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Continuous Learning – What I did in last Month (Apr 2020)


Dear Technologists, hope you all are doing well.

I believe, we all are having this good opportunity (lockdown period due to the effect of COVID-19/Coronavirus) to spend time with the family, to work on our hobbies as well as to learn and explore something new.

In addition to regular office work; I have completed below courses on LinkedIn Learning platform, listened to some interesting podcasts in the last month. Here is the summary of the same.

Exploratory Testing
This course encompasses below areas.
- Defining exploratory testing
- Quality and value
- Models
- Variables
- Exploration in agile, DevOps, and production
- Paired testing
- Test planning
- Testing techniques
- Automation with scripts
- Generating and analyzing data

This course is nicely designed and contains essential information about Exploratory Testing. Especially; I loved the challenges given in this course.
If interested, check out the course here by Dave Westerveld.

HTTP Essential Training
This course encompasses below areas.
- What is HTTP?
- Tools to see HTTP in action
- Anatomy of a URL
- How to see HTTP headers
- Anatomy of a request header and a response header
- Cookies and caching

This is a beginner level course and encompasses all the essential information about HTTP that one should aware of.
If interested, check out the course here by Morten Rand-Hendriksen.


Learning REST APIs
This course encompasses below areas.
- What is a REST API?
- Who or what interacts with REST APIs?
- Anatomy of a REST request
- HTTP status messages
- Request/response pairs
- GET, POST, and DELETE

This is a beginner level course and certainly helpful if you want to understand REST APIs.
If interested, check out the course here by Morten Rand-Hendriksen.

Podcast – STP Radio: James Bach on Systems Thinking
This is an interesting Podcast. You can listen to it here.

Podcast – The Testing Show: Reinventing Testers
If interested; do listen to this podcast here.

Podcast – STP Radio: Interview with James Bach - Rapid Software Testing
If interested; do listen to this podcast here.

In addition, I have published this small video. Do check it out. 


That’s all from my side.

How are you utilizing this time?

What courses you have taken or areas that you are focusing on?


Have you attended any Online Software Testing event (Meetup, Conference, Webinar etc.)? Comment below with your thoughts, experiences, and recommendations, etc.

By the way, this reminds me about Spring OTC 2020. Spring OnlineTestConf 2020 is happening in May 2020 and you can find more details here.

Keep learning, keep sharing, and yes stay safe.

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