The list of approaches and software that might help you with time management and working effectively with routine tasks

1. Working Effectively with
Routine Tasks
Ivan Katunou

2. About myself
• Software Testing Team Leader and Resource
Manager at Epam Systems
• More than 11 years of experience in IT, 8 years
in automated testing
• 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
• 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. Thank You! Any Questions?

37. Contacts
• Ivan Katunou, Software Testing Team Leader / Resource Manager at
Epam Systems (Coconut Palm test automation team)
• ivan.katunou@gmail.com
• @IvanKatunou (Telegram)
• +375 29 259 56 42 (Viber, GSM)