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Being technical without code

Being technical without code

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Being technical without code

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- [Instructor] The term technical has become synonymous with being able to write code within software testing. It's true that many technical testers can code. It's also important to point out that there are a vast number of skills that you can learn without coding that can help you to become more technical. Being able to pull source code from something like GitHub and then maybe being able to create a test environment from that source code. Understanding the log files of a system, like knowing where they are and how to read them. Knowledge of databases ranging from being able to interrogate tables, writing custom queries, and backup and restoring said database. Setting up virtual machines either locally or on something like Amazon Web Services and also being able to SSH onto those machines in order to use them. Understanding how HTTP cookies work and why they're so important to authentication in websites. Being able to proxy…

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