Talk:About Testing: Difference between revisions

A recent experience absolutely assured I will never take anybody's test under any circumstances. In a vindication of my long screed in these pages after successfully taking one test and thinking we were beyond that stage, I was subjected to a vicious adversarial "can you read my mind" type tech-out and presented with a second test to implement a core functionality in the line of biz of the startup in question!!! I've posted the first test on the original [http://meansofproduction.biz/eg/index.php/About_Testing mod_perl CMS page] with the older ones and as the second has been posted to github (*Cache Manager") where I make it available as free software (currently a stub of a serious app). There was a poignancy in this because I had a pretty good rapport with CEO of the start-up and obviously I must have done well on the first test or they wouldn't have flown me cross country for what turned out be a ludicrous tech-out (the CEO was out of the country) replete with various misdirections and other comic elements (e.g. stressing "SORT" when "MAP" was meant, assuming that talking about the simplest function and writing f(0) would imply a table look up, etc. The cherry was to be asked about [[:en:Dynamic Programming]], and find the questioner used it as a trick question having apparently either only superficial knowledge of it or purposely meaning to conflate it with static vs. dynamic typing.