Swarm of XeBees

India is one of the most favored and favorable offshore/outsourced destination in the world – thanks to the mass scale of engineers it produces. But now the time has come for us to see how we can better productivity – without sacrificing quality (that goes without saying), which will contribute directly to our margins and [...]

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In my recent project I needed to do performance testing of SSO log-in with 1000 unique users  with JMeter as performance testing tool. With JMeter, it is very easy to pass values from response of one request to subsequent request by using its post-processor requests. During project time I came up with one scenario where [...]

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As Web users you would always want the website to be up whenever you visit it. In addition, you would want to feel that the access is fast.  But what would happen if you do not get the fast access? Would you like to use that website? What will be your immediate reaction?  Would you:- [...]

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Last few weeks I’ve been reading Speaking Tree – a weekend supplement of ‘Times of India’ and as I read every week, I felt there are lot of similarities between Yoga practice and Scrum philosophy. I’d like to share my perspective on how Yoga and Scrum overlap each other. What is a product here? The [...]

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Requirements -> Design -> Implementation -> Integration -> Testing -> Maintenance , I have been forced to learn this for years. Even though I always thought how can some one design an application so big in one single go. But the educational structure that prevails in India don’t let you think differently. Lets not change the subject [...]

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