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The 2 Minute Tester: 33 Routines to make you a better tester
Discover the Perfect Guide to Become the Best QAT Tester in No Time.This guide gives you 33 specific areas of testing that will improve your testing skills. Each section can be read in 2 minutes and contains specific actions you can take to improve your testing skills.
What you need are clear explanations and guidance on how to communicate the results of your testing, how to build a test team or how to get the most out of your more reticent test team members – precisely what this book has.
This book is about actionable advice. You can dip in and out of specific sections to get advice and tips for areas you may already be familiar with or on areas you aren't so clear about.
Jump in and use this as a guide to help you navigate the choppy waters of QAT!
It doesn't matter if you are starting your journey in Quality Assurance and Testing, or you are at the midpoint of your career, or even if you are operating at a senior level – there is always room for improvement.
Here are some of the things that the 2 Minute Tester can offer
33 specific and actionable routines that will make you a better QAT professional.Ways to blend your soft and hard skills to become a better tester.How to recruit your "Avengers" testing team.How to write bug reports that get to the heart of the issue.How to successfully manage testing projectsThe easiest and most effective ways to communicate testing outcomes.Author's This book is also available in French for paperback and kindle versions.
What you need are clear explanations and guidance on how to communicate the results of your testing, how to build a test team or how to get the most out of your more reticent test team members – precisely what this book has.
This book is about actionable advice. You can dip in and out of specific sections to get advice and tips for areas you may already be familiar with or on areas you aren't so clear about.
Jump in and use this as a guide to help you navigate the choppy waters of QAT!
It doesn't matter if you are starting your journey in Quality Assurance and Testing, or you are at the midpoint of your career, or even if you are operating at a senior level – there is always room for improvement.
Here are some of the things that the 2 Minute Tester can offer
33 specific and actionable routines that will make you a better QAT professional.Ways to blend your soft and hard skills to become a better tester.How to recruit your "Avengers" testing team.How to write bug reports that get to the heart of the issue.How to successfully manage testing projectsThe easiest and most effective ways to communicate testing outcomes.Author's This book is also available in French for paperback and kindle versions.
95 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 12, 2021
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April 18, 2022
Easy read (76 kindle pages) with short chapters where author shares practical tips how to work effectively and provides key takeaways. I read it like blog posts.
Junior tester would find usefull info, but I would say the biggest part would be usefull for mid/senior tester / test manager.
The topics are very different and mixed within the book. I wished that they would be grouped somehow, for instance test techniques tips, test management tips...
Because right now, the first chapter is exploratory testing, later chapter about the team, later testing techniques, and again about team.
Overall, I enjoyed reading it.
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Content in the book:
1. Exploratory testing
2. Effective team working in QAT
3. The tester mindset: 80/20
4. Risk-based testing: testing techniques
5. Static testing: testing techniques
6. Building your own Avengers team I: reqruitment
7. Specification by example, or true living documentation: test techniques
8. User Acceptance Testing (UAT): test techniques
9. Test team leadership: management
10. Dealing with management: or 'Wait, what do you guys do again'?
11. SWOT and how it can help your QA delivery: test techniques
12. Becoming a test manager (I): management
13. Becoming a test manager (II): management
14. GDPR: data
15. Running a defect board/triage meeting
16. Machine learning in testing: the cyborgs are coming... trends
17. Soft skills
18. Writing a great bug report: test techniques
19. Processes to improve QA processes
20. Joining it up and looking for the breaks: integration
21. Company culture: or avoiding rejection
22. Management: problem-solving in QA management - the three Ps in QA
23. Continuous improvement (kaizen)
24. Risk mitigation: stop it going wrong before it does
25. Defects adding to the product backlog and the risk to your project
26. Keeping it all on track: daily, weekly and monthly tasks
27. Tracking QA project progress (waterfall)
28. Stand-ups: the power of introverts
29. Effective communication
30. Finance: Budgets and QA
31. Productivity: the power of next action steps - keeping momentum
32. Management: delegation
33. Management: the feedback loop 3 to 1 rule
Junior tester would find usefull info, but I would say the biggest part would be usefull for mid/senior tester / test manager.
The topics are very different and mixed within the book. I wished that they would be grouped somehow, for instance test techniques tips, test management tips...
Because right now, the first chapter is exploratory testing, later chapter about the team, later testing techniques, and again about team.
Overall, I enjoyed reading it.
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Content in the book:
1. Exploratory testing
2. Effective team working in QAT
3. The tester mindset: 80/20
4. Risk-based testing: testing techniques
5. Static testing: testing techniques
6. Building your own Avengers team I: reqruitment
7. Specification by example, or true living documentation: test techniques
8. User Acceptance Testing (UAT): test techniques
9. Test team leadership: management
10. Dealing with management: or 'Wait, what do you guys do again'?
11. SWOT and how it can help your QA delivery: test techniques
12. Becoming a test manager (I): management
13. Becoming a test manager (II): management
14. GDPR: data
15. Running a defect board/triage meeting
16. Machine learning in testing: the cyborgs are coming... trends
17. Soft skills
18. Writing a great bug report: test techniques
19. Processes to improve QA processes
20. Joining it up and looking for the breaks: integration
21. Company culture: or avoiding rejection
22. Management: problem-solving in QA management - the three Ps in QA
23. Continuous improvement (kaizen)
24. Risk mitigation: stop it going wrong before it does
25. Defects adding to the product backlog and the risk to your project
26. Keeping it all on track: daily, weekly and monthly tasks
27. Tracking QA project progress (waterfall)
28. Stand-ups: the power of introverts
29. Effective communication
30. Finance: Budgets and QA
31. Productivity: the power of next action steps - keeping momentum
32. Management: delegation
33. Management: the feedback loop 3 to 1 rule
December 12, 2024
Probably good book for beginners.
Sometimes the book concentrates too much on some specific approaches or methods or rules, that can be outdated or can have many good alternatives.
Sometimes there were really weird stuff - like comments on judging people by their clothes.
I personally didn't find much userful in this book for me, but I saw some interesting ideas there.
Sometimes the book concentrates too much on some specific approaches or methods or rules, that can be outdated or can have many good alternatives.
Sometimes there were really weird stuff - like comments on judging people by their clothes.
I personally didn't find much userful in this book for me, but I saw some interesting ideas there.
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