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Who is responsible for pinpointing bugs?
If request sounds reasonable (which includes taking into account my other priorities), I would spend some more time researching.
If not reasonable, I will respond "sorry this is the best I can", and ...
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Who is responsible for pinpointing bugs?
It depends.
As Joe Strazzere explained, it is a matter of discussion between devs and testers. The question is what factors to consider in such a discussion. I think Danny R. Faught explained that ...
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How to deal with a lead developer who questions every action or process suggested by QA lead?
I think this is a delicate topic in the software industry, one that I have experienced in the past.
Essentially what I did was have a one-on-one conversation with the person and tried to bring it up ...
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How to deal with a lead developer who questions every action or process suggested by QA lead?
I've seen this pattern in nearly every shop with qa/qe and engineers. My advice from being a dev for 20 years and now a qa engineer for 5 years:
This is a practice that programmers actually do with ...
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One repo or separate repos?
It depends.
Right now you might not see much need for a single repository design. Later, you may find your opinion changes.
You might want to use a single repository if
you need to keep your ...
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How to deal with a lead developer who questions every action or process suggested by QA lead?
Emphasis added:
There have been situations where the Devs and the QAs ask questions about this same process. And I always jump in to clarify when this happens. Since I have been there, done that. ...
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How to deal with not motivated testers?
We have several "testers" who are involved in manual testing and test
automation, but all of that part-time. Some of them are not really
interested in testing and test automation as a field and ...
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Who is responsible for pinpointing bugs?
Many companies I've worked for shared a policy...
...and that policy is:
Testers are free to consult with developers while attempting to characterize, isolate or reproduce anomalous behavior.
Once a ...
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Detecting observation skills during an interview
Great Question
As per my experience, it's very difficult to get a right employee who has very good judgment, sharp focus, attention & great observation skills.
Earlier it was very difficult to ...
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Who is responsible for pinpointing bugs?
But, what are the general ways to avoid having or deal with such
conflicts keeping the relationship between the teams healthy and
productive?
Both QA management and Development management must ...
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What practices do you use to Test-infect your engineers?
Testing on the Toilet (from Google)
Repeating the testing on the toilet prints on your toilets might be a way to spread testing knowledge and get developers to do more and better testing.
I have ...
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What practices do you use to Test-infect your engineers?
Challenge developers
Another company I was working for held competitions among developers / testers. People love challenges; when challenged with coming up with new testing ideas and writing tests as ...
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One repo or separate repos?
Running all tests at once is something that a Continuous Integration server should do for you, not something you do manual as it lets you wait for a long time. Let a server do the work and reporting.
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What practices do you use to Test-infect your engineers?
Make it easy
Build frameworks which Mock and Stub out portions of the system
Set up examples
Use frameworks which allow reuse for integration testing (BDD frameworks work well here)
Make it ...
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One repo or separate repos?
Adding to the awesome and very detailed existing answers. There is a well-known success story of using a single large repository - Facebook and Google. As of 2014, Facebook's main repository was 54 GB ...
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Strategies to building up reputation as a software tester in a team
This question is by definition very broad and depends on so many human factors that are not necessarily related with quality of your work.
To disregard all human aspects of this question such as (...
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Ideal size for a QA team
You might want to consider breaking your QA team into smaller groups so they can focus on specific products. Keeping QA engineers 'generic' doesn't really work for agile teams, especially when the ...
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Ideal size for a QA team
TL;DR: The smaller the better, I would aim for 3-6 people.
The overhead of communication clearly grows when your team size becomes bigger. I guess the tipping point is around 10-12 people, now to ...
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What to do if a QA tester mistakenly deleted a table from the QA Database?
It shouldn't be a big deal.
Consider another event. You deploy a build to your QA test environment and it has a defect which leads to rows being deleted or even a table being dropped. Should this be a ...
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What to do if a QA tester mistakenly deleted a table from the QA Database?
If you read enough tech Twitter or other tech blogs, you'll come across the sentiment:
"You're not a true software developer until you delete production!"
Yes, QA testers are developers. ...
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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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What practices do you use to Test-infect your engineers?
Get a Tester invited to the planning meetings along with the Developer and Product owner. As the PO describes the feature to be built and they way it should work, the Developer is already building the ...
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How to deal with not motivated testers?
You and your team cannot .... I repeat, simply cannot afford to have testers low on motivation.
You can probably have lesser talented testers, high in morale and eagerness... but you just can't have ...
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How to deal with not motivated testers?
Although this question has been asked two years ago, it is still a current topic.
Regarding payment; money does not really affect the motivation of people (see: Harvard Review ) So I wouldn't raise ...
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Strategies to building up reputation as a software tester in a team
Without looking at the quality of your work, some of the techniques I've used successfully include:
Be tactful. If I can, instead of simply creating a bug, I'll ask the developer what should be ...
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Who is responsible for pinpointing bugs?
In my own experience, healthy personal relationship between developer and tester helps to sort out this problem. If a tester and a developer are friendly enough under company environment, then the ...
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Who is responsible for pinpointing bugs?
To me, who is responsible depends on what kind of team you have.
If you have a traditional team, there will have to be an agreement detailing what the testers will do and what the developers will do....
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What does the correct planning of the test team look like in the run-up to a project?
For an agile project:
Focus on testing as a very iterative on-going, highly integrated process.
High number of testers at the start may be more reflective of a more traditional approach. Remember ...
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What roles could a QA team have in a (currently) Dev-only hackathon day?
I am SDET but worked as a pure Dev during Hackaton, coding part of the solution.
I guess you could develop a small testing tool, if you want your solution to be somehow related to testing.
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