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22/02/201128/12/2014 on job, test, tester, testing

Another job opportunity for 31337 h4x0rs that love testing!

F-Secure is hiring! And they have some interesting positions as well. Check out this one: People who have experience in “SW Engineer in Test” type of a role. This is a fairly new role and not well established in Finland. The discipline is young and top notch professionals rare. An excellent niche to put yourself …

24/08/200928/12/2014 on product manager, quality, release, retrospectives, testing

About when I stopped worrying and embraced Engineering!

Product Managers often forget that they can make or break a project. If your team is using Scrum that is even more true, because Product Managers are (or should be) involved regularly in the planning of the work with the team. Either as Product Manager or in the role of Product Owner. It is therefore …

23/09/200828/12/2014 on agile, Continuousintegration, integration, testing

Continuous integration requires a good SCM

Lately I’ve been discussing SCM (Source Control Management) systems and how that impacts the continuous integration efforts of the teams and the projects where they work. I could not have expressed this better than Dean Wampler, check his blog post out.

23/09/200828/12/2014 on agile, build, design, programming, quality, refactor, testing

The cost of un-fixed bugs or Good Code on top of Bad Code

While discussing with a colleague we started talking about the costs related to not fixing a bug immediately (yes, this does mean that you have a way to immediately figure out if you introduced a bug). The reason for fixing bugs immediately is not only the cost of content switching later on when you have …

22/09/200828/12/2014 on agile, feedback, planning, quality, tester, testing

Testers are developers! Stop breaking them apart

First one clarification. Testing is needed, required, critical and very much a MUST. With that out of the way let’s go to the post. Many people have mentioned the need to include testers in Scrum or agile, and planning your processes with a testing step somewhere (normally close to the end). All of these ideas …

17/03/200828/12/2014 on brain, engaging, iterative, organization, quality, software, testing

Testing to script is waste, creative testing is extremely valuable

Testing is a hard job. Imagine this, you have to make sure an application of more than 2 million lines of code is ready to ship. It all depends on you, and your team of 2 testers. How do you do it? Well, one way to do it is to make sure you cover all …

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