LisaAn's QA Experience
2 April 2012 - Gerald Weinberg was interviewed by www.utest.com
Gerald Weinberg indicated that "the biggest weakness is not considering software testing anything but a
(barely) necessary evil. Testing is seen as something that could be
done by a troop of monkeys, so serious testers are treated like
third-class individuals. The lack of means of acquiring testing skills
arises from this attitude, as do most of the other poor practices in the
testing business. You treat people as if they are stupid, then they
will wind up acting stupid."
How often have we seen this exact situation?
Read the whole interview here:
http://blog.utest.com/testing-the-limits-with-gerald-weinberg/2012/03/?ls=Newsletter&mc=March_2012
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29 March 2012 - The Happiest Jobs In America
A new survey commissioned by Forbes and done by Careerbliss.com says that the 'happiest' job in the U.S. is software quality assurance engineer. "With an index score of 4.24, software quality assurance engineers
said they are more than satisfied with the people they work with and the
company they work for. Theyre also fairly content with their daily
tasks and bosses. These professionals typically make between $85,000 and $100,000 a
year in salary and are the gatekeepers for releasing high quality
software products, Matt Miller, chief technology officer at CareerBliss says."
Gee, who'd thought? Gotta love that salary, though.
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19 March 2012 - James Bach rocks...
...and he says it like it is:
"I see the same pattern almost *everywhere*: testing groups who have but a vague, wispy idea what they are trying to do; experienced testers who barely read about and don't systematically practice their craft beyond the minimum needed to keep their employers from firing them; testers whose practice is dominated by irrational and ignorant demands of their management..."
Some how, software QA needs to rise above itself and become professional.
http://blog.utest.com/testing-roundtable-whats-the-biggest-weakness-in-the-way-companies-test/2012/02/
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19 March 2012 - Are we ready to ship?
| This is from a recent posting. My friend and I especially like the stuff in italics...
That explains it all. Agile development is never the solution, and always the problem. It is sad that so many people think that you can play codeJenga [slashdot.org],
and ship it when it is "good enough", which will be on Friday, BTW. If I
could change one thing about the industry it is that so few people
understand this simple reality of code development. The answer to the
question "When will it be done?" is: When
it works properly, passes all tests and a thorough code review for
security and maintainability, and is checked in to a well managed
software repository for final SQA, and not a moment before., and the answer to the question "how long is that going to take?" is: nobody knows; it's a mystery".
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19 March 2012 - Should Developers Be Testing Software?
| The question has been asked - should developers test software? The answer is the classic QA response - it depends. If you're talking about developers creating, maintaining and running unit tests for the code they're responsible for then the answer is an unequivocal yes! At that level the developer is responsible for making sure the code he publishes not only works but is robust as well. If you're talking about the finished product, the answer is no. Someone else needs to take a fresh look at it and verify that it actually works and validate that it is the product that should have been produced.
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23 January 2012 - The Mongolian Horde Theory
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Fred Brook's age-old maxim"Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later" This appears to be a good idea but it just ends up wasting time because the original team members have to stop and explain to the new people what's what and how to do that and so on. So, no work gets done. The bug count will go down but after shipping tech support will go wild with issues that should have been found and fixed.
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