BUDDHA IN TESTING is a refreshing little book on software testing - not about textbook definitions, but about the author's personal thoughts, experiences, and learnings from his long journey as a tester and founder. I came across this book through Linkedin, and I'm glad I did. It offers meaningful insights and practical perspectives that genuinely aim to make a tester's professional life more balanced and peaceful.

• Chapter 1 focuses on the fundamentals of testing, addressing the everyday chaos testers experience and how

to find inner peace amidst it. It touches on core topics such as testing and automation, test coverage,

testability, and different testing types including functional, regression, performance, and unit testing-

explained in a thoughtful, experience-driven way.

• Chapter 2 is my personal favorite. It discusses the common statements testers often hear. Lines like "You are our last line of defense, " Why did

you miss the bug?" "Manual testing is dead," or "if you don't learn coding, you canft continue testing are explored deeply. This chapter can truly change the way you think, offering new perspectives that help bring

confidence, clarity, and inner peace.

• Chapter 3 talks about communicating with stakeholders whose primary focus isn't testing . It helps testers

reframe how they present data and insights so communication becomes more effective and impaçtful.

With many real-life examples from Pradeep's own experiences, the book feels less like a lecture and more like a

conversation with a mentor. As someone who works with 40+ testing professionals, I can still see how valuable this guidance can be - espedially for those who are looking for direction or reassurance in their careers

While the book is highly relevant for testers, I truly believe it's valuable for anyone working in IT. Thank you, Pradeep, for writing this book and helping so many of us find a path toward clarity and inner peace.

Highly recommended. A great read!

I really enjoyed reading each page of this book. I felt this knowledge might be very useful for any techie who is in it industry.

I began reading 'BUDDHA IN TESTING' on Wednesday. It was so captivating that I initially wanted to finish it in one sitting, indulging in some 'Binge Reading.' However, due to a client visit and the associated preparation and planning, I had to complete it in multiple sittings. Throughout the reading, it felt as if Pradeep was having a private conversation with me. I truly enjoyed his perspective, musings, and found myself in agreement with his thoughts on the tester's role, DNA, and concerns about "Testing" being perceived as the last line of defence.

I appreciate how he linked Manual Testing to the art of Manual Photography—a skill that is challenging to master but can produce masterpiece photos, even in the age of advanced DSLRs and Drones. Given my passion for Photography, DSLRs, and Drones, this analogy resonated with me.

I hope he continues to pen more books in the future. I'm eager to dive into 'THE GROWTH-DRIVEN TESTING.'

I have been wanting to read this book since it was released and finally managed to get my hands on it over this weekend. I would strongly recommend this to every one who is associated with software industry (and its a must read particularly for people associated with testing). Lots of questions, concerns and thoughts that all test engineers have, are discussed and analysed in this book. Pradeep also provides great points of view on a lot of touchy subjects (like test automation) etc.

This book is great for beginners and mid-level professionals as they get his significant learnings in a capsule which will certainly help them in advancing their careers and more importantly to become better testers. Even for managers and above, this book provides a lot of food for thought and perspectives. Trust me, there are some absolute gems in the chaos sections :) and he articulates nicely how to tackle them as well. To summarize, its an easy read and is very fairly priced too. I would say that this book doesn't provide solutions to all your problems, but it rather is a framework that helps you to tackle those. I am sure this book will go a long way in creating more leaders like Pradeep.

This book is simply awesome, you can see everyone mind in this book , the mind of a person who know what is testing and a person who don't know a even single concept of testing. This book is written in such a manner you'll enjoy every bit of it and pretty much sure that you will see your manager, lead , dev , client, the whole organization. I highly recommend this book for every fellow test engineer. Lastly my grammar is way beyond off sorry for grammatical error. i.e., minor issue you can go with production, I'm sure that this will not effect client's business.😆

Pradeep with his experience in testing touches every pain point a tester has or will have. There's a ton of advice for managers, directors and VPs also.

What I Learnt:

- This book is about Perspective. It showed me How narrow minded I am, whilst sitting inside a shell & How broad the world is

- It will act as a compass to guide rookies like me

- There were multiple points at which I had to pause and reflect on the limited experience I have to comprehend. This will make me revisit this book at several points of my life, for, it would teach something new every single time

What I Loved:

- The Simple, Zen-like Illustrations

- The combintion of Efficient word count + Choice of simple words + Analogies

- Style of Story telling & Structure that makes it palatable for a mind with less attention span

What I hated:

The book is too short. I would love a Part 2.

It would have been a better blog than book.

Being Software Testing Professional, I was able to correlate most of the things mentioned in the book... I believe the key message Pradeep conveying is rather than getting stuck whatever happened being software testing professional find a way to get inner piece to move on...

Finding peace in chaos, a great compilation.

Thanks, Pradeep for sharing with us.

I enjoy Pradeep's approachable language. It almost sounds like he is talking in my head. He doesn't try to sound academic or pretentious either. It has a conversational tone and could be useful for any software tester at any point in their career.