Does anyone know the answer to this question? ... I can't remember if I've ever let any job postings through on this list. I know I reject one or two "come...
One source we use fairly consistently is QAJobs.net. Using the more popular, larger on-line services usually returns many applicants who are 'border-line'...
I think that agile-related job postings (looking for an agile test manager, tester, test-infected developer, etc.) would be appropriate. Just my 2c. Elisabeth ...
Hello! I'm wondering how well agile testing fits into software reliability engineering. I looked into the latter for some time and I'm starting to trying to...
Stefan Wagner
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Jul 1, 2004 2:50 pm
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xp-jobs is a good place to post. It isn't limited to programming-related jobs. I don't mind seeing AGILE job postings on this list either. -- Lisa -- Lisa...
I would appreciate just the right job being posted here for me, but when I think of other job sites available on the net, I realize it wouldn't be long until I...
May be it's time for an agile-testing-jobs list? Fred Ballard ... From: Brian Marick To: agile-testing@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 8:41 AM ...
I've just read an interesting article in ACM Computing (May 2004, Volume 47, Number 5) on Grasping the complexity of IS Development Projects. Interesting...
STEURS Stefan
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Jul 1, 2004 4:18 pm
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The tester-career-support is a list for testing job listings. ______________________________________ Bret Pettichord, Software Tester Consultant -...
Stefan, At the moment SRE occupies a separate place from Agile Testing. I see SRE as very much a product of the Analytic school of software testing & ...
There were several productive tutorials, workshops and open space sessions related to agile testing at the Agile Development Conference last week in SLC....
... SRE is a feedback mechanism primarily designed to help predict the reliability of software in a high-volume production environment. It is a step beyond...
Hubert Matthews
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Jul 2, 2004 6:47 pm
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... That's my feeling as well. SRE presents itself as fundamentally a statistical method for determining failure rates. But that is really not where the value...
... The goal is to find and fix the most commonly occurring bugs in order to improved the perceived quality. That's the real purpose of the operational...
Hubert Matthews
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Jul 2, 2004 9:45 pm
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... It was great to see so much happening in testing, and to see those interested in testing really digging IN to agility and how to be part of an agile team. ...
... An interesting and (I suppose, to you folks at least) obvious result came out of Chet and my new project simulation game: Prevention is far more powerful...
My understanding is that the one approach attempts to prevent the programmer from making mistakes (deviating from plan) while the other attempts to enable the...
Ward Cunningham
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Jul 3, 2004 12:37 pm
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... Very well put. I like the expression of one approach attempting to be preventative: "don't write the bugs in the first place" (a naïve view in my opinion)...
... It was, yes. ... I'd not put it quite that way, because I actually favor not writing the bugs in the first place myself. That's why I favor practices like...
... I agree these practices prevent us from "/shipping/" defects, but I find the notion of "don't any write defects" without mechanisms to catch them as you're...
... At last, we are singing from the same hymnsheet! Now we're at the same point with similar ideas, we can start to discuss the pros and cons. of prevention ...
Hubert Matthews
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Jul 4, 2004 8:44 pm
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... Hubert, I'm trying ever so hard not to be insulted by the above. Let me instead just ask a question or two. First, what hard-earned knowledge do you...
... Ron, I apologise if this has caused offence; it was genuinely not intended to. Rereading what I wrote, I can see that it had an inappropriate tone. Will...
Hubert Matthews
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Jul 5, 2004 10:11 am
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... Sure ... ... Well, there's not much really new in XP, is there? Test-Driven Development, perhaps. The newness of XP is in having the audacity to suggest...
... Thank you. ... The software world is incredibly fragmented and disparate. Getting clients to be agile is ideal, but getting them to be other than chaotic...
Hubert Matthews
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Jul 5, 2004 12:05 pm
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... I'm not sure that I follow that. It seems to me that it's important to understand the mindset of [specific] organizations, and to find ways of moving them....
... Are you saying that engineers don't design or aren't creative? That's news to me. ... It's on my reading list, and I've just moved it up a few places. ... ...
Hubert Matthews
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Jul 5, 2004 3:37 pm
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... prevents. (At this moment you may be saying "Wait, prevention only prevents a fraction of all defects. This is true. However, of those that get through ...