This is the secret to success.
Most people don’t practice testing outside their job.
Here are 7 things that’ll help you take your testing game to the next level:
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1. Open Source Projects.
馃敻Pick any tool.
馃敻Test It
馃敻Report bugs | change requests
Will help build credibility + real time feedback.
One such project: @testsigmainc
2. Testing Hackathons
馃敻Follow #testinghackathon on Social Media
馃敻Participate
馃敻Test your skills against others in real time.
Will help identify your weak areas + learn from others.
One community that does such free events: @the_test_tribe
3.聽Public Exploratory Testing Sessions / Experience Reports
馃敻Pick any app.
馃敻Test It
馃敻Record the session
馃敻Take notes
馃敻Share notes with app team.
馃敻Publish a video | text blog.
Will boost your networking as well as testing game.
4.聽Testing Assistants / Utils
馃敻Identify any small need of yours. Could be personal too.
馃敻It could be really trivial too. Ex: Running few commands in sequence or clearing program state.
馃敻Create a small utility.
Use your own utility, test it, and improve it.
5.聽Pair Testing
馃敻Find an accountability partner. Anyone interested can qualify.
馃敻Both test together. One can take note; One can control the app.
馃敻Switch Roles
Great hack to learn from others + practice collaboration skills.
6. Volunteer in Communities.
馃敻Find an opportunity to volunteer.
馃敻Better do something that you have never done before.
Great hack to learn from natural ways + Give back to community.
7. Testing Kit
馃敻Look for things that can help your job as a tester.
馃敻Consider even the tiniest of utils.
馃敻Add them on a notion page | webpage. Use it whenever you test.
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That’s a wrap!
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