Charley, speaking on that spectrum, I'm just getting into real programming, and would like to slide more towards being a real developer while retaining and building on my testing skills. Out of our entire QA team, I'm becoming the "scripting guy", which is kind of sad since we all need to be at the same level. Nevertheless, I'm thoroughly enjoying my education and it seems that I have some job security. I've been tasked to automate testing for all of our web applications.
I hope to go from understanding 20% of the posts on this forum to at least 40%.... :) On Mar 4, 2:25 pm, Charley Baker <charley.ba...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm a test developer, with a background in testing as well as development. > Test scripts and automation testing should be run as development projects - > scm, code reviews, ideally paired programming, branch cuts, working with the > production code developers, running, creating and sharing tests. > > There's a spectrum of where you place yourself on the scale between tester > and developer. The question definitely deserves a longer answer. Something > we tried tackling at the td/dt conf a year or two back. As a side note, I > don't hire people who have no automation experience, there has to be some > scripting skills. > > It's an interesting question. > > Charley Baker > blog:http://charleybakersblog.blogspot.com/ > Lead Developer, Watir,http://wtr.rubyforge.org > QA Architect, Gap Inc Direct > > On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:00 PM, JArkelen <johnvanarke...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > I'm a test automater en performance tester and use Watir for our > > functional regression tests. > > > On Mar 4, 6:14 pm, Lisa Crispin <lisa.cris...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi George, > > > I'm a tester, I have learned enough Ruby to maintain and write new Watir > > > scripts, and I know enough Java to sometimes be able to look at a > > traceback > > > and figure out what the problem might be! > > > > It's a great question, I'm curious to know now too. Most Watir people I > > know > > > have solid programming skills, and I think that makes things much easier > > all > > > around for using Watir. > > > -- Lisa > > > > On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 8:39 AM, george.sand...@gmail.com < > > - Show quoted text - > > > > george.sand...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I was just curious to know who is purely a QA tester (like myself) and > > > > who is both a tester and a developer... > > > > -- > > > Lisa Crispin > > > Co-author with Janet Gregory, _Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for > > Testers > > > and Agile Teams_ (Addison-Wesley 2009)http://lisacrispin.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Watir General" group. To post to this group, send email to watir-general@googlegroups.com Before posting, please read the following guidelines: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support To unsubscribe from this group, send email to watir-general-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
