I’m loving seeing everyone’s wins each month It seems like so much time has passed since last months wins were shared
What are your wins for March? No matter how big or small they might seem, share them here so we can celebrate with you
My wins for this month:
Professional: Started regularly pairing with Richard to get some more changes achieved here on The Club. Not many of them released yet as we’re working on a branch but it’s really exciting to see the progress.
Professional: Actioned a tonne of admin and tidied up a lot of loose ends ahead of me going on maternity leave to make sure I’m leaving things as easy to follow as I possibly can.
What a month it was! There is one big win that I cannot share yet, but it is one I’m really chuffed about
Part from that, it feels I’m building a better rapport with my manager. Had some good talks with him this month. Hopefully that will lead to some exciting things to come for me within the organisation.
On a personal level, my partner did a 100 km walking challenge for Dementia UK, together with the dog . In the end she managed well over a hundred miles, and raised more than £350 in the process. I joined them as much as I could. We’re now proper geared up for longer hikes together.
I started trying out a whole bunch of API testing tools for the new project I’m on (it’s pretty much API only without any UI) and I’m working with the developers figuring out the most appropriate automation solution for testing our APIs.
Attended a weekly DDD Lunch session with my fellow co-workers where we discussed Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software, by Eric Evan - we go over one chapter per week.
Helped the BAs by giving them a few tips on Postman for their Acceptance testing
Personal:
I registered for the free Jira (up to 10 users) so I can experiment with few of my mates and do some side projects
Spent some time replaying Disciples 2 (an older turn-based strategy RPG hybrid)
Professional: I’ve just built a working automation framework at my new job while taking a brand new approach, it has been a big learning curve but it’s worked out!
Personal: Massive redesign of the living room which has given us more space, more light and a more practical layout! Has taken several days but it’s changed out lives
Bit of a delay as I’ve been on holiday but wins are;
Professional: Finished the Software Testing Bootcamp! The last sessions with the two cohorts was a bit emotional and we’ve had some amazing feedback but the real reward has been watching people grow in confidence. I’ve also written a mentoring piece for the BCS The Tester magazine which should be out later this month and today I’ll be publishing the first Accessibility Tuesday ‘A11y with Ady’ monthly newsletter on my blog.
Personally: We may have a forever dog and having a week off, even if some of it was doing freelance work has been really great to not rush to get up, bing a bit of telly and have a drive round the Dales.
I’m trying to remember what happened in March…it was a good month!
I got to be on a panel discussion at TestFestUK, on the relevance of the Automation Pyramid, and this has led to an upcoming blog collab on strategies, which I am excited about
I gave some internal training that was well received (I think)
I have an early trial of MetroRetro V2, which I am enjoying playing with and see a lot of potential for further use internally and with the Testing Peers
I attended my first Salesforce centric conference, and survived
I had my first MoT virtual coffee for aaaages, which was really nice
My wife had a false positive test for Covid, so we only had to isolate for 2 days and no one has the virus right now, phew!
ThreadStatic instances of Selenium webdriver with Nunit, Fluent Assertions, ExtentReport and Log4net.
The ThreadStatic driver is a completely new thing to me but it works brilliantly for keeping tests isolated.
It seems like so much time has passed since last months wins were shared 
. In the end she managed well over a hundred miles, and raised more than £350 in the process. I joined them as much as I could. We’re now proper geared up for longer hikes together.
