Mohd Anwar - Google Trick Sheet Part1

Google UI provides many quick search options. We seem to miss these tricks in our day to day Google Searches. I present here Mohd Anwar's Google Trick Sheet Part1. Oh you guessed correct. Mohd Anwar is me. [See image ;)]



These tools will definitely refine and improve your search. For additional info you can refer Google Help page itself.

If you try to search as mentioned below, the possible outcome in your search results are described alongside:

anwar thailand the words anwar and thailand

meonshow OR linkedIn either the word meonshow or the word linkedin

~home loan loan info for both the word home and its related : plot,flat etc.

define:love definitions of the word love from around the Web.

"Discussions for It people" the exact phrase to each Discussions for It people

virus –computer the word virus but NOT the word computer

+circle Only the word circle, and not the plural or any tenses or synonyms of circle

love * war the words love and war separated by one or more words. Now this is really helpful.

Google also provides an option that says "I'm Feeling Lucky" This takes you directly to first web page returned for your query.

The triple dot operator to search within a range of numbers
For example camera $100..150 will search for cameras between $100 and $150)

link operator example link:www.meonshow.com will find pages that link to the meonshow website.

info to find Info about a page for example info:www.stanford.edu

site: Search only one website example: job site:www.meonshow.com
(Search Meonshow site for jobs info.)

related to find related pages for example related:www.youtube.com will find websites related to the Youtube website.

With this I complete the Mohd Anwar - Google Trick Sheet Part1. This is part1 of my three parts Trick Sheet. Rest later.

Enjoy ;)
Mohd Anwar Jamal Faiz

Stress Testing [What How When]

This post aims to throw light on questions such as, "what is stress testing", "how to do stress testing", "when to do stress testing". So basically, it gives you my visualization of stress testing. Specifically, how i see it and feel of it. In Stress testing you try to break the system under test. Rather you can also call it study of Emotional quotient of your system. How well it behaves when it is subjected to stress. Definitely this means of finding innovative ideas to give the system/process a really really tough time. This can be achieved by expanding its resources or by taking resources away from it. Often in the latter case (but sometimes in both) it is called negative testing. The main purpose behind this testing is to make sure that the system fails and recovers gracefully. So, the keyword here is RECOVERABILTY.

It is to be understood that the performance testing demands a very controlled environment. Since you are going to set baselines and compare against old baselines, you have to be very cautious about the environment, architecture, OS etc. But Stress testing enjoys the beauty of randomness. You may very well doubt on what beauty I am talking about. But seriously, only a Good tester can tell you how much he enjoys in inducing chaos, catches and unpredictability. I felt this pride and fulfillment many times in Adobe and Symantec.



It should be instilled deep that stress testing is not breaking the system purely for the pleasure of breaking it. Rather it allows observation of how the system reacts to failure. It tests recoverability, error messages, breach of security due to unpredictable behavior, hangs etc. For example the simplest you can do is to parallelly run processes that consume resources. This may be CPU, memory, disk, network, database consuming processes. Think about tools and utilities available. For instance read my post related to 'ulimit' tool on linux. [PS: There are thousands of tools. i am just giving an example, because that is also very helpful. And yes, for me you clicking on Advertisements is very helpful.] If no tool is working out you can think of writing you own test application. Simplest is an application with overriden new operator. Look my post on that. Find from references below. Think about doubling the baseline number for concurrent users. What happens if different protocols used to access same system at same time. What happens if the Files being processed are of very large size, or of very small size.

Remember my pictorial representation above. Stress testing means 'giving your application really really tough time. Think about innovative ways to test the Emotional quotient of your system.'

But do remember to come to this test only after your functional and integration testing has been done. If you are only responsible for some module, then you may stress test your module/API/DLL/lib/so (Hmm..anything) once your Acceptance and Unit Testing are finished. Obviously in Agile environment, due to time crunch, Functional testing and stress test can be started in parallel on different systems. Although the former is more important, but unfortunately time is the only thing you go out of often. So stress can be triggered on some machine. And you can analyze results of functional test. And if FT is pass, you can also analyze stress test result. For Antivirus products, you can have a stress file set that contains Zip compression bombs, large files, files having viruses. For Desktop publishing applications, your test set files may contain large application files, fuzzed files, or files not saved properly, or any set of files that are known to give tough times to your system.

References On my Blog:
Ulimit as a tool on Linux for Stress Test
Different types of Software Testing
Overriding new and delete operator for stress testing

Panoramic 3D view from tongue

Welcome to a panaromic view from a tongue. This is obviously created by a brilliant mind. Nico Roig created this fantastic visualization of tongue in mouth at.


Dentistry in depth in Barcelona

It is said that the image of the dentist is real while the mouth is creation. To see the original post Click. So If you ever wanted to see what it's like sitting on the tongue, you have your choice. Yuk!!

Augmented Hyperreality 3D Video visions

Now this is something seriously good invention of its type. The day these types of videos become common and relayed by all DTH or Channel broadcasting services, we will feel we are really at the live location. That would really be the Real LIVE Telecasts ;)


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Font controlled by face Real-Time

Here comes an intersting news. Font developer Andy Clymer at H&FJ has created a tool that supposedly modifies the type characteristics in real time based on facial expressions. Check out the video:

An excerpt from their own blog,

I’m intrigued by the potential to control local and global qualities of a typeface at the same time: fingers and mouse to design the details, faces and cameras to determine their position in a whole realm of design possibilities. I wonder about the possibilities of a facial feedback loop, in which one’s expression of wonder and delight could instantly undo a moment of evanescent beauty.

I found this really interesting ;)