Software Side Hustler Tip: My “Hit Two Birds With One Stone” Secret — Excel both day job and side projects. Part 4: Advice

Ask your current employer to invest in a high-quality one-day end-to-end test automation training — not just for the team’s benefit, but also to boost your own side app development.

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In this article series:

• Part 1: The Approach
• Part 2: Why It Works?
• Part 3: How Apply it? *
• Part 4: Advice
• Part 5: FAQ (upcoming)

For readers who have read the last three parts, I guess the №1 question is that “The approach sounds good and practical, however, I don’t have the E2E test automation skills”.

My answer is old-school: “Learn it”. I did in 2005, when I was in my thirties and a senior Java developer (contractor).

You may have come across the resources (books, tools, articles and training) I’ve created over the past 20 years. Honestly, to learn and master E2E test automation, money isn’t the issue at all. This newsletter features approximately…