The Shaolin of testing

In my testing career span of close to 7 years, i have come across various testers. Every tester has unique skill sets and things that motivate them. Based on the various tasks a tester has to do on a daily basis or during a project, I would like to categorise these testers into 3 types Manual tester Automated tester Hybrid tester Manual testers are mainly non-technical and are focussed more on testing applications manually. These types of testers have good domain knowledge. Automated testers are technical testers who mainly deal with tools to help them test applications. They are given a set of test scenarios and all they need to do is automate these scenarios. Hybrid testers are like superman. They are expected to do whatever is thrown at them and it is these types of testers that are in demand these days. Now the interesting aspect is what motivates these testers in their day jobs. Lets take a look at this in the form of a graph where x-axis represents the various activit...

ThoughtWorks, pune recently played host to the vodQA-2 event, a technical conference which brings testers from various organizations under one roof. The turnout for the event was way better than vodQA-1. The topics too were great and so was the quality of speakers. This time the event had lengthy talks, lightening talks and also a talk on TWIST , a ThoughtWorks product which is a testing tool. This was what was covered during vodQA-2 Full Length talks Topics Organization Deepak Gole & Saager Mhatre Automated acceptance testing for iPhone Sapna Solutions Parul Mody & Vijay Khatke Cloud Testing BMC Software Ashwini Malthankar Effective use of Continuous integration by QA ThoughtWorks Vijay and Supriya Test your service not your UI ThoughtWorks Lightning Talks Topics Organization Satish Agrawal Leadership and Innovation in a commoditized industry Persistent Systems Anay Nayak Fl...