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I know why I am a tester. My driving force is my curiosity: I want to know how things work, why they work and why they don't.

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May 18	comment	How should you interview for QA Automation positions? I wouldn't use these questions to interview for any testing position, no matter whether a candidate applies for manual tester position or automation job. Most of those questions do not focus on solving the problem, but rather on checking whether a candidate learned by heart some definitions. Hence, instead of asking what is ETL process, I would ask how would you test this ETL process? And then going in automation part of the interview: How would you automate then your test strategy for this ETL?
May 17	comment	API Automated Testing Tool XML & JSON SOAP response can be schema-validated against XSD in WSDL definition. JSON response is validated against what? Are there schemas for JSON services? Or you mean another type of validation?
May 14	comment	What other standards exist for Hardware QA? I would love to hear justification of the downvote, so that the question can be improved. Given your explanation, the downvote is not obvious.
May 12	comment	Problems with maintenance of Selenium on grid service What are the issues you mean in your last point?
May 1	comment	Software Quality Assurance Conferences - List and recommendations If you want people to vote for the conference they like or recommend maybe you should re-word your question to "The best SQA conference" or something like that? And explain what you mean by the best.
Apr 18	comment	How do I automate “service-level” testing for a GUI app @user246: There are situations where writing unit tests by a tester is justified. Recently, I created parametrized unit test for a text parsing class. Reasons: 1) I as a tester had access to production samples of text to parse and knew expected result (it was closely related to the business), and 2) for large dataset of samples integration test would take too long on CI server. Eventually, this was kind of TDD: I wrote tests that were like requirements driving dev what regexp they have to write. The tests have been reviewed by devs so they know what must be maintained.
Apr 13	comment	Recommendations for functional testing a WCF service @Nikita, just to clarify: SOAP UI, creates templates for a functional test case, not test cases themselves.
Apr 11	comment	How do I keep Selenium test cases DRY? Thread sleep without checking any condition? Why 2500ms and not 2600 ms?
Apr 10	comment	How does Bullseye code coverage tool work? @Abhishek, if you like my answer, don't hesitate to accept it ;-)
Apr 8	comment	Testing asynchronous concurrent systems in a systematic way So stress, load and long stability tests can help discover not only performance problems but also functional problems, e.g., inconsistent data, etc.?
Mar 31	comment	Automate functional testing for WCF services What's the advantage of having a form to enter data?
Mar 6	comment	Unittesting GUI. MVC model. When to move data to controller Could you provide a source of information claiming MVC is the best pattern for GUI unit testing? Many claims that another pattern, MVP lends better for testing, because access to View is through interface that certainly ease mocking. This is also the reason why Google's GWT followed MVP pattern.
Feb 24	comment	Is my pay fair, just based on the fact I have little experience Who is a recruiter? Head-hunter?
Feb 23	comment	Should we reject QA candidates based on basic reasoning and math tests? @Raf, Your answer is irrelevant to the original question. If you're seeking for an advice how to get on well with the team and get recognition, I would try e.g., at workplace.stackexchange.com.
Feb 17	comment	Is QC effective for QA teams that write their own test automation solutions? @Ikaso, I'm confused. You're searching for software for: (a) test execution automation, (b) automation of test result reporting, (c) managing testing iterations, (d) traceability between requirements and tests? or something else? Could you then update your question to make it more focused?
Feb 17	comment	What other standards exist for Hardware QA? Before anyone closes as off-topic, I would love to hear whether @KevinM could look for an answer on such topic? What are relevant on-topic places/fora on the Web to ask this question?
Feb 12	comment	Career changing decision There are no short answers to your question. Re: 1) Read questions on this site. You will learn what people in SQA are tasked with. Re: 2) Google "tester us salary" gives lots of responses.
Feb 9	comment	Career changing decision There's a number of questions in your post, some more explicit: 1) scope of SQA, 2) salary for SQA in US, and some more implicit: 3) what's your motivations for testing position, 4) what's your criteria for career path: money? prestige? team-mates? self-development, etc. I don't know what is the right path for you, but this site and programmers.stackexchange.com are full similar questions and useful answers. One thing is clear for me: not knowing only what is SQA would not be a reason to move to development. It would be rather a reason to find an answer first :-)
Feb 4	comment	Software Testing as a career path? Becoming a test architect I've just read a chapter on testing whether random number generator is giving random numbers and I don't think this is something everybody could do. What kind of apps have you tested so far? Have you considered white box testing? Have you tried integration testing? Any of them give you interesting insight about the complexity of the application.
Jan 25	comment	How to Automate Expand tree in Testlink since “XPath” is changing dynamically depending on the testcase Ok. HTMLs are not always correct XML documents, so it may be hard to use XML tools. You better stay with Selenium trying to play with expression. Whenever you got "Element not found" error look into the HTML document and see why.