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Why "Test Risk"

Recently I have had lots of interviews for QA Analyst roles in the company. We called engineers from the level of beginner to senior test engineers for these roles. One of the most important questions in our interview is for understanding why we are testing. Actually this question is more about the philosophy of the testing, as we think the philosophy is generally not liked by people, but everyone who does something about a subject everyday from 9 to 6 should think about why he does this job. I wonder whether the testing job is just only to feed himself or he has some other passion about his profession. That's why this question is very important for me. One of the training given by Ståle Amland which is " Exploratory Testing – Risk-Based Agile Testing ", he explains the philosophy of testing as epistemology of testing and he is saying that " all good testers should  practice Epistemology ", see these slides in his training: What is epistemology is acco

Good QA Assignment: You may Want to Ask in Your Interviews

QA position is not like development or analysis position so finding a good QA engineer is not as easy as development engineer. You may ask some technical questions to your QA candidate but half of the QA responsible is related to social ability, and the rest part is related to knowledge about testing domain and practices. I want to share a good review question and a related answers below. Question: Before you start- some directions: You need a computer, it can be a Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7, or a Mac OSX/Linux machine, of course   Download the  KeePass  installer and install it on your machine you intend to test with, install the Classic Edition Version 1.17 from:  http:// keepass .info/download.html The problem: KeePass  Password Safe is a free, open source, light-weight and easy-to-use password manager for Windows. You can store your passwords in a highly-encrypted database, which is locked with one master password or key file. Part 1: Use your s