Questions tagged [testers]
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Does every member of an agile team need to be a software developer?
We recently started using agile methodologies at my company. Because I am quite new to agile, I wonder if our way of implementing it is correct according to the basic principles of agile.
Previously, we had roles such as business analyst, QA tester…
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Tester-Developer communication
While a lot is written about developer-developer, developer-client, developer-team manager communications, I couldn't find any text which gives guidelines about tester-developer communication and relation.
Whether testers and developers are separate…
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What traits do the best testers you've worked with have in common?
Tester and blogger Lanette Creamer recently posted this question on Twitter:
If you are a professional software developer who works with testers, think of the best testers you know. What traits do they have in common?
I thought it would make an…
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Programmer-Tester-Ratio
Are there any substantiated recommendations how many testers a team should have per programmer? I'm more interested in opinions referring to an old-school development approach (no agile stuff) and larger projects. Sources are welcome.
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Finding and managing a group of testers
I am about to release a piece of software that will be licensed with the GPLv3 (the project itself is "for fun" and has no commercial dimension in it).
The software is intended to help designing digital clocks and I know the core functionality works…
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Should testers have root access or not, on personal VM, given that developers do?
In a development environment where developers are freely given root / admin access to their personal development VM's is there a need to prevent integration testers from having root / admin access in their personal testing VM's?
The environment will…
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What must testers be able to do to be 'highly qualified'?
Are modern testers like 'stupid' users which try to find a bug clicking and filling fields or they have solid knowledge about product cores?
What modern testers must be able to do?
Must they be coders creating independant/embed tests?
Must they…
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