Skip to main content

So what did testing certificate yield me

I was being asked to write CSTE since almost commencement of my career. There was one extremely diligent (and I mean it) manager with my previous employer who would always ask us to write CSTE or some other testing certificate.
And I always showed my reluctance towards it. Not because I have any grudge against CSTE (though have extreme grudge against ISTQB) but I have not seen any relation between certificate and testing competency.
I have worked with

  • Exceptional testers without certificate
  • Exceptional testers with certificate
  • Unexceptional testers without  certificate
  • Unexceptional testers with certificate

I could never drew any conclusion between testing competency and certificate.

Back to my manager and I. Soon I confronted a condition. I could get to work on my new assignment only if I wrote QC-9.2, client imposition.
I was darn bored of not having association with any project and decided to write this certificate. Those days it was 9.2, must be 10+ now.
It was hardly any study for 1 week, questions were objective and I easily cleared the exam. And so as anyone else with little brain and time in hand.
So did I get to work for the project? No, project never move beyond pipe line and I was employed in another project working on TestComplete for testing winform application. And yes this time without writing any certification.

Now back to CSTE, we were asked to write CSTE mandatorily. It was as if, more experienced you are more certificates you are ought to have in your profile.
Seeing my past experience I was more reluctant than ever to write any more certificate.
Same diligent manager was promoted as senior manager then associate vice president and then vice president and I still did not write the certificate.

Same manager is not there with my previous employer and I am also working in a new org and yet I am not a certified tester. I am glad that my new job is never going to force me to write any certificate.
And if you have not read this yet then do it first in your leisure time - http://www.satisfice.com/blog/archives/36
I also remember a post on decertifying yourself, though can't Google it now.
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

No spam only genuine comments :)

Popular posts from this blog

Appium and android mobile app automation

Next appium and Android mobile app automation video tutoria l is live. If you are new to appium then please check - appium-tutorial This video tutorial covers - Start vysor (Just for this session and not mobile automation :)) Start appium and start appium inspector Desired Capabilities platformName - Android deviceName - L2N0219828001013 (as seen on "adb devices") Saved Capability Sets Start Session Scan app elements using appium inspector Get appPackage and appActivity using "APK info" app Install "APK info" app and open app whose appPackage and appActivity are required i.e. calculator Check top section of app icon com.android.calculator2 is app package com.android.calculator2.Calculator is app activity testng.xml file settings for running Android app tests Test details com.seleniumtests.tests.mobile.AndroidAppTest and CalculatorScreen class View beautiful STF test report  
Post a Comment
Read more

Return only first or last element from webelements collection

Note: If you are new to java and selenium then start with selenium java training videos .     We often come across situation when there are multiple elements on a page and we probably like to exercise only a few of them using selenium webdriver. May be just first and last element. For example on a search result page we may like to click on only first and last link and not all. This is when Iterables API comes handy. (By the way I am assuming that you have already completed watching selenium training videos :)). Once we have collection of web element then we can use Iterables to get only first or last element as following - Consider that we fetch collection of element as - List< WebElement > webElements = getDriver().findElements(By. id ( "htmlID" ));   Now we can get the first web element from this collection as -  WebElement firstElement = Iterables. getFirst (webElements,  getDriver().findElement(By. id ( "defaultElement" )));   Herein second
2 comments
Read more

Using chrome console to test xPath and css selectors

Note: If you are new to java and selenium then start with selenium java training videos .       Since the advent of selenium there have been many plugin to test xPath / css selectors but you don’t need any of them if you have chrome browser. Using Chrome console you can test both xPath and css selectors. Launch website to be tested in chrome browser and hit F-12 and you would see chrome console opened in lower pane of application - Hit escape key and console would open another pane to write element locators - And now you can start writing xPath or css selectors in chrome console and test them - The syntax for writing css id - $$(“ ”) And hit the enter key. If your expression is right then html snippet of the application element corresponding to the css selector would be displayed - If you mouse over the html snippet in chrome console then it would highlight the corresponding element in application - If you want to clean console of previously wri
Read more