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Comment on So, You’ve Decided to Interview For Game QA by Matthew

Matthew — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 21:15:55 +0000

Excellent posting with great information. I also agree that accepting the offered item (beverage, haggis on a stick, whatever) is the polite thing to do. You don’t have to ingest it, just accept it. The ‘testing a stapler’ question isn’t so bad, as it will give some insight into your thinking. If they have a ‘non-confidential’ variant of the game available, that would always work best. Especially if they ‘think’ it is bug free, and you find something!

Comment on Quality of …? by LP

LP — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:21:11 +0000

you have a typo in the first link… – feel free to delete this comment

Comment on The Tester by james covert

james covert — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 22:01:46 +0000

This is going to be a bit of the old buzz again, i remember that was widely accepted on the PS2, with this one though, i can see some problems if they turn it into an online networking tournement, could be a right mess. However, sony have come up with some good quiz programms in the past, will have to wait and see.

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

BullzEyE — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 20:32:18 +0000

Hey,

I am from India and i ve been in game testing industry from last three years.
I am glad to read bout your technique of negative testing , i think i ve been doing this all my testing period and got scoldings from my seniors that i might spoil the consoles/hardware….but now i know for sure that there is nothing actually wrong about that

I would like to hear more about it, about \lets see how we can break this \ theory…Please reply!

@above : Annu….its nice to see girls workin in game testing…which place actually??

Happy Gaming..Chao!

Comment on Full interview with Game Career Guide by JD

JD — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 03:17:26 +0000

Hi Alex, you missed an ‘s’ in ‘interested’

Comment on A Case for Test Case Web by Hien

Hien — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:17:59 +0000

couldn’t get the databse to works. Database error when submiting the test result.Please help
Thanks

Comment on A Case for Test Case Web by Hien

Hien — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:09:20 +0000

everything seems to be fine but when I enter a test comments and select pass/fail and submit, that when I see Database error. it look like it could not insert the into the result table.
any help would really appreciated.
Thanks

Comment on A Case for Test Case Web by Hien

Hien — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:06:16 +0000

I am trying everything I can but still having a Database error! as follow:
Database error! (insert into results (tcid,uid,tested_on,passed,vid,bugid,comment)values (5,1,now(),false,,null,’Testing with database error’);)

help!
Thanks in advance

Comment on Poison Testers by mimi

mimi — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:16:57 +0000

I have never encountered this problem with any of my teams.. But maybe it depends on how many people you are managing.
The reason why this has never been a problem for me is that I am close to them, they have respect for me, trust me, and feel that they can confide in me.
This has to be built up in time.

I was once told by my managers to not be such close friends with my teams. However, I did not agree with this and am doing so still.
It has never been a problem, and will rather prevent any problems.

good luck!

Comment on Bugzilla, why can’t I select from a list of the most common people? by Max Kanat-Alexander

Max Kanat-Alexander — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:48:54 +0000

You can also just type part of their full name or email address in and after bug submission it will give you a list of matches to pick from. The AJAX autocomplete is coming in a future version, though.

-Max