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Love teasing bugs!!

Well, finally I manage to attend my first session with "BWT- Banglore Weekend Testers". :) I was excited but at the same time I was busy with some other work too ..which was on "PRIORITY". I had to multitasking but it worth a lot..... to attend the session and to listen to others and what issues they come up. The session shoot up at 9:30 PM sharp...so appreciated the punctuality.... :)

Mission!!! Find Bugs.

AUT - Google Calender.

Scope of Testing - Exploratory....find bugs.

Brwosers - whichever available with you.....

Time Duration - 1 Hr....for testing and 1 Hr for discussion on the review of the task performed.

I started testing "Google Calender" in FF.....although I am lover of Google Chrome....but I said to myself ...its Google product ....so it should work fine in Google Chrome ...so let me check in some other browsers......I open my FF and enter the url.....and login. Got to go ===> Arrh!!my mobile rang.....it was my Brother's call from US ...so can not let it go. I very much focused on the task.....and once I am done with the call....I started sharing my issues with others in the Group. But, I said to myself its better I first finish the testing and latter discuss the issues come across. I set a target of 5 bugs for myself......as I thought to myself Google is very much stable ..they are not new in the market....so I get 5 bugs......I am very much happy but if I get more.... no problem. Well to be honest and no hard feeling for anyone....but AUT .....was very "average" ...its not that friendly I expected.

=>Some of the issues to mention - Warning message if you set a reminder for a task, it should it should be "information" message and not warning.

==> You can set reminders or create appointments for the date passed by like 10th June, 2009...it is gone...so I should not be able to create new appointment on that day.

Once the time is over for testing...part we all started discussing about the experience......

I got some things like:

==> BWT - I come across some people......whom I do not know but now we know each other

==> Others sharing their approach about testing - what was their goal? How did they do that?

==> People's opinion whether the product can be used or would you recommend the product to others.

Discussion part was really excited but as you know when you are in a Group .......everyone wants to say something or the other...so somewher we lose the connection. However, people were really coming up with their experience and some other things ...rating and all. I did mange to speak some words...... :) I did ask others to vote for and against the product.....where I could see majority people were saying that the product was "average" but they will go with it so did I.

I must confess one thing over here......I wanted the discussion to be more "constructive" and "conclusive" rather than discussing why you think like this? what made you feel so? and all. If we get a constructive discussion...it has altogether different meaning.......it would have been seriously fun but at the same time a good learning point!

On and all my experience was good but I expected more. Well, this is not the end of the world guys.......I am sure that in coming weeks we will come up strong and emerge as a strong "Group" where you get a good chance to have fun, learn new things, different perception, different approaches, startegies (if any).etc.......

I am waiting for the next session - BWT..... get me in!!!!

Best Regards,

Amit

testing is my passion!!!