Author: Niraj Yadav

Is playwright a good test automation tool?

Playwright (playwright github) is a framework for web test automation developed and open-sourced by Microsoft. Is this a good option to consider for your project test automation? To answer this question correctly we should try to answer what is a good automation tool? Professionals discussing this topic use several metrics, I would stick to the following Reliability, Ease of use, Parallelism, Maintenance, Reporting and Integration. Let’s discuss them wrt to Playwright. Nothing is more painful than an unreliable automation framework. It doesn’t matter if the tool is AI ML enabled, super expensive, has 24-hour support, has a great function library, amazing execution speed, or grid support. If the framework does not provide consistent results for the test execution, it is useless, as simple as that. How can we assess the reliability of a tool? The best approach is to pick the tool and script a few complex flows from your project. Run them quite a number of times in different environments if possible. Finally, compare the tool-related failures like not being able to find locators, …

Corrections in book ‘Vasco Da Gama – Kathya aur Satya’

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Following are the corrections observed and shared by dear readers in the 1st edition of the book. I am thankful and obliged that you took the time to share the corrections and suggestions with me. Page: Back cover — Maharishi Bhrigu ✅ Maharishi Bharadwaj Page: 40 — अलेक्जेंडर ✅ एलेग्जेंडर, अलेक्सैंडर् If you have any such corrections to share, please write to me at nfniraj@gmail.com

Indigenous water structures of Bharat

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Bharat is a geologically diverse country. South has the Deccan plateau, east and the west coastal region has mountain ranges called ghats, the north has the Himalayas, the west has a desert and then there are the great northern plains. In accordance with this geological feature, water structures have been built and maintained across the land. It’s very wonderful to say that there hasn’t been a single template that was applied across the land, unlike modern times. Here is a list of water structures that existed or still exist across Bharat.

Did an Indian helped Vasco Da Gama cross the sea to India?

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Vasco Da Gama the captain of the 4 ships on a mission from Portugal to find India was hugging the eastern coast of Africa. Strictly sticking to the coast he reached Malindi, modern day Kenya. Portuguese ships by now were famous along the east coast for their treachery and abduction of locals. However, the Sultan of Malindi welcomed them thinking of using their cannons against his enemy neighbour. With all his preparation, charts, and inputs from spies, he was still unsure of the path and was desperately looking for the local pilot (sailor) from Cape of Good Hope. Vasco Da Gama requested him to somehow provide a pilot who can help them reach India. ‘Canaqua’ as the Portuguese called him was provided by Sultan who was going to help them sail across the sea. Kanha or Canaqua was an experience Gujarati sailor and navigator. As the Journal mentions he was not much impressed by the Portuguese navigation instruments and he preferred to keep them aside. Here is the extract from the book With the Da …

Which Mahabharata & Ramayana book to read?

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This is always a confusing question for sincere readers as to which Mahabharata and Ramayana to read out of the multitude of options available in the market? When I wanted to start with these two great texts I too had this confusion. Being aware that there have been many adulterations in both these texts and it is very difficult to conclude which is the right one. I took help from a few of my mentors to suggest the best one. Many of them agreed that over thousand of years there has been so many prakshep (adulterations) in both these texts that even the most trusted and researched authored book cannot be expected to be 100% correct. Since both these texts are huge, reading them is a time consuming task and I wished to spend my time on the near correct one. Here are the shortlisted ones which were suggested more often. ‘Mahabharatam‘ book by Swami Jagadishwaranand Saraswati Language – HindiPurchase link – https://amzn.to/3MHPERX ‘Valmiki Ramayan‘ book by Swami Jagadhishwaranand Saraswati Language – HindiPurchase link – …

Is quality binary in nature?

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Binary is simple to grasp, isn’t it? Right or wrong, yes or no, good or not good. We like to get answers in either or or. Unfortunately quality at its core is not binary. Quality is inherently subjective. Reason for this characteristic of quality is due to how human mind perceives the world. Quality can always be felt as in the case of PERCEPTION not by INFERENCE or VERBAL TESTIMONY or any other means of epistemology. Since quality is perceived and PERCEPTION cannot be explained accurately, it is highly subjective. There is NO END to how good quality a software can be. For one user a basic site with grammar errors can be absolutely fine as long his work is not interrupted. On the other hand for another user it can be pain in the eyes and in mind. Nature of Software Development (entire SDLC) is such that there is always some kind of time, effort, skill and requirement constraint. With such a situation, quality is a range of acceptability not lower than a n …

Book: ‘Vasco Da Gama – Kathya aur Satya’ – Purpose

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A deliberate effort is been made to keep the confidence of generations of Indians low by repeatedly teaching false history. India’s education (Macaulay’s) doesn’t matter which board, pass a self-guilt to the students day in and out and traps their minds in the inferiority complex of being from a subjugated land and a country of coast-huggers. You can Order book from here I remember as a student and rather till late, I assumed that Vasco Da Gama and Christopher Columbus were some sort of Indiana Jones who would set on their ship alone and sail to explore hidden treasures. I believed their only purpose was to find gold and become rich personally. Little did I know that reading their sources would wash away their colour of masquerades and reveal the sinister conspiracies and deep geopolitics. It is still surprising that no school or college material shares the fact that Vasco Da Gama didn’t know to cross over the Arabian sea and he requested an Indian pilot from the king of Malindi (in modern Kenya) for …