Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Missing Saturday

when i came to mumbai, in the initial days we used to just wait for Saturdays so that we can go out n have fun. but this is to our dismay that as we grew in experience ( though i learned nothing :( ), i kept on losing the zeal to enjoy life. the routine effected the mannerism and sometimes questions the very existence of me.

Saturdays used to be the days when we woke up late in morning and sometimes if had a friday night out then even late in afternoons. thanks to the alcohol ( the best buddy to all of us) and all those hot chicks who were just around us. they never will be with us i guess ( have to say those Gals have a bad time , as they keep missing us). don't feel very great n proud as i am trying to make every one reading this feel guilty.
Need to make a remark here that i seriously miss some crazy bastards who will push u to enjoy, to go out have fun, ask those chicks out. may be some stifler is missing in our lives.

coming back to my saturday, it used to be with Simon at our place. Well FYI Simon dont come these days , think he found some interest in Vashi. day used to start with Hangover , moving to a tea stall looking for remedy to that monster headache. coming back and then doing business who who paid for what , called as Hisaab . Damm !!! i hate this, screw up. i hate this becoz of the complexity involved , not mathematically but when u have to give money as change :-X.

entire week's pressure , pains would disappear just with beer ( wont say 1 , as one is never sufficient :P) and movies. staring at gals from the window using some one's binoculars was amazing. i know that is bad practice , but no one stops bribe that eats nation , why to stop us we dont harm any one.the objective was to forget that we mis our families , our love. we have amazing people around us , but we restrain ourselves to be with them. but saturdays would change everything, no restriction no bounding.

but the day this production , go live activity has started on week ends they made my weekends shrink, saturdays extinct and sundays a rare thing in my life. if business does not happen on weekends , people dont trade do transactions then why do u spoil my week end. ever since this has happened i miss Simon, my beer , my movies , my nightouts, my window , my binoculars checking gals and above all my happy Saturdays.

people technology comes again, projects come again , but Saturdays once gone don't revert. the whole point of investing my time and wasting yours is go out have fun, work hard in week days . enjoy saturdays, get along with nice babes to nice pubs disc or what ever your pocket allows ( i know a lot u r like me fresher with almost no money , gareebo :P). dont think that this is waste of money, but a tranquilizer to ur undressed emotions :P. dont waste ur time reading my blog now, go have fun, u already wasted 10 mins reading this. Damm!!! it takes so long to motivate u all losers like me :P

Lets pledge we wont mis saturday and sunday from now onwards. good going keep enjoying my Pravachans :P
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Monday, November 15, 2010

My symbiotic relationship with QA


it has been over 10 months in QA , and months seemed to flip over in a blink. I came as a fresher from ilp and seriously had no idea what was am I doing ? in very initial stages of the graduation we developed this inception that QA is good for nothing , u waste urself in QA. Well the blog is not about who is better QA or Dev. Its about what am I doing in QA and what is QA doing to me . it’s a symbiotic relationship . lets see through what all we have done to each other.
Day 1 : it’s always filled with anxiety and insecurity blended with zeal to mark my presence. But what u decide is not always what u get, sometimes things are quite better and sometimes they shake ur core.
Next few days : when the anxiety is gone, it clears the picture of what u have in front is not the very same u thought of. For example , when I started my first regression I was cautious in every step that I did , every communication that I wrote . I always wanted image processing , as I like images in memory. I don’t know what should I call this , I became more cautious in even speaking to strangers. Like they were some application and I have to do an analysis of them.
After a month , when u are well absorbed in the team. Now is the time when we are introduced to status mails and scenario writing. This is the point where the complexity starts developing. As a new bee I was never sure of what is a scenario about. And every day I had to write a status mail to tell the oldies what I did. And soon this became a characteristic feature of my personality when I gave my status for the day to my mom and told my girlfriend what issues was I facing in application? Gosh!!! what am I doing ? but this had a positive node also attached to it , that was I started analyzing my self and I am sure this will help , at least in choosing new girl friend.
Another feature that got introduced in my personality was during transition. I always felt like the kid of “Tare Zameen Pe”, all lost among the stars n galaxies during KT session. I treated my self as Troy, who can always cut through the application. When I was kid , I used to break down all the toys cars n gadgets that I had, open them and fix them. I guess that is what I do in QA also. I testify the applications for users but me as an application has loads of bugs. I can make a statement here that I never found good testers in life who could identify them :P.
Now the analytical ability to identify and verify the business flows is more habitual . I don’t have to think analytically , my thinking process has turned analytical. I tend to find analytical solutions and reason for not only work but in situations that my friends are in. I patiently listen to them , wow this is also what QA did to me J, made me patient. They just want to speak out their frustration and we being analytical think they want a solution. So I just provide them business solutions. One suggestion to all my tester community , don’t put on ur thinking when u speak to ur girl / boy, coz this may help u in business but might land u in deep trouble with the one . To deal with ur loved ones read ‘Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus’.
QA made me a better analyst , patient and intellectual person but at the same time made me more confused in deal with my self. I don’t spin the coin in air to decide what I want rather I do think what would be optimum. I think of scenarios and plan out the strategy just as the way I do at work but that nullifies the fun of unpredictable nature of life. Here we come closure of this nonsense where I made no point and thus managed to make u either more confused or plant the inception of getting confused. Yippy QA is too good in this. Cheers , Good night and good Luck .
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