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Programmate
1
: they must be able to read and write code if they are going to automate tests. So
they must either be programmers too or are capable of becoming one.
2
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Logical
(which you??™d expect if they??™re literate, numerate, etc., but which means they anticipate
trouble in interfaces, specifications, etc., which nicer, more trusting people would miss).
How to (Not) Choose a
Subordinate
arly in 1944 there was a British Prisoner of War camp near Chester, full of Germans. The
camp commandant badly wanted to be part of the invasion of Europe. He pulled strings.
Lieut.-General Brian Horrocks heard of him, and decided to pay a visit.
On the appointed day, the camp commandant and all his staff paraded at the front gate, and
waited. And waited. And a sergeant came and told the commandant that, er, Horrocks had been
and gone. Sir.
???Gone????
???Yes, sir, came in through the back gate, went straight to the prisoners??™ mess, sir. Then he left.???
Horrocks had opened a salt cellar and found no salt.
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Horrocks for other stories of Horrocks. But not
this
story.
1
Yeah, OK. Sorry. Shakespeare and Chaucer both turned in their graves then. But you read it here first.
2
This directly conflicts with the claims made by a number of automated testing tools coming onto the market. It
is true that they don??™t necessarily involve scripting in the manner of (say) WinRunner, but (for example) Quick Test
Pro includes the facility for writing functions.
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