Day out in Krazy Castle

Krazy castle is one of the amusement water parks in Nagpur. It was Friday afternoon, last working day of that week. Weather was quite pleasant. As we have quite hotter days in April and May. Suddenly my office friends plan to visit Krazy Castle on Saturday with kids. Our plans hardly succeed. We checked saturday's weather on site and then planned to meet at 12 noon.
On Saturday morning all of us were worried about weather. But thankfully after sunny day it became quite pleasant in afternoon. So just to confirm once again we rang each other. And finally we gathered and went to Krazy castle.
We completed formalities and went inside.

Kids went inside the pool and started jumping with joy.

Kids having fun

Some of them were scared but lately they also started enjoying. We all started playing and enjoying with them. By 3 PM all of the kids were tired and hungry. We order Masala Dosa. After waiting for long finally dosa came. But kids were so hungry…………they finished quickly.

After relaxing a bit we were again ready for the fun. We did some rain dancing and played some more games like long slide etc.
At 5 PM, we refreshed and enjoyed free ice cream

Enjoying free ice cream

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Then we went to Entertainment Park. There also kids played and enjoyed each and every game and ride.

Rashi and Tapasya enjoying Aero Plane ride

At 6 PM we left Krazy Castle. We all were so tired but enjoyed the day in krazy Castle.

 

Part time mother

One of my friends sends Good Morning mail everyday with beautiful message. One day he sent a mail with message "Being a full time mother is one of the highest paid job,since the payment is pure love."

I read and thought for a while. Am I part time mother :). May be yes. I think all working mothers are part time mother. We keep struggling between professional and family life.

Sometimes I am so involved in this struggling that I cannot exactly recall when my daughter started crawling, standing or took her first step. Then I realized that she is growing so fast :).

In morning, I ignore her small small demands, make her quickly do all tasks. Sometimes being harsh with her. And while leaving her when she says softly "Mam'aa Bye" bring tears in my eyes.

In the evening, i just rush to see her and cannot express her happiness when she jumps saying "My mam'aa has come" :).
In night when I think of spending time with her, she is so tired and wants to sleep. I can't help.

This cycle continues from sunrise to sunset.

Career Growth for Women

Few days back one of my friend asked me about the career growth of women. Specially In today’s competitive world, where we are always measure on our performance. It is really difficult for women to show her excellence in specified time.

It is the fact that men have advantage over women as they can spend more time in workplace.
But still, I have listed down some of the ways to impress your seniors and colleagues.

1. Be proactive.
2. Always Ask questions (Why, How)
3. Discuss and bring your discussion to some conclusion.
4. Take call or initiative yourself. Don’t think this is not my job.
5. Whatever you do, do it in the best way. Simple writing mail reflects your professionalism.
6. Pay more attention to your communication. Be it a written or verbal. It should be clear and to the point.
7. Whenever you get time from your project work, start hunting for knowledge. Share that with your team.
8. Suggest anything which you think is good for your project or team or company.
9. Time management. Very important for women.
10. Prioritizing work.
11. Problem Solving. Try to solve your difficulties yourself first. If not possible then discuss and then show what all you tried to solve your problem?

Thanks for reading



Sujata Wagh
Sr. Quality Analyst
Infospectrum India Private Limited

Internet Explorer folder is empty in Event Viewer

Internet Explorer folder is always blank in Event Viewer. This blog will explain how to capture errors in IE folder.

1. Close all the instances of Internet Explorer.
2. Open registry Editor.
3. Navigate to \HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\ FEATURE_ENABLE_COMPAT_LOGGING
4. Create iexplorer key and set it to 1. (Refer figure below)

This means internet Explorer compatibility evaluation logging is turned on.

Open Internet Explorer. Information is displayed as shown in the figure.

Open Event Viewer and check, Errors will be captured in Internet Explorer folder.

Export data (rows) functionality in SQL 2005

Few days I was struggling with problem of copying data from one table to another table in SQL Server 2005.

Below is the script to copy data (rows) from one database table to another database table.

Syntax:

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INSERT INTO destination_database_name.DBO.DESTINATION_TABLE_NAME

(
COL1, COL2, COL3
)

SELECT

COL1, COL2, COL3

FROM source_database_name.DBO.SOURCE_TABLE_NAME

WHERE

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Example:

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INSERT INTO DBNAME_QA.DBO.COMPANIES --Source Database Table

(
COMPANY_NAME,REGION_ID,ACTIVE,CUSTOMER_NO
)

SELECT

COMPANY_NAME ,REGION_ID,ACTIVE,CUSTOMER_NO

FROM
DBNAME_DEV.DBO.COMPANIES --Destination databse Table

WHERE ACTIVE = 1

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NOTE:

1. Data Type of COL1 should match with data type of COL1
2. You can select desired number of columns.
3. Column with Primary key can not be copied.


It may help you !!!

BECOME A SMART TESTER, NOT JUST AN ORDINARY TESTER

Based on my 6 years of experience in testing, I feel that many testers think their job is limited to finding and reporting bugs, and it is the job of developer to find out how and why the bug is introduced and then how to resolve. Of course, job of tester indeed is to find and report bugs. But then, what is the difference between tester and smart tester?
Here I would like to share my experience. I got chance to work in a challenging and complex project wherein I discovered that just regular testing won't help. I need to think beyond my role as a QA and be smarter.
Let me share a scenario. I had to share requests from one machine to different client’s machines. When I sent the request, it only went to 2 client machines out of 5. In the beginning, I didn’t pay much attention to this fact, as I was busy with some other complex testing areas. However, this issue came to our notice when another tester also faced the same problem. First, I checked hardware configurations, and took a look at the binaries. Then suddenly I had a thought about checking the software my application was using.
And, that was where I realized where the issue really was!
I found that 2 client machines that received the request had Microsoft Dot Net framework 2.0 with SP2 and the other 3 client machines (that did not receive the request) had Dot Net framework 2.0 with SP1. When I installed SP2 on these machines, the problem was solved. I discussed and told the developer about the solution.
Thinking over this, I realized that a tester should not only find and report defect/bug, but we should also dig out the root cause. We need to discuss with the developers why a defect has occurred and how it will be solved.
Do this, and believe me, your mind will definitely find even more complicated defects/Bugs!

Little Angle in my life

On 7th July 2008, my little sweet daughter came after 9 months of long period. Avi and I both wanted baby girl. Thanks to God. I could just the glimpse of her. soo sweet. I was dying to take her in my arms. Avi was so happy. I think she was just like me :)
Next day I took her. That feeling was very different and I cannot express in words. felt different sense of responsibility.