30 Days of DevOps Testing has started!
4 min readMay 5, 2020
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Spring OnlineTestConf 2020 — Now a 3 day event!
The 8th OnlineTestConf (May 19–21st) is quickly approaching. Extreme testing challenges and success stories will be revealed in this line-up of sessions with some amazing speakers. Attendance is free but the knowledge shared will be priceless. View the program and save your seat!
Testing and the Community
- 30 Days of DevOps — The 30 Days of Testing Challenge is back!
- TestBash Home Conversations — So many conversations and resources shared from TestBash Home
- 30 Days of DevOps Day 1: Definitions — Share your definition as part of our #30DaysOfTesting
- TestBash Home — The First 12 Hours (#Sketchnotes) — TestBash Home is finally here!
- Would Heu-Risk It? Part 29: Tunnel Vision — Cognitive bias is a thing we should always be aware of.
- 7 Ingredients of such a unique testbash home recipe — Emna shares what TestBash Home meant for her.
- Android testing tools — Android tools that may enhance your testing skills.
- TestBash Home: Setting the Bar High for Virtual Conferences — Great insight from Ali.
- Community Is Dead, Long Live The Community — Maybe it’s not dead after all.
Upcoming MoT Events
- Testing Ask Me Anything — API Testing — 1 hour — 8pm UK Time — 12th May 2020
- TestBash Manchester — 30th September — 1st October 2020
- Test.bash(); Manchester — 2nd October 2020
- TestBash Netherlands — 15th — 16th October 2020
- TestBashX Edinburgh — 30th October 2020
- TestBash New Zealand — 16th — 17th November 2020
Automation
- Minimize the browser with Selenium Webdriver — Or should you? — You can now minimize the browser window with Selenium WebDriver.
- Don’t “check” or “verify” in your tests — Interesting take on naming conventions.
- How to choose a programming language for test automation — There are a lot to choose from.
- Configuring NUnit 2 to run different tests in each environment — Quick look at ways to do this with NUnit 3.
Business Posts
- Sauce Labs Offers Software Testing to COVID-19 Innovators — Extending their Open Sauce program to offer free and reduced-cost testing for organizations innovating to address COVID-19.
- Announcing BrowserStack Summer of Learning — A free 5-part webinar series designed to help QA and engineering teams of all sizes learn and scale test automation.
Accessibility
- Why We Say Accessibility is Now More Important than Ever — Hasn’t accessibility always been important?
- 7 Best Practices for Live Auto Captioning Quality — The demand for live online events has increased and it doesn’t seem to be slowing down anytime soon.
- Creating Accessible Forms — General form accessibility.
Podcasts
Check out our forever automagically updated list of software testing podcasts…
- Frustrations in testing & what to do about them? — Ever felt like testers have a frustrating job?
- Episode 732 — Nintendo Confirms Breached Accounts, Enable Multi-Factor Now — This episode talks about the breach and why and how it’s so important to enable multi-factor authentication on all your accounts.
- Episode 43 Keyaan Williams: Humble Leadership, Big Impact — Keyaan shares some leadership advice, offers wisdom on communicating security risk to non-technical executives, and updates us on his efforts to make security a more open and collaborative space.
- The Agile Fluency Model with Diana Larsen — Diana is a world-renown author, speaker and co-founder of The Agile Fluency Model.
- The Guilty Tester — Episode 15 — Testbash Manchester Unexpo 2019 Part 3 — In October 2019 they went to TestBash Manchester and had an Unexpo stand talked about guilt in software testing and collected things that people felt guilty about.
- 176: Hacking hacks and university attacks — Journalists spying on their rivals, the NHS rejects Apple and Google’s approach to Coronavirus-tracing, and universities are hit by an old-fashioned lady attack.
- Quality Coach Roadshow: Tim O’Brien Wargaming Sydney — Testing Strategies and Rework — Chatting with Tim to give us an understanding of how quality coaching fits into this unique context.
Security
- Ministers plan to give more UK public bodies power to access phone data — Expansion of ‘snooper’s charter’ would allow more authorities to access web browsing histories.
- Evil Eye Threat Actor Resurfaces with iOS Exploit and Updated Implant — The most notable threat actor detailed was one Volexity call Evil Eye.
- You Won’t Believe what this One Line Change Did to the Chrome Sandbox — How they used the bug to develop a chain of execution to escape the sandbox as used for the GPU Process on Chrome/Edge or the default content sandbox in Firefox.
Meetups
- Contributor’s Meeting — Manchester
- Leigh Rathbone — Online, Nottingham
- Remote Working? Or Not Remotely Working? — Online, Sheffield
- The MoTrix: Accessibility for beginners with Elizabeth Fiennes — Online
- MoT Berlin #23 — Online Lean Coffee — Online, Berlin
- The MoT-rix: Accessibility for Beginners — Online, Auckland
- Virtual Lean Coffee — Online, France
