Cristina Sipos worked with me, learning to be a tester. She had no technical background to begin with, and worked as a travel agent. But she wanted to become a tester, so she approached me.
My practice in these situations is to assign challenging homework and then forget all about that student. Most people never come back. Some people come back a few times. Cristina worked with me for more than two years. She just kept doing the homework and coming back for more! She’s diligent and adaptable. She’s one of the three most dedicated students I have had the pleasure of helping. The other two being Alexander Carlsson (currently at Wordly) and Pradeep Soundararajan (who went on the found Moolya and write books).
In the process, she generated a fair few work products. She gave me permission to post them here, because I find that I keep wanting to show them off to other students. Nothing here was created with AI. However, everything here was created with multiple rounds of my review. Since Cristina’s first language is not English, I acted as her copy editor, although I tried to have a light touch.
If you want to contact Cristina, perhaps to hire her (I recommend that!), her email is cristina_siposro@yahoo.com.
Test Reports
These test reports come out of the various projects I assigned to Cristina. Written test reports are not often seen on real commercial projects, but creating them is an excellent form of training. I think it builds confidence in the tester who knows they are able to throw down a written report at any time. In the new age of AI, this skill is still needed, because a competent tester must be able to review and judge documentation created by AI.
Test Cases
Test cases may take many forms. Cristina practiced test cases in the form of mind-mapped ideas, as well as tabular and procedural forms. Some of these were exercises in systematic combinatorial testing.
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