Archive for the ‘QA’ category

I f*#$ed up. I wrote a simple script to send post sale emails to our customers, letting them know we are here to help in case they have any questions or suggestions. The script was supposed to pull out registrants who registered over 2 weeks ago and to whom we have not sent such an [...]

Ran across this funny piece entitled The Top 20 replies by programmers when their programs don’t work. Sad but true:
20. “That’s weird…”
19. “It’s never done that before.”
18. “It worked yesterday.”
17. “How is that possible?”
16. “It must be a hardware problem.”
15. “What did you type in wrong to get it to crash?”
14. “There is something funky [...]

The Zen of Testing

June 16th, 2008

As I was testing away our brand new shiny Testuff 0.9, I was wondering about the everlasting question in our profession, what makes a good tester? What qualities are needed for the acest QA of them all? Maybe arrogantly, what is it that makes me a good tester?
I don’t think this answer can be summed [...]