Falsehoods testers believe
3 min readJul 21, 2020
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- Testbash Manchester 2020 — The online reboot with new star-studded cast. Yet another reason to become a Pro MoT member.
- Community Thoughts: Falsehoods Testers Believe — I think we can all relate to these.
- Value and Visibility by Gem Hill — How do you figure out where and how to add value once you stop doing hands on testing day to day?
- What are the most important questions software testers should ask? — What questions do you ask?
- Advice on test automation approach — What would you advise on as to best approach to structuring the framework to run across different regions, with different features enabled/disabled via feature toggles?
- Stuck in the Middle — Finding a solution to setting up HTTP/HTTPS monitoring.
- Why Care About Releasing? — How often do you release software?
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Automation
- Testing Iframes with Cypress — Can we still use Cypress to automate iframes? There might be a way.
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Business Posts
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- Selenium 4 Relative Locators — The purpose of Relative Locators is to find a specific element regarding the position of another element.
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- UX Series: Universal Design and Digital Accessibility — Universal design is an inclusive design framework used to create barrier-free designs that are navigable and usable by everyone, including people with disabilities.
- In Web Design, Accessibility Shouldn’t Be an Afterthought — More disability-led teams and semantically-rich markup, less needless decoration.
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- Episode 785 — OAuth Attacks Are On The Rise, What Is It And How To Protect Yourself — Phishing attacks are evolving to find new, sneakier ways to compromise your accounts and get your data.
- 187: Huawei ban, MGM hack, and a contact-tracing cock-up — Login chaos for the UK’s contact tracing service, Britain’s Huawei 5G ban, MGM’s blockbuster breach, and how to pronounce “Gigabyte.”
- The Testing Show: Career Development in the Time of COVID — Plans for Career Development and conferring with others are transforming to meet the unique challenges.
- AB Testing — Episode 124: Learning with Maaret — Talking about her role, the role of testing in general, mob programming, and a whole lot of other topics.
Security
- Russian cyberops are targeting COVID-19 vaccine R&D, intelligence agencies warn — Russian cyber espionage is targeting efforts to develop a coronavirus vaccine in a number of countries.
- How to unc0ver a 0-day in 4 hours or less — Running effective regression tests is a necessity for basic software testing, and a common starting point for exploitation.
- Cisco releases security fixes for critical VPN, router vulnerabilities — The worst bugs can be exploited for remote code execution and privilege escalation attacks.
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- 2020 Careers night — Online, Brisbane
