{"id":2593,"date":"2018-01-21T01:19:36","date_gmt":"2018-01-21T06:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=2593"},"modified":"2018-01-13T09:26:41","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T14:26:41","slug":"tools-and-abilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2018\/01\/tools-and-abilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Tools and Abilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>Just because you have a tool in your toolkit doesn&#8217;t mean you know what to do with it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tools tools tools. Everyone in the tech world has lots of tools. If you don&#8217;t have a list of tools on your resume, you aren&#8217;t hired.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s go through some obvious things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Just because you own a typewriter (word processor or other fancy thing) doesn&#8217;t mean you know how to write.<\/li>\n<li>Just because you have a saw doesn&#8217;t mean you can cut something precisely.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Okay, now that we have some basis for discussion, we go on.<\/p>\n<p>Person A: We have the latest thingy that automates our software testing!<\/p>\n<p>Person B: Great. Can you tell me the purpose of a test? Please explain the Oracle principle of testing and its ramifications to your situation. Please explain the role of requirements tracing in test design.<\/p>\n<p>Person A: huh<\/p>\n<p>Who do you wish to hire? The person who has tools, tools, tools or the person who has abilities?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Just because you have a tool in your toolkit doesn&#8217;t mean you know what to do with it. Tools tools tools. Everyone in the tech world has lots of tools. If you don&#8217;t have a list of tools on your resume, you aren&#8217;t hired. Let&#8217;s go through some obvious things: Just because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[255,105,293,3],"tags":[256,219,294,126],"class_list":["post-2593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-certification","category-competence","category-concepts","category-technology","tag-certification","tag-competence","tag-concepts","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2594,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593\/revisions\/2594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}