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Cleared CSTE

I appeared for CSTE on September 18th and after a wait of 10 weeks, finally got the snail mail from QAI with the CSTE Result. Cleared the exam with 83%, was somewhat little disappointed with the scores in Objective parts. Anyway, it’s a good feeling to be certified ;-)
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Key Considerations in Performance Testing

Check out this write up by 'Leslie Segal', President, Testware Associates, Inc.,on 'Key Considerations in Performance Testing': http://www.testwareinc.com/... • Determine the performance testing objectives • Set pass/fail criteria• Establish profiles of expected real users• Determine the proper ratio of real to virtual users• Create test scripts and executed• Gather and correlate the data from the test...
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'what makes a good tester'

What makes a good tester Check out the following writeups by experts on the topic 'what makes a good tester': By Boris Beizer: http://www.sqatester.com/qa... Joel Spolsky: http://www.joelonsoftware.c... Harry Robinson: http://www.stickyminds.com/... Rob Davis: http://www.robdavispe.com/f... By Michael Hunter: http://blogs.msdn.com/micah...
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Three Questions About Each Bug You Find

1. Is this mistake somewhere else also?2. What next bug is hidden behind this one?3. What should I do to prevent bugs like this? Check out this great writeup from Tom Van Vleck: http://www.multicians.org/t
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What is idempotence!

Taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wik... Definition: In mathematics, an idempotent element (or simply an idempotent) is something that when multiplied by (for a function, composed with) itself, gives itself as a result. For example, the only two real numbers which are idempotent under multiplication are 0 and 1. Formally, if S is a set with a binary operation * on it, then an element s of S is said to be idempotent (with respect to *) if s * s = s. Computer science: In computing, idempotence...
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Rapid Software Testing:An Introduction

Here is an introduction to Rapid Software Testing by Chris Brown, Gary Cobb, Robert Culbertson. (This is a sample Chapter courtesy of Prentice Hall PTR.) http://www.phptr.com/articl
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‘Blame India’

Interesting! Check this out: http://blameindiawatch.blog... keeps a track on ‘Blame India’ news :-)
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