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Man. Have you ever had one of those weeks that makes you feel like your brain just got backed over by a semi-truck? That’s what this week was for me. Between seem­ing jug­gling angry bears, every­one around me seems to have come down with the creep­ing crud.

Of some inter­est, I’ve dis­cov­ered a series of QA-Related blogs (the result­ing read­ing of these makes me ques­tion my own method­olo­gies) — includ­ing a QA Pod­cast (in one episode they cover Sele­nium). Here’s that roundup:

Col­lab­o­ra­tive Soft­ware Test­ing
James Bach’s Blog
Agile Test­ing Blog
QA PodCast

Most of these con­cen­trate on the con­cept of Agile Test­ing, and basic to advanced method­ol­ogy. I know they made me think about var­i­ous approaches. Over­all, I think a lot of what’s said inside the com­mu­nity is applic­a­ble to most soft­ware development/QA groups — but I strongly dis­agree with some of the assump­tions (but I’ll cover some of that in later posts).

Good Info!

I’m hop­ing to be able to cycle back into PyHack mode next week — I haven’t been able to make progress on any of my python projects (both inter­nal and exter­nal), so my abil­ity to talk about any­thing new or inter­est­ing is greatly diminished.

One gen­eral thing I have been Navel-Gazing about is this:

My com­pany (and a few oth­ers I know about) have been look­ing for solid Python peo­ple — QA peo­ple who can pro­gram in python (for tools devel­op­ment, test automa­tion) and in gen­eral com­pe­tent “Python Hack­ers”. After scour­ing the inter­net, and post­ing every­where we can think of, it looks like a employee-market. The num­ber of skilled Python peo­ple is either incred­i­bly low, or those who are skilled, are not look­ing (or not look­ing for some­thing out­side of core development).

Over­all, it’s sort of depress­ing (espe­cially as I need the help!) but then again — I real­ize the tra­di­tional stigma of the QA role (and how do scream “it’s not like that here” loud enough) and I also real­ize that QA is con­sid­ered a step­ping stone posi­tion for many on the path to development.

Like I said — Navel Gaz­ing. I just want to find good QA Engi­neers who can also write code. I know they exist, dangit.

Man. Have you ever had one of those weeks that makes you feel like your brain just got backed over by a semi-truck? That’s what this week was for me....