Ministry of Testing’s Weekly Software Testing Newsletter

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All Things Ministry of Testing

The latest news, along with recent Dojo additions, events and interesting club posts.

• Maximise Your Potential With MoT’s Community Coaching — We’re now offering you the chance to book one-to-one time with experienced software testers and coaches. Find out more about cost and who’s involved.
• TestBash Netherlands Online is Now Part of Pro — Your TestBash Netherlands Online 2020 ticket is just a click away.
• Testbash Manchester 2020: The Online Reboot With New Star-Studded Cast — We have a full week of talks and events planned!
• Testing Ask Me Anything — Automation — Marie Drake will join us in September to help you get a better understanding of Automation.
• Testing without requirements? — With the benefit of hindsight that many of us now have, what would you say to someone in this situation?
• Testing Ask Me Anything — Quality Coaching — Sahar shared her experience and answered lots of your questions, you can now watch the recording.
• Browser based apps cheat sheet — Do you have ideas for people new to browser apps that could help?

Community News & Podcasts

Posts from our blog & podcast feeds — you can always check out the feeds if you want more!

• Using Taurus for Performance Testing — Have you tried Taurus?
• Dealing with Rejection in Teams — Rejection is a skill, there are quite a few ways to deal with it.
• Searchiiiiiing, Seek And Locate…But Only With Appropriate Attributes for Automation — It’s much less work to seek for something that’s easy to find.
• Starting a new job in the pandemic — Something a lot of us have had to face or will soon be facing.
• Episode 790 — Thousands of F5 Big-IP Devices Still Unpatched From Level 10 Vulnerability — Two weeks later and only 500 of the 8,000 found have been patched.
• The Testing Show: Career Development in the Time of COVID — Smita Mishra and Anna Royzman join Matt Heusser and Michael Larsen to talk about ways that conferences and other providers of learning opportunities are creating meaningful learning opportunities.

99-Minute Workshops — August

• Git Foundations — 12pm UK Time — 3rd August 2020
• Understanding Testability — 1pm New York, US Time — 5th August 2020
• An introduction to Web UI automation — 12pm New Zealand Time — 7th August 2020
• What is testing in production and why would we ever do that?! — 12pm UK Time — 10th August 2020
• Approval Testing — 1pm New York, US Time — 12th August 2020
• Introduction to creating test strategies — 12pm New Zealand Time — 14th August 2020
• Interactive Accessibility Quiz — 12pm UK Time — 17th August 2020
• API testing in Python with requests — 1pm New York, US Time — 19th August 2020
• There’s no U in Coach — 12pm UK Time — 24th August 2020
• Exploring Quality — 1pm New York, US Time — 26th August 2020

Business

Posts selected from our business feed

• Are Proxy Servers Slow? — Let’s dig into two different reasons websites can load slowly for users and how proxy servers might impact.
• How TCS scaled test automation with Xray and Boozang — Interesting to read how Xray is included in the implementation.
• Creating Mobile Appium Tests with TestProject Python SDK — As of version 0.63.13, the Python SDK can also be used with your Appium-based tests.

Upcoming MoT Events

• 99 Min Workshops — We have multiple workshops running during different timezones in upcoming months.
• Masterclass: Reporting on Testing & Quality — 8pm UK Time — 11th August 2020
• Testing Ask Me Anything — Automation — 8pm UK Time — 8th September 2020
• TestBash Manchester Online — 2nd October 2020
• TestBash Netherlands Online — 15th — 16th October 2020
• Test.bash(Online); — 29th October 2020
• TestBash New Zealand Online — 20th November 2020

Things You Might Have Missed

Articles and posts on Security, Accessibility and Automation from around the web.

• 10 Easy Website Accessibility Quick Tips and Recommendations — While you may not have the ability to tackle all of these overnight, there are some quick wins that will have a positive impact on the overall accessibility of your website.
• Testing on the Toilet: Don’t Mock Types You Don’t Own — It can make maintenance more difficult.
• 5 Root Cause Analysis Tools For Better Testing & QA — Useful to help you look beyond a few symptoms.
• A vigilante is sabotaging the Emotet botnet by replacing malware payloads with GIFs — Admins are wrestling with a vigilante for control over parts of their infrastructure.
• Garmin smartwatch users cannot get hands on data — Employees have claimed on social media that the firm is the victim of a ransomware attack, but this has not been confirmed.

Meetups

• Webinar: Introducción a Appium, Cómo iniciar un nuevo proyecto en Appium? — Online, Costa Rica
• Topic: TDD/BDD what are these-An introduction — Online, Cincinnati