And… this is a reminder to myself that time flies super fast! It feels like I posted about starting the 30 days of Postman challenge just yesterday and now I’m posting that it’s completed. That was a fast and interesting journey. I’m going to be missing those daily challenges.
Started this one recently. Looks pretty fun! Completed the day 6 today. Just to have my skills in check. Overall pretty interesting experience, would recommend this one to a friend 🙂
If you want to start your own challenge – just click below:
https://blog.postman.com/introducing-30-days-of-postman-coding-challenge/
Are you guys looking for cheap developers? 🙂 Prepare to ask yourself many uncomfortable questions 🙂
This trend is really interesting these days, I’ve been bombarded by recruiters looking for SDET position candidates on a daily basis. I know, recruiters aren’t those who write job requirements. So this post would be more addressed to Hiring Managers. So who do you guys really want? Let’s look at skillsets(obv. incomplete, just for the sake of visualization):
Just think about this for a second. Let it sink down.
What is very interesting is that most of SDET job descriptions represent a developer background. Not just any, a strong developer background with 3-5 years of experience.
Let’s look at simple life scenario of SDET at work:
– Hey, {Name} can you test this?
– Sure, here’s a bug.
– Can you look in the code and make sense what’s wrong?
– Sure, here’s the problem in the code.
– Can you fix that yourself?
– Yes, I can fix that and I’ll test the fix after.
Ask yourself these questions now:
Here are some more questions to think about:
Who can actually make a good SDET?
So these are those who are you looking for to fill your SDET positions. Plain and simple.
Same article on LinkedIn
Hooray! Here it is, my cert has arrived! Looking forward to try myself in this new role.
Another Webinar with Michael Bolton
RST views on Automation:
Must watch for those who want to be a better tester!
Great article – totally a must read!
This April was full of new insights and work. BBST Bug Advocacy course wasn’t that tough as BBST Foundations, but it was still very insightful!
The most enjoyable part of the course was my work with fellow students, it was challenging due to our different time zones. The second inspiring thing was our work on unconfirmed issues in OpenOffice bug tracker. That was a good challenge, it was hard to find an issue to work with, because few of them had a chance to be reproducible.
With trembling heart I’m waiting for the results and I hope I’ve passed the final exam. 🙂
Course is available at AST website here
Material for the course available here and anyone who’s interested can watch lectures and slides for free.
Update from 5/14/2016: I’ve completed the course! Hooray! Have just got a confirmation 🙂 Now I’m waiting for my certificate to arrive.
Finally my certificate has arrived!
Thanks to AST and my instructors!
Hi everybody!
This is a new interesting post from Michael Bolton on his blog at developsense.com!
Over the last year James Bach and I have been refining our ideas about the relationships between testing and tools in Rapid Software Testing. The result is this paper. It’s not a short piece, because it’s not a light subject.
This is an interesting subject, definitely worth reading. Thanks Michael!