Chronicles Of Testing

Along with Parimala Hariprasad ,  I was selected to co-present the  workshop titled " Designing for Inclusiveness – Workshop on Accessibility" at  EuroSTAR  2019. I had, in the year 2015 attended EuroSTAR as a Test Lab Apprentice and had aspired to speak in any of the future events.  Due to certain shortcomings, we both could not make it this year.  So I am sharing a few points here as an introduction to learning accessibility(a11y). Preparation for the workshop began by defining a11y, inclusion, and exclusion to ourselves. We began learning about a11y by understanding the definition of  inclusion  and by identifying what is excluded when designing the software for a11y requirements. It was then, did I realize that there is no absolute inclusion and exclusion and t hat there is  partial inclusion  when addressing a11y requirements.  In firms that don't only work on a11y, it is usually defined by referring to a context that we c...

'Learned the difference between usability and accessibility testing' a co-learner shared this feedback with us at the accessibility testing workshop conducted on 23rd September. This workshop was hosted by Manumantraa  and presented by Ajay Balamurugadas  and myself.  In my humble know-how, this lack of certainty (between usability and accessibility) can occur when the testers are imposed to learn about the process and not 'how to test' at an/y organization. The ecosystem makes you * believe that as a new tester, knowing software testing fundamentals is not necessary but learning about the process is essential. The training program for testers is designed with this belief system at the organizations that I have worked with. Point to ponder: *As  Sanath puts it 'lie' is at the center of the word ' believe' . Any belief about software testing needs to be formed by the tester and it shouldn't be a blindly followed or a borrowed belief system f...