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What drew you to testing? What keeps you here? What would cause you to leave? I fell into testing by accident. Autodesk needed testers for a new version of AutoCAD, I had registered copies of AutoCAD, they asked if I was interested, I said "Oh yeah!",
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Do you know the unique value you add to your team? I used to think I did, until a series of unfortunate events showed me that I did not. That set me off on a splurge of introspection regarding what I do and why I do it. Now I believe I really do understand
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I have another Tester Spotlight posted! Pop over to Tester Center - via Channel 9 - to see my interview with Ivo Manolov , Test Manager for the Windows Presentation Foundation team.
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When I started writing this blog I had no idea what I was going to write about. I don't remember that ever happening before - usually I know exactly what I want to talk about and more-or-less how I want to say it. When I test, however, I find myself in
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Check out my Tester Spotlight interview with Rob Straavaldson over on Tester Center !
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A few weeks ago I took Jerry Weinberg 's Problem Solving Leadership (PSL) workshop. Everyone I have heard speak about PSL calls it a life changing experience. I understood Jerry's book Becoming A Technical Leader to be a sort of offline version of PSL.
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A colleague: "I don't understand it. I lived with my wife for eight years before we were married and she never cared what time I got home from work. Ever since I put on this wedding ring, though, she expects me there at six o'clock on the dot!" Me: "Didn't
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I am excited to announce that SQA has asked me to fly down to Colombia to give my talk Hallmarks of a Great Tester ! I'll be speaking in Bogotá and also in MedellĂn. My wife is coming along, so we'll get a vacation out of it too. Fun fun fun! Thanks to
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Apoorva suggests, "[H]ow about linking to any other test/dev blogs/sites/resources that you frequent, or feel would do good for beginners/seasoned testers as a read." I'll do this in three parts: books permanently on my bookshelf, key blogs I track, and
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Goals are important. Without a goal - something you plan to do, accomplish, achieve - you can only wander aimlessly. (Or I guess you can always become a sedentary part of the scenery...) Note that this is *not* to say that wandering aimlessly is bad;
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Thanks to the good folks at LogoWorks I now have a logo! I didn't have any clue what I wanted at first, but I am super happy with the final result. And thanks to Register4Less I now have a ten year lease on TheBraidyTester.com . There's not much there
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They've let me on to the Microsoft Careers "Meet Our People" page! http://members.microsoft.com/careers/epdb/profileDetailPage.aspx?profileID=77 goes directly to me; check out http://members.microsoft.com/careers/mslife/meetpeople/ to see everyone else
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When you're in college December and May are the big "What do I want to do with my life?" points, but once you're out in the real world January takes over this timeslot. Of course, if you really care about your career and life goals you'll be pondering
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WH writes: I've got an on-campus interview with MS and I'm (hopefully) looking at an SDET internship. I was wondering: What do you like most about being an SDET? What do you like the least? The bug-finding problem space sounds completely interesting to
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Dave Liebreich posted some while back what I presume is a question he asks prospective employers: "I've seen many organizations that treat the QA or test group as people who will do the 'menial' work that the programmers don't want to, or the people who
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