THE LIFE OF A BUG

Found this article and aside from it's kinda funny, it also explains the bug well

The life of a software bug may be described as follows. A bug is born when a person makes an error in some activity that relates to software development, such as defining a requirement, designing a program, or writing code. This error gets embedded in that person's work product (requirement document, design document, or code) as a fault.

As long as this fault (also known as a bug or defect) remains in the work product, it can give rise to other bugs. For example, if a fault in a requirements document goes undetected, it is likely to lead to related bugs in the system design, program design, code, and even in the user documentation.

A bug can go undetected until a failure occurs, which is when a user or tester perceives that the system is not delivering the expected service. In the system test phase, the goal of the test engineer is to induce failures through testing and thereby uncover and document the associated bugs so they can be removed from the system. Ideally the life of a bug ends when it is uncovered in static or dynamic testing and fixed.

Emergency Mobile Phones

When calamities strike, all power down along with your mobile phones and landlines, do you ever hoped to have a mobile phone you can use in case of this kind of emergency? Well here's the good news. There's already a mobile phone which is just powered by a single AA battery. Just don't dream of playing games on this one lol. Here's the story.

Type It Upside-Down

For those of you who wants to type upside-down, here's how

Google Tilt

I just love Google and it's various hidden tricks.

1. Go to Google
2. Type TILT
3. Wait and see

Website Logins Tips

As I was checking the login features of my current project, I was thinking of more efficient ways to handle password generation specially for the first login of the user. Browsing the web for ideas, I found these tips which is really useful in designing a website login.

Let it snow

Do you love snow? Do you like to experience snow but like me, lives in a snow-free country? Well, fret no more. Google gives you the chance to experience snow on your computers. Just go to google.com and type "let it snow" and see for yourself.

The Real Angry Birds

Ever wondered what the famous Angry Birds would look like if they are real birds? Then wonder no more!

Asking the right questions

For QA's and developers, it is essential to know how to reproduce a bug so it can be effectively fixed. In order to do this, you need to ask the right questions.

From this article, here's the guide to asking the right questions:

• What version of software is being used?
• What operating system is being used?
• What patches are employed on the operating system?
• What is the hardware configuration?
• What is the actual error message?
• What happened just prior to the problem occurring?
• Any other proprietary information that might be relevant?
• Is the problem reproducible? If so, what steps were taken to reproduce the problem?

Zynga Facebook Games

Are you addicted to Facebook games? If yes, then you know Zynga. It's the creator of famous Facebook games, and their games is actually 4 of the top 5 games. Here's a list of the top 12 Facebook games in case you are wondering (like me lol). Are your games among the top 12?

Incidentally, Zynga is also in the news not just because of the games but because of how they are running the company. It really surprised me that such company with good game products will treat their employees this way. More of the story here.

25 Worst Passwords of 2011

I know it's still a few days till 2011 ends but I found this article and I'm glad that my password is not one of the worst passwords lol. The top 5 worst passwords, which are really worst, are:

1. password
2. 123456
3. 12345678
4. qwerty
5. abc123

Is your password one of the 25 worst passwords? I hope not.

Bye bye Google Plus

It's been awhile since I used Google Buzz. I didn't really used it much, just tried it on occasion since I'm a Google products user. After all, they're free and innovative lol. Just learned though that Google Buzz is going away. Seems Google is trimming its products and focusing on more usable ones, which is good. Are you a Google Buzz user? If yes, then you should read this.

How to View Webcam in Windows 7

I had been using Windows XP for as long as I can remember. Then I needed to upgrade to Windows 7 for work. Of course with change comes the puzzlement on how to use it lol. I am used to viewing myself on the computer webcam in exchange of a mirror here in my room lol. In Windows XP, it's just as easy as going to the Windows Explorer since the webcam is allotted a drive. But in Windows 7, to my dismay, I can't find how to do it. Good thing I found this and it really works!

Technology vs Super Heroes

If there were super heroes living in this era, it will be very hard for them to keep their secret identity lol

Auto Spelling Errs...

Do you use your phone's auto-spelling feature?

My SO uses them and I can't count the number of laughs I had with it lol

Dropbox

I had made a previous post about Dropbox but haven't made any account in it. Until recently. One of my work-from-home jobs required having one since it's what their company uses. It's a cloud-computing company and everyone are working from where ever they want, which is not in the same office. I find it useful than emailing copies, though I still prefer Google Docs because it's easier to maintain and don't need hard disk space but Google Docs has it's limitations with file types.

Firefox and Windows...

8 Twitter Mistakes

I have been currently active in browsing / interacting in twitter. And since I'm working from home, there are now more facets in the IT industry that I can try. One of them is using social networking media to achieve goals. I think this article will help a lot of twitter fans, both oldies and newbies, how to properly use twitter and be loved by your followers.

Steve Jobs Died at 56

For those in the technology industry, or those who uses Ipad, Ipod, Itunes, and Mac, this is a sad day as Steve Jobs, founder and former CEO of Apple just passed away. More stories here

Bug vs Defect vs Issue

I saw this as a ym status of a colleague who is a QA and since I'm also doing QA works now, I wondered myself what's the difference. And here's what I found:

Bug
- things that a software does that it's not supposed to do
- things that a software doesn't do but it's supposed to do


Defect
- a quality problem that is discovered after the program has been deployed to clients

Issue
- can be a bug or a feature enhancement request


Reference: http://testdog.com/knowhow/bugs vs defects.html

Best Out-of-Office Email

For the workaholics out there who can't get away from work even when on vacation, this is really for you. Glad to know I still don't need this yet. lol