Things have been busy in the last month or so and I felt like sharing what I've been up to. Most of it revolves around software testing:
April saw the start of Dan Ariely’s A Beginners Guide to Irrational Behavior class on coursera. I knew I had the BBST course coming up so I didn't commit much time to the class other than watching the video lectures and doing the video quizzes. There are many aspects of irrational behavior that affect what we do in software development and testing – I’d like to write a more in-depth article about that in the future.
On the 14th of April I started the BBST Test Design course and completed it on May 8th. For those who have never taken a BBST class before they are incredibly intense month long courses. The course breaks a single calendar week into 2 class weeks – one week with 4 days, and a shorter week with 3 days and each week requires about 10-15 hours of work in order to do the readings, labs and work on the exam. The class is done but I still don’t know if I've passed; regardless I learned a lot.
On April 19th I joined the NRG Global Online test competition. My last post was a reflection on how well I thought I did and despite my low perception of how I did my team ended up winning part of the competition.
I went to STPcon 2013 at the end of April in San Diego where I met up with a few Miagi-Do’ers, met some other testers I’d heard from in the twitter-verse or blog-o-sphere and learned a few things. I’m planning to write an experience report and post it either here or on the newly formed Miagi-Do blog. I think it might apply a little more here but I don’t know how it will turn out because I haven’t written it.
April saw the start of Dan Ariely’s A Beginners Guide to Irrational Behavior class on coursera. I knew I had the BBST course coming up so I didn't commit much time to the class other than watching the video lectures and doing the video quizzes. There are many aspects of irrational behavior that affect what we do in software development and testing – I’d like to write a more in-depth article about that in the future.
On the 14th of April I started the BBST Test Design course and completed it on May 8th. For those who have never taken a BBST class before they are incredibly intense month long courses. The course breaks a single calendar week into 2 class weeks – one week with 4 days, and a shorter week with 3 days and each week requires about 10-15 hours of work in order to do the readings, labs and work on the exam. The class is done but I still don’t know if I've passed; regardless I learned a lot.
On April 19th I joined the NRG Global Online test competition. My last post was a reflection on how well I thought I did and despite my low perception of how I did my team ended up winning part of the competition.
I went to STPcon 2013 at the end of April in San Diego where I met up with a few Miagi-Do’ers, met some other testers I’d heard from in the twitter-verse or blog-o-sphere and learned a few things. I’m planning to write an experience report and post it either here or on the newly formed Miagi-Do blog. I think it might apply a little more here but I don’t know how it will turn out because I haven’t written it.