Anybody work in Software Testing?

I work as a software tester/qa engineer or whatever you want to call it - do you have msn?
 
Don't use MSN at the mo unfortunately.

I need to have another read of the job description over the weekend anyway. Once I have some questions I'll post in here.

Thanks!
 
tripitaka said:
Actually, let's start with:

What are the differences between Functional, Non-Functional, and User Acceptance testing?

Thanks.
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Well *here* (not necessarily elsewhere)

Functional - testing that stuff does what it's meant to do - functionality wise
Non-Functional - I guess this is our GUI testing, making sure everything's the right size/alignment/spelling etc.
User Acceptance - we're given a list of stuff our software should do under certain conditions. We have to test that it does so. If it does, they buy it. If not, they walk away (or give us another chance if they're nice)

All of our customers want our software to do slightly different things, to fit into their production environments.
 
Difference between functional and non-functional is pretty much a) does it do what it is supposed to do and b) does it not do what it is not supposed to do. User acceptance is a check list of pass requirements.
 
Where i work:
Functional: the we (the dev's) can make it behave how we want
non-functional: the opposite of above
user-acceptance: a none-dev person can use the software, it doesn't crash and is intuitive 'path of least astonishment' - it does what the user would normally expect - eg you click a button marked 'copy files' and it doesn't pop up a picture of a teapot
 
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