Hiring problems emerging from not knowing what a testers responsibilities are.
Does it matter to you as a hiring manager to know and share what a tester’s responsibilities are? Does this knowing shape what a tester does in the role of a tester? Does this knowing shape the future of testers and testing? What gets communicated as a tester’s responsibilities does affect what a newbie /clueless tester does at his / her first job. It takes a rebel and an educated tester to question the norms. My education on software testing was that of the traditional sorts — write test cases by looking into the FRS, send it for review, rework on the review comments, execute the tests and log bugs against it. When I did something out of the recorded tests — one of these 3 happened: ‘In awe!’, ‘Why did you do this?’ or ‘Who detected this?’. 1. In awe because a new tester swayed away from test cases (It was unheard off for some that a newbie cannot follow the rules set). 2. Why did you do this was because it is not recorded as one of the test cases (and is not reviewed) and who wi...