I found a couple of interesting links about critical thinking from James Bach and Michael Bolton.
Those links are really interesting and fun!
James Bach – Teaching Critical Thinking (with Dog Food)
and
TestBash New York is coming :)
That’s going to be an interesting meetup!
Alas, I’m not sure I will be able to participate this time.
http://www.ministryoftesting.com/training-events/testbashny/
Learning Python!
I started to learn Python about a month ago, and today I asked my fellow student at BBST Foundations course if he could recommend any good books to learn Python. He’s an experienced Python programmer. So, he gave me a great list of books. I wish to keep that list for myself and share it with others:
– Effective Python (more advanced)
– Learning Python, 5th Edition – very comprehensive and deep going introduction
– Programming Python, 4th Edition
– Python Testing Cookbook (2011) – nice for testing
– Test-Driven Development with Python – also very interesting book but requires more knowledge of Python
– Testing Python – good for Unit tests, BDD and TDD programming approaches
– Learning Python the Hard Way -> http://learnpythonthehardway.org/ very fast way to get basic knowledge
– 100 Python Programming Exercises – good for practice https://github.com/zhiwehu/Python-programming-exercises/blob/master/100%2B%20Python%20challenging%20programming%20exercises.txt
– Project Euler – more practice more mathematical exercises – https://projecteuler.net/
Thanks, Patrick!
Association for Software Testing membership
Today is a great day in my life! I decided for myself and joined the Association for Software Testing!
I’m truly excited and proud to be a member of the AST 🙂 I hope to meet many interesting people and learn more about software testing! Here I go!
From the confirmation letter:
Dmitrii Kilishek
QA Engineer
Membership Type: Regular Member
The next thing is coming! I registered myself for BBST Foundations course! Wish me luck 🙂
This e-mail confirms your registration for the following event:
Organization: Association for Software Testing
Event Name: BBST Foundations (101-AJ)
Date(s): [Oct 25 2015, 00:05 AM] – [Nov 21 2015, 11:55 PM]
Can’t wait to start this course! 🙂
2015 Toyota Corolla LE onboard computer range bug?
As a software tester I sometimes find interesting bugs in everything that around me. This time my new 2015 Toyota Corolla LE surprised me with really unexpected one.
A little story. I usually fill up my tank at a gas station that is not far from my home and offers good prices on gasoline. I love to save money, but who doesn’t? And you know this moments… it happens… and I went almost out of fuel when I was far from my favorite gas station. Oh, yes, I know. I should have filled my tank before 🙂 So, I decided to stop at a nearest gas station to add some fuel to be able to get home. So, I thought that 1 gallon would be enough for my trip. And I put 1 gallon in my tank. But how was I surprised, when I saw that my range wasn’t extended! I thought to myself… just don’t rush.. give it a couple of minutes. But nothing changed even after 5 minutes of waiting. So I decided to start my trip. After about one mile warning light came out, but range kept lowering! That was fun, and I imagine what kind of a surprise it would be for somebody who didn’t know the whole story from the beginning 🙂
Following are some pictures.
Here I realized that I was running out of fuel and took a picture:
Actually, my car throws warning light every time she gets to the range of 30 remaining miles.
Then I arrived to a gas station where I took a picture before the fueling:
And then I took a receipt (The secret is… that wasn’t my first time when I found that issue, I knew what to do :):
Then I took a picture after the fueling and I was going to start my trip:
Despite on that range and warning light I decided to start my trip. (I added 1 gallon! Why shouldn’t I? 🙂
And then while I was driving, warning light came out but the range kept lowering 🙂 (Sorry, the image is blurry, I was excited and driving 🙂
Luckily, I knew that I put a gallon into the tank, so I got home safe! But at the end of my trip the range was 0. 🙂
My experiments showed that when I add 1 gallon of fuel in the range between 20 and 30 miles the computer will extend the range according to 1 gallon of fuel. But when I add 1 gallon at the range 14 miles or less – computer won’t extend the range. Every time I tried to add more then 1 gallon, e.g. 2 gallons the computer recognized that amount and extended the range. So this issue happens only when 1 gallon is added at a low range mileage 🙂
Toyota! Test your vehicles better, please 🙂 I don’t think everybody loves this kind of surprises 🙂
I caught another repro on video:
Hello world!
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