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To write better scripts Testers need to have some “Play time” with the application/system that they are testing.


Hands up, how many of us here have been on project where the test scripts by well meaning test analysts that have never been near, or barely touched the application that is going to be tested. The well meaning TA’s (I include myself here) have had to rely on the bobble heads who have written the specs. I am very aware that in most projects today that this is the norm and sometimes i… Continue

1. Never get too drunk with Developers/Product Managers. Yes this may lead to great team building, but it may also lead to some difficult times. For instance you are just about to ask for more time to test and Senior Developer brings out incriminating photographic evidence of you dancing on the bar in your underwear.

2. Never test something with a hangover after a night out with the Project team. You raise what you think is a particularly juicy bug that you found the day before but were not tha… Continue