Thank you all for your comments! I enjoyed reading all of them. I just pulled out a few quotes to sort of summarize. I saw a lot of other good points brought...
... Great summary, Kay!! Thanks! Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand. --Leonardo...
I know some of you on this list have hired agile testers. Did you ask any interview questions that you felt helped show if the candidate had the right skills...
Hi Lisa, I never interviewed testers, mainly developers and project managers. I tend to focus less on technical skills, more on personal skills (but avoid...
Hi Lisa; I've done a little bit of recruiting for testers on agile teams. I try to get a read on the person's attitude. Few people from the QA school of...
... Have ATTEMPTED TO hire agile testers ;-) Lisa, I dug up an email I wrote a couple months ago to someone else who asked me a similar question. I thought I'd...
... Whether I am hiring developers or testers, I like to setup an open-ended scenario and have them walk them through me it. For example, "in an email client...
Lisa, I have had some amazing success with hiring great agile testers. I have 3 working with me now. The secret... I'm not real sure, but mostly I look at...
When interviewing agile testers we typically use two in person visits, first round is one on one and the second is a presentation to the team. Also, we ...
Hmmm, except I think I would rephrase it somewhat to fit our agile environment. And this is something that actually occurred here this week. "This project has...
Lisa, That example is great. However, if your interviewee is not up to speed on agile terminology, they may not understand the question. You may want to...
This is intriguing. So you give them some problem or feature set with requirements, and ask them to come back with hard copies of how they would approach the...
... Yes, all that. We tell them "presentation" to ensure they understand they'll be the host, but we frame it as a discussion. Some have used powerpoint,...
I've got a new role with a client of mine in the South-East of England, looking for an additional tester for their XP J2EE project, to start in January (but to...
I thought you would be interested, if you hadn't heard already. More info and links here... http://www.testingreflections.com/node/view/1049(written in a...
I am, didn't think of blogging it though! The bloke I sit opposite banks with Cahoot. He got called up by a mate the other day! Good blog :-) ... From:...
... +1 Unless you have a thick Win32 GUI or a legacy backend, such as Tuxedo, for which WinRunner has a driver. For testing J2EE applications with HTML...
Phlip said: Experience with the usual tools is essential > (WinRunner Eeeeeeeeeeek! > etc.), and > experience of working in an agile team is also > important....
... Thank you! Next issue: I never used capture/playback, but I do know how to rag on it. One Agile-Testing role is giving developers and customers the tools...
... Tests should be as close as possible to the testee. Mocking a user puts a lot of stuff, including hardware, between you and the testee. ... No! Go back to...
... On one hand, you may underestimate what WinRunner _can_ do. Since you can invoke 3rd-party DLLs, it can do anything, even directly probe and state of...
... therefore ... it ... But let me ask (as advocatus diaboli ...): We also use Junit tests; we even believe that there should be many of them, as we want them...
Some good points made about larger teams - the larger and more diverse the group using the interface, the more challenging it is to remain agile. But there are...
... This is my experience too, but it is not a defense of inflexibility of interfaces. If one hopes to have clean code on large projects then one must solve ...
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