A number of volunteers have expressed interest in learning testing along with me, so I'm hoping to make the community test group a great place for newbies to learn about QA. Though I'm nominally starting out as a facilitator for the group (would anyone like to help out or step up for point on testing training?), I'll be a student in the discipline alongside everybody else, and would very much like to learn from our community members with plenty of test experience.
What should we learn? (Testers: what do you wish you'd known when you first started?) What do you want to learn? What can you teach, and who do you know whom we can learn from? Any recommendations for good test tools, books on testing, and projects (open-source or not) to learn from would be great; we've gotten some fantastic tips already (thank you, Marco, Cjl, Adric, and many, many others) and I'm really looking for a flood of input here - I'll sort it out after the weekend. We are still ironing out the last few details of what the community test team will do - I want us to have a clear target and known boundaries and resources so that we can run full steam ahead and stretch our crazy ingenuity as far out as possible to Get Things Done without being afraid of hitting a wall, stepping on toes, or not being able to get resources. This might take a couple days but I will let you all know the instant we are go for launch. Cheers, -Mel _______________________________________________ Testing mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/testing
