Comments on: Your Overconfidence Is Your Weakness: Lessons from a “Crash Specialist”

By: Pradeep Soundararajan

Pradeep Soundararajan — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 04:13:12 +0000

@ Neelam,

You are welcome

@ Mube,

The word perfect is a little over confident, ain’t so

By: Mube

Mube — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 13:41:08 +0000

Pradeep.

Well a perfect example on how to break the word “Over Confidence” into Practice and be Practical .

By: Neelam

Neelam — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 08:00:31 +0000

Pradeep,
Indeed an eye opener for lot of new testers (like me) in field. I figured there was a new bug entering in my testing system…now I know what it is and I have the cure too!

Thanks for diagnosis!

Neelam

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By: Pradeep Soundararajan

Pradeep Soundararajan — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 06:20:02 +0000

@Neha,

Thanks for dropping by.

Japan incident has happened with me too, but in this case I found a bug which I thought might be bittie (very small) but it stopped the shipping of the product

That’s an important learning to have. I just hope those testers who have this lesson also realize that they need to think about the reverse of it – What they think as a show stopper could not be one such and there is nothing to be disappointed about it.

By: Neha Thakur

Neha Thakur — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:50:17 +0000

Amazing article.. As ususal … very fascinating to understand the fact that just a simple bug like finger coverage.. can be of utmost important to the customers. Japan incident has happened with me too, but in this case I found a bug which I thought might be bittie (very small) but it stopped the shipping of the product. Great quote that I would like to quote “It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes. ” ~Sally Field

By: Pradeep Soundararajan

Pradeep Soundararajan — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:03:41 +0000

@ Sowjanya,

Thanks! I hope every tester shares their experiences for the benefit of the community.

By: sowjanya

sowjanya — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:27:07 +0000

Besides learning technical stuff… Its very important to have attitude as a tester…

Thanks for the post…

Sharing your experience helps others not to do the same and struggle

By: Pradeep Soundararajan

Pradeep Soundararajan — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:13:59 +0000

@ Novesh,

Very often developers give you some title (I have never understood whether there is any ulterior motive it that) its a feel good thing for us.

Ah, nice. I also think we testers get so easily happy with just one bug and one appreciation for that. It can be a trap unless you have trained your brain to be skeptical and stay mission focused.

I have suffered it.

If you had told me you had 10 years of experience, my response would have been, “Well, that doesn’t tell me anything about you” but what you said above tells me about your experience. Now, that is great that you can make more sense in talking about your experience with just a few words instead of numbers.

By: Novesh

Novesh — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:36:43 +0000

Hi Pradeep,

I really enjoyed reading this post (just like most of the other posts). This one caught my attention due to the work overconfidence. Very often developers give you some title (I have never understood whether there is any ulterior motive it that) its a feel good thing for us.

That is where problem starts, you start acting that image of yours. You just start putting undue pressure on yourself just to retain that image. It can be really tiring. I have suffered it.

Keep posting..