10 Misguided Reasons Not To Hire Testers
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5 Test Automation Challenges & How to Solve Them — Live Webinar
Automation is a key requirement in DevOps. Yet, challenges such as tight release schedules and inadequate tool stacks can get in the way. In this webinar you’ll learn how to scale your test automation practices and achieve better app quality.
10 Misguided Reasons Not To Hire Testers
In many software companies, it’s difficult to convince upper management that the company needs to hire more testers. Sadly, many of the reasons for not hiring testers leaves all testers who are there (and quite a few of the developers) wondering how many misconceptions about testing decision-makers believe.
TestBash Returning To Manchester For Its Third Year!
So all the TestBashes are announced apart from, arguably the best, Manchester! We are again returning to The Lowry, but this time on Thursday 27th September. However, there will be a full week of MoT events!
STAREAST Conference | April 29–May 4, 2018 | Orlando, FL
STAREAST will be packed with brilliant testing and QA pros from prominent companies around the world. From Geoff Meyer of Dell EMC to Angie Jones of Twitter, our speakers will inspire you and share proven strategies for implementation.
Testing Ask Me Anything — Test Management
We are back with another Ask Me Anything, focusing this time on Test Management. These are always insightful sessions, with such high involvement from the community, that they’re a joy to be a part of. If you have a question you want to be answered, register early and ask it in the Ask A Question section. You can also upvote any question that resonates with you.
Testers’ Island Discs Ep 8 — Gem Hill
We kick-off the new year with podcast legend Gem Hill, who shares her thoughts about the challenges of starting a new role, finding allies within an organisation, and the quest to improve awareness around mental health in tech.
Mobile Security Testing
Security testing can seem like a daunting task that is best left to external contractors. In Jahmel’s TestBash Brighton workshop, you will learn how to perform basic security testing of mobile applications using tools and techniques not only used by external penetration testers but by integrating security testing into the in-house testing process.
Revamping Resources For Software Testers
At Ministry of Testing, we’ve been collecting links to handy resources for Software Testers for many years now. We’ve been keeping them all together on The Dojo in our Resources series, you can access all these resources with a no-cost Dojo Club account.
The Club
We’ve picked a few topics of interest from The Club for you to read, contribute and generally get involved with.
How To Change The “Us Against Them” Mindset?
How to collaborate as a team (devs & testers), enforcing quality with other’s skills, instead of the usual thinking of “us against them”? Do you have feedbacks and experience where you successfully changed that mindset?
What Do Testers Do On A Daily Basis?
I find this is the type of question where an answer will start with “It depends”. But let’s try this, in your situation, what would you say you do on a daily basis? How would you help people understand your role?
Community Posts
Highlighting a selection of blog posts from the testing community.
“Testing Is Slowing Us Down”, Moving From Blame To Involvement And Engagement — The Reluctant Tester’s Blog
This post collates my experiences on what typically, the root cause turns out to be (when Business/PMO folks perceive that Testing is slowing down things) and tactics that I have advocated/employed to change the narrative.
Why You Need To Test Your Production Environment — iAmALittleTester
It occurred to me lately, after chatting with some people from the testing community, that not everyone runs automated tests or does any kind of testing in the production environment.Here are a few thoughts that might convince you that you do need to run automated tests even in production.
Testing Blogs
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- The gamification of Software Testing — Investigating Software
- Why Blog? — Software Testing — A Journey of discovery
- QA story: Barrel of fun — DragonQA
- Three types of coding dojo for test automation — Katrina the Tester
- Scrum Master (SM): A Practical Approach | Supreme Agile — David Tzemach’s Blog
- Coaching, Scrum Mastering, and Expertise — Think Different
- What Value is Your Test Automation Adding? Health Check- Automation Testing Made Easy
- Keyword Management Strategy for Robot Automation Framework — Handy Robot
- Walk Like an Egyptian Agile Tester — stevencrossblog
- The Selenium Server & Creating New Sessions — Rocket Powered
- Hawaii False Missile Alarm — was it entirely a Human Error?– testwithnishi
- Testers and the Bug Hunting Focus — Stories from a Software Tester
- Testing Tour Stop #1: Pair Exploring with Maaret — A Tester’s Journey
- Android & BDD tests. Part 1 — Challenge definition — YOUR TEST AUTOMATION HUB
Testing Podcasts
A selection of interesting testing podcasts from around the web
- Ep 95: “You don’t need client approval. You just need self approval.” — Let’s Talk About Tests, Baby
- Cafe 43: IoT on the Edge — Breakfast at Perform 2018 — PurePerformance Cafe
- 053 Feature Toggles: Implementing, Testing and Monitoring them! — PurePerformance
- 186: Automation Guild 2018 Key Takeaways with Joe Colantonio — Test Talks
Testing Chatter
We keep a close eye on our two slack groups — testers.chat and our MoT Slack. This is what they’ve been sharing.
- New security service from Cloudflare hopes to kill the VPN once and for all — GeekWire
- Five Epic Fails in Data Security: Do You Know How to Avoid Them?
- Google’s Self-Training AI Turns Coders into Machine-Learning Masters — MIT Technology Review
- Criminals now use scanners and printers to spread malware
- Hawaii emergency agency password in photo sparks security criticism — Business Insider
- XPath in Selenium WebDriver: Complete Tutorial
