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March 2007 - Posts

I Don't Want to Graduate, I Want To Be A Great Tester
I recently read John McConda's blog on hiring testers and where testers "fit" within his company. Until businesses and corporations recognize that testing is a career and not a stepping stone, our craft will be plagued by the "developers are superior Read More...
Microsoft Update Reminders are really annoying
First, I apologize for no screen grabs. I'll try to update this post later, like next month, with them. Due to a human-induced firewall error, our Automatic Updates from Microsoft were being blocked. I ran my updates on my desktop and it asked me to Reboot Read More...
Deciding Between the Red Pill and Blue Pill
There was a good post by John McConda on this subject at the end of Dec 2006, but after contacting him, I found out that he is his harshest critic (aren't we all), deleted the post, so I'll write my version of the Matrix's Red Pill vs. Blue Pill scenario. Read More...
Goodbye Selenium, Hello Watir
After a 1.5 months of using Selenium , the team decided to bring in Watir . There were several reasons for our decision, which I'll outline: 1) The testing community is going towards Ruby. Ruby has turned out to be a very friendly language for the test Read More...