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PostPosted: Tue Feb 21, 2012 0:07 
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A few ruby scripts and winrunner scripts since I finished uni 15 years ago, but nothing to speak of since then really. I jumped straight into QA/Testing out of uni.


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Did he say "RIGHT ON COMMANDER!" after walking through?


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Well, next time you see him, tell him Warhead has been stuck in witch space fighting off an infinite number of Thargoids since about 1985 and is pretty pissed off about it.


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I held a door open for David Braben today.

I once threatened him with great physical violence.


If more people did this he might get on and fucking finish Elite 4.

Or more realistically, start it again.


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 Post subject: Re: Raspberry Pi
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A few ruby scripts and winrunner scripts since I finished uni 15 years ago, but nothing to speak of since then really. I jumped straight into QA/Testing out of uni.

See:this surprises me, as I work in testing and my entire time is spent programming in c# orjavascript. Before I started I merely hated javascript, I now loathe it with the fury of a thousand suns.


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A few ruby scripts and winrunner scripts since I finished uni 15 years ago, but nothing to speak of since then really. I jumped straight into QA/Testing out of uni.

See:this surprises me, as I work in testing and my entire time is spent programming in c# orjavascript. Before I started I merely hated javascript, I now loathe it with the fury of a thousand suns.


It depends entirely on what you define as testing. Test automation is a very tiny part of what is possible, and in my experience developers are actually better suited to it (not that there aren't excellent test automation specialists out there). I spend most of my time telling people how to build and manage software so that it has less defects in it in the first place, rather than finding them after the fact. Whole lifecycle quality stuff.


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See:this surprises me, as I work in testing and my entire time is spent programming in c# orjavascript. Before I started I merely hated javascript, I now loathe it with the fury of a thousand suns.


I'm surprised at your surprise; have you never come across anyone who does a testing job without writing code? In my experience pure system testing (i.e. black-box functional testing) is the rule rather than the exception.


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Mr Dave wrote:
See:this surprises me, as I work in testing and my entire time is spent programming in c# orjavascript. Before I started I merely hated javascript, I now loathe it with the fury of a thousand suns.


I'm surprised at your surprise; have you never come across anyone who does a testing job without writing code? In my experience pure system testing (i.e. black-box functional testing) is the rule rather than the exception.
The only people I have found who do that are... not very effective. The quality of our software that uses full test automation is
whole factors of magnitude better than the ones done without.


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The only people I have found who do that are... not very effective. The quality of our software that uses full test automation is whole factors of magnitude better than the ones done without.
You've never worked with any good manual testers? I'm astonished. No amount of automated testing in the world would equal half an hour with my lead QA gal.


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 Post subject: Re: Raspberry Pi
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See:this surprises me, as I work in testing and my entire time is spent programming in c# orjavascript. Before I started I merely hated javascript, I now loathe it with the fury of a thousand suns.


I'm surprised at your surprise; have you never come across anyone who does a testing job without writing code? In my experience pure system testing (i.e. black-box functional testing) is the rule rather than the exception.
The only people I have found who do that are... not very effective. The quality of our software that uses full test automation is
whole factors of magnitude better than the ones done without.


Define full test automation :D

99% unit test coverage via TDD is pretty much the starting point, adding on story based functional tests gets you further down the road. That gives you the ability to test that your application does what it should do. Which frees up the QAs to do the real testing, of proving that it doesn't do what it shouldn't ;) On most projects QAs are a scarce resource and devs are ten a penny, so we get them to do the grunt automation work ;)

I do agree the quality of your average tester who doesn't know any coding is poor, but that is because there are a huge amount of testers out there who are just poor in general and their lack of automation skills just goes along with their lack of any other skills. Unfortunately it is easy to call yourself a "tester" if all you do is write manual test scripts and run manual test steps. Which is the same as calling yourself a journalist, because you know how to read and write IMO.


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The only people I have found who do that are... not very effective. The quality of our software that uses full test automation is whole factors of magnitude better than the ones done without.


That's interesting, I suppose it might depend on the exact nature of what you're developing but all the companies I know anything of (my own, JP Morgan, Barclays, NAG) rely mostly on manual system testing with automated testing being used only to bolster certain aspects of that.

Personally I'm incredibly sceptical of automated testing because (a) it's a development effort in itself which adds risk and complexity to the delivery and (b) the only thing it's guaranteed to be useful for it regression testing, writing automated test for new/updated functionality which doesn't even exist yet is a challenge to say the least.


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Personally I'm incredibly sceptical of automated testing because (a) it's a development effort in itself which adds risk and complexity to the delivery and (b) the only thing it's guaranteed to be useful for it regression testing, writing automated test for new/updated functionality which doesn't even exist yet is a challenge to say the least.


It depends how you do it. Doing automation at the point of creation, treating the automation code with the same control and rigour as you do production code, and using TDD combined with proper continuous integration, then it is incredibly powerful and useful. Automation after development is complete and without CI is pretty much a waste of time IME.


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Unfortunately it is easy to call yourself a "tester" if all you do is write manual test scripts and run manual test steps. Which is the same as calling yourself a journalist, because you know how to read and write IMO.


Also, this is such nonsense that I'm beginning to wonder if we're even using the same definition of 'tester' and 'testing' here?


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Trooper wrote:
99% unit test coverage via TDD is pretty much the starting point
Oh god. I wish we were so blessed.

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Personally I'm incredibly sceptical of automated testing because
I'd say any dev team these days working without any sort of automated testing is a foolish dev team. But of the pitfalls you mention I would add c) no extra pair of eyes to validate the developer's interpretation of the spec. Maybe it's because we're in a complex area, but we quite often get stuff bounced back from QA because we misunderstood the meaning of some XML field -- so we wrote code that was correct to how we believed it, but what we believed was wrong. No automated test is going to catch that.


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I'd say any dev team these days working without any sort of automated testing is a foolish dev team. But of the pitfalls you mention I would add c) no extra pair of eyes to validate the developer's interpretation of the spec. Maybe it's because we're in a complex area, but we quite often get stuff bounced back from QA because we misunderstood the meaning of some XML field -- so we wrote code that was correct to how we believed it, but what we believed was wrong. No automated test is going to catch that.


Hmm, reading between the lines of your post there I think I would be 'QA' in your company. In my company each project is delivered by a team comprised of one to many Business Analysts knocking up spec documents; one to many developers knocking up code/doing unit testing and one to many system testers writing manual tests from the BSAs specs and then executing those tests against the developers code. We all sit and work together under a single delivery manager and there's no concept of separate teams for QA or development.

The developers don't use any tools for their unit testing to my knowledge, although I don't know if that's a decision that's been taken deliberately of if it's just never been considered. There are automated funtional system testing tools available (QuickTest Pro mostly) to the system testers but they're not widely used for various reasons.

It's worth taking from that that when I talk about testing and automated testing I'm specifically talking about functional system testing. Unit testing (i.e. anything developers do against their own code before handing it over to me) is largely outside my experience.


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Yeah, sounds right -- although your test guys are more technical than ours. Our testers mostly work in soap-UI or other products my employer makes that sit further up our stack and hence form a UI to my product (which is a webservices middleware layer). However, our QA people are all experts in our business domain (travel -- many of them are former travel agents) and they are excellent at thinking of edge cases we overlook.


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I think frankly it depends entirely on what you're doing. If you're developing in-house, enterprise applications which typically have very long lifespans and incremental changes, then automated testing of releases is excellent, because most of what you're trying to do is validate that your release hasn't broken any of the longstanding existing functionality. If you're developing for-sale, feature rich applications, then automated testing is of significantly less use because you have to hand-craft a majority of test scripts every time you do a release because you're testing significant new functionality.

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Yeah, sounds right -- although your test guys are more technical than ours.


Maybe not actually, I think the way I worded my post gave a wrong impression there. The testing that I do is done mostly on the front end of the fully built and integrated system. The only people using soapUI, for example, are developers looking to unit test web services before handing them over to us; we'd then validate the functionality that the web service enabled by actually running full end to end test cases that relied on the correct functioning of that web service. I mean we're still in and out of database constantly to check stuff and have a technical understanding of system architecture etc so we can design tests that verify the integration of our system but, allegedly, you could do the job (albeit not very well in my opinion) without being particularly techie.

We do then have the same business domain experts you mention in my place but they get the system to perform UAT on it from a business perspective after we're done with it.


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Unfortunately it is easy to call yourself a "tester" if all you do is write manual test scripts and run manual test steps. Which is the same as calling yourself a journalist, because you know how to read and write IMO.


Also, this is such nonsense that I'm beginning to wonder if we're even using the same definition of 'tester' and 'testing' here?


How is this nonsense? I see these "testers" everyday. The ability write and run a manual test script does not make you a tester, anybody can do that.

I'm not saying that the people who do this as part of their job are not testers, I'm saying that the people who only know how to do this are not testers.


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We do then have the same business domain experts you mention in my place but they get the system to perform UAT on it from a business perspective after we're done with it.
Ah right. UAT in our place means external testing from our clients.


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How is this nonsense? I see these "testers" everyday. The ability write and run a manual test script does not make you a tester, anybody can do that.

I'm not saying that the people who do this as part of their job are not testers, I'm saying that the people who only know how to do this are not testers.


I don't really know what to say to this; "sytem tester" is an industry standard role that companies recruit for constantly and the base job is to analyse specs, write tests and then execute tests. You even say that you see people doing this job everyday so what exactly is the basis for your assertion that they're not testers?


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I suspect that he's suggesting that knowing the product and how it will be used to a level that means you can create appropriate edge scenarios that will properly test the product is at least as important as the ability to write scripts.

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Ah right. UAT in our place means external testing from our clients.


Aye, I imagine that's the more common setup, we're just 'lucky' enough that our clients are internal owners of the various systems and system components so it's all done in-house. Load testing is actually the only thing I think we currently outsource because it's something we don't do often enough to make it worth getting someone in permanently. Whether we should do it more often or not is a different discussion...


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I suspect that he's suggesting that knowing the product and how it will be used to a level that means you can create appropriate edge scenarios that will properly test the product is at least as important as the ability to write scripts.

I find that handing things to a "normal" user usually finds the edge scenarios fairly quickly :)

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Bamba wrote:
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How is this nonsense? I see these "testers" everyday. The ability write and run a manual test script does not make you a tester, anybody can do that.

I'm not saying that the people who do this as part of their job are not testers, I'm saying that the people who only know how to do this are not testers.


I don't really know what to say to this; "sytem tester" is an industry standard role that companies recruit for constantly and the base job is to analyse specs, write tests and then execute tests. You even say that you see people doing this job everyday so what exactly is the basis for your assertion that they're not testers?


I think you really aren't getting what i'm trying to say. :)

I would expect a tester to be able to write and run manual scripts as a base minimum, the same as I would expect a developer to able to do that, or a BA, or a PM if any of them were asked or needed to. Too many so called testers out there stop at that level.

I see people everyday who call themselves testers because they are at that level.

What I expect from testers is communication skills, business domain knowledge, presentation ability, good written language skills, at least some understanding of the technologies involved, some scripting ability, some database knowledge, the ability place themselves in different roles, root cause analysis ability, critical thinking etc...
Too often the people who I am expected to coach or enable, or apply to me for jobs have none of the above. But they can read a document, write some test steps and run them, so call themselves testers and people see these types of testers out there and accept those limits, which tarnishes all of us in this business and makes life more difficult for the good testers and QA.


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Load testing is actually the only thing I think we currently outsource because it's something we don't do often enough to make it worth getting someone in permanently. Whether we should do it more often or not is a different discussion...
Hire me. I'm really fucking good at load testing.

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I suspect that he's suggesting that knowing the product and how it will be used to a level that means you can create appropriate edge scenarios that will properly test the product is at least as important as the ability to write scripts.
It's like the difference between a junior and a senior developer, innit.


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I suspect that he's suggesting that knowing the product and how it will be used to a level that means you can create appropriate edge scenarios that will properly test the product is at least as important as the ability to write scripts.
It's like the difference between a junior and a senior developer, innit.


Exactly, but the lowest level of an accepted "tester" out in the industry is so fucking low it's actually comical.


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It's like the difference between a junior and a senior developer, innit.

Exactly, but the lowest level of an accepted "tester" out in the industry is so fucking low it's actually comical.

And he's a dick!

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Trooper wrote:
Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
It's like the difference between a junior and a senior developer, innit.

Exactly, but the lowest level of an accepted "tester" out in the industry is so fucking low it's actually comical.

And he's a dick!


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It's like the difference between a junior and a senior developer, innit.
Exactly, but the lowest level of an accepted "tester" out in the industry is so fucking low it's actually comical.
It's like the difference between a junior and a senior developer, innit.


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What I expect from testers is communication skills, business domain knowledge, presentation ability, good written language skills, at least some understanding of the technologies involved, some scripting ability, some database knowledge, the ability place themselves in different roles, root cause analysis ability, critical thinking etc...
Too often the people who I am expected to coach or enable, or apply to me for jobs have none of the above. But they can read a document, write some test steps and run them, so call themselves testers and people see these types of testers out there and accept those limits, which tarnishes all of us in this business and makes life more difficult for the good testers and QA.


I totally agree with all that, but then I expect most of that from anyone working in any aspect of software delivery and wouldn't single out testers specifically. Indeed I've met shedloads of developers who can churn out code, thus meeting the minimum requirement to call themselves developers, but who couldn't (or wouldn't!) understand a business process to save their lives thus delivering shite software by any meaningful metric.

Anyway, it seems we agree on what a good tester should be doing which is a relief as I was genuinely beginning to question my own understanding of the industry there for a minute! :D


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Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
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It's like the difference between a junior and a senior developer, innit.
Exactly, but the lowest level of an accepted "tester" out in the industry is so fucking low it's actually comical.
It's like the difference between a junior and a senior developer, innit.


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Hire me. I'm really fucking good at load testing.


I'm 100% sure we wouldn't pay the kind of money that would make a Wales to Glasgow commute at all attractive. :)


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Anyway, it seems we agree on what a good tester should be doing which is a relief as I was genuinely beginning to question my own understanding of the industry there for a minute! :D


Awesome :) That's all I was trying to say, nothing more sinister than that :D

If your interested, pm me and I can chat about what I actually do a bit more off the board. I don't like to be too specific out in the open for obvious reasons, but it's always good to talk to people in the industry :)
(that goes to you too Mr Dave. We are actually in desperate need for QAs with good automation skills at the moment if you fancy a change of scenery! :D )


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Awesome :) That's all I was trying to say, nothing more sinister than that :D


Aye, apologies, I seemed to get the bizarre impression that you were denying what a system tester even was, rather than just talking about what made a good system tester. I'm a tit, is basically what I'm saying.
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Hire me. I'm really fucking good at load testing.


What you need to do is go and work for every enterprise software company ever. Because I've yet to find one that has the ability to back up any of its scaling numbers with anything other than a confused look and "Well, it should work OK with that many [nodes|devices|users|countries|mailboxes]".

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Hire me. I'm really fucking good at load testing.


What you need to do is go and work for every enterprise software company ever. Because I've yet to find one that has the ability to back up any of its scaling numbers with anything other than a confused look and "Well, it should work OK with that many [nodes|devices|users|countries|mailboxes]".


Because there is only one way to make sure, and the cheapest way to do that is to bullshit until you find a mug willing to try it for real and pay for it at the same time ;)


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Because there is only one way to make sure, and the cheapest way to do that is to bullshit until you find a mug willing to try it for real and pay for it at the same time ;)


:this: Oh God, so very much :this:.

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Because there is only one way to make sure, and the cheapest way to do that is to bullshit until you find a mug willing to try it for real and pay for it at the same time ;)


Haha. Not so much. We have a tendency to....not really pay for things very much at all.

One of our suppliers we negotiated an unlimited licence agreement and global support contract with in 2001. At this point their product was in its infancy and we had approximately 500 units deployed. Every year renewal rolls around and we refuse to negotiate right up until the last minute when they invariably cave in and allow us to renew support and licencing at exactly the same price as before. We currently have over 50,000 units deployed globally and we're still paying the same as we were over a decade ago.

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 Post subject: Re: Raspberry Pi
PostPosted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 11:03 
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Hire me. I'm really fucking good at load testing.


What you need to do is go and work for every enterprise software company ever. Because I've yet to find one that has the ability to back up any of its scaling numbers with anything other than a confused look and "Well, it should work OK with that many [nodes|devices|users|countries|mailboxes]".


One of our shiny bits of sale guff had the term "infinitely scalable" on it. Our product really, really wasn't.


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 Post subject: Re: Raspberry Pi
PostPosted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 11:07 
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They probably meant "horizontally scalable".


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 Post subject: Re: Raspberry Pi
PostPosted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 12:14 
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Squirt wrote:
Craster wrote:
Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
Hire me. I'm really fucking good at load testing.


What you need to do is go and work for every enterprise software company ever. Because I've yet to find one that has the ability to back up any of its scaling numbers with anything other than a confused look and "Well, it should work OK with that many [nodes|devices|users|countries|mailboxes]".


One of our shiny bits of sale guff had the term "infinitely scalable" on it. Our product really, really wasn't.


I wrote a program to help with Risk Assessments which was to help small businesses to manage small, repetitive jobs. Management then decided to try and pitch it to a company that did repairs on oil rigs and pipelines and tried to convince them that this bit of software would cover all the Health & Safety requirements. Thankfully, it never went ahead.

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 Post subject: Re: Raspberry Pi
PostPosted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 12:23 
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
They probably meant "horizontally scalable".

Vertical scale is theoretically infinite, isn't it? Until you run out of electricity, at least.

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 Post subject: Re: Raspberry Pi
PostPosted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 12:27 
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Grim... wrote:
Vertical scale is theoretically infinite, isn't it? Until you run out of electricity, at least.
What? No. I think you have your definitions backwards. Horizontal scalability is adding nodes (think web layers), vertical scalability is beefing up existing nodes (think non-clustered databases).


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 Post subject: Re: Raspberry Pi
PostPosted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 12:43 
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
Hire me. I'm really fucking good at load testing.



The last business that didn't hire DocG

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