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Candidates, things your interviewers want you to know

(This is close to my heart because I’ve done a bunch of interviews lately, some good, some not so good.) If a skill or qualification is on your resume, I will ask you about it, especially if it's one I also have. Claim to know C# and

Your software project might have a QA if...

Some of these are mine, some I lifted from the company Slack channel for Quality Advocacy. * You're used to finding Cyrillic or Greek or Mandarin in the database * There's code in place to stop you copying War and Peace into the app multiple times * You know

Sh*t my QA says

There is a bug, I just haven't found it yet. Well, it's broken on my machine! In the Danish version of Windows, if you click really fast, the app just crashes. It doesn't work when I put Cyrillic text in. Or Greek, Hebrew, or

I'm worth more than that

I've been in software quality assurance since 2005, and working as a quality engineer for the last year, which is an unusual skill set. For my current position I need to be able to program at a decent level in C# and Java, know HTML, CSS, SQL, git

Evernote

I just got back from a business trip, and I may be slightly addicted to Evernote. Since the client we were visiting issues iPads to new employees, it made sense to take a work iPad with me instead of a bulky, heavy laptop plus power brick, and I've

Words to a new software QA

We're not after the developers. We're after their code. It's not personal. If they didn't want us to find the bug, they shouldn't have written it in the first place. QA starts with the requirements, if those are vague, the

Cool Etsy shops

I'm confident these Etsy shops will never end up on Regretsy. I've either bought from these, or love their stores. Idle Hands Designs Maker of the sutured heart necklace, which I have been wearing most days since I got one earlier this year. Mine is oxidised

How to write good code

Or you could do Agile programming from the start. (Cartoon swiped from xkcd, with permission)

From QA to Dev

Dear programmers, a few notes from your QA team lead: We don't actually hate you. Not by default, and not at first. It takes time and effort on your part to earn the ire of the QA team. But if you tangle with one of us, you tangle

Technical difficulties

I believe that's the polite term for what happened to my blog. The more accurate description is totally fragged and plagued by zombies. What's galling is that the trauma I went through was unnecessary because it was a web server/FTP server syncing issue. The blog

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