Ah Agile…Excuse For Poor Product Quality?
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How To Improve Team Collaboration With Behavior Driven Development?
Team collaboration is one of the biggest challenges faced. During the webinar “Reach effective collaboration betweenbusiness & tech teams” you’ll learn how to, leverage BDD, adopt BDD with Jira & Hiptest and Scale BDD in your organization. Register now!
When Did Agile Become An Excuse To Deliver A Terrible Product?
There is an interesting discussion happening on The Club, have you even been stuck in a woeful “wagile” cycle? Were excuses made and recommendations ignored? How would you deal with this situation to remedy the “us Vs them” feeling? Offer your two cents.
SeleniumConf Berlin Scholarship Scheme
SeleniumConf is heading to Berlin for the first time on 9–10 October! The conference is running a scholarship scheme to support individuals from underrepresented groups in tech and those facing economic and social hardships. Apply now or share the link — the deadline is 4 August.
How To Stay Motivated When Your Area Of Testing Isn’t Of Interest?
It can happen to the best of us, we’re new in our testing role, so there is lots to learn. After a few years, we’re more comfortable in our role and discover that we may not have an interest in that area — whether it’s pharmaceuticals, finance or marketing. Have you been in this situation? What was your solution? Get involved in the discussion.
Life As That “TestSphere Dude”
Hi, I’m Beren. But you might know me by another name: “That TestSphere dude”. Apart from some minor other activities at the Ministry of Testing, the creation of this incredible card deck for testers is my most notable feat. Read more about Beren and where the TestSphere idea came from.
Get Your Geek On In London
It’s almost time for our two days of tester workshops in London! We have workshops on lots of different topics, from Security in the Cloud, or Cynefin for Testers, through to learning about Appium. You can buy a ticket for each individual workshop, or multiple or even for the whole two days! Think of all that knowledge. Get your ticket now.
Testing Blogs
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- The Trip Tester vs the Travel Tester — ortask
- Episode 81: It’s the small things that count — Testing Podcast
- Imagine: No Code Changes. What To Automate? — testzius
- Brain Crash Test: TestNG framework (quiz) — YOUR TEST AUTOMATION HUB
- Dave Snowden’s Cynefin masterclass in New York, 2nd May 2017 — part 1 — James Christie’s Blog
- Waiting too Long for Reviews — offbeattesting
- Episode 81: It’s the small things that count — Let’s Talk About Tests, Baby
- Want a second grade testing job? — Antti Niittyviita
- HTTP Methods. Authentication & Cookie basics — Scrolltest
- Serverless Computing — Testing Podcast
- Breaking the ice in Testing Cup 2017 — Let Me Try Software Testing!
- Mark Tomlinson: Part OneQuality Remarks |-Quality Remarks
- Our reading recommendations of the week #24/17 — Lyon Testing
- An introduction to Refactoring Java in IntelliJ using RestMud as an Example — Java For Testers
- Testnet Spring Event 2017 — spriteCloud
- The tool is not important — On Test Automation
- How to Generate Valuable Test Automation Reports — TestProject
- Lawyers, bad jokes and typos: how not to name your software — Code Without Rules
- Two Conferences of the East — Enquire TST
- What If: The Test Apocalypse — Stories from a Software Tester
- Testers — Don’t neglect your soft skills -The Growing Tester
- GitHub is for everybody! — Excelon Development
- Your test team is a challenge — not a safety blanket! — blog.iain.xyz
- Pytorch: Adding datasets to torchvision — Incrementalist
- News of the Damned for Sunday June 4th, 2017 — PerfBytes
Testing Chatter
We go hunting to see what testers are talking about, so you don’t have to!
- testerism — The Muthalib
- community-scripts/api/sdlc-integration at master · zaproxy/community-scripts · GitHub
- GitHub — mwinteringham/restful-booker: Web Service for the workshop
- A group of templated API test frameworks based upon this series: …/api-web-service-testing/ — GitHub -mwinteringham/api-framework
- Superhero.js
- Developers Who Use Spaces Make More Money Than Those Who Use Tabs — Stack Overflow Blog
- A curated list of delightful Selenium resources. — GitHub — christian-bromann/awesome-selenium
- A Big Picture, Thesaurus, and Taxonomy of Modern JavaScript Web Development — GitHub — dexteryy/spellbook-of-modern-webdev
- A pure python windows automation library loosely modeled after Java’s Robot Class. — GitHub — chriskiehl/pyrobot
- Partridge Ipsum — We Need to Talk about Alan’s Placeholder Text Generator
