Create your tester portfolio

The following presentation that I have created with my friend Shmuel Gershon, suggest ways for novice testers to gain experience by doing open source and crowd source testing and. We did not invent the wheel here, but we discuss and give some guiding that could be useful for novice testers.
This presentation was a result of a request that we got from few Tech career SQA course graduates, for some training that will increase their value in the eyes of potential employers. they suggested that we will teach them the ITCQB certification exam. however, we thought that we could do something more meaningful by giving them this workshop.

link to our work:

Create Your Tester Portfolio

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Online test magazines

The first magazine I would like to link to is Testing Experience:
http://www.testingexperience.com/

This magazine already has it's 4th issue, and seems to collect articles, which expands the knowledge in many areas. So far, I found in every issue 1 or 2 articles which I found interesting, and expanding my knowledge in new domains of of our profession. The magazine also, has it's news section, and the last one, just announced breaking news on....a new quality testing certification... Hey! is this the new gospel of testing? I don't want to start here a discussion about certifications, but this just seems to me as too much. So for the sake of balance, ill point you to a video from STAREAST 2008, which address this subject , and probably will make you smile:
The Angel and Devil of Software Testing http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=oHtydNQU1f8

The other magazine that I want to review is Quality Matters:
http://www.quality-matters.org/

This magazine has published already it's 1st issue, and seems to concentrate on the foundations of testing. The feature subject of this issue was risk based testing by Rex Black, which is one of the recognized test experts in the industry, allthough too much related to the factory school. The article addressed the foundations of RBT, and could be a good summary of foundations of this approach. So was another article about team development.