MS Ramaiah Polytechnic Talk

Last Saturday, I got a good experience of giving a lecture on 'Advances in Software Testing' in MS Ramaiah Polytechnic.

The invitation came from Mr. T. Shankar, a scientific officer in our department who was also one of the organisers of the Training the Trainers workshop in February this year. I had given a talk in that workshop which was received quite well.

While I was in middle of preparing for the lecture, I got this input from several sources that I could expect a fairly frigid audience. It was quite demoralising as I was hoping to present something really different than the usual stuff. It was quite ambitious and I was quite excited in the beginning. However, thinking about the possible response I would get for all that effort, I got quite psyched. I aborted the slide preparation in middle, and decided to make the whole thing impromptu. Going by what I expected, the lecture would be around 35-40 minutes long.

However on reaching there my experiences turned out to be quite to the contrary. I was warmly welcomed by the principal of the college. On entering the lecture hall I found a bunch of bringht young faces waiting for me. Quite gratifyingly, I could strike up a comfortable and friendly interacative conversation with the students. The lecture, that I thought wouldn't survive beyond 30-40 minutes, flowed smoothly for nearly two hours! It was such a terrific experience to evoke so much interactiveness with the students who'd been alleged to be uninterested. I felt like having won a victory in a battle. Added to this pure joy, my eog was also gratified as I was given a very generous thanks and a memento -- a clock, a bouquet, and a shawl. I felt really honoured.

Here are the slides.