Gamifying Your Software Testing Career & Workplace
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TestRail: Less Stressing, More Testing
TestRail a simple test case management tool. You can try TestRail for free with no commitment! With over 7000 customers agreeing, it rocks! Try TestRail.
Gamifying Your Software Testing Career & Workplace
When you think about how to gain new skills and knowledge for your career, you might think of conferences, books, or various talks. Those are all great, but another more fun and interesting way to learn new skills, or knowledge, or improve on what you already know might be to play games. Learn how to gamify your career.
Quality Jam London 2017
Is coming to London on 11th October for the first time ever! Designed to inspire and empower you with fresh ideas, this 1-day conference will help you discover the best software testing techniques from the world’s top experts — including Keith Klain. Save 50% with our Ministry of Testing friends code: MinistryFriends Register Today
A Tester’s Guide to Blockchain Applications
Our next Masterclass is happening on Tuesday 19th September. Discover why mainstream companies may want to use blockchain technology. How blockchain applications differ from traditional applications, and how testers should approach requirements and acceptance criteria. Understand the purpose of a smart contract, and how to go about debugging one. Register for the Masterclass.
How To Get The Best Out Of Your Bug Bashes Podcast
The Super Testing Bros are back with another podcast talking to Alix Klingenberg & Jono Phipps! They’re discussing the benefits of Bug bashing or Crowd testing your product internally prior to a release, and how to get the best out of your bug bashes. Listen to the podcast.
99 Second Introduction to Diagrams
Find out how you can use diagrams, why they’re useful, examples of diagrams and of course any pitfalls you should be aware of. Watch the video.
Testing in the Land of Continuous Deployment
An interesting discussion happening on The Club focusing on Continuous Deployment. Do you work in a CD environment? We’d be interested to hear opinions on CD’s impact on testing as well as from any skilled software tester on how they cope with testing in a CD environment. Share your knowledge.
30 Days Of Agile Testing | Day 14: Deliver Greater Value To The Customer
How have you discovered ways to provide greater value to your customer? Maybe you’ve expanded your testing knowledge in order to cover different type of testing or to expand your testing? Share your experience.
An Experiment In Creating Better Tool-Centered Automation Training
Instead of teaching you how to create a sound automation approach around one or more tools, some courses simply go through the most important features of a single tool and teach the participants some (sometimes useful) tricks. Learn more about automation than just the tool you use. Read the post.
Testing A Native Mobile Application Without Any Mobile Device…At What Cost?
The time-saving argument between using an alternative tool and a mobile handset comes back stronger than ever especially when using the iOS platform and its associated IDE. There are limitations on both sides. Read the post to find out more.
I present: My average day
Hands up, how many times has your bug hunt started out as just spotting a small anomaly, only to result in a bit of a beastie being unearthed? I think we can all relate to this. An average day?
Testing Blogs
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- Removing all digits, non-digits, whitespaces (from Strings) and other usages of replaceAll — iAmALittleTester
- Q&A with Santhosh Tuppad — richrtesting
- 10 Tips for Testers to Provide Insight — Cassandra HL
- Ruby on Rails bottom up security — sql injection check — zagorski software tester
- Day 8 — Warm Cocoa and “Works on my machine” — Matt Frampton
- 30 Days of Agile Testing — Test Documentation — offbeattesting
- Mentoring question — where do I start learning testing — Mr.Slavchev
- So, you want to be a Test Tooling expert? — The reluctant tester’s Blog
- Complementing Cross-Browser Testing with Headless Unit Testing Solutions — Mobile Testing Blog
- 169: Critical Thinking in Testing with JeanAnn Harrison — 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.
- Designing for Human Attention — UX Planet
- 11 Things Developers Love Hearing From Non-Developer Co-Workers
- The engineer’s guide to not making your app look awful
- “As a user” needs to stop. — prototypr
- Inaudible Voice Commands Can Hack Siri, Google Now & Alexa
- How to scam $102,860 USD worth of Ethereum in 24 hrs with Slack
- Lessons Learned: The engineering manager’s lament
- A Week of Web Application Hacks and Vulnerabilities
