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QA's Mantra for Learning New Concepts with ease

What seems to be the best approach for learning any new concept, might differ from person to person,everyone has their own unique ways of learning things. Deep dive from QA's expertise in learning new concepts, the following approaches are drafted. 1. Make analogies using real world objects & compare them with the concept, which makes us remember the concept for a longer period of time. 2. Link the concepts while learning:  Try to figure out & understand the problem statement of existing concept which was enhanced, which helps us to link concept to concept & also we will the solution for the problem statement. For example: Assume i am learning Collections, so i need to understand is there any concept which has limitations (Arrays), which had led to Collections. 3. Teach or have a walk through on the learning you made with your friends , which gives us to an opportunity to clarify much on the concepts learned by the questions they put up. 4. Document your l...

Must have's for QA professional's - Freshers to Experts

Having a glimpse at fast faced growing IT trends, organizations are looking for QA professionals with insight to skills based on their professional experience. lets have a quick look at them mapped w.r.t to experience & tips & tricks on how to acquire them in no time. Below listed are the skills crafted based on absolute experience gained out from interviews What does a fresher being expected for QA role in an interview? 1. Clear idea of concepts in manual testing, which includes Software development Life cycle (SDLC), Software Testing life cycle (STLC), Analysis, identification & preparation of Test scenario's, Test cases -positive & negative, reporting the defect with proper steps, tracking & closure. Idea of any reporting tools (JIRA, TFS, etc) & Version control tools(SVN, Perforce, TFS, Git, etc). 2. Any one of the DBMS usage with basic SQL queries - up to a level of Joins. 3. Basic idea of any programming language with OOPS concepts. 4. Ba...