Software Quality Assurance

Turning off Smart Quotes. Having a content team that knows what to look for and when to look for it. Standards - the only problem with them, everyone has their own. http://www.packetsoft.com/2009/01/how-to-purge-microsoft-word-smart.html http://www.accordmarketing.com/tid/archive/websafefonts.html http://ezinearticles.com/?Microsoft-Word-Smart-Quotes-and-Article-Marketers-Dont-Mix&id=15624 http://socialmediasystems.com/blog/microsoft-word-blogging-tips-%E2%80%93-change-the-curly-quotes-to-straight-quotes/ http://www.accordmarketing.com/tid/archive/websafefonts.html

http://java.sun.com/j2se/versioning_naming.html http://pear.php.net/group/docs/20040226-vn.php http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/8/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Parts&file=00001641.html

How fast should media download? How fast should it stream? Audio formats? Video formats? Bandwidth requirements?

Types of Non-Exempt Work If you spend most of your time doing any combination of the following, you are entitled to overtime: 1. Analyzing, troubleshooting, and resolving complex problems with business applications, networking, and hardware. 2. Installing, configuring, or testing new computers, applications, networks or hardware based on user-defined requirements. 3. Creating or troubleshooting network accounts (logins) and other business application user accounts. http://www.gotovertime.com/tech-job-descriptions-overtime.html http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/faq_OvertimeExemptions.htm seems to me that any and all QA work by law gets overtime. http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/case/california-quality-assurance-engineer-overtime.html I guess a give away would be the number of lawyers out there looking to sue your employer for you, mostly so they can make a buck, it the law ;)

If you run your VSS database on a NAS can this still be done? Answers to this and much more coming soon...

What should I use; is Excel enough? Do I need Mercury? Right tools for the job? Nail gun verse hammer? http://www.testingfaqs.org/ http://www.opensourcetesting.org/ http://www.qalinks.com/Tools/Automated_Testing/ http://www.aptest.com/resources.html http://www.softwareqatest.com/qattls1.html Don't trust anyone who says tool x is better than tool y with out knowing what your testing or scope is. Many QA tool companies will try to convince you that you need thier tool and that may not be the case.

Junit, Nunit, xUnit....So unit testing is importing. And the most important at the start of the development life cycle. Its no surprise to anyone in Test or QA that running testing scripts and having a test plane and unit tests ready for programmers and developers to review before coding begins is going to reduce bugs but how do you get your business to understand this?

What it means to change produciton server location. New hardware same applications what should be updated. What applications get cut over first. New hardware.... Same code base... Sync content w/ test and prod The cut over to a new data center