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QA != Tester

Last Saturday I had one of those epiphany moments for something way too obvious, still too shocking for me at the moment of speaking. It was related to the QA process and the place of the QA role in the software industry. I got involved in a discussion on Saturday evening regarding several different technical specialties. There were three of us teaching classes at the Telerik Academy here. Trainees could end up as: developers, frontend engineers, support experts, QA guys etc. Not surprisingly for me, most people tend to lean towards the development department, i.e. trying to join the dev… Continue Reading
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WordPress Job Titles and Skills – Where Do We Stand?

Since I've started my analytical research on the community, including the client's side earlier this month, I've had plenty of examples within the broad community (all people building WordPress websites) for things that are quite alerting. Problems in Our Ecosystem Some of the encounters include: Contractors taking on assignments that they are obviously not capable of solving Web design companies asking for their website to be built by an external company WordPress service providers asking me for WordPress work when they found out that they aren't capable of moving a site People labeling themselves as developers, even though they touch no code… Continue Reading