Test managers often hold brief phone interviews to screen out candidates for QA/testing positions. With resume in hand, which the test manager has probably not even reviewed, before the interview commences the test manager is expected to determine within an hour or less whether the interviewed candidate would be a good fit for the project. [...]
Summary
In the simplest terms, Software Testing is a process to ensure the accuracy, completeness and quality of any developed software.
Rather than limiting this to a formally technical process used to investigate and measure quality of the developed computer software in terms of correctness, completeness and security, it is imperative to test the software components and [...]
Domain Analysis
It is usually the first step in attempting to design a new piece of software. It involves the investigation of the area such as: banking, marketing, retailing, insurance etc., where the software is to be employed.
Know The Client
The holy grail of any project, satisfy your client. For that you need to know, what is [...]
It is impractical and often impossible to find all the errors in a program. This fundamental problem in testing thus throws open the question as to what would be the strategy that you would adopt to test. Two of the most prevalent strategies include black-box testing and white-box testing.
Black-Box testing
* Examines the fundamental aspect of [...]
Did not post for a while, because was really slammed with work. But could not resist from sharing this very valuable online resource
http://www2.wealth-lab.com/WL5WIKI/MainPage.ashx
The Wealth-Lab Wiki hosts a Knowledge Base for Wealth-Lab Version 5 (.NET) as well as expanded documentation for Wealth-Lab Standard Indicators and TASC Indicators.
Open Source Code!
This Wiki also serves as our Community portal [...]
In this comeback year for investors, David Tepper may have scored one of the biggest paydays of all.
Mr. Tepper’s hedge-fund firm has racked up about $7 billion of profit so far this year—with Mr. Tepper on track to earn more than $2.5 billion for himself, according to people familiar with the matter. That is among [...]
Lets say you want to start a hedge fund. Its not that complicated though you would need some tools and processes set up to run your operations. Off course the variety of tools and processes would depend on the your knowledge and complexity of your strategies.
Though a vanilla hedge fund would need at least the [...]
I saw an estimate of average yearly software related costs of a hedge fund with about 300 mln under management:
Statistical Software Licencse Fees - $30,000
Data Feeds - $80,000
Back Office Software (accounting, CRM, etc) - $50,000
Total Comes up to about: $160,000 / year
Interactive Brokers.
Patsystems.
IQ Feed.
eSignal.
SmartQuant.
Genesis.
tick-TS TradeBase.
Trading Technologies.
MetaTrader.
FXCM.
FIX Connectivity.
The environment that nutures creative programmers kills management and marketing types - and vice versa. Programming is the Great Game. It consumes you, body and soul. When you’re caught up in it, nothing else matters. When you emerge into daylight, you might well discover that you’re a hundred [...]