I woke up at about 630 AM on a beautiful Monday morning in Bengaluru. Morning and coffee has become synonymous. My exercising is either in the morning or evening and I alternate. I love catching up with work on Monday morning and get the exercise towards evening. I have a lot of things to accomplish this week. That is how every week has been but how different is this week? I see a list of pending things I have to push [...]
Most IT services company professionals that I have interacted with are all having a tough time to bring in a product - because they don't understand product - although they build and test a product for their customers. It was tough for me to sell the concept of App Achhi to my own company Moolya - a testing services company I founded in 2010 that does fundoo testing for most of the top mobile apps in India, be it Flipkart, [...]
In 2 of India's large organizations - read as - start-ups that have become big - we found that there was some tension between VP Product and VP Engineering. The VP Engineering said, "Pradeep, we liked App Achhi but this needs the VP Products approval" and then we rush to the VP Products to sell the value of App Achhi and then he talks about the challenges he has with engineering team and asked us to build a product that will solve [...]
Performance. Nothing to hide. People who graduated from web testing era to mobile app testing - think of performance testing of an app still as a web testing problem. Web testing remains web testing. However, I have not seen a lot of people do deep analysis of client side performance. It is assumed that the delay is because of the server side issues. I know you could call it cultural but we began working with a very successful start-up. I [...]
I have read plenty of posts on Quora and other forums related to start-up where finding a tech co-founder is discussed a zillion times. Most people say it is hard to find one. Hard to find a good one. Yes, indeed. I found without knowing I was finding one. Avinash Nishant, co-founder and CTO came in as a Consultant to Moolya. He was advising us on how to build a product and the tech aspects of it. He had built [...]
People who have been diagnosed for hypertension or diabetes are most of the times nervous to get on the machine that would test them and give a new reading. This causes elevated readings. So, doing a test disturbs a system. Be it human body or software. 2006 I was the proud tester of the famous Moto Razr V3. This phone was a dream phone to many in their past lives. The era before iOS and Android. It was a Flip [...]
We told you. This is not a Hello World! The world isn’t listening to us yet. So, why say Hello World! Oh, WordPress means the little world we have created for ourselves? Oh sure. Why not say “Hello Little World!”. This world is little now. It is expanding. Someday, we would be able to say Hello World! and the world will be listening because what we attempt here at App Achhi is the world scale. We want the world of [...]