New skills you may wish to learn as a tester

Here I am with a new post!

I just thought that many of the testers may wish to learn few technical skills along with the lots of coordination! management! processes etc like me.

Here is a simple tool which can run on windows and still you can practice all your unix commands on this:

http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/en/download/93.html

If you wish to learn few shell scripts:
here good links you can catch up.

http://www.linuxcommand.org/wss0030.php

http://www.freeos.com/guides/lsst/ch02sec01.html

If you would like to do some part time/practice register with:
https://my.utest.com/platform/index.jsp?rt=110#

And I wish to create a small community to share my views and thoughts:

http://groups.google.com/group/XpertiseTesting

If you are thinking about challenges a tester face in today's highly innovative world then here you go..

Don't be worried about them... just refer previous best videos blog. I have some exposure in testing of following domains of E-learning, E-commerce and CRM.

I have tested some of the popular LMS applications like Saba, A Tutor, Moodle etc.. and , E-commerce and CRM applications. Here are my few challenges:

- Too much is expected from a tester.. to know the complete applications/functional knowledge/expertise etc..
-  Always late hand off which results in..
- Squeeze Squeeze and Squeeze the testing durations!!
- No Process
- New technologies old methods to test
- No training
- No Knowledge transfers encouraged..

and last but not least .. testing is loosing its feet and importance unless an issue reported by a user! Big Chaos. Why this passed from testing?? Reasons????

Good YouTube Videos on Software Testing

I was browsing through some of the videos on software testing and I found most of them miss guide you. There is no substance to apart from the variety of the accents some try to do it in US Accent and some one with their nasty local accent.

Well if you are thinking about some good videos here my best pick for you.. check them out.


If you wish to go through an hour video on What Testing is all about then its really worth watching Mr. Joshi's presentation. It is little dry and some time boring. However, informative!



If you are done with the above video then may its time to think out of box and watch the below video from James Bach. One of the wonderful and thoughtful person in testing you wish to listen.





If you have another hour in your and wish you think whats latest in testing you can check the Agile testing process which is cool and worth watching for medium to advanced testing professionals.