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As Zyxware Technologies forges ahead in its journey to achieve the target of Rs.100 crores and 1,000 people by 2018-19, we realize that building powerful leadership capabilities is going to be a major differentiator.Hence, each of us need to take stock of our present, reflect on our past, and prepare for the future as leaders. Our goals will demand the best out of us.

In order to identify what to write on in this edition of the newsletter, I interacted with some people in Zyxware. The suggestions, at first glance, appeared varied. But the more I think about it, the more I feel that there is a common thread running through them. The common thread is that of the future of Zyxware as an organisation, its vision and how it plans to get there. I am putting together a response here which are broad answers to the questions. More specificity would require me to take up more space which I am afraid will not be possible in the newsletter. But I would be happy to engage in the comments section.

If you own/manage an online store using Drupal and Ubercart, you would have encountered situations where you wished to set different prices for different options of a product attribute in ubercart. For example, if your store sells books and you want to add extra price for hardbound editions, here's how you can do it. Read on to know how to set this up in Ubercart

Implementation of test strategy for a particular project is known as "test approach". The test approach is usually defined in all test plans and test designs. Test approach refers to the commencement of various project activities such as planning the testing process, selecting the designs, defining the entry and exit criteria etc.

I was faced with a requirement to convert number to words/string in Indian naming system with lakhs and crores. I had to generate the amount in words for printing it out on a bill. The total amount, provided to the customer, needed to be converted to string. For example, if 1345673 was to be converted to Thirteen lakh Forty Five Thousand Six Hundred and Seventy Three, these functions will have to be followed.

I am delighted to see that a newsletter has been started in Zyxware. This will be one more medium for exchange of ideas apart from the skype and whatsapp groups that are already there in Zyxware. Hopefully, we will be able to create more forums, including focused groups, that will make Zyxware a vibrant and creative place bustling with ideas.

Quite often we feel the need for comparing wages in different countries when one is engaging with a global talent pool. We face this need when we evaluate the costs of setting up a development centre in Australia or when we are discussing with a potential hire who is then based out of India. In such scenarios, purchasing power parity is a useful concept to make wage comparisons across different countries meaningful. It might be a slightly crude approach but it can be useful when you are looking for ball parks or quick evaluations.

MoSCoW is a method used for identifying main concerns. It is used in software development to reach an understanding with stakeholders on the significance they place on the delivery of each specific requirement.At Risk and Requirement Based Testing (RRBT), a MoSCoW concern is given to each of the specifications and risks. The abbreviation is based on four terms measuring the priority: Must-Should-Could-Won't. The o's were included to create a phrase that is simpler to articulate.

One of our clients was trying to upload a pdf file on a node page in their Drupal website. The file was more than 25 MB in size and Drupal was not allowing them to upload the file as it had crossed the max file upload limit and they needed this to be done very quickly. As we were in charge they requested to come up with an easy way to do that. If you want to now the easiest way to set the max file upload size in a Drupal site read on to know more.

The vlookup or Vertical Look Up Function in Openoffice calc can be used to search a range of cells.Suppose you have two spreadsheets and you want to append data from one sheet to another. We can use vlookup() in open office calc to accomplish this task. vlookup() searches for values in one column and given values in another column in true condition. Read on to know how to user VLookup. The syntax for vlookup() is VLOOKUP(lookup_value, table_array, col_index_num, range_lookup)

You have heard the word proportion in Architecture. If you want to call a Architecture classical, the key concept should be proportion, i.e, correlation of one element to another. Same in the case of UI. User Interface(UI) acts as a medium of interaction between the User and the Web. In a web application the most important aspect is the user interface, because this is the only part end users are going to view. Before we start, I want to you to know how we reached to this article"Why is proportion important in UI".

Integration testing is grey box testing method in which combined parts of an application is tested to determine whether all these functions works together. Let us learn this with an example. Suppose your Drupal site sells online products and the shipment charge is set in such a way that it will be applicable to the product depending on the weight and destination. While doing the unit testing, tester has to test product selection, setting price,setting shipment to the destination etc separately. But in integration testing we test all these different functionality as a whole.

Statement coverage is a white box testing technique, which involves the execution of all the statements at least once in the source code. It is a metric, which is used to calculate and measure the number of statements in the source code which have been executed.

Sandwich testing is a type of testing that consist of two parts,they are Top-down approach and Bottom-up approach.It combines the advantages of both Bottom-up testing and Top-down testing at a time.Bottom-up testing starts from middle layer and goes upward to the top layer where as Top-down testing starts from middle layer and goes downward. Big-bang approach is followed for the middle layer. From this layer bottom-up approach goes upwards and top-down approach goes downwards.