Question

Everyone wants a work–life balance, right? Who doesn’t? However, with the way software development and quality is shaping, it will soon become very difficult to confine testing to just 8 hours of work in the office premises. In a lot of testing, use case scenarios will happen on mobile devices, which is integral to all of our daily lives today. That being said, a tester will increasingly see connections between his or her core work and his or her life outside work, in the future. For instance, the tester may have several touch points to the app’s social presence even when he is outside work. At a social event, for instance, he may meet users of the product. The tester has to be ever ready to seek and take feedback for the product even when he is not at office, and the touch points he will have, to do this will only continue to rise in the coming years.

How will you manage your time in this situation? Provide some examples or share your personal experience.

Answer 1

This situation makes very difficult to tester to maintain work life balance. One thing to remember is if you are enjoying your work then you wont feel like you are missing your life balance. Everything is about how we enjoy our work.

According to my personal experience If I enjoy the work and I show more interest. If you show more interest then you can achieve more productivity. Productivity here refers to maximum amount of work we can do with minimum time. If we are more productive then we can save a lot of time which can be dedicated this makes  your product is very much successful . If any in such social events if we get positive feedback of the product then it makes our day . One of the most important thing is make yourself mentally active. Try to spend some fixed time everyday with your family or hobby you like and having a good amount of sleep is very much important to make yourself more productive.