November 2025
Intermediate to advanced
560 pages
16h 10m
English
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CHAPTER 22Becoming an RST Instructor
—By Huib Schoots
In this chapter, I will tell my story of how I became an RST instructor and why I chose to work and think in a context-driven way. I will discuss the various challenges I encountered that made me search for a different way of working and move to Rapid Software Testing.
From Development to Management to Training
After I finished my Business Informatics degree in 1996, I joined a big consultancy company where I did a master class to become a developer. I loved doing IT projects and solving problems, but I didn't really enjoy programming in FoxPro. To me, it felt like staring at a screen all day.
Communication and collaboration with other people gave me more energy than working alone. After every release we installed during the weekend, we would spend a week fixing the bugs that popped up. On another project, I distributed the software on floppy disks, and every serious bug forced us to distribute a new release. I quickly got sick and tired of copying floppies.
I started to look for ways to improve the quality of the software we were building. ...
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