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Software Engineering

⚡ BYOL: bring your own learning

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A post on how self-learning on your own time can bring you compounding effects in your engineering career that your day job just might not!

Testing gRPC #5: Load test a gRPC service

8 minute read

Learn how to write a load test for a locally hosted gRPC Java service using locust4j and run it on a local locust python-based master service

Testing gRPC #2: How to unit test a gRPC server

11 minute read

How is a service method implemented, What is the basic anatomy of a server unit test, grasp GrpcCleanupRule, InProcessServer and InProcessChannel. Let’s go ⚡

How WhatsApp tests software?

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How do engineering teams at Meta enable Quality for an app with a 2B+ monthly active users

How I got “that” job at Meta

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I recently switched to Meta London as a Software Engineer. This post talks about my interview experience and journey, how I prepared and resources for these ...

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Python

Duck Typing in python

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Understand what duck typing in python means with an example

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Career growth

Is there growth in testing?

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Is testing a dead-end career? Should I continue in testing? If I’m still here, how do I grow? Is there a future? In this blog, I provide my take on this freq...

🫨 Should an SDET move over to SDE?

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This question often crosses the mind of people working as an SDET one or more times during their careers. In this blog, I offer a personal story from my own ...

How I got “that” job at Meta

21 minute read

I recently switched to Meta London as a Software Engineer. This post talks about my interview experience and journey, how I prepared and resources for these ...

Who the heck is an SDET? 😕

9 minute read

Software development engineer in Test is a popular role/title in Testing space. In this post I share my thoughts on what this role means and some of the skil...

10 years of Software Testing and Automation

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I started my career as a professional Software tester and Automation engineer 10 years ago on this very day. This post is me reflecting on how this decade we...

The problem with titles for testers

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An opinionated post on Why focussing on titles is an anti-pattern that should stop in the Testing world and how much better the industry if we all focussed a...

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Android

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API testing

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Meta

How WhatsApp tests software?

10 minute read

How do engineering teams at Meta enable Quality for an app with a 2B+ monthly active users

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Espresso

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ReportPortal

Understanding reporting and logging in TestNG

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TestNG is a popular test framework that needs no introduction in the JVM (Java virtual machine) ecosystem and can be used for automating your tests regardles...

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Opinion

The problem with titles for testers

4 minute read

An opinionated post on Why focussing on titles is an anti-pattern that should stop in the Testing world and how much better the industry if we all focussed a...

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Growth mindset

Is there growth in testing?

9 minute read

Is testing a dead-end career? Should I continue in testing? If I’m still here, how do I grow? Is there a future? In this blog, I provide my take on this freq...

⚡ BYOL: bring your own learning

5 minute read

A post on how self-learning on your own time can bring you compounding effects in your engineering career that your day job just might not!

TribeQonf 2024 Debrief

11 minute read

Talks I saw and what I learned from them, tools and solutions explored at booths and the people I met

Advice from a test journeyman

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In this post, I want to share some of my mental models as a test journeyman with the hope that it gives some insight to people who are a bit new to the field...

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gRPC

Testing gRPC #5: Load test a gRPC service

8 minute read

Learn how to write a load test for a locally hosted gRPC Java service using locust4j and run it on a local locust python-based master service

Testing gRPC #2: How to unit test a gRPC server

11 minute read

How is a service method implemented, What is the basic anatomy of a server unit test, grasp GrpcCleanupRule, InProcessServer and InProcessChannel. Let’s go ⚡

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TestNG

Understanding reporting and logging in TestNG

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TestNG is a popular test framework that needs no introduction in the JVM (Java virtual machine) ecosystem and can be used for automating your tests regardles...

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Kotlin

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Testing

Testing gRPC #2: How to unit test a gRPC server

11 minute read

How is a service method implemented, What is the basic anatomy of a server unit test, grasp GrpcCleanupRule, InProcessServer and InProcessChannel. Let’s go ⚡

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Clean code

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IDE

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Advice

Why automate tests early

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A post on why test automation early and in parallel to the development cycle can help you scale faster and give better and quickly repeatable confidence over...

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Testing fundamentals

Writing clear bug reports

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Writing clear and concise bug reports can greatly reduce the back and forth between different engineering stakeholders. We discuss on what makes a good bug r...

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git

Remembering GIT commands

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GIT is one of the most popular SCM tools being used these days, and even though there are lot of UI interfaces to it (Source tree, GIT extensions etc), It re...

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Appium

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Adb

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mitm proxy

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vim

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Gradle

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Mobile testing

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Load testing

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Checklist

Mobile app testing checklist

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A testers brain requires a lot of creativity and the no of scenarios that we test on a day to day basis are innumerable. Expecting the brain to remember all ...

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Coding

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Redis

How to work with redis for test automation

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Redis is a powerful in-memory data store that could be used for a variety of test automation use cases. In this post, we setup a redis server on an ubuntu VM...

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iOS

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virtualenvs

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Bug reporting

Writing clear bug reports

7 minute read

Writing clear and concise bug reports can greatly reduce the back and forth between different engineering stakeholders. We discuss on what makes a good bug r...

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Reporting

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Mob testing

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YouTube

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Mobile Testing

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Team building

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QA

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SDET

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Load Testing

Testing gRPC #5: Load test a gRPC service

8 minute read

Learn how to write a load test for a locally hosted gRPC Java service using locust4j and run it on a local locust python-based master service

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Platform Engineering

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Communication

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