My brother is a great fan of the Linux distribution Pardus (Pardus-Kurulan-2007.2-RC.iso) and I am a great fan of any sorts of cats (see picture at end of posting and my about page point 7).
So I thought, let my other Linux have another companion …
Truth is … I didn’t come so far initially. At […]
… yes, I bought a 64 bit system. You want to know why ? Read here some of the arguments.
Imagine … this is cockaigne for any tester (so many training possibilities to discover bugs).
When do you want to buy one ? Well, the whole thing makes more fun with a 64 bit operating system […]
…I am reading at the moment a foreign-language book.
This is challenging - both: the content and non-standard linguistical expressions.
And now you know, why I am at the moment not so much participating online (see here).
How long has it been since you were busy with a really challenging book ? (please do not reply here, […]
Today we 4 (Andre, Erkan, Martin, Widodo) went to the park to play some table tennis. Well, since there were some already playing table tennis, we explored the playing machines nearby.
Here are some pictures:
I am boarding the carrousel:
ok, let’s make some speed to have fun:
hm, perhaps this was a little too much speed
ok, […]
Don’t miss Pradeep Soundararajan’s first audio podcast about: “Indian testers and fake experience”
I tell only the title, the rest Pradeep will tell you with his own voice: click here to listen (6:38 mins)
Please mail your comments to him
Erkan YILMAZ
After reading Christian’s article addicted about his book-buying-adventure, I feel the need to also post about this topic. For my books-to-buy-list I am still searching for some children’s books. And the kid in me needs your help !
I have recently read Peter Pan and I am thinking about the next to be:
- Alice’s […]
When I looked in the morning outside I saw already Christian how he was learning (he has an exam on Tuesday).
(btw: you see also the place where I play table tennis - so, if you once drop by, let’s have a game)
Well, I could not let Chris learn all alone and learned with him:
Later […]
What you should know, before you read the article:
Why I am writing on this issue ?
This goes out to all software vendors: I am a potential customer who is not allowed to use the software and has to search for other ways to achieve his goal. If you want me to use your software […]
Are you a person who uses open source software ?
Do you like it ?
Did you spend until now time to make it better ?
For the first question your answer might be: yes
If the answer for the second is also yes, I would be interested in the third answer.
With this posting I do not want […]
Unfortunately I did not have much time lately to do my “normal” online tasks. I was busy with: Microsoft Windows Server (TM) Code Name “Longhorn” beta 3
I will catch up with you !
Erkan
Pradeep created some time ago this screen saver “Heuristics and Testing” (download here).
I like the idea very much and here is now the opportunity to judge yourself.
BTW: it “… has been officially installed on all testers machines in 2 organizations in India so far.” (Pradeep Soundararajan)
needed OS: Win2K or XP
Here you can find the […]
After Ben asked here if “square” and “Spießer” have the same meaning, I asked some online translation services. The translation of the German term “Spießer” revealed following:
I present the not-winners of the day for this specific term (I do not use term loser with purpose):
IATE (result)
Google Translator (result) and
Babelfish (result)
(or could be said following […]
Below you will find some German slogans.
And ? Where is the relevance to testing ?
Well, do you agree, that during testing we arrive at situations where we do not have always every info ? Why is this ?
One explanation could be:
Information transmits faster, if there is included pictures/sound or it is packed meaning into […]
I was reading Ben’s article “Slogans are models“. And there appeared the term “picker-upper”, which I did not know.
I used my favorite service LEO first. But this did not help much (I could have worked me up from the verbs, but …). Then I used dictionary.com and I got an explanation (I hope it […]
At the moment I am reading Made to Stick (why some ideas survive and others die) from the two brothers Chip and Dan Heath (I got this input from Frank).
(this is not the books cover - I am to blame for this selection)
So, you might now think: “What has this to do with testing […]
I send this baton to blogs which cover the topic testing.
(this picture is by Mullenkedheim and is licenced under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 License, source: Flickr)
Testing in my view is not limited to software testing - for me testing involves asking questions. And everybody can ask questions (not only software testers).
Here are now […]
Start with reading the blog and the questionnaire with my answers.
BTW: if this is not sufficient for you (e.g. for me this would not be sufficient), the most important thing - just ask.
Erkan YILMAZ
Today I created a new category: playing and asking questions
Here you will find my test reports - actually more correct - my game reports. Now you are certainly going to ask, why I then don’t call it “test reports” ?
Well, I want to show with this, that testing for me involves the aspect of […]
I am not so happy with my web provider.
Seems, always when I want to post something, there happen problems - hm, or are there always problems? .
I just had this error 500 message:
“In case you have the opinion this is a failure due to the server, contact the webmaster.”
Of course they are right […]
Yesterday I asked the ‘great firewall of China’ a few questions. And the answers were interesting. Have a look HERE !
And today I wanted to check for a long domain name, but could not input it, because there is a limit of 75 characters in the input field
Well, I shortened it then to […]
