We have around 8 projects and 8 testers in our organisation. The testers are usually aligned to the Development manager and report to him.  There is no proper process by which the testing can be stream lined. What happens is the developer managers forces the tester to test according to the developers schedule and the manager comes to defend them.  How can a process be set up in a small organisation which ensures good utilization of testers and also helps testers to learn new technology.
So I'm going to be starting a Job here in a few weeks, I've been doing QA for about 6 years now. Pretty much your standard Test Plans/Testing with a little normal SysAdmin stuff that sometimes comes with the task. I've had some good ideas implemented in companies, as far as tracking requirements/test plans/issues differently, and they seem successful. However, this new position will be me laying down the foundation for QA. Right now things are done in what seems to be as needed as far as QA goes, requirements are gathered and sometimes kept in different locations, same with test plans (which are done by developers right now). So my job will be sort of centralizing this, or developing a Flexible way of QA'ing the Software (Web/Mobile development). So it seems the challenge will be centralizing everything, while creating test plans/ or ways of testing similar requirements that is flexible enough to span projects. I've had a few ideas, however, all my previous test work was windows based (So test plans in TFS or Microsoft Test Manager). I wanted to get some ideas from everyone here, or anyone that has started a QA department from scratch. I was also going to see if there were any books on the subject. My thoughts were mainly keeping projects separated for issue tracking (not sure of the software we will use yet). And keeping test plans for common I guess &quot;actions/elements&quot; that are repeated between different customers and executing those. Eventually maybe using selenium to save those &quot;common&quot; elements as test scripts. But I've never set something up like this before solo, so I've been doing quite a bit of reading. Any books/suggestions would be appreciated!
According to Hubble's Law, how can the expansion of the Universe be accelerating? Scientists today think the expansion of the universe is accelerating.   According to Hubble's law, objects further away are moving faster than objects closer to us. The further away an object is, the further back in time we are seeing, so in the past objects moved faster (is this sentence correct?).  So because objects moved faster before than they do now, surely that's deceleration not acceleration?  my textbook says "if Scientists today think the rate of expansion of the Universe were decreasing then distant objects should appear different to Hubble's Law predictions: universe is accelerating. More distant objects would seem to be receding faster (since expansion was faster in the past)" Electric fields and potential E = electric field V = electrostatic potential r = distance ' = derivative   E = - (V)'   therefore if E increases V decreases Also if r increases E decreases                                                      because  E=kq/r^2 From 1 &amp; 2, if r increases then V increases But V=kq/r, so if r increases V decreases   Why does the 3rd point contradict with the 4th ? I have the following code and I expect the resulting angle to be 135 degrees but whatevet I try, I get 90.  \documentclass{article} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{calc} \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture}  \coordinate (A) at (1,0); \coordinate (B) at (-1,1);  \pgfmathanglebetweenpoints{A}{B} \edef\angleAB{\pgfmathresult} \node at (0,0) {\angleAB};  \end{tikzpicture} \end{document}   I also tried the following command without knowing what it means, it also prints 90 except one case. The only working case is when A=(1,0) and B=(-1,0), which it prints 180.  \pgfmathanglebetweenpoints{\pgfpointanchor{A}{center}}{\pgfpointanchor{B}{center}}   Why is that? Couldn't find any reference document for "pgfmathanglebetweenpoints" by the way, that's why I am asking here.  EDIT: B is corrected from (-1,-1) to (-1,1) How do I make Bash my default shell on Ubuntu? How to print the entire array list without appending the index in Java? I have a 8 GB pendrive. I used to write raw data into the pendrive (without creating filesystem) using the dd command.    Today, when I inserted the pen drive, the I am unable to write anything on to it.  When I open gparted it is showing the total space on the pen drive as 500 MB. I am unable to create a new partition table or a partition on the pen drive now.   Here is the fdisk -l output.   Disk /dev/sdb: 0 MB, 512000 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 0 cylinders, total 1000 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00095df6   What's wrong with the pen drive? How can I recover the lost space?   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System   When I open gnome-disks, it shows the total space as 8 GB but when I try to create a new partition using it, it shows the following error:  Error creating partition on /dev/sdb: Command-line parted --align optimal --script "/dev/sdb" "mkpart primary ext2 1MiB 7969177599b"' exited with non-zero exit status 1: Error: The location 7969177599b is outside of the device /dev/sdb.  (udisks-error-quark, 0) How can I do traffic shaping in Linux by IP? We have a transparent proxy setup. I tried looking for traffic shaping in Linux, and all I could find online was to limit traffic by interface (eth0/eth1...).  I need to limit the bandwidth (never exceeding a specific limit) by IP address or IP ranges and I can't find a way to do that.  Is there any way to do that? Can a magnetic field be induced without an electric field? Because, as far as I know, a time varying electric field induces a magnetic field an vice versa.  But in the case of conductors carrying currennt, it doesn't seem that electric field varies with time, then how is a magnetic field induced? sed delete option change of delimiter Why is list initialization (using curly braces) better than the alternatives? Finding the error in this proof that 1=2 I have a "proof" that has an error in it and my goal is to figure out what this error is. The proof:  If $x = y$, then  $$ \begin{eqnarray} x^2 &amp;=&amp; xy \nonumber \\ x^2 - y^2 &amp;=&amp; xy - y^2 \nonumber \\ (x + y)(x - y) &amp;=&amp; y(x-y) \nonumber \\ x + y &amp;=&amp; y \nonumber \\ 2y &amp;=&amp; y \nonumber \\ 2 &amp;=&amp; 1 \end{eqnarray} $$    My best guess is that the error starts with the line $2y = y$. If we accept that $x + y = y$ is true, then   $$ \begin{eqnarray} x + y &amp;=&amp; y \\ x &amp;=&amp; y - y \\ x &amp;=&amp; y = 0 \end{eqnarray} $$  Did I find the error? If not, am I close? How can tangential acceleration from a radial force be explained? I have some survey response data that are inconsistent and I'm not sure what is the best way to handle them.  This is the nature of the inconsistency:    Have you ever had a food poisoning episode that you think might have been caused by the food in a particular restaurant ? a) Yes b) No Did any of these episodes prevent you from eating at that restaurant again?  a) Does not apply, never have had a food poisoning episode b) Yes c) No Following these episodes, did you come back to your normal condition after 24 hours?  a) Does not apply, never have had a food poisoning episode b) Yes c) No   I believe that the intent of the designers of the survey was that anyone answering "No" to 1) should answer "Does not apply" to 2) and 3), but that's not how it worked. A large group of respondents picked "No" for 1) and "No" for at least one of 2) or 3).    What is the best way to deal with this inconsistency?    Where are some good references (books, papers, websites, etc.) to look at discussions and solutions for issues of this kind, and data cleaning in general? Which one is correct to say: "It's me" or "It's I"? I was taught at school that the following expression is not grammatically correct:  Who is there? It's me.  The correct one is:  Who is there? It's I.  Can you let me know which one is accurate? I am interested in how uncertainty can be accounted for when considering the risk of extinction of a species. Forgive me for extending a rather tired thought experiment, but at least it's familiar territory and I hope it illustrates what I am trying to understand.  Let's say that Schrödinger was not satisfied with killing and not killing only one cat, so he went out and collected the last 15 remaining Himalayan Snow-Cats. He put each one in a box with a vial of poison, hammer, and a trigger device for releasing the hammer. Each trigger device has a known probability of releasing the hammer within any given hour, and the poison will take 5 hours to kill a cat (things got a bit trippy when he used radioactive decay, so this time he steers clear of quantum mechanics). After one hour, Schrödinger receives a notice from the ethics board telling him he's nuts and ordering him to release the cats immediately. He pushes a button which opens a cat-flap at the back of each box, thus releasing them all back into the wild. By the time the humane society check the boxes, all the cats have bolted. Before anyone can restrain him, Schrödinger detonates the remaining triggers, so nobody knows how many of the cats were poisoned.  The probability that each of the cats is poisoned is as follows:   0.17 0.46 0.62 0.08 0.40 0.76 0.03 0.47 0.53 0.32 0.21 0.85 0.31 0.38 0.69   After 5 hours have elapsed and all poisoned cats have died, what is the probability that there are:   (A) More than 10 Himalayan Snow-Cats still alive  (B) 10 or less still alive (C) 5 or less still alive (D) 2 or less still alive How can I set CSS only for specific IE browsers? Sample size for logistic regression? I want to make a logistic model from my survey data. It is a small survey of four residential colonies in which only 154 respondents were interviewed. My dependent variable is "satisfactory transition to work". I found that, of the 154 respondents, 73 said that they have satisfactorily transitioned to work, while the rest did not. So the dependent variable is binary in nature and I decided to use logistic regression. I have seven independent variables (three continuous and four nominal). One guideline suggest that there should be 10 cases for each predictor / independent variable (Agresti, 2007). Based on this guideline I feel that it is OK to run logistic regression.    Am I right? If not please let me know how to decide the number of independent variables? Windows 10 won't accept Firefox as the default browser I have a Laars gas boiler that has 3 heating zones. I want to replace the old mercury honeywell tstat on the 1st floor (heat only) with a newer honeywell RTH9580 wifi model. I've taken pictures of my entire system, labeled the wires in the pics to indicate the associated connections, and included the Laars wiring diagram.  There is a transformer mounted on the wall near the boiler that is wired in-line to the system (power from the panel --> into the emergency boiler switch --> into the wall transformer --> then to the boiler (low water cut off and boiler circuitry).  There is also a transformer within the boiler circuitry itself.  Can someone tell me the best method (proper preferred, not necessarily easiest) to connect the C wire? How to get the last date of a particular month with JodaTime?