Having been involved in testing for a long time, I constantly try to find new and creative approaches to help me gain fresh perspectives on the process.
Recently, for some reason, I had the idea to use my old Casio F91 watch to practice my testing skills. To my surprise, the old watch didn’t disappoint. By simply holding down the bottom-right button for a few seconds, the display shows ‘CA5I0’. My day was made.
Tell me how you train your skills.
I seldom train it intentionally, but it became my second nature. I see the problems in most daily things where others pass by. Pointing this out bugs also others once in a while.
IF I do something like train testing, it is ready rules of games. I read them for different reasons, but looking for problems in them is a enjoyable exercise as well.
Thanks for sharing this @thomas74 , always great to see testers embracing the mindset beyond work.
I personally like to challenge myself by testing mobile apps & websites outside of work-especially on different devices & networks to observe unexpected behaviors. Even everyday tasks like troubleshooting a smart home device or exploring hidden feature in software help sharpen my skills.
Right now as I am discovering the QA testing world I have to much to learn. One thing that I like to do when learning some topic, is actually to find a way to create a Github repository ussing what I learned. You know short simple things to the point, minimum product theory or how you wanna call it. This makes me practice what I learned in a real scenario and also leave a prove of my expertise that everybody can see. So good for my CV as well.
I use my testing skills for empathy. Anytime I see a problem with tech, I very often think about someones phone going off or a cross-continent slack thread about increased CPU usage.
I used to think of these as “applications” and now see a Python server running a cache in a K8s cluster on a cloud provider that has a sneaky one line issue that only crops up on the 1st of the month when a new instance of a pod is asking for authorization. Harder to apply this to traffic, but same general idea.
I keep exploring mobile applications and web applications.
There are many interesting applications I come across every day so I randomly perform action on that and keep checking the behavior.
Also I keep checking LinkedIn, in case there is any interesting automation scenario or script posted by anyone I tried that too.
As of now I’m trying these things. May be in future I will explore more ways to train my testing skills.