Software Testing

How Can You Easily End Up Wasting Your Time As a Tester?

We're talking a lot about productivity these days. And more than that we try to impose ourselves different ways to stay productive, ways in which we can maximize our working time, and in the end, this is not a bad thing, right? But what do we do when all our

Friday w/ Testers

Friday w/ Testers - #006 - Sergiu Bacanu

In Friday with Testers, we feature QA experts from our community who share their ❤️ for quality. This episode is about Sergiu Bacanu, automation engineer, Atlassian certified guy and fintech enthusiast. 1. Tell me a bit about your job as a tester. At Modus Create we help clients accelerate their digital

Personal Development

It Is Perfectly Fine To Say "No"

Sometimes we feel the pressure of doing a lot of things and investing our time in different activities and by the end of the day, we feel exhausted from running and trying to accomplish all these requests. And then we end up complaining how tired we are, being sorry that

Personal Development

Setting Professional Objectives Made Easy

Professional growth. We're all seeking professional growth and that's because we're all looking to be better than yesterday, smarter than last year and we need to fit that image that we've created in our heads about the future us. Which is fine. But how about the moment when we get

Software Testing

How Do You Prevent Regression Defects?

I was talking a while ago with a workmate, hearing him complaining by the big number of regression defects he's identifying each time a new build gets to the QA environment. Let's call him Bob. And to make things clear from the very beginning, Bob was not complaining by the

Personal Development

3 Types of People I Admire the Most

Since we are kids we are encouraged to find a model to follow, someone to inspire us or someone to simply admire. I'm pretty sure most of you were encouraged at least once to pick a rock star, a sports champion, a singer, a president, an actor or actress or

Friday w/ Testers

Friday w/ Testers - #005 - Lucian Mihai

In Friday with Testers, we feature QA experts from our community who share their ❤️ for quality. This episode is about Lucian Mihai, the guy behind Cluj Testing Community which aims to teach people software testing basics. Tell me a bit about your job as a tester. Well, it all started

Software Testing

Crafting Your Career in Software Testing

Let's admit it, a teenager finishing high-school and starting college is unlikely to tell you he's/she's dreaming to become a software tester. When I was in college (more than 10 years ago) I barely heard about software testing and when I did, it was because of one course that

Friday w/ Testers

Friday w/ Testers - #004 - Horea Mihut

In Friday with Testers, we feature QA experts from our community who share their love for quality. This episode is about Horea Mihut, whom I met at XTestathon where in the name and for the love of testing, he and his team got the 1st prize🥇 1. Tell me a

Personal Development

My 2018 In Pictures

January 2018 started with me changing my job. Hooray! On my first day in the new office, I got a cake to share it my new workmates. Was pretty nice spending my first hour socialising. February I have had some great memories made in February while attending a photography course.

Personal Development

Setting New Year Resolutions?🎉 No Thanks!

🎈Disclaimer: The story below was written by me exactly one year ago, when 2018 was about to start. Today I revisited it and I'm amazed how much it matches my current state, when 2019 is about to start. Let me tell you a little story about me. Whenever a year

Software Testing

What "Software Testing By The Book" Is?

7th of November. In some days I decide to go and have lunch on my own. Usually, I pick a small table to enjoy my lunch, putting my cell phone away and focusing on my thoughts and the people entering and leaving the restaurant. There are cases when people around

Friday w/ Testers

Friday w/ Testers - #003 - Corina Pip

In Friday with Testers, we feature QA experts from our community who share their love for quality. This episode is about Corina Pip, automation testing enthusiast, speaker and creator of imALittleTester. 1. Tell me a bit about your job as a tester. My current role is being part automation tester,

Personal Development

How Are Software Development Teams Similar To Football Teams?

I used to be a football fan in my adolescence and young adulthood and I was rarely missing the important derbies on TV. I knew by that time all the big teams from Premier League, Serie A or Primera Division and all the famous players. The crush was so real,

Friday w/ Testers

Friday w/ Testers - #002 - Ioana Chiorean

In Friday with Testers, we feature QA experts from our community who share their love for quality. This episode is about Ioana Chiorean, which is a Community Lead and a fervent volunteer contributor at Mozilla. Tell me a bit about your job as a tester I started by chance in

Friday w/ Testers

Friday w/ Testers - #001 - Andrei Contan

In Friday with Testers, we feature QA experts from our community who share their love for quality. This episode is about Andrei Contan, which is an enthusiast Test Architect and triathlonist. Tell me a bit about your job as a tester I’m currently working in Netherlands, as a Test

Personal Development

Why I Transitioned From Medium To My Own Blog

When I first thought I would like to write things learned from my experience as software tester I did not have any kind of a plan. "Should I buy a domain? How should I name it? How am I going to manage all the stuff a blog requires? Do I

Agile

How Not Having A Daily Stand-up Meeting Can Work?

“Agile” or “being Agile” is not a new thing anymore, right? We have even worked or we are working in Agile environments or we are at least familiar with all its concepts. When we think to Agile, and more precise, to Scrum, the one thing that comes rapidly to our

Software Testing

Why Is It So Hard To Create A Community Of Practice?

First thing first, let’s agree on what is a community of practice. A community of practice is a group of people who come together to build and share knowledge, to build and share skills, to build networks, and to build recognition. — UCD Dublin Why is it so hard to

Software Testing

14 Most Common Mistakes A Tester Makes

Did you do any mistake recently? I did. But we’re all humans, right? And we’re all likely to make mistakes. Usually people associate making mistakes with punishment which in most of the cases is the immediate action after a mistake is made. And seeing the good part in

Personal Development

3 Lessons I Have Learned From My Project Manager

For a while, my relationship with the project managers I was working with was like the relationship we used to have with teachers. Even you know they are meant to teach you good things, to guide you, to offer support when need it, you prefer to believe their role is

Software Testing

How Google Analytics Can Help Assessing Risks In Software Testing

We are talking a lot about risks in software development in general, and much more in software testing. And this happens because testing often becomes constrained by time, resources or budget. There have been lots and lots of talks and articles lately about how to identify the potential risks and

Personal Development

“Add Positivity Into Your Testing”

There is something that keeps hunting me in the last couple of days and I was trying to give it more and more sense. It is a sentence that Richard Bradshaw put together at Romania Testing Conference this year: Add positivity into your testing. When I heard it, I was

Software Testing

Romania Testing Conference 2018 Through A Volunteer’s Eyes

“Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something” -Frederick Smith Romania Testing Conference is a 3-day conference that takes place in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, once a year, usually in May. I first took contact with it in 2012, when I think was at the first edition, and

Personal Development

3 Things Your Manager Should Know About You As Tester

Let’s face it, not everyone knows or cares what a tester is doing every day and how is she/he doing the testing. The most common opinion that I have heard is that testers are doing quite a boring job, clicking around and trying to find defects or to