Project Time - 1

Project...Presentation..Review...Viva...Implementation...Documentation..are the words we can frequently hear from any final year students during the last Semester.

We would find a range of students in which very few doing a macho project which is highly technical, few coming up with a project may not be highly technical but interesting and useful, many other would just find a topic where they can complete without giving too much thinking about the Project, many others have the large followed approach of getting it from a Project center by paying huge some !!!! 

First the colleges must stop expecting too much from students on the project. If this part is done, then students will not feel the pressure which would eventually allow them to THINK, which is the starting and important step for any initiative. Even if it is a small project, if done on own, will have a lot of learning may be Technical or managerial, which would give them a edge in their career someday.....

To be continued!!

- Ramaguru Radhakrishnan

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The Controversies: Man, Life and Society - 2

I am not sure how many of you remember this series... It’s time again for another one. 

I was walking out there on a busy road the other day… It was almost dusk; I was tuning the FM stations from my phone. The melody played paired with the mild breeze and gave a pleasant feeling. I was thinking on the very pleasant things until I noticed a very old woman in her 80’s sitting on a chair outside the house all by herself with a depressed face. I know what you are thinking here, I got it wait, you’d say “it is a very common sight and our eyes are used to it but what you want us to go talk, help her with something”??? 

I wouldn't disagree it my dearest friends but this is not all of it. In fact I dint do anything I just walked off. 

I too felt that oh poor granny she is all alone and so depressed L but shame on me I walked off.

This life is very controversial. At one side, people are very busy, no time to do what you exactly wants to do, mind occupied with so so many things at the same time, there is a silent world out there…

In there you could hear the heavy breaths of an old man, whispers of prayers from handicapped women, sound of tears rolling down from an old age couple left abandoned, loud cries of an abandoned children left in streets and much more.

I’m not telling you to go be with them, help them, support them.., nothing. But, just explore this silence and feel it. 

Am sure after this you wouldn't think all these as charity/ social work cos, you, the society and society is you. 

Kindly don’t ignore it, mental pains are worse than physical pains!!! DO ALL THAT YOU CAN.?

See you all next week with different controversies of life…. Let’s talk peace, let’s talk cure!!!

ஆட்டம்

வாழ்கை என்னும் போராட்டம்
கண்ணிரண்டில் ஏன் நீரோட்டம்
காதல் ஆடும் கல்லாட்டம்
அடீ  நீயோ என் கண்ணாட்டம் !

- இராமகுரு 

History of Software Testing

History of Software Testing

“Testing”, the act, is not something new; it has been here since ages. May be the term “Testing” was not used then. History is very important for anything and everything. So does for “Software Testing”.

Initially testing started in the form of debugging; there was no clear difference between debugging and testing. D. Gelperin and W.C. Hetzel in 1988 classified the phases of software testing, which is as follows:

1.  Until 1956 – Debugging Oriented – where testing would mean the act of debugging 
2. 1957 – 1978 – Demonstration Oriented – where the difference between debugging and testing was made – we learn to test whether requirements are satisfied 
3. 1979 – 1982 – Destruction Oriented – where the aim was to break the code and find the error 
4. 1983 – 1987 – Evaluation Oriented – where the quality measure was evaluated throughout the Software Lifecycle 
5. 1988 – Present – Prevention Oriented – where we evaluate the quality of software by testing the requirements, breaking the code & finding faults and preventing the faults