without high quality automated tests it is difficult to work in short cycles and know that stories are really done.

• Multiple Teams: Scrum and generic Agile have little to say about how to scale, many practitioners have ideas but there doesn’t seem to be broad consensus yet.

Sub Prime Lending

2010-03-08T09:48:00.000-08:00

Feel that it is really a good compilation of data at this link:

http://www.wikinvest.com/concept/Subprime_lending
Subprime lending is the practice of extending credit to borrowers with certain credit characteristics -- e.g. a FICO score of less than 620 -- that disqualify them from loans at the prime rate (hence the term 'subprime'). Subprime lending covers different types of credit, including mortgages, auto loans, and credit cards. Since subprime borrowers often have poor or limited credit histories, they are typically perceived as riskier than prime borrowers. To compensate for this increased risk, lenders charge subprime borrowers a premium. For mortgages and other fixed-term loans, this is usually a higher interest rate; for credit cards, higher over-the-limit or late fees are also common. Despite the higher costs associated with subprime lending, it does give access to credit to people who might otherwise be denied. For this reason, subprime lending is a common first step toward “credit repair”; by maintaining a good payment record on their subprime loans, borrowers can establish their creditworthiness and eventually refinance their loans at lower, prime rates.

Speech by CEO of Mind Tree

2010-03-02T19:34:00.001-08:00

We keep getting lot of E mail forwards. Some really good, some ok and some an utter waste of time. I would like to share with you one of the best I received just a few days ago. Its a Speech delivered By Mr Subroto Baghchi, CEO Mind Tree to the class of 2006 at IIM Bangalore defining success.

Here are a few parts of the speech.

My mother used to take ash from the chullah and mix it with the earth and plant seedlings. This time when they bloomed, the neighbours asked her why she was taking so much pain to beautify a Government house? My mother replied it did not matter to her that she would not see the flowers in full bloom.She said," I have to create a bloom in a desert and whenever I am given a new place, I must leave it more beautiful than what I had inherited".

That was the first lesson in success," It is not about what you create for yourself, it is about what you leave behind that defines success".

Imagination is everything. If we can imagine a future, we can create it. If we can create it, others can live in it. This is the essence of success.

The safdurjung Hospital is a cockroach infected dirty place. The over-worked under resourced sisters are victims of de-humanized life at its worst. One morning attending to my father i realized that the blood bottle was empty. Fearing that air would get into his blood I summoned the sister to do the needful. she very rudely asked me to do it myself. In that horrible theater of death I was in pain, frustration and anger. Finally when she relented and came my father opened his eyes and murmured to her," why have you not gone home yet?" here was a man on his deathbed more concerned about the overworked nurse. I was stunned at his stoic self.

I learnt that there is no limit of how concerned you can be for another human being. Success is your ability to rise above your discomfort whatever be your current state.

Two years at the age of 82 my mother had a paralytic stroke. I flew down from US and spent two weeks with her. She was neither getting better nor moving on. I had to leave back to work. while leaving her behind I kissed her face. Int he paralytic state and garbled voice she said," why are you kissing me? Go kiss the world!"

At the confluence of life and death a woman whose life was crowned by adversity was asking her son to go and kiss the world!.

Success is about giving back to life more than you can take. It is about creating extraordinary success with ordinary lives!!

PADMA LIST AS USUAL TAINTED

2010-03-02T06:07:00.003-08:00

To Dear Home Minister P. Chidambaram

On the front page of HT dated 26 Jan 10, Sant Singh Chatwal,

a Hotelier, was listed among "the best and the brightest" for being

chosen for Padma Bhushan for Public Affairs. And on the very next

page the newspaper carried a news of why his name should be deleted.

Year after year, the Padma Award list is tainted. This year Chatwal

gets Padma Bhushan for being closer to Hilary and Bill Clinton inspite

of 9 million dollars SBI "gafla". Saif Ali Khan gets Padma Shri for shooting

down some endangered specie (Cinkara was it?) and now snatching

someone's girlfriend for long time.

Like Vajpayee had given Padma Bhushan to a surgeon who had replaced

his knees and 5 acres of land, etc. now Manmohan Singh has put the

name of one Dr. Panda for repairing his heart. Home Ministry it seems

prepares a list of Padma Awardees like a Home Maker rewarding the

Kamwali Bai with bonus.

Octogenarian Acharya Janki Ballabh Shastri has rightly turned down the

Padma Shri shaming the Govt. for choosing his juniors much before him.

Since 1991, I am not getting the Padma Award because I refuse to pay

to get my name enlisted. 40 books, over 10,000 lectures in 63 countries,

treated and trained thousands, and the fact that I am the senior most

Naturopath in India who has done so much for Naturopathy. But since

the PM or other leaders do not believe in Nature Cure or Ayurveda

(eventhough we have seven recognised systems of medicine) and since

I criticise the Govt. on principles and faulty policies, they will not enter

my name. Like the Health ministry will not sponsor Zinda Tilismat available

since 1922 (now priced at Rs.40) for Swine Flu, but will order Tami Flu

because the kickbacks received can be deposited directly in the Swiss bank

accounts.

I am aware of one so-called "eminent" cardiologist who was trying this year

furiously to get his name included for Bharat Ratna after getting Padma Vibhushan

last year, as many said, and I repeat, undeservingly.

I challenge you as the Home Minister incharge of preparing this list with the

PMO to prove that the Padma lists this year or last year or year before that were

prepared strictly on merit.

Shame Mr. Home Minister, shame. Atleast, this was not expected of you.

Let me see how you would justify this corruption even in Padma Awards.

Dr. Leo Rebello

28 Samata Nagar, Kandivali East, Mumbai 400101

Tel. 28872741

PADMA LIST AS USUAL TAINTED

2010-03-02T06:07:00.001-08:00