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Be looking at the topic the land of Utopia does it exist for testers next slide please
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My name is Jeroline and I'll be your host for today uh so before we get started I would like to go over a few
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Or share it with your friends or colleagues so with that being said let me quickly share a bit about uh the break free series
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So uh Break Free was an idea that birthed out of the need for change in the testing domain so we've seen the testing industry
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Grow and evolve over the decades uh as a few leaders took the risk to break free from traditional approaches towards testing and have come
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Up with a lot of new ideas and practices so we believe that this change can be accelerated at a much faster pace so we
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Took the liberty of identifying and inviting a few change leaders for breaking the mold and embracing the change uh to see the QA industry
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Evolve I and that became what is now called as Break Free a change leader Series so our only hope is that these sessions would
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Spark ideas in each of you to be the change that's needed in the QA industry for the industry itself to grow into greater leads
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And birth so with that let me welcome the change leader for today Priscilla bilavendren so Priscilla is a passionate senior test engineer currently working
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With Millennium ID Services Malaysia she has the decade of experience in quality assurance especially in areas like functional ETL Automation and API testing she
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Is a postman Supernova and speaks at various events regarding API and Postman she's uh also passionate about cloud computing and is an AWS Community
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Builder also she is one of the global ambassadors of the women Tech Network uh she believes in coexistence and harmony she is a certified
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Mentor and has helped many test engineers build their career through her mentoring sessions
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And as we all know she's an active Community member and she's contributed to the testing Community through her blogs webinars and workshops so without
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Any further delay let me hand it over to our speaker for the day Priscilla beloved to take it forward
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Thank you thank you so much for this wonderful introduction uh thank you for having me in the first place and I wish our audience
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Will enjoy the doctor today and just a second so since you covered most of my introduction I don't think I have anything to cover
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More so just a bit about me uh so I'm basically from um madurai which is from the southern part of India and currently I
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Live in Malaysia with my family so this is just a personal fact
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And how about today's agenda so since the topic uh the name of the topic like the session message has this word of Utopia I'll
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Just give a brief introduction about this word Utopia how was it uh born and then um few challenges which has been faced by our
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Software testers in today's uh evolvement as you mentioned before and then how to face and mitigate those challenges uh some simple tips and tricks
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Whatever worked for me and then we'll go for uh because uh whatever we do whatever we learn uh some days we need motivation to
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Keep ourselves right so I'll just share a few tips of uh knowledge whatever which works for me uh kind of um uh things which
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Which can definitely help you to go better and that will help you for not only for you for your teams also to be highly
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Productive and then finally we'll have a q a session uh before we wrap it off
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So the word Utopia so what is it all about and what is the history the word asset is very fancy right and uh it
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Keeps this thing uh to make us to think what it is more about right so when we talk about that uh Utopia is called
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As an imaginary Society where things are being so perfect okay and according to Wikipedia or Wikipedia uh it's it's not just me so Wikipedia
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Is telling like um it's an imaginary Community or society that poses highly desirable or nearly perfect qualities for its members so when we call
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It as a Utopia the land of Utopia or the or the paradise whatever so that is equivalent and people are so good and everything
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Is so good and there is no complaint so that is an imaginary thing of course right so that is what we call it as
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Uh Utopia the definition of utopia and when we talk about the history uh the term utopia was initially coined by Sir Thomas mode uh
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In his book which is called as utopia which was released in uh 1516 which is very old right so quite old terminology what we
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Are going to use today and uh when we when we talk about Utopia there should be a contrary right so when the contrary is
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Called as dystopia so obviously now you would have already guessed so what is uh when we talk about Utopia what is dystopia you could
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Have already easily guessed so let's see some features what we call it as features of utopia it's a perfect imaginary society which we saw
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Before and people usually relate that with Paradise okay and it's mostly desirable of course when we call it as a paradise it's a desirable
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Thing right people wanted to go there so it's a desirable environment as such and you have a lot of freedom and you feel more
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Productive being in that environment and being in that world and when we speak about dystopia it's total opposite to that right so it's obviously
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Chaotic and we always relate that which is to hell of course the opposite of paradise is hell right so and it's obviously under is
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Undesirable because things are totally chaotic and we call it as undesirable and it's not at all managed and we don't like to be in
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That sort of place right so because it's totally unpleasant so this is the extreme two different extreme worlds which we call it as utopia
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And dystopia so once we proceed to this uh talk for the session you will get to know why we need to know these two
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Extremities of these two worlds Utopia and dystopia and yeah before getting into the real session uh just a brainstorming question for all of you
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How is your workplace uh you can just tell us in chat uh how do you feel about your workplace or your current environment where
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Are where you are in like are you happy are you content um are you satisfied so just explain us in one term like how
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Do you currently because when you think about your workplace currently what is that single one word which comes to your mind so people just
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Uh I'm just so curious to hear uh how is your workplace right now
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Okay and we already know because I can't say like everybody who is surviving in a utopian world right definitely no we all have challenges
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Every day and uh that too in this current advancements of testing because I have seen over a decade like how we started as I
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Started when I started as a tester how testing process was and now how as as a tester like the role as such has been
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Evolved like we call it we we have many fancy roles right we call it as test architect test automation
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SD I don't know because we whatever you call you can just name it so we have a lot of fancy roles coming up so
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It means like there are a lot of um advancements as such has been coming through this testing industry right but that is that is
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That is again one more thing like when you see a lot of advancements and when you see that the industry is growing obviously the
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Challenges are also growing badly right you have to handle many things which was uh totally out of your control as such not only the
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Complete dystopian world but there are some things that which has been part and parcel of your everyday life and that's how every QA is
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Running their life assets so I'm so sure that uh you all can relate this very easily yes uh I I believe you guys got
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It right so they will ask you to start testing right uh but you will not have enough documents uh enough details nothing but they'll
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Just say like that's it you have to go and start the testing right so in these sort of situation definitely as a tester and
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That to when you are a beginner into testing we'll be so much disappointed with testing as such like how can you just ask me
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To start testing and tattoo without any details so this is one common uh struggle uh every tester is facing through and the next one
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Is about uh miscommunication uh they easily say uh like um we believe uh this was being communicated to the testing team right you guys
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Might have heard the statement very frequently it's not that case and sometimes they will say like uh sorry we missed to include testing team
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In this email so that's very common statement which we hear in in that case and even though when they communicate something also there is
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Some something which has been broken and we we have to come to another conclusion which is totally contrary to their uh thought process so
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These sort of miscommunication in your everyday activity is also leading to a lot of Chaos
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And the next thing is about instability we might have seen this right so uh as this pictured epics uh your environment will be totally
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Unstable your application will be totally unstable because most of the times when you're trying to hit your apis for example
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You will be facing the service and available error message but then how could you test how could you test that's impossible right so this
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Unstability is also one of the major reasons that we are being into this struggle today and uh stringent timelines of course we know it's
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It's not that easy to complete in a stipulated time and that too uh in this agile uh we are being again been um squeezed
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Into a very stringent timelines due to some of the requirements from the client as well right so this stringent timeline is also uh more
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Pressurizing nowadays I would say and then it's about uh the the fancy uh thing which we call it as automation automation is is really
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Good uh but the thing is like 100 100 automation is still a myth and we all know that right uh just because someone is
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Forcing you and someone is pushing you if you're trying to automate something it leads to these sort of things just for the sake of
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Automation we do and then we keep all those scripts in the shelf and nobody's going to use that right so this is this has
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To be uh I I have seen these challenges in many of the projects before just for the sake of formation they do automate and
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You just keep it inside shelf so uh we have to make sure in what ground we have we have to have some sort of
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Ground rules before getting into this entire process of automation
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And the next thing is like of course tools uh we have a lot of uh tools which is offering very good features whatever we
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Want is available in market right but when we go to these uh tools picking a right tool and based on the skill set is
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Again one of the biggest challenges for us because we have lot of options available so what fits for us it's again a challenge right
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So again this tool selection and the skill set based on the skill set is again one of the biggest challenges that we face for
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Today and this is straightforward of course because as testers we are handling with different people every day and we all know that everyone is
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Different right you can't handle everyone in the same way so people are different and handling them can be again stressful to all of us
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Uh one day it has been uh some some day some days are really rough with people so we have to learn to handle people
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As well right so people management is also one of the toughest tasks that we as testers are going through
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And the next one yeah this is the last challenge of today which I have uh what we call it is like uh people say
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Easily that Ash testers uh you have to uh keep learning and uh you have to uh motivate and you have to keep learning and
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Uh you shouldn't give up learning and uh that that's that is something which is keeping uh testing alive and all those things that's easy
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To say I totally understand that's really easy to say but when it comes to real environment uh just think how it's going to be
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We are studying for years right initially we were using textbooks but right now we are preparing for certifications and sometimes some certifications expire and
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We again go through for renewing it right so we are keep on learning it isn't it frustrating of course it's frustrating because we are
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Humans and we need a break right so it's easy to say because even I say that learning keeps you alive but I know well
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Keep on learning and upgrading yourself is is not that easy so these are the uh major challenges that I noticed uh we as testers
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Are facing today uh facing based on today's market expectations
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So what can be done okay you can ask me Priscilla okay I understand because most of the challenges even we can also relate it
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I believe you you folks can also relate these challenges but what can be done there should be some solution to it right and I'm
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Not going to say any big mantras here okay it's just going to be simple uh tips and tricks uh which worked for me so
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I'll be just keep sharing it and uh just uh feel free to uh comment in the chat box as well we would love to
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Hear from you the first one is about early testing uh when we say as early testing it's not just literally starting your testing as
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Early as possible no try to involve in the project as early as possible that that that really makes sense right even from the planning
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Stage of course I know this has a lot of things to do with the resourcing and estimation so that's why so if there are
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Any test managers and test leads who are watching this please make sure that you are planning uh the testers as early as possible in
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The project so that they'll be involved in the planning stage and that will be most efficient time right they can ask more questions they
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Can get to know more about the stakeholders all the stakeholders they can build a rappo and they can also get a basic knowledge about
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The project so early testing is one of the best solution which can help you and this second one is about uh we might we
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All might have seen the horse wearing blinkers right um what I'm trying to say with this metaphor uh here is like wearing blinkers is
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Of course a good thing we as a humans and we as a testers should also need these blinkers when is like when you are
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In your focus mode and you are entering your focus mode of course we need these blinkers so that we will not be distracted and
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Will be so much focused towards our work and that's to be yet done but at the same time when coming to some other situations
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We have to remove those blinkers because they will prevent us to see the bigger picture the larger picture which we call you right so
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The in your project when you're working as a tester try to remove these blindfolds okay and try to get the bigger picture and you
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Should know the Upstream Downstream and the entire Tech stack of your project so that helps you to again uh how to say it's it's
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Something which is going out of out of box thinking right which we call it as out of box thinking so sometimes we have to
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Remove those linkers which helps us to see the overall picture
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And yeah so we all know uh when we when we are making a good food we need multiple flavors right so even if you
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See a this picture of Biryani here who doesn't love uh likes Biryani like we I as we always say Biryani is an emotion right
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Uh why is it so because we are adding a lot of flavors and a lot of spices to that right similarly testing has a
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Lot of flavors in this uh in uh in this context what I'm trying to say is like we have a lot of flavors of
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Testing like you can see as functional testing automation testing ETL EDI uh usability testing and then user acceptance testing accessibility testing security testing performance
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Testing we have lot of flavors right so just with one flavor of course we will be bored so only when we have this mix
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And match of these flavors right you will also would not be bored and your job is also secured so for instance as a functional
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Tester if you're not interested in learning coding or automation there are many other things that you can contribute to right you can learn about
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User experience that's that's really going to be a value add to the project and to understand the customers you can add you can learn
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About accessibility another another example for instance you are an API tester don't just stop with the apis learn more about performance learn about security
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Testing Try to implement those security testing and performance testing for your API so that's it right so that is going to be a value
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Add for your entire project and also not only for your project also for your career you're going to learn something new and you're going
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To contribute it back so just learn and Implement that as well
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And uh this is something like uh documentation uh which might be a very look like uh old-fashioned thing right uh people might think that
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It is old-fashioned but it's not that case and I know it's tiring it's not that easy to document right every day to have this
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Documentation of course it's not that easy but you have to document everything in the sense why is it like a process or what process
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You did how to do your project flow or the approach or a materials you used and maybe due to this advancements you can even
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Record everything right you can record all the KT sessions you can put it in one single place so that is how you are going
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To maintain a complete repository and that repository is not only useful for you and also useful for the young testers who are going to
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Join the project or also to the other teams who are looking for the same project details in the future so in that way documentation
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Has a very important role to play and the next one is like uh interesting one yeah automate wherever possible you might ask me like
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Uh I told 100 automation is a myth before and now I'm telling like automate wherever possible that's why automatic wherever possible so if there
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Is a possibility of automating starting from your daily routine try to automate it that will definitely save a lot of your effort and that
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Helps you to do something productive I always say this to my team as well if there is a simple thing say for example even
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Your what to cook for today try to plan one week ahead like when you plan these sort of simple stuff and uh as early
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As possible your brain will have lot of space to do something productive to think creative so that is the reason when you're automating it
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I always call it as like I have multiple threads in my brain and all the threads are running so when I'm trying to automate
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Even a simple reminder I'm putting it for something that thread is gone right my brain is being freed up to sum up to some
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To some extent so that extent and that space I can make it use for something more productive so try to use Simple tools to
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Automate your workflows for example uh if you are using jeera and there is a way like you can automate or you can play through
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The jirai apis and you can try to automate the defect logging process instead of doing it manually so you can even create pulp defects
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Also if you want right and also uh you can integrate with other tools uh for instance we are using Postman for automation testing and
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We we are actually integrating that uh with the with a with a with a repository and automatically this collections or whatever collections we are
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Using has been uh imported and we don't do any manual things so not only for these tools I know a lot of tools today
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Are offering this integration facility so try to use that integration facility to an extent where whatever extent is possible so this will help you
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To save a lot of time and effort and again uh when it comes to the automation uh tool selection uh to your own POC
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Okay uh there are a lot of uh tools available in market and every tool has its pros and cons so always do your POC
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And decide what is best for your project what is best for your clients because every requirement is different and every project is different and
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Every team is different right your team skill set is different so just because someone is suggesting me a tool like I can't just go
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And implement the same so do your own POC many of the tools are offering the trial period go and speak with a marketing team
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And try to do your own POC and try to pick a tool which is a right fit for your own situation and your own
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Projects okay and yeah when it comes to technical skills uh people say like um uh continuous learning I agree it's a frustrating part so
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That is why what I'm trying to say here is like when you are trying to learn something new you have to implement it right
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You might ask me Priscilla I'm I have learned so and so technology but I'm not using it in my project what you can do
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Is like try to build your own um kind of site project maybe and uh in that way you will have a kind of Hands-On
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Right so try to learn more about the latest Technologies coming into markets uh it can be with uh either with AI machine learning or
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Cloud either what if we have a lot of cloud provider Services coming up whatever cloud services it can be uh in this contexts you
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Can try to attend the conferences you can be um you can be a listener in the web in the webinars and the workshops and
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All those things also when you are trying to learn these new skills and you're trying to implement element it try to go ahead and
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Write a blog because that's how you will remember things right so you you have already built your own site project and go ahead and
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Talk about it teach a team that is again it's going to be a bigger biggest Advantage for you because when your team is getting
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To know more about what is being done they are definitely going to be happy right so educate your team with that and try to
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Have internal webinars in your office if you are not comfortable doing an external one try to go for an internal webinar educate your team
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More about it and when you're sharing your knowledge definitely whatever you learned has been implemented and you have shared as well so obviously you
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Have learned something for your lifetime and the next thing uh this is very pretty simple and as a tester you might have heard it
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For your entire life I'm so sure about it so consider yourself as a user right uh whenever you're testing uh treat or think that
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You are going to be a user for that product and I'm so sure uh today most of us are using many many applications every
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Day right starting the mobile application desktop where we are using a lot of applications so we know what is a triggering point for the
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Customer uh which makes the customer happy and which makes the frown face we all know that right so based on that think as a
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User put your shell put yourself in the issues and uh try if you are thinking in that aspect and if you're going to deliver
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The project right definitely that will be one of the best right so think yourself as a user is one of the basic tip which
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Can help you yes and the next thing is like uh I can I'm just I'm just not saying just effective reports uh this statement
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Has a very deeper meaning okay listen to me so when we log a defect um most of the testers want we are missing to give
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All the essential details to the defect right so I always keep one thing in my Minds a defect should speak for itself that's what
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We call it as so whenever you're logging a defect make sure that you are giving all the necessary details uh I remember an incident
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Uh when I started as a trainee I have a test lead and uh she told me like uh one statement remember that uh because
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One day I logged a district and that was a very uh critical defect and I I missed it to give a one detail test
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Data what is the test data like the test data ID whatever I created I miss to give that give that and give it give
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It in that effect and my developer is based in us so I had to wait for one more day and uh only when I'm
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Back and I I and I gave the this data detail and kickstarter's debugging process so that day my lady just told me one statement
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Uh whenever you're logging a defect make sure that your developer doesn't come back to you so that way your defect reports should speak for
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Itself okay and not just a defect reports are the defects or whatever you're logging it comes to your test reports your test plan your
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Summary reports your status reports everything try to make as effective as possible just not for the sake of doing it don't do it okay
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And once you're being effective this entirely shows the capability of a testing D message so keep that in mind and work for your reports
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And yeah so this thing uh is very uh straightforward what I'm trying to say is here um training your brain is not that easy
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Right so right now we saw more of your technical skills and uh related to your project your domain knowledge your skills that's all fine
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But when it comes to train your brain uh you should remember that your cognitive skills really matter a lot okay how we are questioning
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How we are thinking how how does your critical thinking work how does your problem solving methodology is working only based on this your brain
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Is being so creative right so try to train your brain and improve your focus attention there are some methodologies which you can try a
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Simple one and based on that try to Train Your Brains be much more active and in my case what I'll do is like um
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I'll usually start my day and as early as possible uh once I check my emails then it's done uh I'll not um go back
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And check my email boxes frequently and uh after once I get ready and I sit for work the first 20 minutes or 30 minutes
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I'll pick up a very critical task which I have which which that has to be completed and that helps me to because that was
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The most productive time right so you should know what is your most active time or the most creative time and based on your brain
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You can pick your task and you can try to complete that okay
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And yeah so this is something like uh which every tester today have to do uh you can ask me like uh everyone is writing
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A Blog and why should I write a blog I was also having the same assumption years back and uh but I somehow I broke
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That imposter syndrome and I started writing uh very simple blogs I started to write about apis and postmen and someday uh I I got
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A random message uh saying from a person saying like this was very helpful and they were able to uh get fixed whatever which I
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Was expecting so this just made my day and okay and I was thinking like um I thought I'm not helping anyone but this is
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Ultimately helping someone and I didn't know that luckily that person texted me right so if uh they didn't text me back I would have
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Still uh thinking like whether my blog is helpful or not but that simple message changed my entire attitude and I started contributing in whatever
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Way possible back to the community so try to build your own community and there are many ambassadorship programs running for the tools right so
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Go be part of those ambassadorship programs and also these communities try to be part of those testing communities and other famous or other favorite
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Communities wherever you want to be part of whether it is um either your tool or the tech stack whatever you are using or based
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On that and uh like if you are not going to talk about you no one else will do that right so just be proud
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Of yourself and build your own profile and uh yes finally we all know that people matter it's it's so easy to hurt someone just
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By words or just by asking right but make sure that uh finally it's it's you and your team right they are going to be
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With you so uh try to build an inclusive Diversified team uh I have seen a highly performing teams uh when they are built in
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That way I have seen that and um try to Foster both the synchronous and the asynchronous way of communication don't force people to join
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Every day on your daily stand-up they might be in a different time zone right so just management test leads if you're watching this make
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Sure that you are planning properly both the modes of communication based on the availability and the time zone of the team and try to
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Have the inclusive Diversified team they really matter and um maintain uh maintain a very good wrapper with a team maintain a transparency uh it's
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All about uh collaborating right it's about collaborating with people and when it comes to the negative messages how we are handling to uh deliver
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Those negative messages and when there is a team dispute we have to handle it better and finally yeah it's it's like people should Empower
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Others right so just make sure that you are empowering you and uh lead leaders please make sure that you are empowering your uh Team
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And uh so before we dab it off I have just uh uh basic thing I know we all might have heard about this uh
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SWOT analysis right we all know this uh what is this SWOT stand for so yes it's for strengths as we all know that's an
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Inner thing right whatever your own strength what is what is so special about you right so make sure that because why I'm listing it
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Right now is like everyone should be aware of your own strength and you should know that what you're good at right so make sure
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That you are trying to list out your own strengths and you should know what is your own weakness right because there are a lot
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Of areas that you have to improve and uh something might be stopping you so what you have to do is like you should be
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Able to figure it out that's the first step creating uh self-awareness is the first step right so go ahead and do a self-reflection try
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To find your strength try to find your weakness and as the word says like opportunities you should know like what are the other ways
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That I can create more of it like how I can make my profile more visible how what are the ways that I can contribute
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To others how I can help my team so these are the opportunities where you are looking at to enhance yourself and also your team
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And other people finally uh this is something like uh making you uh so much uh distracted right so in what way they are distracting
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You there are a lot of forces which is outside and they are trying to control you they might cause a threat right so try
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Sit and analyze so I would suggest all of you to do is what analysis and this is what will definitely help you to understand
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More better you might think that you know a lot better about you but after writing about this word uh SWOT analysis especially when it
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Comes to your career progress definitely you will understand more and what to do next
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Okay and finally it's totally off the uh technical topic uh as per uh my personal experience I just wanted to share few tips uh
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Which really helped me to uh being stay motivated because honestly I don't lie uh I I do have my bad days I do have
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My bad days some days I don't feel like doing anything and some days I feel like Conquering the world right because that's a human
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Thing we are all humans and we have that uh so if even if you're feeling the same way there's nothing to be ashamed of
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We all have our ups and downs so when you are feeling down I just have few things that which uh in my personal life
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Which helped me so one such thing is like this book I'm not sure if you have read this book if not please go ahead
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And read it this is a very simple book and has a uh not even a bigger book a short number of pages and definitely
Priscilla
You will love it so the corrects of the book is like they'll tell you uh or they'll guide you you like how this finding
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A purpose of their life is going to help you to stay motivated uh only when we know the purpose or we know the existence
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The reason for our existence that will definitely motivate you knowing that annoyingly you will run towards what you want right so that that that's
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Going to be a self-motivation Factor so if you get a chance uh definitely do read this book uh I'm so sure that you will
Priscilla
Love it and some simple tips which I can say is like yeah keep moving uh even if you're not a fitness freak uh go
Priscilla
For at least a simple walking uh try to meet new people get fresh air and practice gratitude is a very simple thing uh whenever
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Uh some some things uh totally a negative thing is just happening around me the first thing which I'll do is like I'll just think
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About something which I'm so grateful for it so try to practice gratitude find a mentor or a friend whom you can be so transparent
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And talk openly with develop a new hobby okay either it can be learning a board game or it can be going out for something
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New or trying to paint a singing music whatever it is so try to develop a new hobby whatever age it is forget about it
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And try to celebrate your small wins uh either it is big or small it has to be celebrated and never reach the threshold level
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And take a break whenever you feel like this is the limit and I definitely have to so try to have your heart stops and
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Uh take a break whenever you really wanted to and um so this is one quote which I wanted to remind you so when we
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Started we all know that uh there was a world of Utopia but now I wanted to finish like there is no Perfect Place job
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In life you only have the pleasant time so love what you do or do something else so this is this is how the world
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Is built right so it will have all the pros and cons but it's the way how views right whether it's Utopia or in dystopia
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It it is totally depending on the way you see that and how your brain is being trained to see that right so
Priscilla
I believe that's all for today and uh it was uh it was really uh nice talking to all of you and uh thank you
Priscilla
Everyone who uh who decided to spend uh your 40 minutes with me and listening to me Patiently
Jeroline
I believe it was right on time yeah thank you Priscilla
Jeroline
So the challenges that you just mentioned uh they were very relatable not just only for testers but I think every individual face such kind
Jeroline
Of challenges in their work life and the ideas and tips that you shared uh I I hope it really it will be helpful for
Jeroline
Everybody who are here to navigate through those challenges so I really hope everybody today here uh uh will be able to find a really
Jeroline
Good value out of it so thank you so much so it's q a time um so if you have any questions for Priscilla um
Jeroline
Shoot away here's a question for you so how to get started with API testing
Priscilla
Okay sure uh thank you so much for putting that up because we all know that API testing is getting a lot of attention nowadays
Priscilla
Right and uh and that I would say like that's one of the interesting area to get started with and if you are totally new
Priscilla
To API testing the first suggestion I would give you is like don't get intimidated by the technical terms which the developers use and the
Priscilla
Documentation has don't get intimidated initial steps are really hard but I would say like it's definitely worth of doing it so the first step
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Would be like trying to understand all those technical jargon have been used in the API documentation that will help you to learn more about
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And um in in simply you should know a simplified API you should first I'll try to understand what is an API you should be
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Able to know how does an API call work and then try to understand the jargon and then you can just pick a simple tool
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And get started with that I believe there are a lot of courses and many YouTube tutorials are available you can just go ahead and
Priscilla
Get started the basic step is like don't get intimidated okay try to get start with the with understanding more about the API technique it's
Priscilla
Not just about API testing terms that's what people maximum fail it uh zero like when they are starting with API testing they'll definitely directly
Priscilla
Go about the technical terms of API testing it's not that way you definitely have to get the overall picture of API as such don't
Priscilla
Think like you are you're not going to be API developer no it's not that way you have to understand how does an API work
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What is it what is a development tool that the developer is using you should know all these things and what is what is in
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The front end what is in the back end so you have to understand the entire uh World revolving around all those apis you're going
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To test and once you're confident with these terms terminologies right any other tool any other uh technology like wherever we go we can definitely
Priscilla
Get settled so these will be my tips like understand the jargon don't get intimidated and try to understand generally how API testing process works
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Like how does a test plan is being designed for API testing how does they how do they test the test design process by API
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So these things will help you understand and definitely you can get on board I did whatever tool whatever tool you want to do
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Here so if someone is so curious to see my website they can just scan this barcode and uh that will take you uh to
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My website and uh feel free to connect with uh connect with me in the social handles and say hi no worries I'll be love
Priscilla
I'll be so excited to chat with all of you
Jeroline
Okay I see one question like uh what are the examples of uh your examples of uh small wins yeah I can totally understand because
Priscilla
It differs from person to person right uh some things might be small for me uh something something might be so bigger for me uh
Priscilla
Personally uh it is something like um where am I I'm able to reduce one or two kgs that's personally a small win rate and
Priscilla
When it comes to uh a technical thing I would say like um every day uh I I have a quota of uh learning at
Priscilla
Least one new thing that day so if I'm making it possible that's definitely a small win for me uh just to make that happen
Priscilla
Uh I'll continuously learn and um other than that what other examples uh I could say uh just uh someday which I'm making my team
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Happy uh I might be uh they might be just a simple recognition for my team member but I'll make sure that everyone in the
Priscilla
Team and my uh super bosses is also a while uh are aware of that so that is some kind of small win for me
Jeroline
Anything else uh here's another question okay yeah I see that life of a tester in Cloud right
Priscilla
Yeah okay so Cloud technology is nothing uh not something which has been into uh market for the recent times it is there from the
Priscilla
Initial days and when it comes to Cloud uh first point is like similar to API testing testers shouldn't be um intimidated by the terminologies
Priscilla
And every project is using cloud in a different way uh say for example in our project we just use it for storage right so
Priscilla
What as a tester we can do is like try to understand the cloud Basics okay uh understanding the cloud basic terminologies and the cloud
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Basics can definitely help you and based on your tool usage like whatever your client or your organization is using it try to go for
Priscilla
A basic certification in that and that will help you to understand more about the services because as a tester we might not use all
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The services right so based on that uh you can go ahead and learn more about that cloud provider and their services
Jeroline
Anything else that I missed she has another question Priscilla for you so uh what are some pointers or tricks uh for learning about new
Priscilla
Trends in software this teaching okay uh one thing is like um LinkedIn is an off uh one of the good plays to start it
Priscilla
With uh follow the industry experts and get to know more from them and there are many newsletters uh which is actually sharing a lot
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Of information and another thing following the testing communities and being attentive in all the webinars and conferences I know it's really tough to attend
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All the webinars and all the talks but I would say um try to attend all the sessions live because even I do that mistake and
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I suggested my friends also if you're waiting for a recorded session you will never watch it so try to attend try to plan your
Priscilla
Work accordingly and try to be there um as as a live audience and that will definitely help you so these are the few tricks
Priscilla
And I would say one I'm seeing one question any tips to build a new community
Priscilla
Okay uh this this is a very good question uh I would love to uh I was uh I'm recently um learning more about this community
Priscilla
Thing because Community is not just about being a contributor right when you are building a community you have to be more open and uh
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You have to trust people so Community is nothing but people who really have similar thought process and similar interests are coming together for a
Priscilla
Simple cause so building a community from day one and uh running through that is is not that easy so few things that we have
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To keep in mind is like the common interest what keeps us uh going and the consistency uh what is making you to think and
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Also when you build a community uh most of the communities are not being into existence just because they are missing the financial aspect so
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Try to think about the financial aspect of the community like how the community members are being going to be um financially being aided or
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What is the advantage for them and then um next thing I would say is like um uh just uh be open uh be open
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To people and uh I believe uh once we do this like we can try to have people with uh similar mindset and uh uh
Priscilla
It helps us to run a run in a long time
Jeroline
I also see another question for you Priscilla so um so could you share some best practices for uh improving the quality assurance process
Priscilla
Okay sure so if you see even before the previous slides um we all think uh like some some some some technologies are being still
Priscilla
Old-fashioned but there is a mix and match and there has to be a balance always so I would say understand the basics more because
Priscilla
I'm still saying in in in in today's uh most of the young testers uh testing Basics like they are lacking in Basics that is
Priscilla
One thing of course they are so much brilliant and they are much talented but learn try to learn the basics without Basics testing is
Priscilla
Nothing so learning the basics and try to advance from that is one thing right so you have to be strong with the basics and
Priscilla
Then process and rules are keep will keep on changing So based on your project and your clients needs try to have a proper revisit
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The same old-fashioned when we started you mentioned about it right that doesn't work in a long way so try to have a revisit a
Priscilla
Frequent revisit and try to see if this testing approach is going to help you in a long way so when we have have these
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Sort of retrospections and like it's not just about the tools when you learn a tool always try to understand the process say for example
Priscilla
When it is a performance testing of course we have lot of tools available in the market but before that as a tester you should
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Know what is the basic performance testing and why we need to do that so only when you're strong in the basics you can learn
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Any tool right so I believe when we are doing these things definitely we can Implement and we can go for a better quality assurance
Jeroline
Process okay how do you keep your team motivated and maintain positivity
Priscilla
Okay uh bad things happen to be honest everybody we are all humans so first thing is like um always uh try to be open
Priscilla
With your team that's what I always do so uh I'll let my team also to be open to me like I let them to
Priscilla
Uh speak even in now one-to-ones I always uh have try to have as much as casual uh chat with them so once I'm open
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With them uh they are also sharing their stories so in that way I'll come to know what is their aspirations so when when I
Priscilla
Know their aspirations and when it when they know when I get to know their interest I can I can easily motivate them based on
Priscilla
That right so first thing is like letting them open and based on their own interest and their passion I'll definitely try to motivate them
Priscilla
And definitely we have bad days uh we we usually uh when we have some bad days definitely I prefer taking a break that's it
Priscilla
Uh taking a short breaks will definitely help you to bounce back right so just try to take a short break and uh a positivity
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Is something uh which which is not which is a wide topic uh I I don't say like everybody can be so much positive all
Priscilla
The time we can try to do our best uh in that way I learned more about uh training the brain so that is where
Priscilla
Uh when I'm training my brain I can definitely handle things properly people say that you always have to see the positive aspect even when
Priscilla
Negative things happen it doesn't come that easily but when you train your brain uh more towards that positivity or if you're so spiritual you
Priscilla
Can go towards that and I believe once you're training your brain you can definitely do that
Jeroline
And uh taking istqb exam is worth for a career growth as a fresher tester this is again a controversial topic okay but I would
Priscilla
Suggest um when I speak about testing Basics istqb is one of the best place to understand more about the testing terminologies and testing Basics
Priscilla
So definitely it's a Worth to go but based on this certification if someone is hiring you or rejecting you I I definitely can't go
Priscilla
For that I don't support that for any cost but for your personal um understanding and personal love a passion more towards testing definitely a
Jeroline
HTTP will help you other questions okay thank you so much Priscilla for answering those questions and for uh for that amazing talk that you
Jeroline
Just gave so it was a great pleasure to have you on the breakfree stage with us today so um
Priscilla
Thank you so much I would really thank uh you uh the ntrp Cloudy team and I wish you all the best thank you so
Jeroline
Much for having me thank you thank you Priscilla and uh thank you to all the audience for uh joining us today and we really
Jeroline
Hope you've learned and enjoyed this presentation so see everyone in 2023 with many more exciting episodes of Break Free and um wishing all uh
Jeroline
Wishing you all a Happy a new year and until then bye
Priscilla
Thank you bye-bye
