What self-projects should junior software developer practice on in order to level up?

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Im interested in knowing this too. Fresh & Good ideas are hard to come by:s13:.

Currently im trying to build my telegram chat bot, which i find it quite interesting.

*Im a student not working currently
 

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Designing and writing unit test. Doing documentation.

Have you learn on tools like

1) Selenium
2) Appium
3) JMeter
4) Cucumber.io
5) Jenkins or other CI tools ?

How do you write your unit tests ? Have you wonder if the way you are doing now is probably inefficient or you do feel laborious about it and probably there is a better way out there doing it ?
 

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Have you learn on tools like

1) Selenium
2) Appium
3) JMeter
4) Cucumber.io
5) Jenkins or other CI tools ?

How do you write your unit tests ? Have you wonder if the way you are doing now is probably inefficient or you do feel laborious about it and probably there is a better way out there doing it ?

I am not familiar with these tools.

For unit test (in Eclipse), I try to test each methods with corner cases and see how error is being handled. Then suggest to my colleague about which cases are not covered, etc.
 

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I am not familiar with these tools.

For unit test (in Eclipse), I try to test each methods with corner cases and see how error is being handled. Then suggest to my colleague about which cases are not covered, etc.

Think of what and how you can make your work more productive and effective, not just doing it. Instead of suggesting, find time and do your own POC and recommend it.

One reason why you may worth more is not just how much you can do, it's also your multiplier effect.
 
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Think of what and how you can make your work more productive and effective, not just doing it. Instead of suggesting, find time and do your own POC and recommend it.

One reason why you may worth more is not just how much you can do, it's also your multiplier effect.

David, how does software developer present proof of concept?

Write out the code and do comparative testing of runtime and error handling?
 

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David, how does software developer present proof of concept?

Write out the code and do comparative testing of runtime and error handling?

Depends on what you are trying to prove. For a good presentation, always have well written slides to show what you are trying to present. The issue at hand, the current way of doing, what are the alternatives, your findings and then your recommendation.

If your presentation include demonstration, then prepare some good use cases to illustrate your case and present it. Prepare as much as possible so that demonstration can be sweet and simple.

In the process you will learn some soft skills which are useful not just as a software developer, but also in management.
 

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Will senior developer find my recommendation trivial since my knowledge not at high level yet?
 

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Will senior developer find my recommendation trivial since my knowledge not at high level yet?

Then keep reading and keep learning and keep trying. You can try as many times as you need, but you only need to succeed once
 

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What self-projects should junior software developer practice on in order to level up?

leveling up i assume is more Money, no?

then u should steer away from custom development, especially full stack. go into enterprise software product.
 

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You mean those accounting software or zendesk kind?

You really wanna answer to this troll, making this portion of the forum like EDMW? :)

It is clear this fella agenda is not helping you guys to understand things. He just have a biased understanding to the concept of products and solutions.
 

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You really wanna answer to this troll, making this portion of the forum like EDMW? :)

It is clear this fella agenda is not helping you guys to understand things. He just have a biased understanding to the concept of products and solutions.

i am biased in making more money. oh no SME money kind.
 

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i am biased in making more money. oh no SME money kind.

yawn. yah 6 mnc right. yes we all hear you loud and clear. 6 mnc is accomplishment unlock? lolx. the more i read this, the more i can tell how much air you are holding :)
 

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yawn. yah 6 mnc right. yes we all hear you loud and clear. 6 mnc is accomplishment unlock? lolx. the more i read this, the more i can tell how much air you are holding :)

david, people here understand that u with ur one sme experience is the real deal.
 
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