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How Google Tests Software
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How Google Tests Software

by James A. Whittaker, Jason Arbon, Jeff Carollo
March 2012
Intermediate to advanced
320 pages
9h 10m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 4. The Test Engineering Manager

As test engineers (TEs) and software engineers in test (SETs) labor to support the user and developer, respectively, there is one role that ties them together, the test engineering manager (TEM). The TEM is an engineering colleague taking on important work as an individual contributor and a single point of contact through which all the support teams (development, product management, release engineers, document writers, and so on) liaise. The TEM is probably the most challenging position in all of Google, requiring the skills of both the TE and SET. He also needs management skills to support direct reports in career development.

The Life of a TEM

The cadence of a Google testing project doesn’t just happen ...

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