Ivan Katunou has over 10 years of experience in IT as a software testing team leader and resource manager, with a focus on automating routine tasks. The document outlines various tools and techniques for effective task management, software installation, and leveraging virtual desktops and hotkeys to enhance productivity. It also highlights the importance of organizing information and utilizing password management software.

1. Working Effectively with
Routine Tasks
Ivan Katunou

2. About myself
• More than 10 years of experience in IT
• Software Testing Team Leader and Resource
Manager at Epam Systems
• Organizer of “Morning Coffee with
Automation engineers” meetups
• Past projects:
• Epam Systems – Hyperion-Oracle
• CompatibL – Sberbank, RMB
• Viber Media
• Contacts:
• ivan.katunou@gmail.com

3. Software Testing and Automation

4. Automate Daily Routine Tasks
• Examples:
• Create, edit, store test cases in Excel/TestRail
• Create, edit, store bugs in Jira
• Main idea - find mostly used routine tasks you do almost every day.
Find a way how to automate them

5. Planning
• Quite often there are many tasks during the day that are not formally
mentioned
• Hard to remember everything
• It would be good to have a list of all tasks for some period of time

6. Planning – Evernote

7. Planning – Evernote
• Store daily tasks with links, description
• Arrange by priority
• Mark completed tasks with checkboxes
• Free version available
• Supported platforms: Windows, Mac OS, Android, iOS, Windows
Mobile, Web, Linux (3rd party)
• https://evernote.com/

8. Mail
• Thousands of e-mails in Inbox
• Hard to find anything

9. Mail – Empty Inbox

10. Mail – Empty Inbox
• Separate folders
• Rules for majority of e-mails
• Easy to search for a specific e-mail

11. Store Useful Info
• Useful links
• Ideas
• Pictures

12. Store Useful Info - OneNote

13. Store Useful Info - OneNote
• Add notebooks, sections, pages, records
• Text, tables, images, links
• Draw
• Free
• Supported platforms: Windows, Mac OS, Android, iOS, Windows
Mobile, Web
• https://www.onenote.com/

14. Install Software
• Linux (Ubuntu): sudo apt install python3
• Mac OS: brew install python3
• Windows?

15. Install Software – Chocolatey – Packages

16. Install Software – Chocolatey – Commands
• Install a package:
choco install python3 -y
cinst firefox -y
• Search for a certain package:
• choco search keepass2
• Package info:
• choco info chromium
• Update all packages:
cup all -y

17. Install Software – Chocolatey – Warning
• Make sure your company allows installing software this way
• Run chocolatey commands as admin
• Some packages support parameters like install folder overwrite. Check
corresponding package page

18. Virtual Desktops
• Mac OS, Linux, Windows 10 (for previous versions you can use Dexpot
tool)
• Use to work with many applications of different type
• Move applications to separate screens. For example:
• Screen #1: Messengers
• Screen #2: Mail client, Evernote
• Screen #3: Browser
• Screen #4: IDE, terminals

19. Virtual Desktops

20. Virtual Desktops – Windows 10 - Hotkeys
• Win + Tab – Open the Task View interface
• Win + Ctrl + Left / Right – Switch to the virtual desktop on the left or
right
• Win + Ctrl + D – Create a new virtual desktop and switch to it
• Win + Ctrl + F4 – Close the current virtual desktop.

21. Hotkeys
• Remember hotkeys of the most used software, it saves a lot of time
and nerves

22. Hotkeys - Windows
• Win + E – Open Explorer
• Win + Pause Break – Open System properties
• Win + R – Open Run
• Win + L – Lock your PC
• Win + D – minimize all windows
• Ctrl + Shift + Esc – Open Task Manager
• Alt + Tab – switch between open windows
• Alt + F4 – close the active item
• More here - https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/12445/windows-
keyboard-shortcuts

23. Hotkeys - Firefox
• Ctrl + L – Select location bar
• Ctrl + T – New tab
• Ctrl + W – Close tab
• Ctrl + Shift + T – Undo close tab
• Ctrl + Page Up, Ctrl + Page Down – Next tab, previous tab
• Ctrl + K – focus Search bar
• Backspace – Go back
• More here - https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/keyboard-shortcuts-
perform-firefox-tasks-quickly
• google.com – use Up and Down keys to go over results

24. Hotkeys – Bash
• Ctrl + A – Go to the beginning of the line (Home)
• Ctrl + E – Go to the End of the line (End)
• Ctrl + L – Clear the Screen, similar to the clear command
• Ctrl + W – Cut the Word before the cursor to the clipboard
• Ctrl + K – Cut the Line after the cursor to the clipboard
• Ctrl + U – Cut/delete the Line before the cursor to the clipboard
• More here - https://ss64.com/bash/syntax-keyboard.html and here
https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/ubuntu/keyboard-shortcuts-for-bash-
command-shell-for-ubuntu-debian-suse-redhat-linux-etc/

25. Hotkeys – IntellIJ IDEA
• Сtrl + N, Ctrl + Shift + N – Find class or file by name
• Ctrl + D – Duplicate the current line or selection.
• Ctrl + Shift + Slash – Comment with Block Comment
• Shift + F10 – Run a program
• Shift + F6 – Rename the selected file, class, field, method, etc. and change
all references to it accordingly
• More here - https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/2017.3/keyboard-
shortcuts-you-cannot-miss.html and here
https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/2017.3/keyboard-shortcuts-by-
category.html

26. Passwords
• Remember difficult ones
• Generate difficult ones
• Store at one place

27. Passwords - KeePass

28. Passwords - KeePass
• Free
• Supported platforms: Windows, Mac OS, Android, iOS, Windows
Mobile
• http://keepass.info/

29. Passwords – KeePass – Web
• Firefox plugin - KeeFox
• Chrome - chromelPass

30. Screenshots
• Take
• Edit
• Upload
• Share

31. Screenshots – ShareX

32. Screenshots – ShareX
• Free
• Supported platforms: Windows, Mac OS, Android, iOS, Windows
Mobile
• https://getsharex.com/

33. Convenient Terminal (Windows) – ConEmu

34. Remote Connections Tool (Windows) –
mRemoteNG

35. Automation
• Builds download and deployment
• Test data generation (csv file, db script, etc)
• Working with files, folders
• Sending notifications on certain events (e-mail, Slack)
• Submit bugs

36. Questions?