Hallmarks of a Great Tester

re: Hallmarks of a Great Tester

Mark Vejvoda — Wed, 09 Jun 2004 16:44:00 GMT

I can affirm this post to be absolutely true. I cannot state the important of people who like doing what they do. We have people here where I work (www.total-care.com) that seem to have a sick sense of uncanny testing ability. The defects development come across make for good humour at times, chastisement others. There is one individual to be feared, you do not provoke him with a "this code is rock solid", or you'll find you defect cycle time escallate to unbearable proportions. But I must admit the quality and warped sense of testing has achieved the highest levels of quality our company has ever known.

Thanks for the re-inspiration

re: Hallmarks of a Great Tester

Chris — Wed, 09 Jun 2004 16:50:00 GMT

You make some great points. I'm struggling with the contribution that testers make early in a project right now. I know I need testabilty, but I don't know what I need until I go to test something and it isn't there. I know our architecture needs work, but I'm not sure what would make it better. It would be great if you talked about these issues in depth.

re: Hallmarks of a Great Tester

kevin white — Wed, 09 Jun 2004 16:53:00 GMT

A good tester always:
- wears a helmet
- keeps a change of clothes handy
- keeps his lunchbox in a secure location
- knows the fastest and most covert ways of exiting the building
- always sits closest to and faces the door
- knows when to cackle like a mad scientist and when to just be quietly giddy

re: Hallmarks of a Great Tester

David Cumps — Wed, 09 Jun 2004 17:25:00 GMT

Great, I'm close to becoming a great tester! yeahaa :p

Recipe for a great tester

Rubber Chicken — Wed, 09 Jun 2004 20:53:00 GMT

This blog entry has a list of what makes a great tester. I agree. Especially with the bit about having a customer-centric viewpoint....

re: Hallmarks of a Great Tester

The Braidy Tester — Thu, 10 Jun 2004 00:28:00 GMT

Thanks for the topic suggestion! What exactly testability is and how to achieve it is a very interesting problem. I'll be sure to talk about that soon.

re: Hallmarks of a Great Tester

SpiderMan — Thu, 10 Jun 2004 00:37:00 GMT

Nice points.
May I translate your post to Chinese and publish it inside our company for training our testers?

Stolen: Hallmarks of a Great Tester

notgartner.com: Mitch Denny's Blog — Thu, 10 Jun 2004 03:44:00 GMT

re: Hallmarks of a Great Tester

mike — Thu, 10 Jun 2004 02:16:00 GMT

You forgot: "Reads and comments on documentation in progress." :-)

re: Hallmarks of a Great Tester

The Braidy Tester — Thu, 10 Jun 2004 21:29:00 GMT

Yes, feel free to translate as necessary and use this list as you wish. Just please credit me and link back to this permalink.

Questions, Questions, Questions

adamu's WebLog — Fri, 11 Jun 2004 00:34:00 GMT

re: Hallmarks of a Great Tester

Ee — Fri, 11 Jun 2004 00:42:00 GMT

It's worth considering that anyone with a strong enough attention span can test well and find a fair amount of the errors the user will, but a great tester is beyond this level, by an order of magnitude maybe.
The difference between a good tester and a great tester could be compared to the difference between Salieri and Mozart, for lack of a better analogy, and the most important traits may oft prove the most elusive.

re: Hallmarks of a Great Tester

new-tester — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 18:50:00 GMT

Great points.

I was wondering if you know where one can find a complete classification or description of class of bugs as you refered above. I don't mean generic classification but more specific, eg. "Loss or overwriting updated data", etc.

Thanks
new-tester

Hallmarks of a Great SDE/T

The Braidy Tester — Wed, 23 Jun 2004 19:01:00 GMT

Hallmarks of a Great SDE/T

The Braidy Tester — Wed, 23 Jun 2004 22:15:00 GMT

re: Cook It Up

The Braidy Tester — Thu, 08 Jul 2004 18:08:00 GMT

Cook It Up

The Braidy Tester — Thu, 08 Jul 2004 19:27:00 GMT

re: Hallmarks of a Great Tester

Shrini K — Wed, 14 Jul 2004 14:51:00 GMT

Simply great article. I enjoyed each word of this article

re: Hallmarks of a Great Tester

Siva — Thu, 15 Jul 2004 14:22:00 GMT

Thank you very much for the excellent post. This will give push up to lot of testers. It is true that a great tester will test everthing. As a tester since from 5 years, I am testing everything in all the works I do. Test is now a part of my life. I am not able stop myself to take this post and put into my blog. I am posting this article in my blog by referring your name. Please permit me

Hallmarks of a Great Tester

The Real World of Software Testing — Tue, 20 Jul 2004 08:26:00 GMT

Hallmarks of a Great Tester

The Real World of Software Testing — Tue, 20 Jul 2004 08:50:00 GMT

re: Hallmarks of a Great Tester

Todd Hansell — Tue, 20 Jul 2004 20:26:00 GMT

I agree based on the drill of my developers. In the last couple weeks my development managers (very technical guru's) have been asking that with our growth since the acquisition that I find a good developer to start and lead our test efforts. I've interviewed and interviewed candidates who have come short of their expectations. I'm about to shoot myself in the head... Anyway when I read this article I realized what they were expecting me to find. They didn't seem to have a word for it, but they sure had a laundry list of skills needed. No one I've found had them all. They want someone who can development in a mid level position but has not been totally bitten by the development bug and can still see them selves as a tester. A person who can test better than the person who wrote the code but can come back and in a nice way tell them the messed up and this is where and how. I've yet to find such a person but if anyone out there knows anyone interested tell them to take a look at us at www.reynoldswebsolutions.com. We have great plans, benefits, and monetary rewards for this person. Thanks Braidy for this posting.

Sincerely,

Todd Hansell
Project Manager/Corporate Recruiter
Reynolds Web Solutions/Third Coast Media
214-239-4152
todd_hansell@reyrey.com

Hallmarks for a great Tester and Developer

Dev Notes — Wed, 21 Jul 2004 10:04:00 GMT

The Braidy Tester defines the hallmarks of a great tester and developer

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re: Hallmarks of a Great Tester

Frankie Means — Thu, 05 Aug 2004 19:00:00 GMT

GReat entry a very somprhehnsive list of things to consider
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Hallmarks of a Great Tester

Devankur Thakur — Fri, 03 Sep 2004 14:11:00 GMT

One More Hallmark

The Braidy Tester — Wed, 20 Oct 2004 17:54:00 GMT

'what makes a good tester'

Devankur Thakur — Wed, 24 Nov 2004 09:21:00 GMT

A great tester makes developers cry

Harry Nieboer — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 09:28:34 GMT

Ambrose is looking for a SDET

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How To Become A (Great) Tester

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Cook It Up

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