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Testing and the Community

• Software Testing Essentials Live Online — 3-day course focusing on key aspects of software testing and explore them with hands-on activities to build a portfolio of work.
• Test Management adaptations in times of Distributed Testing webinar — Coordinating and managing distributed testing can be a nightmare. Joel will share several applicable tips and tricks to sustain a high level of QA coverage under the current circumstances.
• Automation in Testing Online — 3 days of attendee-led online training with Richard and Mark to help you get to grips with understanding automation.
• Furlough as a tester — What are you doing with your furlough time?
• TestBash Home Swag — We’ve T-Shirts, mugs and stickers ready for you to order!
• Blog Posts From TestBash Home 2020 — Lots of write ups and experiences shared.
• First Look At the Test Sphere Expansion — Get a look at what has been added.
• Six Testing Personas to Avoid — Unlike user personas, these personas are ones we want to avoid!
• Developer/Tester/SDIT Relationships and TestBash Home (Sketch-notes, May Week 1) — More great sketches from Louise.
• My experience speaking at Testbash Home — Nishi shares her experience.

Upcoming MoT Events

• Testing Ask Me Anything — API Testing — 1 hour — 8pm UK Time — 12th May 2020
• Test Management adaptations in times of Distributed Testing — 1 hour — 8pm UK Time — 14th May 2020
• Software Testing Essentials Live Online — 1st — 3rd June 2020
• Automation in Testing Online — 3-Day Course — 22nd — 24th June 2020

Automation

• Configuring Nunit 3 to run different tests in each environment — Sometimes you have no choice than to avoid running certain tests. This is a quick look at ways to do this with NUnit 3.
• Risk Mapping (automation prioritisation) — Some useful ways to visualise prioritisation.
• Using Docker to run your Cypress tests — Useful post helping you build on some basic existing Docker knowledge.
• Time traveling through Git history — There is no need to worry if something wrong included in the commit or too many commits have been added.
• Steps to take when evaluating a test automation tool — Deciding on which tool to use is rarely a straightforward exercise.
• Deserializing API responses into Java records — A recipe for deserializing API responses into the new Java construct: Record, and using it for easier verification.

Business Posts

• Be A Critical Thinker To Be A Better Tester — Critical thinking is a must for testers.
• HTTP/2 Testing Through a Proxy — Something a bit interesting happens when you test an HTTP/2 site through a proxy.
• Try These Hacks to Speed Up Your Manual UI Tests — Four ways to speed up your manual UI tests and why you may want to consider adding automation.

Accessibility

• Avoid aria-roledescription — Hints on what to avoid.
• Accessible Datepickers Roundup — We can always provide alternative ways of giving the date but when a date picker is provided it must be made accessible.

Podcasts

Check out our forever automagically updated list of software testing podcasts…

• Subtests in Python with unittest and pytest — Paul Ganssle — What are they? When could you use them?
• AB Testing — Episode 120: David Bishop on Metagility — There’s a lot of good stuff here talking all about David’s book Metagility.
• Episode 737 — The Most Twisted Phishing Campaign Appears — This episode talks about what it is and how it’s based of an old-style but easy to identify once you know how it works.
• 177: Elon Musk, Roblox, and Love Bug author found — What can X Æ A-12 Musk teach us about passwords? How did our guest finally hunt down the man behind one of history’s biggest virus outbreaks in Manila? And what on earth is a hacker doing breaching Roblox security?

Security

• Google Play has been spreading advanced Android malware for years — Hackers have been using Google Play for years to distribute an unusually advanced backdoor capable of stealing a wide range of sensitive data.
• LockBit, the new ransomware for hire: A sad and cautionary tale — You’ve probably never heard of LockBit, but that’s likely to change.

Meetups

• The MoTrix: Testing API — The Object-Oriented Way with Konstantinos Loupos — Online
• Webinar: How team members can collaborate on technical tasks — Janet Gregory — Online
• Movie Night — The Forgotten ‘ility — Ash Winter — Online
• Live Online Chat & Lean Coffee — Online
• MoT KL Meetup #3: May Online Meetup — Online