A tester interview #7 – Daniel Knott
For this 7th interview, we are pleased to welcome Daniel Knott from Germany. Daniel has a very rich experience as you will see. Enjoy!
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Testing Testers: How to hire quality
Recruiting for a new hire, or finding a new job of your own, has never been easy. It becomes even more difficult when your profession is poorly known and often ill considered.
If you read blogs or magazines dedicated to software testing then you have probably encountered some of the common misconceptions about testing: that testing is mostly a repetitive and boring task, that testers are solely responsible for errors on production servers, that everything can be automated and therefore the job of the tester will disappear, that testers are unskilled developers, etc.
A tester Interview #5 – Yann Person
Following Julien, Thierry, Stéphanie and Maria, it is now up to Yann Person – who came to give a presentation on Live Functional Monitoring in Last November 2017 -, to answer our Questions&Answers in this fifth episode.
Crowd Testing: opportunity or scam for testers?
Have you ever heard of Crowd Testing (or Crowdsourced Testing)? Crowd Testing (not to be confused with Cloud Testing) is trending in the world of software testing, and uses the benefits and efficiency of crowdsourcing and cloud platforms.
Our reading recommendations of the week #8 – 2018
Hello and welcome to these week’s recommendations:
- Test Developers aren’t testers
- Defect expiration date
- Regression testing manifesto – Intent over implementation
- How do you decide what to automate?
Interview of a tester #4 – Maria Kedemo
After Julien, Thierry and Stéphanie, Maria Kedemo from Sweden is the fourth tester to kindly answer our questions.
Our reading recommendations of the week #4 – 2018
Welcome to our second reading recommendations of this year!
This week, we recommend you to learn about these subjects:
- The worst software bugs in history
- How Do I Convert My Team To TDD?
- Why it’s not a good idea to be the one who complains? (yes, testers sometimes do this)
Our reading recommendations of the week #2 – 2018
Welcome to our reading recommendations!
This week will be focused on the most important resources in IT… us !
- But….I want it now!
- The art of the error message
- Keeping the Conference Momentum Going
- The Eneagramm: a model to understand better your teammate’s motivations
Our reading recommendations of the week #50 – 2017
Our reading recommendations of this week contains:
- How to interview programmers for quality mindset?
- Tips for interviewing junior testers
- A new model for test strategies
- How to become an automation engineer?
Hiring a tester – Second part: Evaluation
We’ve seen in a previous article how to evaluate a tester with a resume, a motivation letter or any other media (Linkedin, job board), etc.
Now that we sent back home all candidates who doesn’t match, let’s go ahead with a first interview.