Recruiting Software Testers – My experiences as an interviewee

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In the last 4 years, I have undergone some job interviews as interviewee. Some interviews had gone well and I cleared. Some interviews did not go well and I failed to clear. In this post I am going to share my interview experience with two companies as both companies took my interview in a very different manner.

Sometime back I gave interview in a CMMi level company and in a Non-Cmmi level Company. I passed interviews of both companies but i joined none of these. I like the way the Non-Cmmi level Company took my interview. But I was disappointed with the way – the CMMi level company take my interview.

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Favorite Testing Tweets

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How to figure the value of testing? A start: ask how you value eyeglasses, radios, smoke alarms, yardsticks: things that help you observe. Here – https://twitter.com/#!/michaelbolton/status/17909459689 A microscope produces nothing of value on its own, but it helps people to observe things that provide or threaten value. Here – https://twitter.com/#!/michaelbolton/status/17909541879 You don’t evaluate your eyeglasses … Read more

Testing ISN’T (is) About Learning. It is About Thinking.

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Changed title, as it is misleading – Refer comments section.

A good tester is a good thinker. A long time I give my following thoughts on testing here

There are many testing institutes in India. They all can give us technical and bookish knowledge on software testing.

But this is not enough. The main asset of a tester is ‘the way the tester thinks’. And this is not given by those institutes..

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How to Fake a Test Project – by James Bach in STPConference 2009

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Few months back, I got the highlights of STPConference 2009 email. One of the highlight is “How to Fake a Test Project”.

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Behave conventionally. Squander energy. Deflect scrutiny. Say you tested it, but spend most of your time playing Spider Solitaire instead. Be sure to submit a few bugs though, because you don’t want to make it too obvious that you’re not really testing.

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Why Software Testing is a challenging job?

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Software Testing – It is the process of MEASURING the quality of software. Some say, “It is the process of improving the software quality.”  But it is not valid. Testing measures the health of a software/application under test by finding bugs. Testing is an essential step toward improving quality and ensuring customer satisfaction. But testing … Read more

Another Software Testing blog

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Finally decided to so start my own testing blog 🙂 Actually I inspired from Pradeep Soundararajan and Shrini Kulkarni. (I never talked with these people personally. But I am keeping eye on the blogs of these people from a long time :P) Few words from Pradeep: Blogs allow a novice tester to understand how an expert … Read more

Who are testers?

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by Ben Simo Testers do many things and there are many titles that could apply to the many things we testers do. We’re detectives. We’re investigators. We’re evaluators. We’re communicators. We’re writers. We’re critics. We’re advocates. We’re leaders. We’re supporters. We’re learners. We’re teachers. We’re forecasters. We’re testers. Ben Simo