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| bio | website | ballymennoniteblogger.blogspo… |
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| location | Southeastern, Pennsylvania | |
| age | 40 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years |
| seen | Feb 13 '12 at 17:46 | |
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I'm an automated and manual tester, specializing in the use of Automated QA's TestComplete testing tool for load testing and regression testing
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Jul 19 |
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Moving to software QA from a non-IT QA role +1 for point 3... not everyone is an automater. I'd add that not every test case is automatable. |
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Jul 18 |
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Moving to software QA from a non-IT QA role +1 Like @Lyndon, I cut my teeth in QA in an electronics manufacturing firm helping measure those environmental stress tests as well as making sure the test equipment along the manufacturing line (thermocouples, multi-meters, thermostats, etc) were all calibrated. But I agree that it's a mindset thing. My first real software testing was as a tech-writer for one company and found myself looking for bugs as I was writing and decided to formalize it. If you like that hunting, that puzzle-solving, that detective work, then you're a good fit for a tester. |
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Jul 15 |
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How can a conference attendee get the most out of a testing conference? +1 I was recently at a convention (last week actually) that, while it was not a technology convention, was more than just your standard "fanboy" gathering. And I'll say that, when it came to actually getting something out of sessions, networking with the presenters afterwards and then continuing conversations via e-mail and other contacts afterwards really helped in making the con meaningful and useful. |
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Jul 15 |
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What is the best way to report test results? Corrected the spelling of my "name"; explained, for testers, what a lack of e-mail would represent |
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Jul 15 |
suggested | suggested edit on What is the best way to report test results? |
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Jul 15 |
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What is the best way to report test results? Question for you: Are you talking about an automated test suite of regression? Or are you talking about all test results, manual and automated? |
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Jul 15 |
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What is the best way to report test results? I like for testers to receive an e-mail even for successes as at least it indicates the tests actually did run. It doesn't need to be anything more than "Test XYZ Completed". For example, if there was a power outage over night during which the tests were supposed to run, when the power comes back on line, depending upon environment, the tests may not run at all. A lack of e-mail in this situation will indicate an adverse event that needs to be investigate. |
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Jul 15 |
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What is the best way to report test results? edited tags |
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Jul 15 |
answered | What is the best way to report test results? |
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Jul 15 |
awarded | Nice Question |
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Jun 30 |
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testing RESTful webservice with kerberos authentication Is "narky" a technical term? I'm unfamiliar with it. ;-) |
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Jun 21 |
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What is the difference between sanity and smoke testing? Your mental image is accurate... mix in the smell of chemical fire-extinguisher and scorched silicon and you've pretty much described the situation... |
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Jun 21 |
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What is the difference between sanity and smoke testing? +1 for an EXCELLENT analysis of the "It depends" aspect of things. On a side note, for the hardware smoke test, I've experienced this although, in our case, it was a flame test... old Leading Edge D2 PC, plugged it in, capacitor in the RAM circuits exploded (literally) and caught the motherboard on fire... Yup, that one doesn't work... |
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Jun 21 |
accepted | What criteria do I apply to a highly complex development project to warrant getting “real world” data? |
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Jun 21 |
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What criteria do I apply to a highly complex development project to warrant getting “real world” data? I like this answer best, although the one by @user246 is good to. Essentially, it seems that with such a highly complex system you'll always run into this kind of situation where customer data might need to be used but that customer data isn't ALWAYS the right answer. |
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Jun 20 |
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Is there a way to identify that a Disk is removable ? +1 for a concise and useful little piece of code. Sticking this in my code library. |
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Jun 20 |
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What criteria do I apply to a highly complex development project to warrant getting “real world” data? I hear ya, @glow... the problem is too often "Well, yeah, it exists, but can you make it make my coffee as well?" |
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Jun 17 |
asked | What criteria do I apply to a highly complex development project to warrant getting “real world” data? |
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Jun 16 |
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Bugs keep reappearing in our GUI software during development. How should this be addressed? @user246 Depending upon the tool, the interface may change but you might not break the automation. The tool I use has a feature that maps components and objects to a hierarchal tree with user defined aliases. The component may change, the internal hierarchy of the application may change, but there's enough flexibility in the tool via the aliases that the majority of the automation does not need to change. |
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Jun 16 |
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Bugs keep reappearing in our GUI software during development. How should this be addressed? +1 for referencing the developers needing to test their work. GUI components and objects shouldn't be that difficult to work with so the fact that their rendering and such are breaking on almost a build to build basis indicates that the developers aren't even exercising their code on a high level. |
