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Like anything, it takes a while to get good at anything (…unless your name is Messi) messi

I have been writing and blogging now for some ten years on various sites, this site being the latest one and I find, the more I write, the easier it is to write.

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On writing, I find you need to be willing to write a lot of stuff you wont end up using, to get to the stuff you will. a writer might start on short stories, get more confident, develop their voice and maybe get published.

One Hollywood writer interview I saw once said you need to be prepared to write ten scripts that get rejected to get a success.

Source: Life lessons from Benjamin Franklin

“Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.”
Success comes from doing things “right,” and doing things right is usually the result of first doing things wrong.

You are certain to make mistakes; the path to success is lined with mistakes and failures, just keep moving. Successful people make a lot of mistakes, but they don’t quit, they keep moving until they arrive to their goal.

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”

If you want to get better at something, you need to practice until it becomes automatic and it’s surprising how much you learn, especially when you think your not learning anything?

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This year I have been learning Java with a view to furthering my testing career, but of course nothing is anything by its self, everything connects and I have made a list of subjects to cover, while you are tired looking at the code

To Automate tests, you need to understand the following:

Java and Object Oriented Programming
Page Object Model
JUNIT
The WebDriver framework
How to create XPATH locators
Learn Eclipse compiler
Use browser plugins (Firepath, Firebug, FireCookie)
HTML and CSS
How the HTTP protocol works, get and post requests
How browsers work

And of course, if you see a new acronym, software tool in a job description, I would google that and look it up on one of the many YouTube channels and learn as much as possible and add it to your bag…

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