Dear Technologists,
hope you all are doing well.
In addition to
regular office work; here is the quick summary of my learning engagements for the
last month.
Conference
– Spring OnlineTestConf 2020
Attended Spring
OnlineTestConf 2020. This was my 6th edition in a row. This time it
was a three day event. As usual, it had a variety of talks and was very well
organized conference.
Attending Spring #OnlineTestConf 2020, Day 1 #SoftwareTesting #Testing #Conference @OnlineTestConf @PractiTest @QAQCArena pic.twitter.com/eZqBtSvqhs— YOGESH KHAIRNAR (@yrk15) May 19, 2020
Careers
in Test Leadership: Coaching Testing and Testers: Experiences, Techniques, and
Advice
This video is
available on Test Masters Academy’s
YouTube channel. In this video, you can find answers to below questions.
- What is Coaching?
- What are the
Coaching Techniques?
- How do you coach
Testing?
- When you coach,
when do you know when to start and when to finish?
- What are the
better ways of Coaching OR How can we learn to do our coaching better?
Principles
to Guide Testing: Modern and Agile
This video is available
on SoftwareTestPro’s YouTube
channel. In this Video, Lisa Crispin
has covered below items.
- 10 Principles for Agile Testers and Modern Testing Principles
- How these
principles relate to each other
- How these
principles can help in building Quality
If interested; check
out the video here.
Top
5 Mistakes of a New Manager
This video is
available on Clavent’s YouTube
channel. In this Video, Ajay Balamurugadas
has covered below items.
- Things a Manager
does or supposed to do
- Top 5 mistakes of
a new Manager
- Solutions to each
of these mistakes
If you are a Team
member and want to become a Manager or already working as a Manager; in my
opinion you should watch this video.
If interested; check
out the video here.
Test
Automation in DevOps
This course is
available on the Test Automation
University and encompasses below areas.
- Introduction to
DevOps
- What’s in your
Pipeline?
- Test Automation
Strategy for DevOps
- Infrastructure
considerations
- Learning in
Production
- Getting your
whole Team engaged
This course will
introduce you to DevOps, enable you to learn the possibilities and benefits of
Test Automation in DevOps.
If interested,
check out the course here by Lisa
Crispin
Podcast
- Michael Bolton on the Testing Mindset
This is one of the
best podcast on Software Testing. I will refrain from writing what it comprised
of. If you are a Software Tester or
someone who want to understand the inherent meaning of Software Testing; I reckon you should listen to this podcast.
If interested; do
listen to the podcast here.
Design
Thinking: Understanding the Process
This course is
available on LinkedIn Learning and encompasses
below areas.
- Agile, lean, and
design thinking
- Preparing to sell
design thinking to your organization
- Finding the real
problem
- Ideation
- Prototyping
- Correcting course
- Offshoring and
outsourcing
- Getting past
organizational inertia and silos
- Tracking your
success
This beginner level
course is mainly focused on the business justification and strategic considerations
for using design thinking techniques in an organization.
If interested,
check out the course here by Chris
Nodder
Python
Quick Start
This course is
available on LinkedIn Learning and
encompasses below areas.
- What is Python?
- Strengths and
benefits of Python
- Types of data
- Storing data
using variables
- Built-in and
custom functions
- Lists and tuples
- Conditional
statements
- Iteration with
loops
- Recursive
functions
- Object-oriented
programming
I reckon; if you
are a beginner in programming; then this course will be helpful. However; don’t
just watch the video, try doing some hands-on as well.
If interested,
check out the course here by Lavanya
Vijayan
Workshop
– Learn the 4 Step Method of Public Speaking
No matter which industry
we are in; public speaking is an essential skill. This is a learnable skill and
this workshop is designed with essential 4 step method of public speaking.
Personally, I liked
this workshop. If you are also interested; then you can find out more details
about this workshop (by Praveen Wadalkar) here.
In addition, added
new bugs to the Be a User first; then a Tester playlist. Check out the below Bugs which I have found while USING the LinkedIn’s Android App.
That’s all from my
side.
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.
In this month, I
will be attending Tricentis UserConference 2020 and Tribal Qonf 2020.
