Hi
All , This blog post will speak of various testing activities I was
part of which had been of great impact to my career.
I can divide my testing career as before Bug deBug and after Bug deBug.
During
my job hunting days, I would read all the testing interview questions
from the net for the interview. In one such interview, I came to know
about a testing conference which was going to happen in Chennai. Out
of interest and curiosity, I attended my first testing conference,
Bug
deBug.
Before
attending this conference, I was thinking that testers job is only
executing the test cases, just meet the organizational expectations
and discuss with the testers who are in my team and continue the
work.
After
I attended the conference, I realized that the importance of
practicing testing and then on my opinion and view towards testing
changed.
So,
I decided to start learning and practicing by the following ways,
- Joined Chennai Testing Group
- Registered with 99tests.com
- Participated in weekendtesting.com
- Reading Testing Blogs,Magazines and Books
- Giving presentation within my team.
- Completed my Testing Certification
- Writing my own testing blog
Being
a member in ChennaiTesting Group,
I have got a chance to network with testers across various companies.
There is lots of learning and sharing which takes place in this
group.
The
best part of Chennai Testing Group is it conducts monthly tester's
meet in various corporate organizations,which is a successful and
energetic event. In Every meet there is something to learn and lots
of healthy discussions.
This
monthly meet has enabled testers in chennai to bond in a much better
way and help each other professionally.
This
group has entered into its 4th
year and has been
very effective and useful for testers. I would strongly recommend
testers and people who are interested in testing to join this chennai
testing group.
My
Experiences and Learnings in 99tests.com are as follows:-
1.My
Vision towards testing an application and thought process has been
improved.
99tests.com
has provision of accessing other tester's bug from there we can
observe how other tester's are exploring the applications and their
reporting skills.
I
was amazed to see the amount of effort tester's are putting for the
competitions. Ajay was one such person and his learning can be read
in his blog.
Now, Sudhamshu
has also started to focus on security related issues
This
will surely Motivate other testers and make them learn more.
2.Experience
with different kind of app. (No Domain Constraint)
99tests.com
announces competition covering a range of applications such as
Shopping Portal, App for conference,Mobile Application and many more.
Hereafter I will not say I have experience only on specific domain :)
3.Managing
Time and Prioritize the tasks
As
99tests.com brings a purely competitive mode, as a tester I can
manage my time in terms of identifying and reporting Bugs.
While
going through some testing blogs I came across this phrase : “Testing
is an idea generation activity, rather than a plan implementation
activity.”
Yes,
99tests.com provides platform for the testers to think,explore,
observe and report.
And i m happy to inform you all that i bagged the first place in one of the recent contest in 99tests.com :)
And i m happy to inform you all that i bagged the first place in one of the recent contest in 99tests.com :)
and
above all we can earn some extra money by doing something we like. :)
Weekendtesting.com
I
wish to participate for every week. Laziness and lack of prioritizing
the weekend activities I could not able to attend this on regular
basis.
In
a year only once I was a part of weekendtesting.com
and I am damn sure that it will really help testers to think more on
the given application.
Hope
in this Year, I will take part in this regularly.
Testing
Blogs,Magazines and Books
After
coming from the Bug De Bug, I had a list of good software testing
books for reference. As a first step towards my learning process I
ordered the “lessons learned from Software Testing”.
TestingCircus
is the first magazine which I started to read, later I found there
are other magazines too which speaks testing such as Testingplanet,
Professional Tester,
Tea Time with Testers
and TestingExperience
Had
a Folder of tester's Blog in My Bookmarks bar with most of the
tester's blogs in it and updating myself by reading those.
Presentation
in my Team
Had
a chance to present a paper on SBTM
Tools.
The Learning of SBTM will come as another blog entry :)
The
habit of talking to various testers and reading related blogs helped
me to prepare for the presentation.
This
helped me to overcome stage fear and improve my presentation skills.
Completed my ISTQB Certification
Completed my ISTQB Certification
I
have completed my ISTQB Foundation Level Certification with 80% for
which I was able to easily prepare with my experience and learnings.
This
blog is outcome of the various activities which I have mentioned above.
As
learning is a never ended process, I request my fellow testers to
practice testing, attend testing conferences and workshops.
I
would not have come this far if I had missed the Bug deBug
conference. Thanks to bharath
for letting me know.
Waiting
for the next Bug deBug
announcement.
Happy
Testing!..
