The only thing i think i am good at is testing application, but i realized that grammar and spelling also plays an important role in testing. 2 years back in one of my project which was a game was all set to release. I was very damn confident that product was good to release, leaving certain minor bugs. Before getting it released i just asked my colleague to test the application and challenged her to find any bugs. To my surprise she found few grammar and spelling mistake which really surprised me because those sentence were grammatically wrong and i had not noticed it. I lost the bet which made me look like a fool :P but due to this i learnt a very important lesson of having a grammar and spell check. Very next minute i added Spelling and grammar test case in project TSP.
As a tester we need to understand where a preposition or a noun should be used. I was (am) very weak in grammar and spellings. I wanted to find the "root cause" for this problem so i recalled my 15 years as a kid. I studied in catholic school in my home town where English was kanglish (a mixture of Kannada and English) "What ya you know ya" and "is there no" were the most commonly used sentences. I don't blame my school but had they made a rule of not allowing Kannada to be spoken in class i would have been a better in grammar. While i am writing this i am thinking "Dude, at-least now you can Google and take a grammar lesson" So if you're weak in grammar you can learn parts of speech in the website http://www.chompchomp.com . Best one i could find in Internet.
Coming back to Testing, if you want to check with grammar and spelling, request your developer to send all the localized strings used in the application. Now a simple way to check is to copy paste the strings in Word document and perform a spell check, but if you really want to make sure all sentences sound grammatically correct then pass the application to a girl who is good in grammar. If the girl is not ready to test it offer something she likes :P may be a chocolate would do because a girl never helps you with your work for free
IF THERE AREN'T ANY GIRLS IN YOUR TEAM, DON'T BLAME ME. BLAME YOUR LUCK
P.S
I believe a girl knows much about grammar then most boys do. If any girl is reading this, please correct any grammatical errors in my blog :D Thank you
As a tester we need to understand where a preposition or a noun should be used. I was (am) very weak in grammar and spellings. I wanted to find the "root cause" for this problem so i recalled my 15 years as a kid. I studied in catholic school in my home town where English was kanglish (a mixture of Kannada and English) "What ya you know ya" and "is there no" were the most commonly used sentences. I don't blame my school but had they made a rule of not allowing Kannada to be spoken in class i would have been a better in grammar. While i am writing this i am thinking "Dude, at-least now you can Google and take a grammar lesson" So if you're weak in grammar you can learn parts of speech in the website http://www.chompchomp.com . Best one i could find in Internet.
Coming back to Testing, if you want to check with grammar and spelling, request your developer to send all the localized strings used in the application. Now a simple way to check is to copy paste the strings in Word document and perform a spell check, but if you really want to make sure all sentences sound grammatically correct then pass the application to a girl who is good in grammar. If the girl is not ready to test it offer something she likes :P may be a chocolate would do because a girl never helps you with your work for free
IF THERE AREN'T ANY GIRLS IN YOUR TEAM, DON'T BLAME ME. BLAME YOUR LUCK
P.S
I believe a girl knows much about grammar then most boys do. If any girl is reading this, please correct any grammatical errors in my blog :D Thank you