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Effective Way of Writing Automation Test Engineer Resume

Article by Henry Thierry An automation test engineer resume should include sections such as contact information, objective, technical skills, education, certifications and previous work experience. You can browse the internet and refer the different sample engineer resumes. This will inform you about the ideal format and sections to be included to customize your own effective [...]

Software Testing Starts for the London Olympics 2012

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 [...]

The Swamp of Regression Testing

Have you ever read a call for automation of acceptance testing? Did you find the idea really compelling but then came to the conclusion that it was too steep a mountain for your team to climb, that you weren’t in a position to be able to make it happen? Maybe you gave it a half-hearted [...]

You Need to “Test It Better”

I’ve heard a lot of people recently talking about how they have been asked to “test better” or “test more” after bugs have been found in live. This is a question/statement often asked by people who assume (or expect) that testing guarantees no bugs in live. And here is the main problem. In a sense [...]

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Lean Agile Acceptance Test Driven Development

How does testing fit into an agile organization? Can you have both? And what does that look like? Matt Heusser interviewed Ken Pugh, author of Lean Agile Acceptance Test Driven Development, to find out. There are a handful of books coming out on Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD). Yet the topic is so new, and [...]

What Kind of Automated Testing Does Facebook Do?

For our PHP code, we have a suite of over 2200 test classes using the PHPUnit framework. They range in complexity from simple true unit tests to large-scale integration tests that hit our production backend services. The PHPUnit tests are run both by developers as part of their workflow and continuously by an automated test [...]

Hiring Practice In Testing Industry – Can We Change It?

I have been a part of hiring process for my current and previous organizations. I have taken interviews for my project, my client, walk-in interviews and also for fresher hiring at college campus. What did I learn from these interviews? Most of the resumes are shortlisted by HR persons and then are sent to us [...]

Three New Good Things About Indian Testers

Once upon a time, Bangalore was ahead in testing leadership compared to other cities in India. What I mean by that is, we did things and made it visible to the world. We did good things that helps us develop ourselves plus do something good to others. I acted like a brand ambassador for Bangalore [...]

Practicing Scrum with Outsourced QA Teams

QA and testing are integral parts of software development, and expert Lisa Crispin holds that the team operates more effectively when QA is not outsourced. However, when this isn’t possible, the quality testing group must be involved in daily Scrum meetings and other collaborative practices. This response offers suggestions for working with an outsourced QA [...]

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