Monthly Archives: June 2008

Where’s the Career Path?

One of the major downsides to quality assurance is the lack of a career advancement path. On a project nowadays, you may have forty to sixty temporary testers, after which maybe two or three are brought on as full-time testers.  In a department of forty to sixty full-time testers, you may have maybe five leads

Methods of Pest Control and Extermination: A Most Rousing and Revealing Study of Such Methods As Employed By Various and Diverse Cultures

My people have a saying: “Cate bordeie, atatea obiceie”; the rough translation of that would be that each household has its habits. I have witnessed the truth of that in my career as a game tester – truly each and every company I have worked for or with had its own approach to testing and

Intermission: Because Those Graphics Need Tightening Up.

After the break, because it hasn’t been displayed enough times already.

Poison Testers

We’ve all had them…those fellow employees who just suck the life out of any team, department or company that they are associated with. However, it can be difficult as a lead or manager to figure out whois the poison pill in a team because most of the time, employees will openly bitch about other employees