I wonder what is more valuable, to know which pieces of the functionality works or to know which bugs are there?
With a mission only to find bugs you will know what were bugs are, you write them down and/or tell them to the developer. You know what…
Hello Yogesh,
Glad to see you made this question broader by mentioning examples which are not only related to coding. I agree with you that testers should be able to teach themselves if the project needs it.
Is technical knowledge needed? You alrea…
Hello Mohit,
Interesting twist you give to your question. You refer to 2 principles of CDT were one mentions that there is a context and the other tells about practices even if there is no context.
You are extending this question with new ones.
Wha…
Hello Mohit,
I can understand that such a question fascinates you. It would help if you provide more context. What is your perception of a problem? And more important, who's problem? When do you think a tester is passive or active? When is a tester…
Perhaps my previous post was not that clear. I mentioned a tool which can be used perhaps during testing; only this is not automating your tests. To me, BPT is focusing on how people are using the system for their processes. A important part of thes…
I agree with the statement Shrini made: how can business processes be automated. When thinking about this and you are continuing with this are you testing the correct purpose? To me it seems you are only proofing you are able to write automated case…
Mentor to me should be person u see grow from Raw to Great height the person who is open to share as much knowledge he can,guide you through the difficult path to success
Mentor to you can be ur immediate family member or one of ur relatives who ha…
I'm sure he will be. Only I have some feeling that there is more, or perhaps I'm taking it too heavy. In my opinion finding a mentor is one thing, being a good mentee is another thing. You have to be both ready for it. As far as I see it, it is not…
Jeroen,
I think if you continue your discussions with Matt, you are getting closer to finding a very good mentor.
To others: If you follow CMMi, you would definitely need Matt as your mentor :)
I see this as a good example of mentoring (thanks! :) )You replied to my post, picked up what you think is worth to respond on now, and came with an example how you would do it and leaving space for me to continue thinking about this.
(I made all t…
Your remark about "I offered them a black-belt test challenge" made me wondering how you decide which challenge is appropriate?
As I understand it, the "black belt" in matrial arts roughly corresponds with an ability to perform the work unsupervise…
Hello Santosh,
Your right to disagree with me. I generalized that all managers are looking for sheep
with five legs. As you mentioned: But what about the project??? it suffers.. and in turn the rest of the team members suffer as they need to work la…
Hello Siva,
It is also good to read your post. It is structured as I often think. Looking at your "steps" do you think it is mentoring you are talking about or is it coaching? (I'm aware of the thin line), some posts above I posted a link which clai…
Matt, thanks for replying
As you already mentioned that most of the time you are amongst equals. This made me think about attended mentoring and unattended mentoring.
Here some thoughts:
Unattended can be done on several occasions like between coll…
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