Quotes coined by Me

Offlate, I have started framing quotes churned out from my mind mill, ofcourse with a poetic twist to them.

1)Reach deep within yourself, transform the landscape of your life, and strengthen the moral frontier- to revamp the inner sphere.

2)The first toxin that should be thrown out from the emotional baggage is Anger.

3)Detach from external control to re-attach with the universal reality.

4)No More Excuses. Only deadline driven milestones!

5)Learn to move on. Stop worrying, stop moping and listen to the inner clarion.

©®Chitra Lele

My Take on Agile Testing Framework - Constant Visibility and Risk

The assumption that is usually invalid in the traditional waterfall process is that the requirements will not change during the lifecycle of the project. In reality, requirements change a lot in most of the projects.

The classical waterfall model has a fundamental flaw. A mistake in the requirement phase cannot be detected in a waterfall process until near the end, when the customer gets to see the finished product. This leads to a huge cost in correcting the mistake. To reduce impact of such changes, incremental or iterative development models are becoming popular. Customers are not ready to wait till the complete development is over. To keep the short releases of 2-3 weeks span and delivering the product in good shape is a very big challenge, especially when the business gets complex. There is not much time that can be devoted to testing after the construction is complete. The testing needs to be started as early as possible. For this the testing strategy needs to be robust and effective enough to ensure low
defect density and reduction in time and efforts spent on testing and re-testing.

Various methods could be used to achieve the objectives of such a testing strategy. Some of them are as follows:

- Use of test first style programming
- Involvement of developer in creation /extension of unit test cases
- Use of automated tools
- Continuous integration and build
- Short release cycles

Developing and performing acceptance tests iteratively complements and strengthens the development effort, helping to deliver improved quality. This approach provides improved project control. With agile testing strategy, progress is not just seen at regularly scheduled update meetings. It's seen every time a team member checks in code. Permanent control and testing provides constant visibility into project status, minimizing risk and enabling quality assurance throughout. Speed is the second benefit, as iterative development and delivery enables companies to prioritize critical functions and have them delivered first. Finally, improved productivity of the development team virtually eliminates over-scoping and subsequent rework. This leads to a substantial reduction in project costs.

©®Chitra Lele

Oil Prices Rise, Air Fares Follow and Travellers Suffer

Airlines the world over are raising fares to offset rising oil prices. Although Oil is still a costly resource, it has pulled down by nearly 15-20% from its recent highs, whereas Air fuel surcharges haven't all fallen by the same measure. Airlines have been resistant, and some have even hiked their surcharges , despite the drop in fuel prices.

From the competitive aspect, many Airlines are colluding to use fuel surcharges to keep prices higher, which is a misguiding factor.What's the most alarming thing about all this is that there is no watchdog agency that is monitoring the way these surcharges practises operate.Slashing the sucharge will be a positive indication for the traveler. Hope and pray atleast a few responsible Airlines do join this bandwagon of 'No-Surcharge'

Happy Flyin'!

©®Chitra Lele

"KonFabulous Konfabulator"

Fabulous!. Konfabulator is a 'NEAT' widget program.. I was using Kapsules earlier. My only major concern is that each widget requires a separate instance of Konfabulator unlike Kapsules, which makes it more resource intensive . Still, Konfabulator has a lot more widgets available and is more stable.

Kapsules is a lot like Konfabulator, but it does not have as many widgets defined as in Konfabulator.

The link is http://www.konfabulator.com

©®Chitra Lele

Krispy Krunch

Hey i am not talking abt any mouth-watering chocolate here.I am talking of a winzip like tool.

Krunch is an online compression tool, yes something like our very own WinZip!! but it comes with a difference. Though Krunch is not a replacement for the desktop compression utilities, it makes your life alot more easier though.

Simple Equation of Krunch =
[Desktop Utilities - "Krunching" Issues] + Online Approach

In short compress,decompress all that can happen online and that too FREE!!

Happy KRUNCHING!!

©®Chitra Lele

Add that dash of colors to your life

Why colors? Colors create an immediate and memorable impression. They convey character and emotion.

Colors are the smiles diffused by nature and my way of diffusing more smiles is through Rangolis. I have been doing them for the past several years. All credit goes to my Mother for teaching me this beautiful art.

Hope you have a colorful time while going through some of my rangolis. I hope these these rangolis add a smile to your face.









©®Chitra Lele

3D Village -> www.3B.net

It is a 3-Dimensional browser.You can browse the Web as a 3D city of display windows.

You create a 3D space called a village and then you have an avatar to walk through the space looking at billboards of all the web sites you have choosen.It provides ease and convenience of shopping online which comes real close to physical shopping minus the Crowds. This experience is a BIG time-saver for users, advertisers and companies.'Shopping Without the Crowds' is the key factor.

According to me the same scenario can be replicated for various other needs like induction training,E-learning,Game Cheats n many more.

©®Chitra Lele