My first Blog
Thanks for stopping by to read my first blog.
I have been inspired by Pradeep of http://testertested.blogspot.com to come up with a blog and write and learn from many of you ,as they say "learning is a continous process a journey in itself and not the destination".
How did I take up software testing?
Well as Pradeep puts it in one of his blogs ,I was majorly into software checking and not testing.But how I entered into this field is an interesting question in itself as I had no intention of entering into field of IT ,after all I was graduated in Mechanical engineering.
After graduating from engineering and struggling to find a job in my chosen field I was left with nothing but many people chiding me for not able to find a suitable job despite having got a so called First Class in my Engineering.My dislike for IT or anything related to computers didn't help me much either,except for some CAD softwares I had no inkling of other softwares except say a word,excel or ppt.
Then came a company which offered me a job into checking (yes checking) their CAD models which they had designed.I took it up thinking I could design models better than what their own engineers had. Then someone remarked I was doing a great job and should move into software testing.Attended some trainings and presto landed up in a big services company as a TEST engineer (rather CHECK Engineer).
My work involved verifying or ascertaining if the web applications for some publishing giant worked as they should do.My initial enthusiasm of breaking the application was shortlived,my dream of learning from someone who with his vast experience what with him having worked in this big company and the inputs I could have in bettering art of breaking software all but came crashing.The person who was a lead wanted an onsite and so he made good his escape to another project leaving a novice like me to take care of project and the client.I was made a Lead and sole person responsible for quality of applications delievered to client,one wrong move and I would have to bid goodbye to not just to project but to company itself.
Again thoughts of struggling to get a job,barbs from so called near and dear ones as a worthless engineer who couldn't find a good job started to come back to haunt me.
The way I tested or thought I should changed dramatically after this,since logging of critical defects or defects which are beyond what the test cases (check cases) were frowned upon by project manager (Dev manager).Finally after many fights and many arguments over I moved out of the project to another one which was a Retail Point of sale application.
Application was vast and complex which was compounded by my limited knowledge of testing as also fact I had no one to look up to or ask what with my confidence destroyed due to experience I had in my previous project.Tentaive steps were taken and finally thought hard and long as to how to gain knwoledge on not just testing but computers or applications or how things work the way they work.
Many blogs written by well meaning folks helped me and has got me this far in my journey in field of testing.
I know for sure many who started off with dreams in their eyes and seeing them crash due to various reasons whatever they may be.
Now with so many excellent blogs written by such excellent people who have not only honed their skills but willing to share and unlocking our minds so as that we start thinking again.
Honestly speaking I have learnt by many such wonderful blogs I list below here
http://testertested.blogspot.com
http://software-testing-zone.blogspot.com/
http://tuppad.com/blog/
There are many more now ,intially I started with the blogs mentioned above and slowly as I progressed in this journey added few more.Will update names of all blogs which inspired and enriched my knowledge in due course.
Thanks to Pradeep Soundararajan for inspiring me to start this blog.Will definitely share my views,my journey and my learnings and above all more of my mistakes over the years.
Thanks for stopping by to read my first blog.
I have been inspired by Pradeep of http://testertested.blogspot.com to come up with a blog and write and learn from many of you ,as they say "learning is a continous process a journey in itself and not the destination".
How did I take up software testing?
Well as Pradeep puts it in one of his blogs ,I was majorly into software checking and not testing.But how I entered into this field is an interesting question in itself as I had no intention of entering into field of IT ,after all I was graduated in Mechanical engineering.
After graduating from engineering and struggling to find a job in my chosen field I was left with nothing but many people chiding me for not able to find a suitable job despite having got a so called First Class in my Engineering.My dislike for IT or anything related to computers didn't help me much either,except for some CAD softwares I had no inkling of other softwares except say a word,excel or ppt.
Then came a company which offered me a job into checking (yes checking) their CAD models which they had designed.I took it up thinking I could design models better than what their own engineers had. Then someone remarked I was doing a great job and should move into software testing.Attended some trainings and presto landed up in a big services company as a TEST engineer (rather CHECK Engineer).
My work involved verifying or ascertaining if the web applications for some publishing giant worked as they should do.My initial enthusiasm of breaking the application was shortlived,my dream of learning from someone who with his vast experience what with him having worked in this big company and the inputs I could have in bettering art of breaking software all but came crashing.The person who was a lead wanted an onsite and so he made good his escape to another project leaving a novice like me to take care of project and the client.I was made a Lead and sole person responsible for quality of applications delievered to client,one wrong move and I would have to bid goodbye to not just to project but to company itself.
Again thoughts of struggling to get a job,barbs from so called near and dear ones as a worthless engineer who couldn't find a good job started to come back to haunt me.
The way I tested or thought I should changed dramatically after this,since logging of critical defects or defects which are beyond what the test cases (check cases) were frowned upon by project manager (Dev manager).Finally after many fights and many arguments over I moved out of the project to another one which was a Retail Point of sale application.
Application was vast and complex which was compounded by my limited knowledge of testing as also fact I had no one to look up to or ask what with my confidence destroyed due to experience I had in my previous project.Tentaive steps were taken and finally thought hard and long as to how to gain knwoledge on not just testing but computers or applications or how things work the way they work.
Many blogs written by well meaning folks helped me and has got me this far in my journey in field of testing.
I know for sure many who started off with dreams in their eyes and seeing them crash due to various reasons whatever they may be.
Now with so many excellent blogs written by such excellent people who have not only honed their skills but willing to share and unlocking our minds so as that we start thinking again.
Honestly speaking I have learnt by many such wonderful blogs I list below here
http://testertested.blogspot.com
http://software-testing-zone.blogspot.com/
http://tuppad.com/blog/
There are many more now ,intially I started with the blogs mentioned above and slowly as I progressed in this journey added few more.Will update names of all blogs which inspired and enriched my knowledge in due course.
Thanks to Pradeep Soundararajan for inspiring me to start this blog.Will definitely share my views,my journey and my learnings and above all more of my mistakes over the years.
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