Comments on: Lessons From Car Salesmen http://gameqablog.com/2008/05/lessons-from-care-salesmen.html And you thought your Quality Assurance staff were illiterate Wed, 24 Feb 2010 03:17:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: zachary http://gameqablog.com/2008/05/lessons-from-care-salesmen.html/comment-page-1#comment-8966 zachary Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:08:11 +0000 http://gameqablog.com/?p=139#comment-8966 Making a note here because I: Love this post and the video, which is surprisingly good to this day. The take-aways you mentioned are absolutely true, I wish more of the "poison testers" from the follow-up article could be helped with the mentoring. Also, I edited the title from "care" to "car", since i assume that is what was intended, or I missed the point and I'll change it back later. Making a note here because I:
Love this post and the video, which is surprisingly good to this day. The take-aways you mentioned are absolutely true, I wish more of the “poison testers” from the follow-up article could be helped with the mentoring.
Also, I edited the title from “care” to “car”, since i assume that is what was intended, or I missed the point and I’ll change it back later.

]]> By: gMazz http://gameqablog.com/2008/05/lessons-from-care-salesmen.html/comment-page-1#comment-8840 gMazz Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:20:44 +0000 http://gameqablog.com/?p=139#comment-8840 As a long time QA person, and newly dubbed QA Manager this is very helpful! Each one of those points are a great, and when all are used together it would make for a skilled and motivated team that could garner some respect instead of disdain. At GDC this year, a Test Manager from MS named Anibal Sousa did a talk about skills, goals, motivation and how this pertains to becoming a better tester/running a better team. It was interesting (and motivating) to see the skill set of a good tester broken down from the generic to very specific. His docs are here: http://cid-8a0f8143ec26a4ff.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/Public/GDC2008 P.S. - Thanks for the tool links, those are new ones to me. Have any tools that you know of for debugging Flash content? As a long time QA person, and newly dubbed QA Manager this is very helpful! Each one of those points are a great, and when all are used together it would make for a skilled and motivated team that could garner some respect instead of disdain.

At GDC this year, a Test Manager from MS named Anibal Sousa did a talk about skills, goals, motivation and how this pertains to becoming a better tester/running a better team. It was interesting (and motivating) to see the skill set of a good tester broken down from the generic to very specific.

His docs are here: http://cid-8a0f8143ec26a4ff.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/Public/GDC2008

P.S. – Thanks for the tool links, those are new ones to me. Have any tools that you know of for debugging Flash content?

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