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10 reasons why You are NOT a Professional Tester! — Part 2

By on December 5, 2011 in Management, On-Going Improvement, Testing Intelligence

This is part 2 of the article I published last week with the 10 Reasons why You are NOT a Professional Testers. As I started on the first part of this series, I think the bulk of the blame is on us, the testers, for not looking at our jobs as a profession.

Without going into the specific reasons, for that you can read inside, I think we need to improve the way we look at our tasks, how we communicate with our teammates, and how we look at the future of our profession.

I am looking for your feedback, so please feel free to let me know what you think!

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Short post – plan your tests, even when you don’t have time to plan them

By on October 21, 2011 in Best Practices, On-Going Improvement, Test Process

How many times have you told yourself you don’t have enough time to plan your tests, so you might as well just get testing… If you are anything like me, then this happens to you 2 or 3 times a week. Classic examples are: – When you run a short test on a piece of [...]

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The Power of Empowerment

By on November 23, 2010 in Best Practices, Test Process

Have you ever been on a situation where you need to test 10 things but you have only the time for 6 of them, and on the other hand you look at your development team and 2 programmers are done with all their important tasks and started working on stuff that sits under the “nice-to-have” list (or even worst, they went to the game room to “test the Wii”)? What do you do?

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Learning to say NO!

By on November 15, 2010 in Curious & Off-Topic, Management

A common problem to many tester is their inability to say NO even when they need to. Learning when to say NO and how to approach the difficulties of being asked to do something you don’t agree with professionally is one of the biggest challenges of any QA Engineer.

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There is value in changing hats

By on November 11, 2010 in Best Practices, Communication, Test Process

It is important for developers to take responsibility for end-to-end testing tasks once in a while. It helps them to understand what matters to us when we do our job, and maybe even more importantly it teaches them to do their jobs better.

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Creating your “Testing Zone”

By on November 2, 2010 in Best Practices, Test Process

Each of us has a specific atmosphere / way / routine that helps us test better. If you want to be good tester you should figure out how to enter your Testing Zone.

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