Skills Vs Experience In Industry

                                            

This is to share my opinion on skills and experience and not to pinpoint someone. How the people develop a skill? and how the people gain the experience?  Will the skills and experience developed parallel? Definitely not always. The skills have nothing to do with the experience. A skill is what and how we perform like time taken to learn and the approach we do, etc. But the experience is just a certificate shown to others about the work he/she has done for the “x” years. The “x” year of experience of an individual doesn't mean that he/she had developed skills.

 Some have developed their skills like “v” model. Category 1: V-model represents parallel growth in both sides. Category 2:  Some may not develop their skills, but have gained the experience. Here experience speaks more than the skills. Category 3: To someone the skills they developed seem to be differing from the experience. They might have learnt a lot in very short time. Here the skills speak more than the experience. Here they show the experience has nothing to do with the skills.

So among the three mentioned above which could be the better options? So when an employee looking for the change in work, here the experience plays a major role. I have seen some companies which give more preference to the year of experience rather than the skills. Here the skilled professional with less years of experience not able to grab all the opportunities likes the professional who have more years of experience and lack in skills. Skills of an individual have to be judge from the year of experience the individual gained. Similarly the experience of an individual should be judged from the skills developed in that time. Judge the people based on their skills not just by the experience letter.

It’s good to test an individual skill by the means of work done every time and also the priority should be given high to such professional. This makes other category professional to change themselves and follow any of the other two categories.  When the preference is given more for skills in work environment then I would say the rate of fake experience will be reduced. The fake experience plays a major role nowadays. This is one of the reasons for the occurrence of such happenings. So I want to say judge the people from the skills not just by the experience letter.

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Human Brain: The Best Tool to Test

Human Brain: The Best Tool to Test

        There is “N” number of automation tools available in the market and also many are yet to be released in the market.  We have come across with number of tools. So which is the best among the available tools? I would say that, the tool which is residing among all of us and can't be sold out to the market. Yes, it’s a “Human Brain" the more powerful than any other automation tools. I agree that the tools can work faster than the human hand work, but if everything is automated, then there is no work for the tester’s new ideas. Imagine if there is a big testing war that is yet to come and we need to face that. How to get ready to face that challenge? Can we prepare a tool for the upcoming war? How can we make that without knowing what sort of war is that? So preferences should be given more to the brain work than the automation work. This helps the testers to walk on their path rather than someone else path and help them to face any sort of challenges.

How the automation tools should be used:

         As my coach says "There is different mechanism that should be applied while eating food. It's quite hard to eat chapati in spoon or fork. The spoon can be used while eating idly or any item related to that.  So don't depend on spoon/fork for all items that you want to eat.  Now, relate this to the software application. When we test, we should not totally depend on automation tool. It has to be used where it is supposed to be used. We can’t eat ice cream in hand. Here we need a spoon. Similarly we can’t test a million data manually. Here we need to test with the help of tools.  It has to be used where it is supposed to be used. It’s better to test manually in case of testing some medical equipment and also the product that might harm when it goes wrong. If we want to check X million data, in such case the tool can be used. But still some cross check can be done manually that gives a good confidence. Pick some data randomly and test manually.

When we trust that the tool we use doesn't cause any problem and the result produced from such tool is a perfect one and if we believe that the end result is the exact one. Then imagine if any non-reproducible bug exists in that tool. In such case, some time there is a chance of showing the error data as a right one and the correct data as a wrong one. So here I come to say that don't trust on tools always trust your own test ideas. That's helps you lot in case of testing any medical equipment’s, etc.  So I feel it is good to test manually and then you can go for automation.

               So don't depend on tool always. In short to say a tool is like a guide for the text book .It can't be an actual text book.  Still if people believe that tool can be a text book, and then I say as "A fool with a tool is still a fool".   The cost of risk can be minimized when it is done by manual than the automation.