Staying up to date

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• https://bughuntersam.com/my-testing-career-cheatsheet/
• http://blog.eviltester.com/2018/08/how-to-invest-in-testing.html
• Youtube: http://blog.eviltester.com/2016/11/software-testing-youtube-channels-to.html
• http://randallrice.blogspot.pt/2016/12/ten-ways-to-build-your-software-testing.html
• community https://dojo.ministryoftesting.com/lessons/how-to-break-into-software-testing
• read https://www.fs.blog/2013/09/finding-time-to-read/
• https://thelifeofoneman.com/software-testing-career
• https://dojo.ministryoftesting.com/dojo/lessons/crowdsourcing-your-learning
• exercises https://dojo.ministryoftesting.com/dojo/lessons/websites-to-practice-testing
• https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/99-things-you-can-do-to-become-a-better-software-tester/17923
• https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/how-do-we-evolve-or-is-it-just-me/20901
• https://medium.com/@jchyip/how-to-develop-t-shaped-people-993349932f90
• https://devblog.songkick.com/building-a-growth-framework-pt-ii-no-tester-left-behind-edf39277f7eb

Why you will stay

• Motivation https://dojo.ministryoftesting.com/lessons/ten-reasons-why-testing-isn-t-boring

CV

• https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/cvs-how-do-you-write-yours/15945

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Mentality https://thelifeofoneman.com/the-three-commitments

First, you must assume the mentality of a student seeking mastery. Mastery is the commitment to becoming your best, so to achieve results you must accept that there needs to be massive effort that excellence needs.

Many of these performers complete their journey in 10 years, do the maths and work on it four hours a day - if you are working 8 hours a day, you’ll have it mastered in 5. Understand that following instructions won’t get you to mastery any more than trying to get to the moon with a car. Testing is science, it is about learning: Take things apart, question how they work, question why they work in that way, put them together in different ways, get a second opinion.

Second, you must seek the best way of doing things. Nothing is more madenning than doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. There is no use in becoming efficient at what you are doing, when you are not doing the right thing. It is more important to be effective and do things that matter than do something really good that does not matter.

Last, accept ownership of everything that happens. If you feel responsible for everything that happens to you, you will get off your normal routine to try to change this. One of the biggest mistakes of a person in a team is to adopt a “It wasn’t my responsibility” mentality, when that person could have intervened.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times. -- Bruce Lee

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As James Bach says, invent testing for yourself. That is, don’t stop at accepting what other people say (including me); field-test it against your own experience, knowledge, and skills. Check in with your community, and see what they’re doing.

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You can get really creative when you start mixing heuristics. John Stevenson introduced this idea at TestBash Brighton with his fantastic talk on breaking model fatigue. John encourages us to SCAMPER existing models; Substitute, Combine, Adapt, Modify, Put to another use, Eliminate and Reverse them. Try experimenting with different combinations and alterations of well-known test heuristics and see what brings you value.
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PODCASTS:

• https://github.com/ligurio/awesome-software-quality/wiki/Podcasts