Wednesday, September 24, 2008
The Lucky Thirteen
Harry McCracken has done a great post on The Thirteen Greatest Error Messages of All Time. This baker's dozen rouge gallery should bring joy to any tester's heart.
Monday, September 8, 2008
Who Tests the Tester?
Finding the right tester to join your team is tricky business. For one, software testing is not something many people have degrees in. Instead it is something most people learn on the job, which is a bit of a chicken and egg situation in of itself. Secondly, it seems many people only visit the testing profession rather than making a career of it, so the people with the right experience might not be interested in the job.
One thing we do we selecting candidates for an open Test Engineer position is to go give a quiz. In its current form it is only six questions that we give people up to an hour to answer. This provides a good level-set for what kind of tester a person is likely to be. I won't share the exact questions here in case some savvy applicant finds this blog. I will however give this much info:
One thing we do we selecting candidates for an open Test Engineer position is to go give a quiz. In its current form it is only six questions that we give people up to an hour to answer. This provides a good level-set for what kind of tester a person is likely to be. I won't share the exact questions here in case some savvy applicant finds this blog. I will however give this much info:
- Some of the questions are about what test cases would you write to test some made up app
- Some of the questions deal with when it is best to use different styles of testing
- One of the questions is a trick question - it asks about how you can tell when you've found all the bugs in an app. No one has gotten this one right yet.
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