Yesterday I started my first conference — Testμ 2022 organized by LambdaTest company from India. This is a marvellous opportunity to learn more about the current testing industry (although mainly connected with automatic testing) and to practice English at the same time, especially because the speakers are of different backgrounds. Continue Reading
Python – the progress
Thanks to edube.org I’m attending their free basic training on Python. While exploring the possible ways to develop myself in the IT world, I would like to check if I’m fit to work as a programmer. Additionally, Python can be used in test automation, therefore I decided to learn the Continue Reading
Learn SQL – short training for absolute beginners
I’ve just completed Learn SQL training by Codecademy.com. The training is absolutely free and can be done in a very short time. For me it was 4 days in a row, ca. 1 hour per day. The course covers absolute basics of SQL with fundamental commands to manipulate tables, constraints, Continue Reading
Big Data – Big Difficulties
In my quest for opportunities to learn something new, I’ve just attended a webinar entitled “Introduction to Big Data algorithms used in commercial technologies”. The webinar was organized by the Unity Group as part of their Unity Tech Talks initiative and was held by data engineer Stanisław Bzdęga. The beginning Continue Reading
First Retro
Although I haven’t set up any sprint yet, I decided to start my personal Scrum experience with the first retrospective. I know that Scrum is designed for agile groups, but to learn it better I would like to incorporate its concepts into my daily routine. So this is the first Continue Reading
Tester School Summary
I’ve just finished the Tester School, a training course in Polish run (under the name of Szkoła Testera) by Norbert Jankowski who is a tester with more than 10 years of experience. The training is available on szkolatestera.pl and consists of 60 video lessons of a total duration of more Continue Reading
My TODO list is growing bigger and bigger
I’m a loyal user of Todoist, the service that helps me organize my all duties and tasks. I make a note of every idea, document and event I intend to fulfill, read or attend, as well as every other task, either personal or professional. From the beginning of this Big Continue Reading
The First Meetup
I am totally grateful to Agile Wrocław group for the online meetup on Scrum. The event provided by Joanna Płaskonka, who is a scrum master and an agile coach, was entitled “What do managers do in the Scrum”. For me, as a total newcomer, it was far too advanced, but Continue Reading
The deluge of work
I’ve spent the past three days translating a quite difficult patent on railway engineering that is somehow new for me. Therefore, I had to put aside most of my daily learning tasks and focus on the current job. I think even if I plan everything very cautiously, such situation can Continue Reading
The doubts
The more I read about being a tester, the more doubts appear. I go through a lot of comments on how hard it is now to find a job for a beginner, how the labour market has changed, that IT is for people who begin their computer journey at early Continue Reading