What are you doing to make the software testing world a better place?

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No matter how small or big, change comes in all shapes and sizes.

Iā€™d love to hear what you are doing, trying to do, or want to do.

What are you doing to make the software testing world a better place?

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Multiple things:

  • Mentor Freshers / Juniors
  • Blog - Text, Video, Visuals
  • Share resources with people in need
  • Run a small WhatsApp group with learners and testing oriented people.
  • Answer Questions on Testing Forums, Linkedin, etc.
  • Meet testers in local meetups. Do 1-1 mentoring.
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ā€œSharing resourcesā€ deserves so much more exposure within communities!!
Getting guidance on decent articles and videos etc. from people who have been through the learning path youā€™re starting is invaluable.

Especially if you can be guided to certain parts that might help!!

For example:
ā€œHave you seen or heard of {insert article/book name}? Section x would really help you understand your issueā€.

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Not much but I create tech-related content, share, and discuss my knowledge, thoughts, opinions, and experiences with others and with the community. I always try to stay professional in my work and be an example for my colleagues in terms of QA

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Iā€™ve been getting back into the community in the last weeks by writing blogs, engaging with people on LinkedIn, responding to Club posts, promoting others, etc. What Iā€™ve realised and am trying to remember is that if I do too much too quickly (as I often do), Iā€™m likely to lose steam and stop contributing at all, so self-care is helpful for me and the community in that respect.

Aside from making the contributions, Iā€™m also trying to be mindful of how I contribute. For example, if I notice that someone has been engaging with my work a lot lately, I try to also engage on their work more. And if I have a different opinion from someone else, I try to express that in the most respectful, neutral way possible.

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Four words:

Ramone the Testing Otter

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ā€œSharing knowledge about testing and other things on my mindā€
mindfultester.com

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  • Mentoring & coaching people
  • Testing on the job
  • Testing off the job
  • Bug bounty
  • Host MoT meetups :muscle: :party_parrot:
  • Join other peoples meetups! I actually set myself the goal to do 100 meetups in 1 year of time. (The meetups must be relevant to my expertise, no cooking or something like that XD)
    ā€“ Iā€™m already over 100 this year. Physical & remote meetups both count. Because Belgium is to small to share knowledge physically! :smiley:
  • Browse forums & discords to answer questions

I want to start blogging ā€¦

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If you do start blogging, let us know and we can it to the MoT Radar.

Also, weā€™re always happy to accept articles at MoT. :heart:

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building better test management https://testomat.io to fit modern QA needs

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Just by searching on Google ā€˜software testingā€™ I can see how many actors have been and are continuously degrading the professionalism of testing. Not a reasonable thing found in the first 5 pages in my region.
I decided a long time ago that being one of the 5 million testers worldwide who does or doesnā€™t do something publicly about testing, wouldnā€™t make much of a difference.
Just thinking of how much effort Cem Kaner of James Bach put into progressing the craft for close to 30 years, to see that most people havenā€™t heard or read about their work; or just directly dismiss itā€¦

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Sharing 30+ys of experiences eg here

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  1. Sharing knowledge and information with others through Linkedin, Blogs, Articles, etc.
  2. Mentoring junior colleague
    3.Answering questions & doubts on various online testing communities
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By letting sole QAs like me know that theyā€™re not alone :nerd_face:
Jokes apart, I mostly try to help people with same or less experience than me, both here and on Reddit.

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Iā€™ve said a similar thing on LinkedIn, but I reject the premise of the question.

Mostly because ā€œthe software testing worldā€ suggests a siloed approach to software development. I think that looking at software testing in isolation is part of the problem. The problem being that most people in most organisations are shipping crap, time and time again.

Instead of thinking about making software testing better, we should be thinking about making software development better, more specifically about making software deliveries better - and faster.

It feels like we are still struggling against the normalised bad practices that are the legacy of waterfall and its SDLC. I think that, globally, most software development teams are failing. Whether it be my ignorance or a lack of awareness, due to this normalisation.

At the moment I am trying to get my thoughts down into more long-form content than MoT or LinkedIn posts and comments. Itā€™s taking some time. What started as one article will likely end up as at least three. But Iā€™ll get there :slight_smile:

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Iā€™ve wroten and published a book怊the idea of test design怋, which sammarized 8 kinds of idea s in test design, including systematism, enumeration, criterion, diversity, statistics, redundancy, inference, cybernetics. This book is in Chinese now, and I hope to pub an English edition.

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I like and approve! :smiley:

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In my personal time, hereā€™s what Iā€™m contributing to the software testing community:

  • Writing Cypress blogs tackling everyday problems faced by QA Engineers, some of which are quite complex and recur in Pull Reviews.
  • Creating open-source plugins to facilitate the daily tasks of QA engineers and fill long-standing gaps in the Cypress ecosystem, including:
    • wick-a11y: A tool to enhance web accessibility.
    • cypress-ajv-schema-validator: A plugin for validating JSON schemas.
  • Actively answering questions and sharing resources on various QA forums.
  • Engaging with the QA community by connecting and meeting in person to exchange insights and knowledge.
  • Sharing publicly my atypical journey of becoming a QA Engineer to inspire others who might be hesitant to take that final step.

Cheers!

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I like how you prioritise self care as part of contributing to the community!

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