joshin4colours

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Former applied math grad student, current automated GUI tester.

	782 reputation	bio	website	simplythetest.tumblr.com	visits	member for	2 years
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Sep 22	comment	How do you test for everything that could go wrong? There's definitely a difference between having a dedicated QA team and a few people who just happen to be around. Having dedicated testers would be quite helpful here.
Sep 1	accepted	Testing in Open Source Projects
Aug 23	comment	What programming languages are good for novice testers to learn? Definitely a good tip on languages with/without pointers. Of course, going the other way (C++ to C# for example) is awesome!
Aug 23	answered	What programming languages are good for novice testers to learn?
Aug 17	comment	What benefit does having developer experience or background have on the effectiveness of a tester? I think there's plenty of people like this: some specific coding skills, lots of nonspecific technical and "soft" skills. Some of these people would make outstanding testers, so this is a great question!
Aug 16	comment	Favorite troubleshooting tips for testers? I always like the idea of "testing as a conversation". Making findings public can help with this.
Aug 16	asked	Testing in Open Source Projects
Jul 26	awarded	Teacher
Jul 25	answered	Should we reject QA candidates based on basic reasoning and math tests?
Jul 20	accepted	Can someone be a good automated tester and be terrible programmer?
Jul 19	comment	Can someone be a good automated tester and be terrible programmer? I'm pleasantly surprised by the warm encouraging and professional responses to this question. Perhaps I was being a bit too tough on myself, but I also thought this is an interesting question. +10 to the SQA community here!
Jul 18	asked	Can someone be a good automated tester and be terrible programmer?
Jun 3	awarded	Scholar
Jun 3	accepted	Should automated tests be efficient?
May 31	comment	Should automated tests be efficient? This really makes me wish I had either many machines/licenses at my disposal (I don't) or a massive parallel computing cluster I could use (I don't, but used to once upon a time).
May 31	comment	Should automated tests be efficient? This is actually a great tip. I've also come across tests that always passed. After wising up to things, I took a look at the test bodies: the whole thing was commented out, so the test did nothing. Clearly they always pass :)
May 31	awarded	Editor
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May 30	asked	Should automated tests be efficient?
May 17	comment	Testing Unfamiliar Software +1 for Technical ability vs Domain knowledge. That is a really helpful distinction, and one I'll keep in mind from now on.