I discovered yesterday that my wordpress deployment has an empty database, had to restore an ancient backup losing a lot of posts including guest ones.

I am trying to find as many articles as I can and will appreciate if any reader having a saved copy can help me.

Regards,
tazzix

Then you’ve to implement those tests – often repeatedly. Your aim is always to be sure that no software goes out to customer without all the bugs found. It’s rarely achievable, but should be your main goal. I always prefer to believe your 2nd goal is always to have every developer hate you because you keep finding bugs within their code

The answer if software testing is a good career option is dependent upon who’s asking the question. I’ll answer it as if my audience is definitely an engineer.

I will be flip, but sincere – my working knowledge has shown to me that the principle of software development never comes about in reality.

Theoretically, software testing is:

• Validating and recording that software program performs the functions it’s supposed to.
• Making sure and recording it doesn’t do just about anything it is not designed to.

This presupposes you have been told how it’s supposed and not supposed to do. The folks you’re working for don’t always make it happen – they might not necessarily trust you not to run away with their secrets.

Because software programs are a business (except when you are employed by the military) business principles apply a lot more strongly than engineering guidelines. Software testing is expensive, therefore the decisions about goals and how much to do are actually driven by ROI considerations.

Inside the end-user relationship, the user’s perception just isn’t necessarily directly related to the physical world, and it’s also the user’s perception of whether your system works that ultimately rules inside the minds of management, whose job is purely to be sure no one is complaining in regards to the software.

Therefore, the truly practical concept of software testing may be summarized as 3 goals:

1. Verify the consumers that use software believes it’s doing whatever they require it to complete
2. Verify the software doesn’t do anything immediately detectable that’s not desirable for the user.
3. Verify that any undesirable activity has a sufficient length period that the software will look to execute properly long enough for you to make it to another round of VC investment decision or sell the organization

So you? Do you consider Software Testing may be the right career path?

About the writer: Janet Fleming is writing for the free software testing course blog, her personal and non-commercial in nature hobby weblog to supply free options for software testing rookies/experts to help them find a new job.

6th February 2000 was my first day at wor as far as I remember, although I was employed as of 1st January 2000 and got my salary before even going to work because the office was under repairs, and they got the drift that I was appearing in “interviews” at other companies. Anyways according to my calculations I have completed 10 years at work.

First job at Global Information Systems for Voice Mail and Paging systems was landed through a phone call after my final exams, ended on 15th October 2000 when they decided to wind up operations in Karachi.

Second job at Matrix Systems (SoftPak Financial Systems) started the next day i.e. on 16th November 2000 through the only interview I appeared in till then mentioned above, had a hobby of mobile development on the side so finally quit in Feb 2005.

Third job was the second worst time of my career with 3 resignations in 11 months I was given a three months leave and landed at my first consultancy end of Jan 2006 later on this proved to be my longest employment stint. The leave at the mobile development organization only ended in a farce from their end.

But I was the next day at my own company providing consltancy with the same client Rockville Technologies, it slowly changed to permanent employment selling off my company and then moving to the main office in Islamabad still here and things are looking great.

I mentioned my second worst time, but not the WORST, lets better not talk about that but the thing is that no employer / company can hurt anybody, solet them try and just keep doing your work, you won’t need interviews and a few references will do

In short 10 years with 4 jobs with two covering eight years, and one company sold, its not been bad at all and a lot more is waiting for me in the future. Whatever you do just make some kind of webpage and maintain an online resume, you’ll never sit at home.

Most wifi routers can be easily flashed to run this opensource linux operating system dd-wrt www.dd-wrt.com which transforms your cheap wifi router into a high end networking equipment. I used a dlink dir-300 worth around Pak Rs. 3500/-

Simply locate cron configuration under administration and configure as shown, now you can connect from any wireless device to find your internet always working as it is supposed to be. Without having a PC to run a software to keep the connection alive. =)

The text in the box is:

*/5 * * * * root wget -q -O /dev/null http://10.16.6.16/status > /tmp/wget1.log
*/20 * * * * root wget -q -O /dev/null http://www.google.com.pk > /tmp/wget2.log

View of Islamabad from Margalla’s

Initially bought the fat PS2 network adapter to use Linux on it but using it for other purposes is cool too.

I only play a few games at a time, so keeping them on the HD saves me from finding and inserting the DVDs all the time.

To get HDLoader running I had to load Free MC Boot which means I can use the console to play MP3s, DivX, etc. as well.