Tuesday, 11 January 2011

1 Year Anniversary

Today is the Cartoon Tester 1 year anniversary and what a year it has been!
Thank you all for following the blog and leaving comments. Initially I thought I would only run the blog for a few months, but due to the great response I decided that it was definitely worth continuing.

Some of my Highlights for the Tester Cartoon blog include:

Wow! What a list! Thank you again for all the great support I’ve received that has made the above a reality.

Recently, a few people have asked when and why I started drawing cartoons about testing. I think some of them were asking ‘Why? Why are you wasting your time drawing stupid cartoons?” but I think others were genuinely interested!

There are a number of reasons why…
One was that I wanted to get more involved in the wider testing industry. One option was to start a typical blog but I knew I wasn’t great at writing articles.
I knew that I had ‘some’ skill at drawing cartoons. I used to draw cartoons about my wife and I and our relationship together. Some of the cartoons made her laugh, so I thought I was unto something as she’s my toughest critic!
Another reason was that I wanted to improve my employability. I thought my CV/resume was boring to read, I felt I needed something extra, something a bit different.
With all this, I started drawing cartoons about testing early 2009 and ended up with around 20-30 cartoons, I submitted them all for review to the first STC magazine. I received such a great response from them that I decided to start this blog. Like they say… and the rest is history :o)

Here’s my updated CV, I had to remove some private information, but I think it looks much better than my old one…

Posted by Andy Glover

20 comments:

  1. Unknown11 January 2011 at 06:19

    is the UK edition of Quality Center really spelled as Quality Centre? Congratulations Andy!

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  2. Jesper L. Ottosen11 January 2011 at 06:25

    Congrat's - keep up the good work

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  3. Ajay Balamurugadas11 January 2011 at 06:46

    Congrats Andy :) Good Luck for the future.

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  4. Pete Walen11 January 2011 at 06:52

    Congratulations! I look forward to more great stuff!

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  5. Andy Glover11 January 2011 at 07:50

    Thanks!

    @Perze, it should be Quality Centre, but I've just checked and all references are 'Center', altough we might have a non-UK QC edition!

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  6. Darren McMillan11 January 2011 at 08:07

    Congrats Andy :-) Excellent idea on the CV! Seriously it's different, fun & works!

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  7. Chris McMahon11 January 2011 at 08:20

    Congratulations and well done. And thanks for the mention of WAT, so many WATers have had big career moves since the list started, I'm glad to see yours.

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  8. Michael Larsen11 January 2011 at 10:26

    Hooray to Andy for an awesome year and for much inspiration during that time. Please keep on truckin' :).

    --MKL

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  9. Andy Glover11 January 2011 at 12:36

    Thanks again all for the lovely comments :o)

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  10. Lynn McKee11 January 2011 at 12:59

    Congrats!!!

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  11. anne-marie11 January 2011 at 13:28

    I love your "rock of software testing".

    You rock! Looking forward to the 2nd Anniversary.

    Maverick Tester

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  12. Andy Glover12 January 2011 at 05:20

    Thank you :o)

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  13. Albert Gareev12 January 2011 at 06:05

    Congratulations, Andy!

    You also inspired many testers in different ways. Should have been in your list :)

    Best regards!
    Albert

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  14. Ram12 January 2011 at 22:45

    Andy,

    Hearty congrats on your first anniversary and looking for next anniversaries too.


    Thanks
    Ram

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  15. Andy Glover13 January 2011 at 00:24

    Thanks again for all the feedback :o)

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  16. Unknown17 January 2011 at 01:29

    Andy, u just make it look so easy and cool.. Gr8 job.. keep going.. Love ur cartoons

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  17. Andy Glover17 January 2011 at 04:30

    Thanks Preetha :o)

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  18. Venkatesan Kannan19 January 2011 at 01:58

    Congrats Andy...

    G8 work mate,U rock ..........

    Xpecting a lot more from u.

    Keep it going ... :)

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  19. Andy Glover20 January 2011 at 04:25

    Thanks Venkatesan :o)

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  20. Unknown31 January 2011 at 09:05

    Congrats Andy...

    Keep rocking.:)

    Cheers..
    Sakthi

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