I got interested in testing after spending a day shadowing the team in Aggreko along other CodeYourFuture students back in November 2019. We had several talks on the day, including one from a Tester, who went through how they do testing in the company. I loved the presentation about test automation especially.
When I asked one of my CodeYourFuture mentors about testing and its career prospects, he pointed me towards Cypress framework, as it uses JavaScript, and it’s close to concepts I have used in jQuery (selectors) and assertions with Jest framework. I spent a day looking at tutorials online, and following a course on egghead.io.
Afterwards, I started building my first Test Suite with Cypress for our graduation project: https://github.com/meriem26/CypressTesting. With the help of my mentors, they kept suggesting improvements on that suite and I used to learn more and more about Cypress.
Although my connection with testing started with Cypress, I quickly made the jump to manual and exploratory testing after talking to a former CodeYourFuture graduate - who now works as a Tester - he pointed me to the importance of learning about manual testing too, and how fun and challenging it is in its own right.
I bought my first book in the topic
By January, my new year resolution was to pursue a career in software testing.
I am on this journey now.