Posted In — General
To make softwaretestinghelp.com a better and all-in-one place for software testing professionals, here I am conducting a quick readers poll. Basically I am starting a series of such polls to know more about our readers and their requirements.
Such ‘readers poll’ post series will help me to plan my future articles. So don’t forget to make your vote count.
Posted In — Testing Skill Improvement, Career in software Testing, How to be a good tester
This is a guest article from Pradeep Soundararajan. He is a Consulting Tester, Satisfice Inc & Software Testing Magician. Reach him at his blog Tester tested
These days a lot of people who pass out of engineering and science colleges are interested about software testing as a career. When I passed out at a time when the IT had started to boom back in India, most of the fresh graduates with whom I interacted didn’t even know there existed jobs or careers like software testing.
I was offered a job as a tester in a start up for 7440 rupees a month compared to fresh developers (who were picked from better institutes from where I graduated) being paid 34,500 rupees a month.
Posted In — Testing best practices, Testing Skill Improvement, Testing Tips and resources
I wish all testers read these software testing good practices. Read all points carefully and try to implement them in your day-to-day testing activities. This is what I expect from this article. If you don’t understand any testing practice, ask for more clarification in comments below. After all you will learn all these testing practices by experience. But then why not to learn all these things before making any mistake?
Here are some of the best testing practices I learned by experience:
Posted In — Questions & answers, Career in software Testing, Testing Interview questions
Do companies really judge candidate’s testing ability in interviews? Do they ask the questions that really judge the candidate’s skill? What questions should be asked to judge the candidate for software testing field? What is the key process to hire good candidates for software testing positions?
Ok, I am asking to many questions without giving answer to any of it. Well, each question mentioned above will require a separate post to address the problem fairly. Here we will address in short about - How to hire the right candidates for software testing positions?
Posted In — QA leadership, QA team skills, Career in software Testing
Couple of months back I wrote an article on “How to keep good testers in testing position“. There I mentioned one point as to appreciate the testers for their good work.
“Reward testers for finding good quality bugs. Keep some weekly or monthly competitions such as ‘Bug of the week’ to reward them. This will help to build a successful QA team”.
Posted In — Software Testing Books, software testing links, Basics of Software testing
I am in process to compile a list of good books on software testing. Soon I will share this list with you. But lately I am getting too many requests to share any book on software testing for preparing software testing interviews. So here is a quick post to share an online testing book I found “A Software Testing Primer” by Nick Jenkins.
Basically this book is an introduction to software testing. So those who are new to software testing field can start their preparation by reading this book. You will get basic idea of manual and automation testing.
