Friday, November 30, 2007

Show - Stopper

Its started right from my childhood days i use to see lot of WWE shows . Show Stopper is referred to none other Mr.HBK
himself .He used to steal the show with his sweet chin Music .I love show stopper, I love DX :)

Any how this post about Show Stopper is not related to him :) I hate this show stopper ..!


Today I got a mail from our QE that they have rejected our kit which we have released earlier ,stating they have found a show stopper in our code.

Show Stopper come on ,

What is Show Stopper ?
In software development there is a term for a missing feature or bug plagued service that will be the crucial factor which will threaten the overall acceptance of the software - its called a showstopper

We are following waterfall model for the whole product and Incremental delivery for every feature which needs to be added/merged to the whole product.

The issue stated was combination of authentication doesn't working.we already stated this as know issue in the release notes, still it has been spotted as show stopper .

In real time is there any online Banking /Financial companies using a combination of authentication , how about having user name / password + certificate authentication + biometrics ? for user to login to your system ?
yes it do s***s to me.. !

But we are in outsourcing industry babe.. we used to code things which never ever happen to be exists in real world. So wrong statement :)

Let me try to prove in a different way from my knowledge that I acquired from surfing , read in blogosphere ,forums, etc

Software Quality

I have a question ,Does bug free software mean good software?

Bugs in a software products are due to ,
a) QA's attention in their job
b) Ability of a programmer
c) Features of the Software

Mathematically ,
bugs= (X robustness of the QA process X features provided by the software / robustness of the development process.)


So from above equations, when both QA and Dev process are robust enough then bugs are due to the feature introduced into the software :)

So why we need that combination of authentication? From Business perception we need to have, for market advantage and for other Blahs , but from an Engineering perception the above equation holds the answer.

Equal and opposite force attract each other may be true for law of magnetism but it fails for software Engineering.Specially Engineering peoples,

I read this lines in a blog ,Whom ever thanks to him , exactly fits to my posting ,

1.) the evil force called QA logs high severity bugs forecasting catastrophe as inevitability in the system to get the wheel in motion.

2.) Development aka heroes (why are they always commended for fixing a bug when they coded badly in the first place?) as part of evaluation predict completely opposite rosier picture and soothe nerves saying such things rarely happen in real world and fixes aren't urgent.

Much like Ying and Yang :)

To make software to be more productive and really useful to the customers both should work collaborative.

Guns wont kill people, Its people who kill people
,
I repeat ,
Guns wont kill people , Its people who kill people

Likewise,
Software Metrics Don't Kill Projects, Moronic Peoples/Managers Kill Projects

Use it wisely at least in your projects.!

Thursday, November 29, 2007

I , Random Surfer

Today i shared the link of Larry Lessig's speech on How creativity is being strangled by the law to this guy. He asked me how i got the link to TED .

Well , This is how i got the link ., The story of Me , the Random Surfer,

During my the third year of Engineering at ACCET , I read about Page rank , Google's algorithm of their search implementation , in which , they have stated ,

PageRank can be thought of as a model of user behavior. We assume there is a "random surfer" who is given a web page at random and keeps clicking on links, never hitting "back" but eventually gets bored and starts on another random page. The probability that the random surfer visits a page is its PageRank. And, the d damping factor is the probability at each page the "random surfer" will get bored and request another random page.

I was configuring cvs with Eclipse for check out a opensource code. But I failed to configure, so I searched on how to configure CVS with Eclipse on Google got a link its actually a forum with a guy posted a link to his blog ., So i went there he was a Java guy like me, so i searched his postings ., he referred to a link of OSS posting ,which is another blog there i viewed a video., a professor named Larry Lessig was giving a lecture on How creativity is being strangled by the law.. a very good speech ., so went to wiki to know about him he was a Stanford guy ., to know more more about him i surfed where he had this talk ... it was actually on TED then surfed TED and get to know about it.

Between this i forgot to configure CVS ., still pending :) I lost the link of both the CVS configuration and the link which had the video of Larry Lessig .

To get back to his blog i ll just type CVS Google will pop up with history of search queries then i ll just hit it ., in the search result Google ll have the history count visits which makes everything easy for me .., everything will works out until i use this pc .,

I never ever keeps bookmark of such pages. I have missed a lot ..! When ever i thought a link is useful, simply i will note it down in a Sticker lite. Even its volatile.! .I haven't restarted more than months for sake of i never read that link, after i entered in it.. All because of this Firefox bookmark, which i haven't categorized so it looks ugly to me., so just now i am started using delicious ,


Thats the story of randoms surfer and how i got the link to TED . It started out in CVS went to TED . Between still my CVS configuration with Eclipse is pending . Any one out there to help me?

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

How creativity is being strangled by the law

If u want to know about OSS or Free Software then you should watch this video by Larry Lessig

Monday, November 19, 2007

Dilbert on Career Engg

Needless to say ., :)

Thursday, November 15, 2007

Why Should I Blog ?


I have not blogged over a long period of time..
I had a question Why should I blog ?

Its took this much time to get the answer :)


Why Should I Blog


So i am start Blogging again.. As is customary I am starting with

Hello World..!

All right! That wasn't too bad or hard.
That is all for now. More to follow shortly... :)