JuniorLearnsToCode

This is another blog post inspired by  Bloggers Club June 2021 - if you are a tester (or interested in testing) be sure to check out the Ministry of Testing, it's wonderful community of smart and helpful people and their forum (called the Club) is great place to get help, get inspired and to discus stuff to stimulate those little grey cells. This month's topic idea appealed to me straight away. I try not to have regrets, per say, but there I decisions from the past that, from today's perspective, I would have made differently. If I could, pretty much only thing I would have done differently is that I would have left support sooner (I worked in tech support for about two and a half years) and gotten into testing sooner. I spent a lot of time trying to find myself, I was learning WordPress and doing freelance consulting, learning Angular, React, PHP, Java, .NET/C# and other development technologies, mostly (but not exclusively) front-end oriented. I recently  blogged about ...

This blog post is inspired by Ministry of Testing Bloggers Club  topic idea for April 2021, the goal of the post is to describe only three skills which are important for testers and explain why! For me personally, by reading blogs from different authors, I noticed that there is always something new and unique to everyone's perspective - even when people are covering the same topic! Aside from broadening your horizons it is also a good way of learning (you do get a certain level of repetition) and benefit from viewing things from another angle, which is always a good source of thinking material! So without further ado, I will list my top three skills bellow. 1. Communication I often list this one as skill number one whenever someone asks me what to I think about the most important skill for a tester. But why? Communicating effectively is important for almost any role in IT, but, for a tester it is a must, as a tester may be often viewed as the harbinger of bad news so it is vital fo...

I listen to a lot of podcasts (coding and testing related mostly) in my spare time and while listening to Ministry of Testing podcast I heard about these 30 day testing challenges they have.  I decided to got with the 30 days of API testing challenge first as the topic of API's interests me greatly - in terms of both professional and personal curiosity.  Day 1 Found a definition of API testing: “API testing involves testing the application programming interfaces (APIs) directly and as part of integration testing to determine if they meet expectations for functionality, reliability, performance, and security.” Day 2 For API exploratory testing I'd use Postman, the course I started on it seems like a good idea now. Day 3 I started reading a book on API testing, by Alan Richardson, the dude behind the Evil Tester podcast, the name ain't "good" but the content is! 😀 Day 4 I really like the MDN's explanation of HTTP protocol, ...