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#20DaysOfTestingatXING challenge – Day 1

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Some awesome colleagues at workplace (Maik Nogens and Ionut Oancea) have come up with this cool idea of 20DaysOfTesting@XING, on the lines of what Software Testing Club did some days back.

I regret for missing the 30daysOfTesting challenge by Rosie and so have decided to participate in this another opportunity at the workplace itself.  I’m usually engaged in such cool ideas from other side of the table (say organisers) and am really excited to get the feel of being a “participant” this time 🙂 

Coming to the point, the tasks for each day of this 20 day challenge are:

  1.  TAKE A PHOTO OF SOMETHING YOU ARE DOING AT WORK
  2.  SHARE A TESTING BLOG POST WITH A NON-TESTER
  3.  READ AND COMMENT ON ONE BLOG POST
  4.  FIND AN EVENT TO ATTEND (ONLINE OR FACE TO FACE)
  5.  STEP OUTSIDE OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE
  6.  PAIR WITH SOMEONE OUTSIDE YOUR BUSINESS UNIT OR OUTSIDE QA
  7.  GIVE SOMEONE POSITIVE FEEDBACK OUTSIDE OF QA
  8.  HAVE LUNCH TOGETHER AND POST A PICTURE
  9.  AUTOMATE ONE WORKFLOW FROM ANOTHER BUSINESS UNIT  (Pairing allowed, but be the driver)
  10.  PERSONAL CHOICE (Testing related, surprise us!)
  11.  LISTEN TO A TESTING PODCAST
  12.  PERFORM A CRAZY TEST
  13.  DOWNLOAD A MOBILE APP, FIND 5 BUGS AND SEND THE FEEDBACK TO THE CREATOR
  14.  FIND AND SHARE A QUOTE THAT INSPIRES YOU
  15.  CONNECT WITH A TESTER WHO YOU HAVEN’T PREVIOUSLY CONNECTED WITH
  16.  SUMMARISE AN ISSUE IN 140 CHARACTERS OR LESS
  17.  FIND A USER EXPERIENCE PROBLEM
  18.  SHARE YOUR FAVOURITE TESTING TOOL
  19.  SAY SOMETHING NICE ABOUT THE THING YOU JUST TESTED
  20. TEST YOUR PRODUCT FOR A QUALITY CRITERIA, WHICH NORMALLY IS NOT A FOCUS IN YOUR BUSINESS UNIT

Sounds like an interesting bunch, isn’t it? Well, given that this challenge starts from today, let me do the fist task without any further delay: 

Day 1: TAKE  A PHOTO OF SOMETHING YOU ARE DOING AT WORK

That’s me … having great time with my 3 awesome screens. Usually, I read interesting technical stuff in morning hours. And I was reading some cool shares from our “Software Quality” page on XING. Have you checked it out, by the way? You should!

Naturally, I won’t be able to share specific details of the internal things I would do for further tasks in this challenge but I can at least blog about the stuff and the fun I had. 

So, I am looking forward to upcoming tasks for next 19 days and I’m sure it is going to be fun. How about starting some similar cool campaign at your workplace and let us all know what ‘fun’ you had? I look forward to it. 

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