Software testing as exciting activity

I had the pleasure of talking to hundreds of “testers” at Wipro in their internal annual 2-day “Test Confluence”. The demos and presentations were very educative.

In my keynote address on April 23, 2008, I focussed on four issues

The need to “count your blessings” on behalf of the Indian software community (doing well yet complaining all the time)

Learn from manufacturing (how the “lowly” quality function got elevated to the “board room” thanks to Professor Deming)

How FDA in Pharma, FAA in Aviation, Lloyds in Boilers, BASEL in Banking have “positioned” testing in “high pedestal”

I also talked to them of the “role model” played by Soma (Mr. Somasegar, Sr VP, Microsoft HQ) as “legendary test engineer”