are you hiring employees just for testing or is it done by your developers? if you hire them, what are your experiences? what is the ratio of them to your developers? what kind of testers do you hire? do you use college grads or do your testers are masters and as good as your developers? do they make a huge difference for you and in ...
There are a ton of questions on this site about interview questions for programmers, but what about QA engineers? How can I make sure I'm getting somebody who really knows how to put test plans together and execute them? How much in the way of technical skills should I demand? I've worked with a few testers before who knew basic SQL, ...
How useful, if at all, is for the testers on a product team to know about the internal code details of a product. This does not mean they need to know every line of code but a good idea of how the code is structured, what is the object model, how the various modules are inter-linked, what are the inter-dependencies between various featur...
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/61532/tips-for-hiring-good-testers I have already referred the above post, but I would like to know what interview questions can a fresh college graduate with no extensive experience can expect in an interview? He might have done a quality assurance testing course in the curriculum. Specifically, what ...
I have to interview automation testers, with experience in commercial tools like QTP, Rational Functional tester, open source tools like Watir etc. What interview strategy should I have? ...
We are currently in the progress of developing a new product, all of the sudden, most of our dev team resigned and switched to another company. There is only 1 developer left in the team, *sigh He's been ranting on getting another developer and a tester to help him out, but which one should I hire first ? Should I hire another develop...
We have an application that contains a simple search functionality. When user enters search criteria, a finite number of records are returned/displayed to the user. I would like to ensure that the returned records are in alphabetical order. We're currently using IBM Functional tester, but our automated tester does not know what functio...
Hi, took me a long time to figure this out and was wondering if it is IE 6, IE TESTER or something i have done. im creating a session to store quotes, which i am using md5($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] . $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']) The problem being when i tested in IE 6 in the IE tester application, results are being inserted but the quote...
I am finishing my final year of my CS undergrad. I have done coop positions in three development positions. Although I know that I have just scratched the development surface I have some idea of what developing software is about. I am trying to figure what I am interested in doing after graduation so... I am curious to hear about the...
Hi all, Forgive me if this is in the wrong place, but I figured a few coders might have some thoughts on beta testing their code. I have written a web application that I am going to beta test with a small audience (10-20), and will eventually develop an application for the iOS platform. What I am looking for is a tool that will help m...