To gain some experience and familiarize with testing tools and techniques, I attended a training project led by Anna Czyrko from Cherry.it. The project was centred around testing Trello web application using different techniques, including exploratory testing and DevTools. My main achievements during this two-month project: I went through Trello, Continue Reading
(R)evolution
Advent of Code
When the days are getting shorter and the winter is coming, it is Christmas just around the corner. The holiday season is preceded by the Advent, a period marked by Advent Calendars in all possible areas of human activity, regardless of views, faiths and origins. IT is very much the Continue Reading
The End of the First Phase
A few weeks ago, after four months of studying, I started searching for a job. I sent a couple of applications and… I’ll welcome 2023 as a Junior QA Specialist. The recruitment procedure was quite absorbing, albeit really fascinating. It comprised of theoretical questions at the very beginning, a real-life Continue Reading
CodeWars
Recently, I’ve discovered a new way of learning programming languages – the CodeWars. The idea is quite simple – to gain the experience and necessary skills you have to practise, and the more you practise the higher experience level you obtain. The creators were clearly inspired by Japanese martial arts Continue Reading
No-code triptych
Thanks to Just Join IT portal, I had the opportunity to become a little bit familiar with no-code technologies. The portal organized a webinar entitled “Domain No-Coder — is the era of new-generation professionals around the corner?”. During the event, Kamil Tarczyński from havenocode.io and Mariusz Gerałtowski from PSML described Continue Reading
Tic-Tac-Toe finished
I’ve finally finished my Tic-Tac-Toe game in Python. Initially, the project was part of Python Essentials 1 course by Python Institute. The program was quite simple, with computer randomly picking its moves. Therefore, the game was really easy to win. During the next weeks, I developed the code to implement Continue Reading
Test:Fest Meetup
This was my first offline IT event ever. After a few months of attending online meetups and training sessions, I had the opportunity to meet IT specialists live. The meetup consisted of two parts. The first one included an interesting presentation by Sławomir Radzymiński from Ocado Technology (the host of Continue Reading
QA Roadmaps
Inspired by Maciej Wyrodek from ITea Morning daily Youtube channel, I started to explore the available roadmaps that organise the learning process leading to software testing / QA. The direct inspiration was the special episode (in Polish) on QA roadmaps. Why to use roadmaps? When you start learning something almost Continue Reading
Credential Stuffing et consortes
To explore other opportunities to develop my career, I attended another webinar on cybersecurity. Andrzej Dyjak – a security specialist behind bezpiecznykod.pl – presented several types of brute force attacks including the most important attack according to DBIR report, i.e. credential stuffing, but also password guessing and password spraying methods. Continue Reading
Data Formats
Sometimes you think you know a lot and then… This was such kind of story. After years of working with different data formats, I thought I knew them quite well. However, Vladimir Alekseichenko from Dataworkshop.eu in his webinar “Data Formats” showed the topic from the Machine Learning perspective. Of course, Continue Reading