CAPTCHAs in Automation
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Complimentary E-book | The Skills for Agile Testers
In a modern engineering team, keeping pace with the latest tools, skills and practices can be a significant challenge. Enjoy this new E-book and take both your team and your career to the next level.
Brighton TestBash Early Bird Tickets
TestBash Brighton Early Bird tickets had entirely sold out — hooray! However, we’ve decided to go ahead and add more! So if you want to get your hands on an absolute bargain, get your ticket now!
But I’m Not A Security Tester! Security Testing On The Web For The Rest Of Us
Not long ago, security testing (and its equally scary cousin, penetration testing) was a big scary thing best left to those who understood it and got paid lots and lots of money to actually do it. Then life happened and I found myself accidentally stumbling across some things that could have been very expensive for my employer if I hadn’t caught them.
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 Test a Text Field
I really like these “How to Test” questions. I love the ideas that are generated around them and the discussions we have. What about you? How would you test a text field?
CAPTCHAs in Automation
How do you go about handling CAPTCHAs in automation? Do you have to speak really nicely to a developer to turn them off for automation? Is there a tidier way to handle them? Do you think they need to be handled?
Community Posts
Highlighting a selection of blog posts from the testing community.
Donating Book Proceeds to Save Linnea — testjutsu
You may have heard that Kristoffer Nordstrom’s daughter Linnea is bravely battling DIPG, a very rare and aggressive form of cancer. I am donating all proceeds from my book Standout from now until the end of December to #SaveLinnea. 100% of what I make from sales will go to Linnea and I’ll match purchases with my own donation up to £500.
The Essentials of iOS App Testing For iPhone X — Mobile Testing Blog
Apple revealed its new and futuristic iPhone X. Regardless of its design, and debatable price tag, this device also introduced a whole set of functionality, display, and engagement with the end-user.
Testing Blogs
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- AMA: Moving automated tests from Java to JavaScript — WatirMelon.Blog
- Adventures in Automation: TestBash Philly 2017 — The Pre-Test Bash Meetup
- Writing Automation Micro-Frameworks — Stories from a Software Tester
- Wheel of Testing Part 3 — Applications — Testing Is Believing
- Drawing wireframes for a better user experience — Kavliwashere.com
- On quality over quantity and my career journey — On Test Automation
- The byproduct of testing — Antti Niittyviita
- Represent! Flying the Flag for Diversity — Cassandra HL
- 7 Innovative AI Test Automation Tools for the Future: The Third Wave — Automation Testing Made Easy
- Tension and Negotiation Between Disciplines — testjutsu
- Test Bash Manchester 2017 Tweet by Tweet — Mega Ultra Super Happy Software Testing Fun Time
- Liar Liar — offbeattesting
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.
- Input Validation Cheat Sheet
- GitHub API Tester Tour: CRUD — Burdette’s Test Blog
- blog.iain.xyz: It works… And also it doesn’t.
- GitHub — cazala/coin-hive: CoinHive cryptocurrency miner for node.js
- 5 ways technology is changing consumer behaviors
- You Need To Know These Top 6 Factors For Managing Test Environments
