2014 in retrospect

Summary of my testing initiatives in 2014:

• created a course for uTest University about test automation with Selenium/WebDriver

• started teaching an online course on test automation with Selenium WebDriver and Java

• taught Selenium and JMETER for the Software Testing Skills Improvement local meetup

• worked on less popular types of testing: 

• database testing
• business intelligence reports testing

• blogged more in this site

• created a few articles for the uTest.com blog:

• Challenge Yourself Just Barely Above Your Current Skill Level

• Why Are Testers Uninterested in Upgrading Their Skill Sets?

• Three Ways for Testers to Take Their Careers to the Next Level

• Testers: Follow Your Passion…Or Not

• Finding the Spark Again as a Software Tester

• How Learning Swimming is Like Learning Test Automation

• learned lots of new things about

• database development (ETL, stored procedures, fine tuning, database cubes)

• create BI reports with Tableau

• Android test automation with the UI Automator framework

• Ruby basics

• source control with Subversive

• improved a lot the T-SQL skills

• improved WebDriver and Java knowledge

• improved unit testing with JUNIT knowledge

• voted as outstanding uTest university instructor (2014 - Q3)

• voted as outstanding uTest blogger (2014 - Q4)

• added to the uTest.com Hall Of Fame (uTester Of The Year - 2012)

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Alex Siminiuc