Software Testing

More Than Interviewing For Testers

I took part in a bunch of interviews in the past years and during this time, I've worked on polishing my set of questions to be addressed to our candidates. For a long period, being a candidate to an interview was like a nightmare for me, and have

Software Testing

I Wish I Knew More About...

Picking the right battles. Or picking the right areas to focus on. Why? Well, because in software testing you can easily get assaulted by a tone of technologies, methodologies, frameworks, and tools you are required to master and to learn this or that, and might become scary as you get

Software Testing

How Does DEVOPS See Testers?

This is a series of blog post interviews, aiming to help testers understand how different IT departments see the role of a tester. Every tester wants to become a better version of himself, yet not everyone has all the missing pieces to do that. Hopefully, these interviews will give you

Software Testing

How Does a RECRUITER See Testers

This is a series of blog post interviews, aiming to help testers understand how different IT departments see the role of a tester. Every tester wants to become a better version of himself, yet not everyone has all the missing pieces to do that. Hopefully, these interviews will give you

Software Testing

Letter to my fellow tester.

🔵 The text below was published in "Around the World with 80 Software Testers" book. The book draws upon the knowledge and experience from both experts and new voices from around the world involved in software testing. Don't be shy. Let your voice be heard. Why? Because

Personal Development

What Leadership And Parenting Have In Common

I've read a tweet a while ago about this topic, what leadership and parenting have in common, but back then I could barely get my head out from the sand to see what all this parenting is about. One thing got clear though: You were not born a

Personal Development

5 Things to Remember When You’re Feeling Stuck

Humankind is now living the biggest crisis of our generation, fighting an invisible enemy, the coronavirus. Our government, as many already did, imposed emergency measures, placing the Romanian citizens on a police-enforced lockdown. In other words, we are stuck in our homes to protect ourselves and others too. While living

Personal Development

So You Want to Become a Manager

If you have read some of my previous articles, you may have noticed that I usually write a blog post based on a conversation I had with someone, an idea that came to mind, or an event that occurred in my life. One day, while talking to my neighbor about

Software Testing

Tester Or Developer - Which One Is Better?

It was 14 years ago, I was in the second year at college. True story. A group of students organized a trip in the Romanian mountains, in the heart of Transylvania. After we got there, being young and restless, we all ordered some beers and started chatting about various topics,

Lifestyle

4 Things To Pass Over The Generations

If you know me, you know that I'm a "family first" kind of person and that I rarely share online things about my family. And I don't do it because family is a private thing for me and it should remain private. Parents are

Personal Development

Adaptability Is The New Capability

There are two kinds of people. The ones who like the challenges, to have a thrilling life and who embrace the unpredictable changes in their lives, and the ones who get scared and anxious whenever something is not going according to the plan. Well, I'm in the second

Personal Development

My 2019 In Pictures

Ho-ho-ho, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas! And we're close to end another year. A glorious one! I ended the "My 2018 In Pictures" post with "Will see what 2019 brings!" and 2019 brought many good things. I don'

Personal Development

Is Your Team Dysfunctional?

Spoiler alert! This blog post is a book review - "The Five Dysfunctions of a Team" by Patrick Lencioni and contains references to the contents of the book. This book was recommended to me by my husband, as we spent hours in the last few months talking about

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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