{"id":255,"date":"2010-11-23T09:56:25","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T17:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/?p=255"},"modified":"2010-11-23T09:56:25","modified_gmt":"2010-11-23T17:56:25","slug":"qa-about-software-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/qa-about-software-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Q&amp;A about software testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>If you want to skip the preamble and get to the point, just page down to the end of this post.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The professional software testing community has a good support network of web sites dedicated (or partially dedicated) to answering questions about testing. Some of my favorites are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/social.msdn.microsoft.com\/forums\/en-US\/softwaretesting\/threads\/\" target=\"_blank\">MSDN Testing Forums<\/a>&#160;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sqaforums.com\" target=\"_blank\">SQA Forums<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/softwaretestingclub.com\" target=\"_blank\">Software Testing Club<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/testrepublic.com\" target=\"_blank\">Test Republic<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(apologies if I didn\u2019t include <em>your<\/em> favorite site \u2013 a comprehensive list wasn\u2019t the point)<\/p>\n<p>But as you may know, I\u2019m a huge \u2013 no, <em>gigantic<\/em> fan of the <a href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stack Overflow<\/a> model of q&amp;a services. The model for <a href=\"http:\/\/meta.stackoverflow.com\/questions\/7237\/how-does-reputation-work\" target=\"_blank\">reputation<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/meta.stackoverflow.com\/badges\" target=\"_blank\">badges<\/a> allows the reader to find the best (as voted by peer-reviews) answer quickly and encourages participation by both askers and answerers of questions.<\/p>\n<p>About a year ago, when <a href=\"http:\/\/stackexchange.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stack Exchange<\/a> (the generic engine behind Stack Overflow) went into beta, <a href=\"http:\/\/hexawise.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Hunter<\/a> kicked off a testing site based on the engine (<a href=\"http:\/\/testing.stackexchange.com\">http:\/\/testing.stackexchange.com<\/a>). The site has had <em>some<\/em> traffic, but let\u2019s face it \u2013 it doesn\u2019t have the daily traffic of any of the four sites above (yet). If you haven\u2019t been to <a href=\"http:\/\/testing.stackexchange.com\">http:\/\/testing.stackexchange.com<\/a> yet, go ahead and ask (or answer) some questions,or vote on answers or questions you like.<\/p>\n<p>Stack Exchange recently changed their model (in a good way), and have a staged process for developing sites. There\u2019s a testing \/ quality assurance (people still don\u2019t get the difference, but bear with me) site in proposal right now. The plan is, that once the site gets from proposal to beta, that we\u2019ll use the great questions on testing.stackexchange.com to seed the new site.<\/p>\n<p>I know what you\u2019re thinking \u2013 why do we need <em>another<\/em> q&amp;a site. For me, I believe in the Stack Exchange model, and think it would be a wonderful addition to the testing community.<\/p>\n<h3><font size=\"4\">If you\u2019re with me, and want to support a Stack Exchange site on software testing, please <a href=\"http:\/\/area51.stackexchange.com\/proposals\/2241\/software-quality-assurance?referrer=LXpi96l5xqSOcSFp2uqP3w2\" target=\"_blank\">go to the proposal and pledge your support.<\/a><\/font><font size=\"4\"> <\/font><\/h3>\n<p><font size=\"4\">We need a lot more people to commit to help make the site successful, but I know you can help.<\/font>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to skip the preamble and get to the point, just page down to the end of this post. The professional software testing community has a good support network of web sites dedicated (or partially dedicated) to answering questions about testing. 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