Dec 13, 2013 | Leadership, STP Community, Team Management, Testing, Testing Career
Thanks to all of the followers of “Ask The Tester”. In this article, we will be interviewing Melissa Tondi, Vice President of Mobile practice for ProtoTest. You may be asking why we would be interviewing a VP if the article is called “Ask the...
Mar 15, 2013 | Leadership, STP Community, Team Management, Testing, Testing Career
Well it’s 2013 and once again a new tax season starts for the US. Everyone is pulling together all their financial documents, summarizing their income, expenses, and tax write-offs. And, for many, they will be using tax software to assist them with their tax...
Oct 16, 2012 | Leadership, Team Management, Testing, Testing Career
The only successful way to build a solution is to understand the problem. To quote Albert Einstein, “The significant problems we face today cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.” Recognizing problems you face,...
Oct 11, 2012 | Leadership, Team Management, Testing, Testing Career
Management requires continuous adaptation, interaction with the environment, modifying the approaches for maximum return. That’s why experienced test leaders collect variety of methods in their “testing practices” toolbox, and pull them out when...
Mar 12, 2012 | Leadership, Management, Team Management, Testing, Testing Career
When it comes time for you to write a job ad to fill a lower rung position in your quality assurance department, you might be tempted to merely copy the same old, same old boilerplate from other job postings and put this out there: Job Requirements: Bachelor’s...
Mar 9, 2012 | Leadership, STP Community, Team Management, Testing, Testing Career
Many of the folks we feature on ask the tester are consultants with big names and public faces, and that’s good. Still, we try to achieve a balance; we also want to hear from practitioners. If we’re going to put on a practitioner, how do we know they are...
