Ministry of Testing’s Weekly Software Testing Newsletter

Community of practice in the wider testing community

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Testing and the Community

• Testers’ Island Discs Ep34 — Stu Johnson — Mark and Stu discuss leading a culture of learning and building a community of practice both inside his community and in the wider testing community.
• The MoTrix Revolutions: Filling your self care backpack with Gem Hill — We all need to look after our mind as much as we need to look after our body.
• Changes to Test Auto. due to COVID/Economy — How is COVID/economic downturn impacting your software quality teams?
• Arabic Ask Me Anything — Performance/Security Testing with Mohamed Tarek — Our first Arabic online meetup.
• Testing Third Party APIs — You need to think carefully about what kind of testing it makes sense to do for the given context you are in.
• Thoughts: Performance testing types — Kim shares the types of performance tests she has experienced and used in the past.
• AI model staleness — A Tester perspective — What is it and how can you solve it?

Upcoming MoT Events

• TestBash Home — 30th April 8pm UK Time — 1st May 9pm UK Time
• Testing Ask Me Anything — API Testing — 1 hour — 8pm UK Time — 12th May
• 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

• Debugging for Testers — Good info to help you get started with both debugging your code and investigating someone else’s bugs!
• Using Insomnia for API exploration — Have you tried Insomnia?
• How to select dates from date pickers — Here is the recipe for automating the task of selecting a date from a Date Picker component.

Business Posts

• React-ifying the BrowserStack Front-end — Codebases have life spans, and clearly, it was time for BrowserStack to take stock of theirs.
• Exploratory Testing Essentials with Maaret Pyhäjärvi — Going back to its roots as skilled multidisciplinary testing including programming as a tool.
• Is Test Driven Development (TDD) Still Relevant? — Maybe TDD isn’t dead — it’s just due for a much-needed face lift!
• The 2020 State of Testing Report is out! — What is different about this year’s report?
• Dealing with Dependencies in Your Testing and Automation Efforts — Identify challenges caused by dependencies in your testing and test automation efforts and pointers to solutions to solve them.

Accessibility

• COVID-19, Digital Transformation & Accessibility — We can all agree that COVID-19 is accelerating digital transformation in many organizations, knocking through long-standing resistance and silos.
• Accessibility Maze — The Accessibility Maze was created to help those new to web accessibility experience firsthand what it is like to encounter those barriers.
• Blind Users Struggle with State Corona virus Websites — A Markup survey finds that many state webpages have serious accessibility issues.

Podcasts

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• Appium 2.0 and Headspin University with Jonathan Lipps — He’ll share his vision, technical possibilities, and changes you need to know about for Appium 2.0.
• Episode 727 — New Sophisticated Phishing Campaign Targeting GitHub — Microsoft owned GitHub has sent out a warning about a new sophisticated phishing campaign.
• AB Testing — Episode 119: Retrospectives — They do talk about working through Covid-19, but they spent most of our time talking about retrospectives.
• Tips for Talking at Online Conferences — More and more conferences are going online. Speakers will have to adapt.
• 175: Zoom deepfakes, Zardoz, and ‘Rona tracing — Will deepfake disguises hit a video conference near you, can Coronavirus-tracing apps be trusted, and should Facebook shut down anti-quarantine events?
• ABT 343 — Melissa Eaden — Melissa is in the hot seat this week to talk about management, leadership, modern testing, and more.

Security

• #SecurityStories: Threat Modeling — What is threat modelling and how does it work?
• Microsoft April 2020 Patch Tuesday fixes 3 zero-days, 15 critical flaws — Microsoft has released fixes for 113 vulnerabilities in Microsoft products.
• Discovering Fake Browser Extensions That Target Users of Ledger, Trezor, MEW, Metamask, and More — Using a familiar phishing method to target new brands.
• It’s a great time to tackle core IT upgrades — And to catch up with all those security patches too.
• Nintendo says 160,000 users impacted in recent account hacks — Nintendo disconnects NNID legacy login system from main Nintendo profiles after massive account hijacking campaign.

Meetups

• Webinar: Exploring the world of Mobile Testing Types — Online, Costa Rica
• Webinar: Practical Application of The Modern Testing Principles — Melissa Eaden — Online, Uruguay
• Movie Night — A Tale of Testability — Rob Meaney — Online, Auckland
• Observations on the Tester and Developer Relationship — With Richard Bradshaw — Online, Edinburgh