Crossing Over: How Developing a Feature Made Me Love Testing Even More
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Crossing Over: How Developing a Feature Made Me Love Testing Even More
Just like every TestBash, we publish videos of talks over on The Dojo. Watch this and seventeen other talks from TestBash Philadelphia.
Robyn’s Story: A Timeline
Robyn Daulby shares her origin story, from how she got started in Software Testing all the way through to finding and winning her scholarship with MoT and what she learnt from her time at TestBash Manchester.
The Club
We’ve picked a few topics of interest from The Club for you to read, contribute and generally get involved with.
Help! — To find the testing enthusiasm again
“I love testing — I always have and I hope I always will. However, recently I’m finding myself for the last 2 years on a team where QA and Testing is seen as the bad guy. How do people find the passion and the enthusiasm again to keep through the difficult time for so long?
Mutation Testing: Getting Started And Tools To Use
I’ve started to see mutation testing be mentioned more and more in the meetup and slack spaces. It’s not something I’ve ever had the chance to try myself yet so I have a few questions about it.
Community Posts
Highlighting a selection of blog posts from the testing community.
How Should Testers use AI? — offbeattesting
As a tester I am excited about the possibilities of AI and machine learning. I hope that there will be many ways to leverage this technology to level up on our testing powers. As with any tool though, we need to recognize that powerful and magical are two different things.
Wherefore the Death of “Manual Testing” — Stories from a Software Tester
I see so many people lately talking about the “death of manual testing.” Opinions obviously polarize on this but what I don’t see is testers engaging at all with why this perception is there.
Testing Blogs
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- How a Spanish joke reminded me of Software Testing — dragons for elevenses
- Testing Matters because Quality Matters — ThinkTesting.com
- How Hackers installing apps in iPhones changed the (financial) world — Kieran O’ Callaghan
- API Testing Tools: Restlet and Stoplight — Software Testing & Tools
- Integration Testing with Spring: Configuration Logic in Integration Tests — Everyday Unit Testing
- Risk mitigation versus optimism — Brexit & Y2K — James Christie’s Blog
- Conference Budgets — Katrina the Tester
- Dear Tester: Github Is Your Friend — Testing & Movies & Stuff
- End to End Testing and Integration Testing Revisited — Rhythm of Testing
- A Balanced Conference Card — Mindful tester
- Compare Testing — Hiccupps
- How developer should test? — zagorski software tester
- Tired of Answers — Enquire TST
- My perfect Agile Team (or, how agile *can* work) — Nicola Sedgwick
- Why bother with Twitter? — World & Testing
- Sustainability and Causes of Conferences — A Seasoned Tester’s Crystal Ball
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.
- Google Rolls Out New Chrome Security Feature to Combat Microsoft — ExtremeTech
- How To Store Your Bitcoin As Securely As Possible — Lifehacker Australia
- Pushback Against Dedicated QA — Forbes
- AlphaZero AI beats champion chess program after teaching itself in four hours — The Guardian
- Millions ‘stolen’ in NiceHash Bitcoin heist — BBC News
- GitHub — ctco/cukes: Cucumber DSL for testing RESTful Web Services
- Apple fixes HomeKit bug that allowed remote unlocking of users’ doors — The Guardian
