Imposter syndrome - I wish I could tell you it goes away, but I still find myself feeling less than and doubting that I'm good enough after years of experience and proving myself. The important thing to know is that everyone has had it at one time or another, and those you look up to and wish you could be like, or whose experiences you envy, may just find themselves struggling with it too. It's normal; so what do you …
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As QA it's pretty much a given that you own quality, or at least it was up until my most recent job. At past jobs there has been some over the fence mentality, meaning when features are ready for QA the developers "throw it over the fence" to QA and have nothing to do with it anymore - it lacks collaboration or an ownership fo quality. QA is the last check that needs to be marked before releasing, so QA …
So, when you go out hiking, camping, or even to a store do you stay on one path only to get from point A to B, or do you let yourself peruse, go off course, and explore? I'm all about stopping to look around, getting myself lost, or going down aisles I don't need anything from and buying crap I don't need just to see what's out there or to find a deal. Well, that's like exploratory testing - checking …
Work can be frustrating, and having everything you need to be able to do your job can be a challenge. I've had users that I need for testing removed, databases refreshed and the data I needed to use for testing, such as transactions, cleared out so I have nothing to test with. All of those are blockers - those are things that are blocking me from completing my testing, and therefore from us releasing. A blocker is something that gets …
Black box testing is one of the first QA concepts I was able to wrap my mind around, and is where I generally recommend people start when trying to learn. Let's be real here - I was never technical. Like, before getting into tech support and then eventually QA I couldn't even troubleshoot issues on my own computer, and was too intimidated to try and install Chrome Extensions and such. So, pretty much the definition of not technical ?! So, …