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| bio | website | about.me/stevemiskiewicz |
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| location | West Chester, PA | |
| age | 31 | |
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Test Analyst focused on internal IT Development Initiatives. A strong believer in agile practices, self organizing teams, continuous integration, and automation.
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May 5 |
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How to automatically break Unit Tests when their related Requirements change (before any code change) Haven't heard of this before. Why fail tests that could be fine? Just because requirements change wouldn't mean that a unit test for a class would need to change. I would think code coverage would work better. If you fail builds when unit tests aren't added wouldn't that accomplish something similar? |
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Mar 5 |
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Deployment Testing - when to perform CI, CI, CI! Start small. CI is a lot of work but the value it supplies is hard to measure. Everyone wastes time with manual deployments. When you get to a certain point where builds, deploys and automated tests are automated together the system can seem almost magical. |
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Dec 2 |
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Should tester fix bugs? Much like everything in testing, it depends on the context. |
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Dec 2 |
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Enforcement of quality as a runtime requirement Why leave company 1? :) |
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Oct 1 |
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Who writes stories and tests in Agile? BA or tester? Could you better define your question? From the contents and the title I'm not sure what your question is. Is it what does a tester do in BDD if he isn't writing acceptance tests? |
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Oct 1 |
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Who writes stories and tests in Agile? BA or tester? @user246 why would giving examples create a bad tester? A bad unmotivated tester is just that, examples or no. I would think that giving a tester examples would empower them to understand whats expected, allow them to automate and then exploratory test the remaining pieces. I'd say the missing piece is working together as a team to come up with the examples, Tester, Dev, and BSA together. To me reviewing later just leads to wasted work. |
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Sep 28 |
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Why isn't Sahi more common? Thanks for your input you can see my comment above. If you encourage a more open community that would increase its use. |
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Sep 28 |
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Why isn't Sahi more common? Thanks for the info. The fact that I didn't get any Sahi users to answer is negative enough for me. If there isn't an active open community discussing its use, I wouldn't adopt it. |
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Sep 28 |
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What is automation testing and why do we need it? Manual testing is expensive. Ask yourself, do we have the time or money to check all functionality each release manually? Running automated tests is much cheaper and repeatable (if done right). |
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Sep 13 |
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Language preferences in the QA community Javascript is as common as the web, so any tester with coding and web experience would have knowledge. codecademy.com is a great place to send those who want to start learning it. As BJ mentioned, its more important to focus on programming concepts. |
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Aug 28 |
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What does a Sofware QA Person Need to Know to Perform Their Job (Essentially)? See sqa.stackexchange.com/questions/3238/… for another well put together answer. |
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Aug 19 |
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Software testing: a first step to development? Your career is what you make it. I've seen testers transition into many different roles - Scrummaster, BSA, PO, Developer, etc. Being a great tester doesn't make you great at a different role, that's the persons choice (which includes staying an awesome tester). I personally would not take a testing job unless I wanted to be a tester, it isn't a stepping stone. |
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Aug 19 |
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Is there a way to use variables in SoapUI? Answered a similar question on Stackoverflow. You may find it useful. stackoverflow.com/questions/11647467/how-to-use-the-properrty/… |
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Aug 19 |
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What are the best practices for Integration Testing of a middle-ware? This system sounds quite broad much like the question itself. Do you have a specific question about testing it or challenges with testing it? What have you tried? There is no way anyone could answer it in its current context. |
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Jul 26 |
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Is it effective to have the tester of the software also be the business analyst? Yes it can work, but in your situation it sounds like it doesn't. I don't think you would be asking this question if you felt it works. Maybe a better question would be how do I get more testing resources on an understaffed team. Just my feeling from what you have written. |
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Jun 25 |
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How to test the test scripts? +1 for testing your code and making unnecessary Hitchhiker references. Always keep a towel at your desk. |
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Jun 23 |
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How to test the test scripts? To clarify: are you talking about making a test fail gracefully (as in the test finds a problem and needs to fail)? Or the testing a test user246 described? |
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Mar 2 |
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Bug hunts and possible alternatives? +1 for expanding awards... otherwise I'm unsure how you would keep a large group motivated if you ran these on a regular basis. |
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Mar 2 |
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Test Strategy Documentation +1 for the blog post. I switched to mind mapping for large agile projects as well and I'm pleased with the results. Much easier for others to read. Xmind is great b/c its easy to use, great looking, and free. |
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Feb 28 |
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Maintaining QTP object repository -best practice for a multideveloper environment +1 for listing the problems I have with the OR and giving me another reason to search for another approach |
