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How to motivate people to share testing tools?
The thing is that taking ownership of these new libraries is extra work for these people. How are they expected to handle this extra work? Are they allowed to postpone their other responsibilities ...
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How to introduce Agile to a waterfall company as a Tester?
Agile is known everywhere. Most folks know the terms and activities. That is your main challenge.
What you see is not agile. but it is likely that the people involved are not ignorant about agile ...
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How to motivate people to share testing tools?
Some companies structure libraries and tools development the same as open-source projects do, as it seems like a proven practise. It is called InnerSource and used by PayPal for example.
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What additional benefits does an software engineer bring to a QA position
I think the primary benefit is that they can
Join the development conversation and help improve the product
with the developers and talk about technical terms and understand them when heard. ...
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How to introduce Agile to a waterfall company as a Tester?
Well you'd likely start by addressing the Manifesto, and trying to get the company behind some of these principles.
And the values:
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working ...
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Is there a standard list of mutually exclusive project roles?
Unlike other engineering professions, there are few to none industry-wide agreed on standards in software and this includes roles.
The document you're reading (who's doc btw?, what makes it seem ...
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What are the key differences between the roles of Assistant Team Lead and Team Lead in Testing?
One assists the other and the other seems to have an assistant.
I like Semaj's comment. It depends per company what these roles do and what their responsibilities are. During an interview it is a ...
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How to introduce Agile to a waterfall company as a Tester?
Solve a real problem using it.
Any process has value in proportion to the value it adds by solving a real problem in a real team in a real project.
How would you solve a real problem in your project ...
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How to motivate people to share testing tools?
Since the invention of money, it is easy to show appreciation.
Manager certainly has discretionary bonus fund. Let him give away few hundred dollars bonus every quarter for best tool library, as ...
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How to motivate people to share testing tools?
The simplest way to encourage this is by coding standards for all teams. Those standards should include commenting that works with a documentation tool, such as javadoc or the XML Sandcastle style ...
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What are the key properties of a great QA team member?
There are many great characteristics required for a QA/tester. To me, communication is really important. Also, a team spirit is equally if not more important. Trying to prove oneself being smart or ...
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