This document discusses strategies for improving testing skills and effectiveness as a testing team. It recommends discovering testing through experienced colleagues, individual study, and courses. It also suggests gaining knowledge in areas like test design, automation tools, and necessary testing skills. Additionally, it provides tips for making work easier, avoiding monotony, and keys to a successful team like identifying skills, improving them, and specializing roles.

1. Testing, J ob or G ame? From “zero” to tester Let’s play “Guess” Tabăra de Testare Peer Conference Iaşi, 2011

2. Discover the M ystery of T esting From experienced colleagues By individual study Through testing courses Tabăra de Testare Peer Conference Iaşi, 2011

3. Diplomacy Correctness in relationships with colleagues Responsible work Open mind Communication and Collaboration Tabăra de Testare Peer Conference Iaşi, 2011

4. Knowledge to work as T ester Detailed design scenarios starting from the design document Create and run test cases manually in Microsoft Test Manager 2010 and Silk Create and run automated tests in Selenium Web Driver Create bug report SQL knowledge Tabăra de Testare Peer Conference Iaşi, 2011

5. Necessary T esting T ools Test Cases: Microsoft Test Manager 2010, Silk Bug tracking: TFS, STAR Virtualization: Hyper-V Debugging and performance: .dotTrace, Ants Memory profile, SQL profiler, DebugView, Windbg Automation Selenium IDE, Selenium RC, Web Driver, Test Complete, TeamCity UI: Jruler, Jing Tabăra de Testare Peer Conference Iaşi, 2011

6. What Are My Training Needs QMS trainings SQL and UML trainings with the technical leader Training with the test leader to learn the necessary testing tools Meetings with the Project Manager to discuss business workflows Tabăra de Testare Peer Conference Iaşi, 2011

7. Improve My S kills By proposing study hours every week workshops with developer colleagues workshops of the testing team on different topics Meetings between testers in which were discussed the current tasks scenarios test design Study and discussion groups on yammer Tabăra de Testare Peer Conference Iaşi, 2011

8. Specialize the T eam By proposing a QA person Specializing a person for Research Specializing someone for automation testing Tabăra de Testare Peer Conference Iaşi, 2011

9. Making M y W ork E asier Internally developed tools Automatic Installer LogBackup PerformanceLogs Emulators Star Tabăra de Testare Peer Conference Iaşi, 2011

10. Get R id of M onotony Rotate the team members on different test areas Test the application black box and white box Understand deeply the domain of the application Adapt test environment to new technologies Tabăra de Testare Peer Conference Iaşi, 2011

11. The K ey to a S uccessful T eam Identify the skills for each team member Improve these skills Motivate and specialize the person Tabăra de Testare Peer Conference Iaşi, 2011

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18. What About Your Experience? Open discussion Tabăra de Testare Peer Conference Iaşi, 2011