Modern testing for modern stacks

About my Career: We could relate to our careers. Tendency to jump to development was there always when i started my career. But i stuck to Testing. After few years i started liking it more. Things get clearer later on as we grow in our career. We see different ways to test look at different tools, learn new things. Liked the quote "we find out what we will do by knowing what we will not do". About Testing: Any product when we start testing we are not sure how it will go. Later on it becomes more clearer where we need to concentrate much. Take those smaller steps and perceive.

It is an interesting topic.The Author asks us to be patient and working more on our own, making more of the difference between our work and what influenced it.I thought about my previous experience in teaching,I was taking classes by using chalk and blackboard once I started my career,but after some time there is no difference between others work and my work.So I decided to use a lot of innovative technologies like quiz,group discussion,ppt,showing videos,arranging guest lectures.By doing this I was different from others and my work had been recognized.In testing,Now only I got into the bus and I have to stay inside the bus for a long time ,by learning so may new things and also my goal should be clear.

I can relate this great article to my career & the breaks that I took for spending some precious time with my daughter. I can relate to the bus-stops where I stopped working & started my break. I reached another bus-stop which was again in the Testing space itself. From one stop to another, I learned much more in terms of work & personally too. I didn't drift away from testing which is important to me as I like what am doing. In testing, the path clears up as you keep going, just keep going. Don't stop. I like these lines & they mean a lot to me: " We do not have to be number one in this world. We only have to be number one to ourselves. There is a special peace that comes with such humility, one that showers respect on you from your peers both above and below you."

Excellent article I ever read. I really like this article. Author very well explained about all angles of career with example of bus station and bus routes. I feel very luck to go through this article in beginning of career. Many times I came across one question. Why I am doing a similar work or project which was already done by others? But, after reading this article, I got answer to this question. And answer to my question is to just stay on the bus. After few stations, I need to do some different work which takes me to my destination.

This is one of those theories that is good to be aware when you start your career. We try not to take a trodden path we may end up going no where. It helps when you have a mentor when you start your career. It doesn't matter how other judge your work. This theory also emphasizes perseverance. With respect to testing,there can be instances where we may not find bugs in the application that does not mean we have to change our approach. I have come across something similar before. Arsene Wenger(Manager of Arsenal Football Club) was asked about his advice for young footballers he asked them to look up the accomplished football stars they admire, he asked them to imitate what they do-try and stay on the bus,after a certain point they would start being unique and would earn a name for themselves.

This article gives you one way to view your career progression. You need to plod along beaten paths before you can actually figure out problems and your unique take on the solutions. Given software and testing are relatively young fields, I think being able to have the long view also is pretty useful. Just staying on the bus increases your chance of actually identifying problems and possibly taking a shot at a solution. The author is a photographer and notes how primitive the tools for photography were and how much has changed since. I think this point is similar to both software and testing.