test community icon + test training
October 16, 2008 – 8:59 pmJust for fun, an icon draft for the testing community is below, since it’s been a while since I busted out the Inkscape and I needed to take a break somehow tonight. Edits/counterideas welcome; the source is here. I’m just getting this party started; I don’t actually have icon design skills myself.
On a more serious note, 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. More details in the original testing mailing list post here. If you’re interested, have ideas on how we can do this, or (best of all) willing to teach something you know, please let me know, either through a comment on this post or by directly responding to the testing mailing list.
Tomorrow’s blog post will be in response to all the great feedback I’ve gotten on this week’s posts so far. Thanks for the thoughts and helps, everybody – please keep them coming!
3 Responses to “test community icon + test training”
Some thoughts I’ve had:
It strikes me that software testing requires certain skills, which can be taught, and a certain mindset, which can be fostered but not completely taught from scratch. It’s like the security mindset in that Schneier post:
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/03/the_security_mi_1.html
We as an industry are not finding enough people who would be good at testing and steering them towards it. We should find intelligent people with the right mindset and train them with the specific testing skills we need.
By Sumana Harihareswara on Oct 17, 2008
Since I’m sucking it up at the whole software development thing, clever video making thing, and manufacturing breakdown thing, I’d be happy to run some tests for you until I can get up and running on the other projects.
By Andrew on Oct 17, 2008
I think the icon/logo is pretty cool!
By Eduardo on Oct 18, 2008