My Journey of Testing, Learning & Growing!

I was learning about Accessibility Testing last week. My Inspiration to learning on A11y is Michael Larsen (https://www.mkltesthead.com) Accessibility  Standards:   WCAG, W3C Standards,  Section 508, European Accessibility Standard EN 301 549 Why Accessibility Testing? There are different types of disabilities, the users can get impacted. Visual - Blindness, Low Vision, Color Blindness Hearing - Mild to Moderate to Severe Physical - Limited Hand Movement, Muscular Dystrophy, No Limb, Hand or Fingers  - Not able to use mouse or use touch screen. Cognitive - Autism, Mental Challenges. Speech - Accessibility Testing Check: Keyboard Only  Compatibility https://www.w3.org/WAI/perspective-videos/keyboard/   Physical and Vision Challenges: Mouse Testing : Use a tab key on keyboard, no additional software required. Navigate entire the webpage using tab key. Tab and Shift Tab will take you through Next and Previous Controls on the screen Enter or Spacebar for S...

Every day, when I start my day, as a software tester, I feel I wish know more about. Different technologies Frameworks Tools Testing Methodologies Non-Functional Testing - Security / Performance Testing Usability Testing Testing Techniques User Experience Testing Linux DevOps or CloudOps New Technologies: AI/ML Testing is like an ocean. Every day, when I encounter a new problem. I wish that I know more about it.   Acknowledge with your friends/team members on your limited knowledge and Appreciate other people's knowledge. I believe in one thing since start of my career,  "Learn Everyday Something New Every Day" - Be Consistent in your learning, Perfectionism is not the goal. A Simple way to make a note of what you want to learn:

As many of us will be working on the Agile projects, and we attend retrospective meetings with all stakeholders. I found this template is very useful to use/make notes every day. This can be used for your sprints or project release.           RETRO 😦 RE-INFORCE Things that went well, that were positive that will need attention and effort to keep doing or to amplify. EXPLORE Evaluate an existing experiment or discuss something that could use improvement. TRY Any new ideas for things to try that might improve the way the group works REMOVE Suggestions for anything to stop doing, This includes behavior, process, policies, meetings Observe Anything that group is unsure of but wants to actively monitor. This should include any active experiments but also the impacts or interactions of any behavior, processes, policies, meetings, structures, that affect the group of its people This was inspired from  https://blog.scatterspoke.com/yet-another-retro-format/  ...

I started reading it again from first, as I did not complete this book reading earlier. This blog post summarizes the Chapter 1 - "Fundamentals of Testing" from BUDDHA IN TESTING, written by Pradeep Soundararajan . If you are new to testing or experienced in Testing, This book is for you. This book summarizes every test activity starting from         Testing         Automation In Testing         Test Coverage         Testability         Functional Testing         Performance Testing         Regression Testing         Unit Testing 3 Big Ideas 1. Test Coverage is not Test Case Coverage 2. "Testability - Whenever you find a bug in production - Ask "Did we make this testable?""  and "Impact Mapping and Risk Ass...

Below are few resources we can use for practicing API Testing.                                   https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/ https://fakerestapi.azurewebsites.net/ https://reqres.in/ https://any-api.com/ https://rapidapi.com/ https://www.onlinetool.in/fake-rest-api https://gorest.co.in/ https://swapi.dev/ https://dog.ceo/dog-api/ https://httpbin.org/ Recently, I read the post from Alan Richardson,  Thingifier Practice REST API Testing    https://apithingifier.herokuapp.com/ REST API Testing with VTiger CRM -  https://www.vtiger.com/docs/rest-api-for-vtiger   If you know any other sample APIs for testing practice, please comment.