A win is a win. What were yours this week?

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It’s the end of another week! What were your wins this week? Big or small, please share!

Mine:

  • I remembered to do this. Better late than never. Working on making this a habit.
  • Had a fantastic discussion with @isabel-evans and @lisa.crispin about AI, communication, and the state of the world. Being in community helps.
  • The current test suite found a regression bug (before it hit production) that I didn’t think to check. It’s good to have all the checks.

Would love to hear some wins in the community!

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Had some wins in what feels like a while. Wrote some automation for the first time in about 2 months. Had a really good conversation about automation in the team I’m in and how we’re going to distribute it across different layers. And I’m getting more up to speed within the new team I joined a couple of months ago meaning I’m able to get to grips with tickets easier

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+1 on our discussion together! I “met” several new people by way of reviewing their draft conference proposals and giving them feedback. Really interesting topics and stories. I signed up to join a phone bank session to help a Democratic candidate in a special election - the House Republican majority is slim. I did my PT exercises. I got to be interviewed by Yves Hanoulle for his Who is Agile video channel.

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I think this week i have more losses then win because of hectic work schedule as I couldn’t explore much.

But still some of the win for me were :slight_smile:

  1. My contribution to selenium got featured in the spotlight of seleniumconf
  2. I attended the testing planet episode which was really insightful on quality coaching
  3. So far i wasn’t so much familar with api automation so I’m exploring that too.
  4. I was on stage with simon and ben on MoT weekly event and as usual it was good experience to see the familiar people again

However again there are some losses this week :slight_smile:

  1. One of them is lagging on my weekly goals
  2. Another is too many things in my plate kept my mind distracted and hence throughout the week i kept juggling between one task to another and eventually majority of them are unfinished.

PS: I have started writing my goals on white board with the help of marker, inspired by sticky notes. In my case it is not on my desk, instead i have hang it up on my room’s door.

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I wrote my first Automation example ussing Selenium and Python. Testing simple things using the webdrive, CSSLocators and ussing a webpage for testing that some person in the forum recommend me. I uploaded it to my github. This is like my exercise as I am doign an udemy course about this and I am already around 55% complete. Then great milestone forme.

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Cleaned up my weekly task list, which usually doesn’t happen because there’s too much work.

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I was at SeleniumConf.

I was dreading the sponsor booth side of it, but actually it was so much fun with @alexandramot and meeting everyone.

We’re in the process of creating an MoT Collection of it, have a peek: SeleniumConf 2025 | Valencia | Spain | Ministry of Testing

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So, one more week almost going to over, however, this week had a bit more ups and downs in comparison to the last few weekends:

  1. So I joined a testing program that actually focuses on transforming the processes and methodologies to make the testers and testing more valuable in the organization, and most of the time this week went into making notes for the same.
  2. I started exploring selenium bidi and mcp but have had no significant success so far. Let’s hope I make some progress this weekend.
  3. I’m back to practicing programs in Python as I’m looking forward to exploring Numpy and PyTorch in the next couple of weeks/months
  4. Explored a couple of topics in Postman related to api testing like mock server, etc.
  5. Finally completed the Jujutsu Kaisen series after two years of patience :grinning_face:

What I missed this week :

  1. MoT weekly event- I thought it was scheduled at 6:30 pm (IST), but it is now rescheduled to 5:30 pm.. thanks to daylight saving…my bad :innocent:

Last Sunday, I came across a post on LinkedIn in which the author said that since we always take leave when we feel sick/bad, let’s try to take leave when we feel good to enjoy the good mood. I took the leave on Monday, and I wasted the whole day while sleeping. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

Looking forward to having a more productive Saturday and Sunday. Happy weekend. :slightly_smiling_face: