Although I can see many routes to get an education in testing, programming, etc. how can I address the requirement that nearly all jobs seem to require some actual software testing experience as well ?  What should one do to gain experience in software testing ?  Any tips for what should be on your resume for a candidate who is applying for jobs in QA automation ? Apart from the ISTQB Foundation Certification.
I have a BA degree in Biochemistry.  I worked at a research lab for 5 yrs before I quit my job to be a stay at home.  Now I want to change my career and get into the field of QA.  I don't have much knowledge as to what the best way is to get into this field.  I cant afford to take online courses, so I want to self teach it to me.  Any suggestions and help would be greatly appreciated.
Is there a place to see release dates for previous releases? Is there a way to write binary literals in C#, like prefixing hexadecimal with 0x? 0b doesn't work.  If not, what is an easy way to do it? Some kind of string conversion? I recently upgraded to 12.04 from 11.10 and since upgrading have been unable to log in to my user profile. The upgrade went okay and I can login to a guest session fine but whenever I try to login to my profile, after entering my password, I just return to the login screen.  I've changed my password in Root (passwd &lt;username&gt;) and can log in to tty1 with no issues, it's just in GUI I'm having problems.  I'm using a HP dv7 laptop, 32-bit Ubuntu install, Intel® Core™2 Duo CPU P7350 @ 2.00GHz × 2, Nvidia graphics.  Any help would be appreciated. Would like to emulate google maps' driving directions functionality but use pgRouting instead. google's data over the project area &amp; scale is quite a bit off so we want to use our own transport network data in postGIS.  any hints?  thanks. Steam doesn't start - Segmentation faults What can i put into \setmathfont{&lt;...&gt;.otf} for the unicode-math package to make it all work (with XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX)?  There are several suggestions on the  of unicode-math, but the first option is commercial, and the second and the third do not work with the following example:  % !TEX TS-program = xelatex  \documentclass{article} \usepackage{unicode-math} \setmathfont{latinmodern-math.otf} % \setmathfont{texgyrepagella-math.otf} % \setmathfont{xits-math.otf}  \begin{document} $X\setminus Y$ \end{document}   I do not get the \setminus character in the output.  The \setminus character is also missing if i do not set a math font at all (i do not know which font is used in this case).  It works with xits-math, but i do not like it.  Is it expected by the way that the \setminus character is left blank without giving any warning? Clean install Windows 8.1 or Windows 8 from OEM key How many physical degrees of freedom does the $\mathrm{SU(N)}$ Yang-Mills theory have? Shell Shortcuts in Windows OS Brand new disk brakes are barely stopping the bike Prove that if $k\mid m,$ then $Z_m$ has a subgroup of order $k.$ Prove that if $k\mid m$, then $Z_m$ has a subgroup of order $k.$  Ok, so this doesn't look like too hard of a problem. So do I just show that it is closed under multiplication and inverse? I just don't know how I would do that with a problem like this. Can anyone help me get started please? Headphones don't work after update I updated to Ubuntu 15.04 from Ubuntu 14.10 a few days ago, and now my Logitech G230 headphones don't receive any sound. How can I fix this? PulseAudio Volume Control detects my headphones, and says they're working, but no sound comes through.  EDIT: Using alsamixer worked at first, but now it doesn't, and I get frequent bursts of static through my headphones now. How can I save the command and its execution output to file at the same time Suppose I have a command java -cp src/ nlp.lm.BigramModel wsj/ 0.1, I want to save the command itself and the command execution output to the file at the same time.  One way to do this is to   echo "$ java -cp src/ nlp.lm.BigramModel atis/ 0.1" &gt; trace/bigram-trace.txt     java -cp src/ nlp.lm.BigramModel atis/ 0.1 &gt;&gt; trace/bigram-trace.txt   Is there a better way to do this? Detecting significant predictors out of many independent variables In a dataset of two non-overlapping populations (patients &amp; healthy, total $n=60$) I would like to find (out of $300$ independent variables) significant predictors for a continuous dependent variable. Correlation between predictors is present. I am interested in finding out if any of the predictors are related to the dependent variable "in reality" (rather than predicting the dependent variable as exactly as possible). As I got overwhelmed with the numerous possible approaches, I would like to ask for which approach is most recommended.    From my understanding stepwise inclusion or exclusion of predictors is  E.g. run a linear regression separately for every predictor and correct p-values for multiple comparison using FDR (probably very conservative?) Principal-component regression: difficult to interpret as I won't be able to tell about the predictive power of individual predictors but only about the components.  any other suggestions? How do I show that $\sum_{cyc} \frac {a^6}{b^2 + c^2} \ge \frac {abc(a + b + c)}2?$ Let $a, b, c$ be positive real numbers, show that  $$\frac {a^6}{b^2 + c^2} + \frac {b^6}{c^2 + a^2} + \frac {c^6}{a^2 + b^2} \ge \frac {abc(a + b + c)}2.$$  I think this is likely to turn out to be proved by Hölder, but I can't see how. Any hints will be appreciated. I am thinking about buying a new lens specifically to take photos of distant targets (birds, bears, etc). I currently own the Canon 70-300 IS USM, which is a nice lens, but I find that if I want to take a photo of anything further away than about 10 meters, the target does not fill a large amount of the frame (meaning I have to significantly crop in post production).  I am currently looking at the Canon prime 400mm, however I would like to determine at what distance an object will fill a reasonable proportion of the frame.  Is there a formula or rule of thumb I can apply that will help me in this situation? I realise the size of the target I am shooting will play a role here, so if we need to make an assumption about the size of the target please let me know. Should we improve time to first byte or Page Speed Insights score for SEO? Google posted last summer that "page speed" will impact the search result rankings also on mobile devices. But I think there is a little confusion about the term "page speed".  The test tool which Google offers is called "Page Speed Insights". Many people we are talking with, are thinking that the overall score of this tool for a particular site for example Desktop: 46/100 and Mobile: 45/100 is used for the ranking algorithm.  BUT I found a very interesting article in German language which states that only the TTFB (time to first byte) value is used and this should be optimized not all suggestions which "Page Speed Insights", further called PSI offers. Here is the link to the German article:   In short terms it says that a very large site in this case "The New York Times" has a low overall score of Mobile:41 and Desktop:45. As they are used to sell reader memberships they should  offer a great user experience. So, they should optimize their site. But when I call this site it is amazing fast. The overall PSI score does not reflect this behaviour. But when I believe this article the TTFB for this site is perfect. Also when I call it here from Austria it states 0.881sec.  I really like to know on which value we should focus our work for optimization not to fall in the ranking. Because as many of you already said it is not useful to implement all suggestions from the PSI site for one domain.  So, it would be real  if you could clarify things here or post links to official posts from Google. What I found about this, Google always is talking about "page speed" but what exactly is this? Give the "some of your recent flags have been declined" banner some room The "some of your recent flags have been declined" message recently got a banner, which makes it stand out  more (which is nice) but it touches the 'Flag' button, which is less nice. Can it have some margin at the bottom (and perhaps less padding?)    Tested in the latest Safari and Firefox on macOS Catalina. What is the physical significance of dot & cross product of vectors? Why is division not defined for vectors? I get the physical significance of vector addition &amp; subtraction. But I don't understand what do dot &amp; cross products mean?   More specifically,    Why is it that dot product of vectors $\vec{A}$ and $\vec{B}$ is defined as $AB\cos\theta$? Why is it that cross product of vectors $\vec{A}$ and $\vec{B}$ is defined as $AB\sin\theta$, times a unit vector determined from the right-hand rule?   To me, both these formulae seem to be arbitrarily defined (although, I know that it definitely wouldn't be the case).   If the cross product could be defined arbitrarily, why can't we define division of vectors? What's wrong with that? Why can't vectors be divided? I'm trying to figure out the name of a movie I saw on TV as a kid, in the mid-to-late 90s, in the US, in English, on daytime TV.  I remember it being kind of Starship Troopers-esque, but everyone had these glowing lights in their chests.  They glowed in different colored patterns, and I think it had something to do with whether you were attracted to someone or not (I was probably like 7 when I saw it, I didn't really understand the context of that part yet).