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8 Oct

About

Posted by Wade

Welcome to my blog. As you can tell by the header, my name is Wade Wachs, and I manage a software testing group at LiquidWeb.com in Mid-Michigan. This is a blog about the testing world as I see it. Regardless of popular belief, I am not perfect or all-knowing, and therefore I hope you will disagree with some of the things that you read here. As you disagree with me, PLEASE TELL ME. I want to hear what you think and foster some healthy discussion so we can all stretch our knowledge and paradigms to ultimately become better testers.

Feel free to comment on any of the posts here, or reach out to me privately. You can find me with the username ‘wadewachs’ on most networks, including twitter, skype, and gmail.

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