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17/08/2024

A team of NUST Alumni Association (NAA) had a meeting with leading members of Pakistan Engineers Forum (PEF).

Given historic support of PEF for NAA in 2021 and their manifesto, NAA leads have decided to support PEF in PEC elections 2024.

Pakistan Engineers Forum (PEF) represents a class of purely literate and thorough professionals from middle-class and self-made backgrounds.

PEF has also agreed to flexible arrangement for support of candidates from NUST fraternity.

Please support PEF and NUSTians in PEC elections of 2024.
Mark the calendar: Sunday, 18-July-2024.

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26/10/2018

Tester friend Nouman Noor is conducting a survey on Test Automation as part of his MS Thesis. Your few minutes help is much appreciated:

In Pakistan, IT companies often face a lot of failures in software projects that too because of lack of proper testing. Companies often neglect or perform very weak testing that leads to failure of projects and ultimately becomes the cause of closure of companies. On the other hand, many companies a...

01/10/2018

Usually when you look at diagrams that explain DevOps, they show few wheels that keep moving. This is what we can call, “code, build, deploy” cycle or sometimes called a CI/CD pipeline (CI: Continuous Integration, CD: Continuous Deployment or Delivery). This looks simple as below that you need to be making changes to code consistently that will trigger automatic builds or the CI part, which in turn will trigger deployments or the CD part: [ 347 more words ]

Usually when you look at diagrams that explain DevOps, they show few wheels that keep moving. This is what we can call, “code, build, deploy” cycle or sometimes called a CI/CD pipeline (CI: Continu…

27/08/2018

The manufacturing world has gone through many revolutions to reduce the ‘lead time’ and Release pipeline is an attempt to do the same in Software world. I should not make things complex for those of you who are not much familiar with intricacies of manufacturing world. So, let me make your life simple. ‘Lead time’ is the time from when you asked something and when you get it. [ 711 more words ]

The manufacturing world has gone through many revolutions to reduce the ‘lead time’ and Release pipeline is an attempt to do the same in Software world. I should not make things complex for those o…

30/07/2018

(On the eve of Pakistan General Elections 2018, everyone was anxiously waiting for the results when it was told by authorities that the newly deployed system to transmit and manage results have failed. Yes, the technology failed when it was most needed. Our regular contributor Sohail Sarwar takes a deeper look at what the problem was and more importantly how we can avoid such things happening again) [ 494 more words ]

(On the eve of Pakistan General Elections 2018, everyone was anxiously waiting for the results when it was told by authorities that the newly deployed system to transmit and manage results have fai…

04/07/2018

A case study on building trustworthy testing team by making all of it's work public was shared by me for EuroSTAR Blog. The punch line is: Everyone should be able to see Testing. Your in-laws included Read the full article at EuroSTAR Huddle Blog

A case study on building trustworthy testing team by making all of it’s work public was shared by me for EuroSTAR Blog. The punch line is: Everyone should be able to see Testing. Your in-laws…

27/06/2018

"Testing should be visible to all. Your in-laws included". KnowledgeTester article published on EuroSTAR Huddle:

Majd shares his experience on how we made every testing related thing public and what approach his team took for each type.

20/06/2018

Contains Knowledge Tester piece on "Triggered Testing".

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12/06/2018

The third and last type of DevOps testing is Triggered Testing. In previous posts, I have covered how we need testing jobs to be Scheduled and why some of these should be able to executed On Demand. Now let’s see how these being triggered help in fast paced delivery with Quality. One view of the DevOps is that it is the extension of… [ 587 more words ]

The third and last type of DevOps testing is Triggered Testing. In previous posts, I have covered how we need testing jobs to be Scheduled and why some of these should be able to executed On Demand…

28/05/2018

One of the benefits of getting older is that you can tell stories. No, not the stories you heard but the stories that you observed. So here are my three stories based upon lives of three real testers but am hiding their identity and making the story more generic. If you are wondering why you should read these stories, let me entice you by informing that they’ll help you plan your career better. [ 660 more words ]

One of the benefits of getting older is that you can tell stories. No, not the stories you heard but the stories that you observed. So here are my three stories based upon lives of three real teste…

07/05/2018

In an earlier post, it was explained that how a DevOps testing consists of three main types: Scheduled Testing, On-Demand Testing and Triggered Testing. I covered how we scheduled different types of testing in the same article and now let me dig into details of On Demand Testing. Keeping the notion that “testing is an activity” that is performed more often than a “phase” towards the end, it is necessary to configure… [ 497 more words ]

In an earlier post, it was explained that how a DevOps testing consists of three main types: Scheduled Testing, On-Demand Testing and Triggered Testing. I covered how we scheduled different types o…