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Srinivasan Desikan

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Srinivasan Desikan is the director of quality engineering at Siebel Systems, Inc., in Bangalore, India. Srinivasan has more than seventeen years experience in test automation, test management, test processes, and in setting up test teams from scratch. Srinivasan has delivered talks on testing at several international testing conferences, and delivers lectures and tutorials regularly at several universities and companies in India. Srinivasan has co-authored the book titled "Software Testing--Effective Methods, Tools and Techniques" published by Tata McGraw-Hill, India. He is currently co-authoring "Comprehensive guide to software Testing" to be published by Pearson Education in July 2005. Some of his interesting articles can be accessed at www.StickyMinds.com. Srinivasan holds a post-graduate degree in computer applications (MCA) from Pondicherry Engineering College and a bachelor's degree in computer science from Bharathidasan University.

Company
HP
Industry
Business Services - Consulting - Non-profit
Interests
Defect or Incident Management
Development
Measurement and Estimating
Process Improvement
Requirements
Reviews and Inspections
Software Testing
Country
India

Srinivasan Desikan is the director of quality engineering at Siebel Systems, Inc., in Bangalore, India. Srinivasan has more than seventeen years experience in test automation, test management, test processes, and in setting up test teams from scratch. Srinivasan has delivered talks on testing at several international testing conferences, and delivers lectures and tutorials regularly at several universities and companies in India. Srinivasan has co-authored the book titled "Software Testing--Effective Methods, Tools and Techniques" published by Tata McGraw-Hill, India. He is currently co-authoring "Comprehensive guide to software Testing" to be published by Pearson Education in July 2005. Some of his interesting articles can be accessed at www.StickyMinds.com. Srinivasan holds a post-graduate degree in computer applications (MCA) from Pondicherry Engineering College and a bachelor's degree in computer science from Bharathidasan University.

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Scalability and Performance Testing of Server Software

To derive a good testing strategy out of scalability and performance testing, there needs to be testable and measurable requirements. Often they are ambiguous and there is a need to go with certain assumptions to perform testing. This paper explains those certain assumptions and explains the procedure for:

  • Choosing the right product configuration
  • Choosing the right resources
  • Utilizing the benchmarking and scalability results
Building an Effective Test Organization

The ultimate goal of every organization is to prevent the defects in the product and eradicate them before they take form. This is achieved by implementing good processes, rather than finding and fixing them. The testing should be reduced dramatically to "qualify a product," with less focus on finding defects and more focus on "defect prevention." This article was published in S|E|A| Software journal June 2003 and was also presented at the ASIASTAR-2002 testing conference.

A Test Methodology for Effective Regression Testing

This article explains regression testing methodology and describes the experience gained by the author in doing regression testing at several companies.