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12, 2016
Do something awesome – everyday
My co-founder gave me a challenge. To do something awesome everyday. He thinks I have done something awesome in the past and I am capable to do it plus all I need to do is to keep doing something awesome everyday. I have been thinking and working on it. It is so incredibly hard even for an Einstein to find a new e=mc^2 every day. I think my co-founder didn't talk about the result. Do something awesome everyday - is about [...]
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11, 2016
The IT Testing Services Companies and their Blindspot
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, [...]
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11, 2016
VP Product Versus VP Engineering
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 [...]
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11, 2016
The P word in the app testing world
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 [...]
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11, 2016
Testing disturbs a system
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 [...]