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QA Engineers – Happiest Jobs in America

The happiest job of all isn’t kindergarten teacher or dentist. It’s software quality assurance engineer. Professionals with this job title are typically involved in the entire software development process to ensure the quality of the final product. This can include processes such as requirements gathering and documentation, source code control, code review, change management, configuration [...]

James Whittaker Leaves Google to go Back to Microsoft

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Angry rants about the demise of corporate culture aren’t reserved only for ex-Goldman Sachs employees. Microsoft-turned-Google engineer James Whittaker — now once again a Microsoft employee — fired off a scathing blast Tuesday on a Microsoft blog about why he left Google. “My last three months working for Google was a [...]

Software Testers Unhappy With Unrealistic Deadlines

Pressure to meet deadlines, incomplete testing requirements and budgets are the top sources of stress for application testing organisations, as they move towards cloud-based testing. A survey of 102 testers and quality assurance professionals conducted at the TestExpo Winter 2010 event in London found that 73 percent cited the pressure to meet deadlines was the [...]

Software Test Industry First: TestPlant Granted US Patent for eggPlant

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24 January, 2011 – London, UK and Boulder, CO, USA – TestPlant, an international software company with operations in the USA and the UK, today announced that its robotic test tool product, eggPlant, has been recognized by the US Patent and Trademark Office and secured a US patent. The patent, number 7,870,504, has been granted [...]

15 Google Interview Questions That Will Make You Feel Stupid

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After all, it’s only 15 questions…

Selenium Conference – The Future of Testing – April 4-6

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The Selenium Conference Is Happening And we want you to be part of it. Join members of the growing Selenium community for 3 jam-packed days of talks, workshops, lightning talks, and hack sessions. Hear speakers from around the world talk about the present and future of automated testing, share ideas with fellow Selenium developers, including [...]

Software Testing Starts for the London Olympics 2012

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The London Olympics organisation committee kicked off 200,000 hours of testing today in its 2,000m2 testing lab in Canary Wharf. Led by London Olympics CIO Gerry Pennell, a team of up to 70 people will test all the software in the laboratory. The lab is split into over 50 individual cells that each focus on [...]

Thinksoft Offers Thinksoft Certification Program In Financial Software Testing

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(RTTNews) – Thinksoft Global Services Ltd. said it had signed a memorandum of understanding or MoU with TalentSprint to offer one year certification program in Financial Software Testing. Software testing is a mission critical component within the global banking and financial industry and this “Thinksoft Certification Program in Financial Software Testing’ would cater to a [...]

Trends in software testing for 2011

BANGALORE, INIDA: IT applications are increasingly constituted of complex business processes and are becoming more intricate and inter-connected. This aspect, combined with the pressure to reduce IT spend, is forcing enterprises to look for alternate ways to manage their growing portfolio of requirements; such as streamlining the quality processes, increasing the degree of test automation [...]

Growing Focus on Independent Software Testing

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Recent IT outages such as the DBS ATM shutdown and United Airlines Web site erroneously selling US$20 tickets are clear evidence of the serious consequences that software failures can bring along, said Ritendra Banerjee, senior vice president of Maveric Systems, a company that performs software testing. In a phone interview with ZDNet Asia, Banerjee explained [...]