Vinktank

Recently I have been doing a lot of interviewing at Thoughtworks and have found one particular question to be very useful as we struggle to find decent testers in Australia (if you think you are one then have a look here ). The question is not related to testing but gives understanding how motivated and passionate a perspective employee is. Most candidates will say they want to keep their skills up to date and training is something they are looking ...

People tend to use number of test cases, ratio of passed v failed test cases, number of defects found per test case or similar metrics as measures of how good a test strategy is. Although these metrics can give some indication, to my mind the best metric to measure the effectiveness of all your testing effort is how many unknown issues are found in production. By unknown issues I am referring to issues that were not detected prior to go live. ...