The Test Department

So I had Phone Interview..... ..well I thought I did. I revived an email from the person who was going to do the interview. It would be at midday and would take half an hour at most. It was just to walk through my CV no more than that. Still it's chance to make an impression, even if it's just by phone. One problem though, my current place of work is really small, I mean really small and all the rooms are usually full of people trying to avoid other people or talking to customers. I did not want my current colleagues having to listen in to me be that less complimentary about my current situation (I hasten to add many would agree and sympathise ) I of course needed to get out of the office and go somewhere a little bit of earshot. I thought about a couple of Cafe's but then again knowing my luck I would be in mid-flow about my career to date and some loud people would plonk themselves down next to me. Also, nearly every place has some sort of music playi...

Why the rubbish name of the Blog, and what is this bad news? It is a bit rubbish isn't it, but it's my title and I am keeping it. I have been involved with Software Testing malarkey for over twenty years now almost all of it has been manually done...times are changing though this old coot has to get into the modern age or I will be put out to pasture, or wherever old testers go in their twilight years-there is probably a dark dingy dive bar full of old testers muttering over the cheap beer squinting at the occasional daylight whenever someone opens the door.  So to my bad news. A few months back I changed jobs, I moved from a relatively large, well managed, organised software company that had pretty good QA/software development process.To a relatively small software company that didn't.  I have always wanted to go to a company like that. A small company that had relatively no process, so I could go in there help create them and build on my skills as ...