Comments on: Dhanasekar S and the Sapient Indian Bloggers http://www.satisfice.com/blog/archives/418 The Consulting Software Tester Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:21:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Santosh Shukla http://www.satisfice.com/blog/archives/418/comment-page-1#comment-248636 Santosh Shukla Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:37:39 +0000 http://www.satisfice.com/blog/?p=418#comment-248636 Thanks James, It is great to have been mentioned in your blog. Thanks a lot. I am one of the testers who started my professional testing career at IVS. I still remember the impressive and inspiring talk on "software testing" by Shishank Gupta(http://in.linkedin.com/pub/shishank-gupta/6/5b9/318). Happy Testing!!! -Santosh Thanks James,

It is great to have been mentioned in your blog.
Thanks a lot.

I am one of the testers who started my professional testing career at IVS.
I still remember the impressive and inspiring talk on “software testing” by Shishank Gupta(http://in.linkedin.com/pub/shishank-gupta/6/5b9/318).

Happy Testing!!!

-Santosh

]]> By: Sivaram http://www.satisfice.com/blog/archives/418/comment-page-1#comment-248499 Sivaram Wed, 17 Mar 2010 05:54:22 +0000 http://www.satisfice.com/blog/?p=418#comment-248499 Dear Dhana, Heartly Congratulations to you. I feel it is a great honour, You deserve it and you got it. Looking forward to see more blos posts from you. Dear James, this kind of entries are inspiring. With the encouragement you are giving to testing community, in near future, I strongly believe that we will see a huge group of Passionated Testers from India. Cheers Sivaram Dear Dhana, Heartly Congratulations to you. I feel it is a great honour, You deserve it and you got it. Looking forward to see more blos posts from you.

Dear James, this kind of entries are inspiring. With the encouragement you are giving to testing community, in near future, I strongly believe that we will see a huge group of Passionated Testers from India.

Cheers
Sivaram

]]> By: Chad Patrick http://www.satisfice.com/blog/archives/418/comment-page-1#comment-248104 Chad Patrick Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:29:26 +0000 http://www.satisfice.com/blog/?p=418#comment-248104 James, It's great that you're using the popularity of your blog to help change the negative opinion that is too often found when discussing the off-shore model. My last employer was a global consulting firm which relied heavily on this model to reduce cost. While it has been a struggle, I've seen tremendous improvements in the talent coming from India over the past several years and it's good to see others recognizing that. One thing I like the most is that they're hard working and have such an eagerness to learn. They also remind me that we're all people, regardless of the tight deadlines. When I start a conversation with "What's the status on....", they respond with "Good morning, Chad. How are you? How is your family." It's sad that we've lost that somewhere here in the states. I keep seeing forum posts and blogs written by US testers complaining that we're losing jobs to cheap, unskilled labor. The fact is (at least in 2010) that we're losing it to cheap, SKILLED labor and it's time US based employees realize that. I know working directly with my friends in India that I have to continue learning and up my game to stay competitive. Thank you for your post and to my Indian friends, dhanyavad! James,

It’s great that you’re using the popularity of your blog to help change the negative opinion that is too often found when discussing the off-shore model. My last employer was a global consulting firm which relied heavily on this model to reduce cost. While it has been a struggle, I’ve seen tremendous improvements in the talent coming from India over the past several years and it’s good to see others recognizing that.

One thing I like the most is that they’re hard working and have such an eagerness to learn. They also remind me that we’re all people, regardless of the tight deadlines. When I start a conversation with “What’s the status on….”, they respond with “Good morning, Chad. How are you? How is your family.” It’s sad that we’ve lost that somewhere here in the states.

I keep seeing forum posts and blogs written by US testers complaining that we’re losing jobs to cheap, unskilled labor. The fact is (at least in 2010) that we’re losing it to cheap, SKILLED labor and it’s time US based employees realize that. I know working directly with my friends in India that I have to continue learning and up my game to stay competitive.

Thank you for your post and to my Indian friends, dhanyavad!

]]> By: Karthikeyan Gandhinathan http://www.satisfice.com/blog/archives/418/comment-page-1#comment-248089 Karthikeyan Gandhinathan Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:24:19 +0000 http://www.satisfice.com/blog/?p=418#comment-248089 Congratulations Dhana. This inspires testers like me to apply what we have learned in all these years. Good work!!! Congratulations Dhana. This inspires testers like me to apply what we have learned in all these years. Good work!!!

]]> By: Michael M. Butler http://www.satisfice.com/blog/archives/418/comment-page-1#comment-247744 Michael M. Butler Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:43:50 +0000 http://www.satisfice.com/blog/?p=418#comment-247744 Another wonderful thing about Indian testers is that there is less chance of an "Iron Rules of Testing" mistranslation event. Let's hear it for the Anglosphere! ( :) ) I hope to be able to make some sort of contribution to this groundswell, too, though at the moment I can only cheer from the sidelines. Another wonderful thing about Indian testers is that there is less chance of an “Iron Rules of Testing” mistranslation event. Let’s hear it for the Anglosphere! ( :) ) I hope to be able to make some sort of contribution to this groundswell, too, though at the moment I can only cheer from the sidelines.

]]> By: Nandagopal http://www.satisfice.com/blog/archives/418/comment-page-1#comment-247716 Nandagopal Sun, 14 Mar 2010 02:41:29 +0000 http://www.satisfice.com/blog/?p=418#comment-247716 Dear James, I am privileged to be mentioned in one of your blog posts! Thank you very much. I will not disappoint you and I promise to keep blogging :) Regards, Nandagopal Dear James,

I am privileged to be mentioned in one of your blog posts! Thank you very much. I will not disappoint you and I promise to keep blogging :)

Regards,
Nandagopal

]]> By: Dhanasekar S http://www.satisfice.com/blog/archives/418/comment-page-1#comment-247564 Dhanasekar S Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:09:03 +0000 http://www.satisfice.com/blog/?p=418#comment-247564 James, Thank you very much James. It is indeed an ultimate honor to get mentioned in your blog and getting into your blog roll where I see all my role models listed :-) After working in process driven testing and GUI automation for few years, I realized that is not the reality. Either they follow unwanted processes or try useless automation. In most places I found only idealist and process people, but what I searched for is pragmatists. That’s when I found Dr Cem Kaner website through one of the articles I was reading on automation framework and realized this is want I am looking for. Then I started practicing the context driven testing. I take immense pride in saying that I am following foot steps of Dr Cem Kaner, You and Michael Bolton. Like to quote Robert Frost famous Poem, <i>“But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep” </i> Looking forward to learn and contribute more and better towards building a bigger Sapient Testing community including Passionate Testers from India. Thanks once again for your time and effort you put in build a sapient testing community. NOTE : The CAPTCHA I filled for this comment is to daydream,but my dream came true today :-) Regards, Dhanasekar S Another Passionate Tester of India http://testingideas.wordpress.com James,
Thank you very much James. It is indeed an ultimate honor to get mentioned in your blog and getting into your blog roll where I see all my role models listed :-)
After working in process driven testing and GUI automation for few years, I realized that is not the reality. Either they follow unwanted processes or try useless automation. In most places I found only idealist and process people, but what I searched for is pragmatists. That’s when I found Dr Cem Kaner website through one of the articles I was reading on automation framework and realized this is want I am looking for. Then I started practicing the context driven testing.
I take immense pride in saying that I am following foot steps of Dr Cem Kaner, You and Michael Bolton.
Like to quote Robert Frost famous Poem, “But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep”

Looking forward to learn and contribute more and better towards building a bigger Sapient Testing community including Passionate Testers from India.

Thanks once again for your time and effort you put in build a sapient testing community.

NOTE : The CAPTCHA I filled for this comment is to daydream,but my dream came true today :-)

Regards,
Dhanasekar S
Another Passionate Tester of India
http://testingideas.wordpress.com

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