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I wouldn't complete that phrase with "Tester". Nor SQA. Nor Quality Assurance. In fact, the idea of working in Technology was not even on my radar.  I wanted to work with children. That was my first dream job - child psychologist. As I looked for colleges, I stumbled upon a university that had a degree in International Relations. I didn't have Google back then but worked at a library and began researching careers with this degree. While in college, I had heard about those studying or majoring in Computer Science. The problem with that was science: it's not my favorite. So I stayed away from anything computer related and mostly used the Macs for those 15-20 page papers. I got a job out of college as a Project Manager. But it was in for the Technology department of a global trading company.  I had no idea about the projects I was managing; what updating an application entailed or testing the changes to the front-end of the application.  I had to manage status

One of the first things I learned as a Quality Assurance Analyst more than 15 years ago was I had to mark a test Pass  or Fail . Green was associated with a test that passed and red associated with a test that failed. It seemed very black or white, but we all know that there is always room for some gray (or grey). I was taught to follow the steps in the test case and when done mark it Pass or Fail - the vast Excel spreadsheet would have the empty column labeled Pass/Fail. I'd follow steps like these: Write the words "This IS a tESt" Highlight "Test" Bold "THIS" Underline another word Expected Result: THIS  IS a tESt Actual Result:  This   IS a  Test And the test would be marked  Pass ...but is it? Is it  Fail ? Most of it Passes, there's just this one tiny detail. And that's the thing, the Detail. It wasn't until many more years of testing did the performing of the steps, the marking of the scenario Pass or Fail com

As a gift, I got a space to blog. I'm going to blog about    Testing.  Why? Because I've been doing it for quite some time now as my job.  It is also something people may do on a daily basis and not even realize the skills they're using are utilized by testers. I'd like to share the experiences I've had in my career and in turn encourage more dialogue, comments and questions about my experiences or your own. So here goes. Let's try...