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I came upon this idea because I find writing a sorting algorithm is much more exciting than testing it.Since testing it is just giving a set of values and verifying the result.Anybody can do that.But,writing algorithms not many can do. No, don't seek a test architect's position. If this is truly how you feel, you should strive to be in ...

Palindromes testing is very representative in terms of QA way of thinking. Moreover, writing tests dramatically increase the quality of task specification. When a QA engineer writes test cases, it well may happen that certain case is not covered in initial specs. This is a good reason for QA to come up with idea to improve those specs. So, when you are ...

Could I suggest learning to test before diving into tools to automate tests and tools to manage them ? Read the books you have got, surf this site (and others such as Software Testing Club and SQA forums ) to get an idea of what people in the industry are doing and what problems they are facing.

I am not expert in search engines, but there are many factors that contribute to how search results are displayed. The query is is essentially the starting point, and how the engine parses the query is important. Also some search engines will 'refactor' the query based on natural langauge algorithms. The order of returned results is often dependent on ...

Alan (Page) post explaining how Microsoft see the role of a test architect Another post by John Morrison describing how Oracle sees it If you read the posts above I think you know now that there is no one concrete definition for a test architect. I am a test architect at a large global company, and find it challenging and exciting but the contents of my ...

I came upon this idea because I find writing a sorting algorithm is much more exciting than testing it. Since testing it is just giving a set of values and verifying the result - anybody can do that. But writing algorithms not many can do. That isn't testing. Just taking a set of values and verifying the result? The tester needs to define what values ...

See definition of palindrom and think about boundary cases. For instance: What happens to white spaces, and punctuation marks when comparing input with its reversed form? Are they ignored or maybe even not acceptable? Is implementation case insensitive? Usually, both Anna and anna are considered palindroms. This is the task of a tester to explore ...

I've been at companies where someone transitioned from another dept into a Testing / QA position and it was done intra-company. They found a position open, called the department manager and impressed him/her enough to get hired - without much experience. Does your current company provide that opportunity for you? It might be an easy way in. Like Phil K says ...

Welcome to the field! I've got a few suggestions to get started. Its not easy getting a entry level position because often they won't be listed(at least from my experience in my area). Many entry level jobs can be filled by internal employees that show testing promise. Learn: Extend what you are doing now. If you are totally new, look at possibly ...

I have worked for a similar company in the past. In my opinion an ideal QA candidate would have a bit of both skills in order to succeed. A person may be technically very sound but what good are the skills if he cannot present the idea to the world when needed. In pressure situations people may lose composure and do something unexpected. Testing math and ...

I worked for a SEO company in 2004. Our target was to get natural/organic search results on the first or second page of Google for the targeted key phrases (Natural/organic search results are the regular search results, not the ones sponsored by Google Ad Words). The company was a start-up and decided to focus on Google only since it had more than 80% of the ...

Systems testing is often performed against the whole platform, and treats the environment as a black box. system integration testing however, acts upon a subset of the whole system, and may mock other platforms, interact with databases, network sockets etc to evoke appropriate responses from the parts being validated. The objectives of system testing is to ...

In my vocabulary system testing would be testing one complete product ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_testing ) and system integration testing would be testing combination of products ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_integration_testing ). As always, it's good to make sure others are using terms in the same way and in an interview point out that ...

I actually went for an interview with them. My guts told me there is something shady about them. I got the job offer... at that point I already read the negative reviews, but I thought I'd give it a try anyway, I can always learn something right.... On my first day I ask why the contract was different from what the HR was telling me (being paid 1 month after ...

I think they are legit but low pay. I believe they hire graduates from westwood college. Check out the links below: http://www.westwood.edu/~/media/Files/files/pdf/heoa/employment-disclosures.ashx http://www.westwood.edu/locations/california/los-angeles-campus/employers-los-angeles Use ctrl+find sqa resources. I believe sqasquared is sqa resources.

In your comment you asked Lets say we have a system C which is combination of A and B (A + B = C). Now i can check perform Integration tests for A, Integration tests for B. After this i need to perform System tests on C which is the result(whole system). Where exactly will SIT come in here? In testing C, but I believe you won't learn much from short ...

Actually, the question how to test search engines is part of information retrieval (IR) problem. I will list just a few approaches how they can be evaluated/tested. Traditional IR approach One way in traditional IR is to prepare test setup, including: Candidate queries Dataset of indexed pages Expected result set (included expected ranking) for each ...

I would never go for learning the tools before I know the philosophy behind them. The first thing you need to know for getting in to the QA field is to know what is quality and how it is perceived in software world. SQA is not just limited to finding and logging defects. It takes a lot of understanding of how a software system is supposed to work. This ...

I would say that you should begin with the application / tool that suites your interest. If you begin with any Automation tests you will see that the most common tools are a lot like each other or the reminds about each other. Since Web is kind of huge now perhaps that is a good path to start at. You can always begin simple with something like navigate to ...

TL;DR Developer = Let's make something! Tester = Let's blow it up! When I took my first job in QA, I would describe what I did to people this way: I have a hammer and screwdriver and someone has just pointed me at a grandfather clock with instructions to tear it apart to find out how it works and, and...(this is the best part) I don't have to put it back ...