Catch Me Presenting and skills S-T-R-E-T-C-H
See Lanette Present in Spring 2012
Since the fall, I've been working hard on a client project. It has given me quite a chance to stretch my skills beyond what I've typically done in the past. Some of that stretching is clearly into a more technical type of testing, by using SoapUI to test Web Services before they were completed! That led to me learning that more test coverage on web services are of very little value in my context. I found one unimportant bug. The time I spend creating and running checks for web services helped me learn a new skills, but in retrospect, I wished I knew before starting what I know now. I would have spend all of that time instead finding a way to speed up testing on the areas that are more risky. I will use SoapUI again, but only because it is lovely to have checks in place that I can hand off to a client that is simple to understand, fast to run, and easy to add to.
I've also written my first code that turned out good enough that it has been put in production (after review and integration). It's very exciting! I'm learning some JavaScript when I get the chance to work on my coding skills.
I hope that testing is treating you well! I'm excited to see many of my fellow cohorts in testing out at conferences this spring.
- STPCon 2012 March 26-29, 2012 New Orleans, LA
- StarEast April 15-20, 2012 Orlando, Florida
- BetterSoftware/ADP2012 June 5-10 Las Vegas
Possible Exciting Things (or I'm hoping to attend or speak at)
Agile and Beyond March 10 Dearborn, MI
Agile 2012 August 13–17, 2012 Dallas Fort Worth
- There is a small chance of me coming to Europe this year. *gulp* That is expensive & difficult due to the travel time, lost of sleep, and lodging expenses.
Since the fall, I've been working hard on a client project. It has given me quite a chance to stretch my skills beyond what I've typically done in the past. Some of that stretching is clearly into a more technical type of testing, by using SoapUI to test Web Services before they were completed! That led to me learning that more test coverage on web services are of very little value in my context. I found one unimportant bug. The time I spend creating and running checks for web services helped me learn a new skills, but in retrospect, I wished I knew before starting what I know now. I would have spend all of that time instead finding a way to speed up testing on the areas that are more risky. I will use SoapUI again, but only because it is lovely to have checks in place that I can hand off to a client that is simple to understand, fast to run, and easy to add to.
I've also written my first code that turned out good enough that it has been put in production (after review and integration). It's very exciting! I'm learning some JavaScript when I get the chance to work on my coding skills.
I hope that testing is treating you well! I'm excited to see many of my fellow cohorts in testing out at conferences this spring.
Posted by Testy Redhead at 4 Dec 2011 
Categories: Automation, Leadership, blackbox, automation, Learning
Categories: Automation, Leadership, blackbox, automation, Learning
Looking forward to your future testing topics:
Use cases, test infrastructure using VMware, testing in the cloud, and wiki-based communication using Atlassian Confluence.
Thanks!
-Jon
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"The time I spend creating and running checks for web services helped me learn a new skills"
true, but i've found this of great value when working on mobile for clients who's services were not what they should be. perhaps this task is more of an insurance thing; i was sure glad i had it when the time came.
just a thot.
@qamob
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Hi Lanette,
How does one contact you about speaking opportunities?
Dave
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Hi Dave,
You can email me at lanette.creamer at gmail dot com. I look forward to hearing from you.
Thanks,
Lanette
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Hi Lanette,
In 2011, I used SoapUI to test webservices for the first time and I had exactly the opposite experience! I was so thankful to use it so easily and discover various flaws of integration and requirements between both applications! In my context it was of great value
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