I’m so happy that this thread has returned, the end of year one was wonderful, but I love the weekly positive thread.
I started the #100DaysOfMove, it’s only day 4 for me, but I’m hopeful that I lose weight and get fitter during this lockdown, as opposed to the last two.
I started getting to use AzureDeveOps in anger this week, my how the world looks nicer without a Tortoise tool!
We (Testing Peers) released our #MakeATester episode, which is a really interesting topic and hopefully can keep those conversations going - #MakeATester
In my interim Scrum Master role, I had to run planning all by myself (no PO or stakeholders present) with minimal preparation time, and it actually went ok, I think…I guess we’ll find out when it comes to retro time!
5 day weeks are hard after the festive season and January is pfft but:
I wrote a tiny bit of C# while following a Specflow code along example and it actually worked
I spent some time debugging and working through a problem on PROD with a developer I had previously argued with and felt like we had got off on the wrong foot. We solved the problem and moved it to PROD I think we have a much better understanding of each other.
I found an excuse to use Beeceptor again and managed to set up my own mocking rules that then worked in little JS test I’d built while doing an API testing course.
Hi there! My win this week was to keep an overall zen attitude. Whereas it’s true that my week wasn’t long (there was a public holiday) and I wasn’t loaded with tasks either, I could have felt overwhelmed anyway as usual and this week I didn’t I’m happy and pleased with this feeling of “things will be done when they get done”. Cheers!
Putting in a routine to balance my work and sons school work now school is closed again. Thank you to our CommunityBoss for helping me take a step back and de-stress
Making sure I went for a walk everyday so that I actually left the house which improved my mood
API Testing in JavaScript on TAU. The course uses mocky which looked the same as Beeceptor so I thought I’d try with that instead. I used beeceptor where I was before to mock intergration providers when the devs had set up new connectors. It always required a bunch of faff to get the notifications to actually send so when I did finally get some in beeceptor it always made me very happy and as such I have fond memories attached to it #simpleapitestingpleasures
Went for my first ever run (last weekend but I’m counting it as it was less than 7 days ago ).
Gotten used to working in a better home environment - last year, I was working at a desk in the bedroom which ended up making me feel like I was sleeping in the office all the time. Over the break, my Wife and I moved bedrooms and turned the old bedroom into a proper office space. Something we can leave at the end of the day
Designed an API testing framework using C# and RestSharp which I think is going to work quite nicely.
I completed a PoC on K6 Load Testing, I made sure it had Feature Parity with Locustio which is what our tests are in now. This is a win for me because if I can switch us to a Javascript supported load tester I don’t have to write all the load tests. And If I leave the team there is no need to bug me for Python changes.
Its a cool process to learn new tools!
Went completely blank in a meeting - was open to say I was struggling with balancing kids/work in the first week of new lockdown - haven’t beat myself up for going blank. May want to prepare next time
Made the kids a priority this week. It has been tough for them. Managed to reassure them that doing the best you can is good enough.
Kicked off the testing stories collaboration
Got a presentation ready on customer feedback related to our pre prod environments