Crowdsourcing Your Learning
The latest links, discussions, articles and more
Test Environment Anti-Patterns
A blog post from the CTO of enov8 (the world’s leading IT & Test environment management solution company) on Test Environment Management anti-patterns (i.e. behaviours which are causing the wrong testing outcomes in your organization); plus positive patterns that would help you better optimize.
Crowdsourcing Your Learning
Learning more about testing can be a challenge. While testing a product, at some point the realization comes that there might be more things to learn, and a wider audience to learn from than co-workers or management.
Podcast — Improving Office Culture
The Super Testing Bros are back and are talking to Marianne Duijst and Rick Tracy all about improving office culture.
#TestChat — Device Testing
Our next #TestChat is happening on Wednesday 28th February at 8pm (UK time) for an hour! The theme is all about Device Testing, with questions designed to trigger conversations. You can join in using Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn.
A Tale Of Testability
Get a taste for TestBash Dublin (Super Early Bird Tickets end on 28th February) with one of our returning speakers — Rob Meaney. He talks about how his team managed to reduce the pre-release regression cycle from 7 weeks with all team members (35) included to 5 days with a handful of testers.
MoT Meetups
Each week we will feature one of our upcoming MoT community Meetups.
Copenhagen — Cynefin in Practice — 6th March
Cynefin is a sensemaking framework which is gaining lots of interest in testing and IT. I’ve worked with it for almost a year and invites to this workshop to share my experiences, demonstrate, and meet with others to discuss its uses.
The Club
We’ve picked a few topics of interest from The Club for you to read, contribute and generally get involved with.
When You Can’t Find A Speaker
I sometimes have the problem of not being able to find a speaker for my meetup, so I have to improvise. Let’s share some of what you’ve done in your meetups that have worked (and what haven’t) when you can’t find a speaker!
Logic Puzzles: Where Do You Get Yours?
There’s been a few posts on here about logic puzzles and interviewing, particularly hiring processes and emphasis placed towards puzzles and reasoning tests. For those of you who do enjoy logic puzzles, where do you get yours from?
Community Posts
Highlighting a selection of blog posts from the testing community.
Don’t Be Such A Tester — Stories from a Software Tester
There’s a book I really enjoyed that I believe every tester should read. It talks about the need to have effective means of communicating by framing issues in a way that is interesting and not just recitations of things that people have been doing or saying.
Problem Solving as Software Development — Evil Tester
I can view Problem Solving as Problem Identification, Problem Solution Construction, Solution Evaluation and I can map that on to Software Development to help me communicate in normal language.
Testing Blogs
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- How to use TestSphere for retrospectives — Testknight
- Choosing the right JavaScript testing tool — Gojko Adzic
- Transforming Theory and Practice — Hiccupps
- On “Testing vs Checking” and other Oppositions — Dialectics and Deconstruction — Paul’s Testing Rants
- Getting Started With Headless Browser Testing — Continuous Testing Blog for Mobile And Web Apps
- Best practices for unit testing that every developer and tester should execute — Viral Patel
- The Rise of Automation: Why Coding Is Becoming a Job for Everyone — James Willett
- Motivation MAP — DragonQA
- Understanding Accessibility Testing: Think like a Dweller, Not a Builder — Automation Beyond
- Introducing intentional vs. accidental bugs — A Seasoned Tester’s Crystal Ball
- Regression Testing Manifesto — Behavior Over Bugs — Assert.This
- What to pack when you go bug hunting? — QA Intelligence
Testing Podcasts
MoT host various podcasts, but here is a selection of interesting testing podcasts from around the web.
- Shifting Security Left with Jeffrey Wheat — The Testing Show
- 056 The State of Monitoring in a Kubernetes World with Brian Gracely — PurePerformance
- 192: Performance Testing in DevOps with Paola Rossaro — Test Talks
- AB Testing — Episode 76: Communing with Testers — AB Testing
- 191: Model-based Testing & DevOps with Michael “Fritz” Fritzius — Test Talks
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.
- Apple devices make hundreds of false 911 calls from refurbishment centre — The Guardian
- Stop Using The Same Password And Download One Of These Apps — Huffington Post
- Land Rover Has Built The ‘Toughest Phone In The World’ — Huffington Post
- Learning Pairing | putzerfisch — thoughts on testing
- Songkick bug bash 2018 — Songkick Tech
- Facial Recognition Is Accurate, if You’re a White Guy — The New York Times
- Bizarre glitch let Chase customers see other people’s accounts — New York Post
- A Computer Glitch Let a Trader Claim $20 Trillion in Free Bitcoin
- Spotify: Bulgarian Playlist Made Millions Hacking How Site Works — Inverse
- Intel confirms it didn’t tell national security officials about chip flaws — OregonLive.com
- Viruses Into Medical Devices: Cyber Security To Avoid Dangers To Patients’ Lives
