Ethics in Machine Learning
The latest links, discussions, articles and more
TimeShiftX — Travel In Time, Test With Ease
TimeShiftX lets you time travel your software to test all date and time sensitive functionality and code such as year-end, daylight savings, leap year, and billing. Employ instant time travel inside Active Directory & Kerberos without code changes and removing all pain points.
Scholarship Story — Developing A Fresh Approach To Testing
Gordon Crawford shares his scholarship story. When reading about the world of testing and in particular, since my discovery of the Ministry of Testing more than three years ago, I had heard that the Rapid Software Testing (RST) Course was a great experience with the potential to completely change how you think about testing.
Masterclass — Not All Who Wander Are Lost: A Career Experience Report
We’re led to believe that our careers should take us in a certain direction, that we’ll all end up in leadership or management at some point, and that’s the end of the road; the apex of our careers. Join Hilary Weaver-Robb as she shares her journey that took her from QA Lead to QA Engineer, to Quality Architect, and back to Engineer. Register for the Masterclass happening on 20th February at 8pm UK time.
Ministry of Testing: A Year In Numbers
There is no doubt that 2017 was our most successful year on all fronts! In this post, we have an infographic sharing all the things that Ministry of Testing got up to and achieved in 2017.
A Tester’s Guide To Testing AI Applications
The Masterclass video is now available on The Dojo. A very insightful session, Bill Matthews covered a number topics, including how AI continuous learning algorithm can impact testing, as well as how existing test methodologies can be applied to AI testing.
MoT Meetups
Each week we will feature one of our upcoming MoT community Meetups.
MoT Berlin: Workshop: Embedded Agile Testing — A Practical Example
On Monday 5th February, MoT Berlin have their first MoT Meetup. Embrace the opportunity to take part in an agile development team: code together, test together, devise solutions together.
The Club
We’ve picked a few topics of interest from The Club for you to read, contribute and generally get involved with.
Ethics in Machine Learning
How do you deal with ethics in machine learning? Do you speak up as a tester early on? What if you see the AI evolve into something undesired? Has this ever happened to you that you needed to talk about ethical concerns in machine learning environment?
Is Software Testing Dying? Of Course Not
We know software testing is not dying a death, don’t we? But can we give some reasons why or how it is not?
Community Posts
Highlighting a selection of blog posts from the testing community.
Dammit Jim, I’m a Tester, Not an Automator — Responsible Automation
“Dammit Jim, I’m a doctor not a …” In our testing community, we often hear a similar statement from testers who might relate to McCoy: I’m a tester not a programmer/coder/developer/automator.
Improve your conference experience — DragonQA
I strongly believe now that networking is a huge part of the conference experience. It is not easy, but it might change the whole experience for You. It did change for me, but it was a long way.
Testing Blogs
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- How to Respond to Bad Talk in a Good Way — A Tester’s Journey
- Telling stories together while practicing critical thinking with VTS — Agile Testing with Lisa Crispin
- Testers and Data Science, Part 3 — Stories from a Software Tester
- Writing more effective Requirements — The Life Of One Man
- How to get a job with a technology stack you don’t know — Code Without Rules
- Write automated tests with repeatable results — iAmALittleTester
- January Testing — Mindful tester
- Long Term Remote Pair Programming a Complex Project — Chris McMahon’s blog
- The Testing Tool Spreadsheet (Needs You) — Kate Falanga
- Testing to Make Product Better vs. Perfect — Let Me Try Software Testing!
- Testing is not quality assurance. — Antti Niittyviita
- AMA: JavaScript in Test Automation — WatirMelon
- Android & BDD tests. Part 2 — Time for Cucumber — Your Test Automation Hub
Testing Podcasts
A selection of interesting testing podcasts from around the web.
- RBCS Software Testing Training & Consulting: Podcast
- 187: Appium Automation To Infinity and Beyond with Jonathan Lipps — Test Talks
- Digital dystopia: democracy in the internet age — The Guardian
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.
- Behavioral biometrics missing from cybersecurity — TheHill
- Piecing together personas — UX Planet
- How to make end-to-end tests in Java being interesting — Definity Labs
- Twitter is using machine learning to crop photos to the most interesting part — The Verge
- The A to Z of Cyber Security — Threat Intel
- AI used to face-swap Hollywood stars into pornography films — The Guardian
- How a computer virus led to the discovery of $750K in forged checks at an Anchorage business — Anchorage Daily
- Security Warnings for the Rest of Us — badrapio
- Why Chatbots Suck — The Startup
