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Tips to Become a Kick-Ass Tester in Today’s Changing Environment
Our professional environment is changing, but what does that mean for you? Will automation take over your job? What is testing in DevOps? and what the heck is “Modern Testing”?! Join PractiTest’s upcoming webinar for practical tips you can “start doing now”.
Masterclass | Highly Questionable — Being Interview Ready
Ben has spent countless hours interviewing software development candidates and reviewing their CVs. He’ll share some of his experiences and pragmatic tips to help you nail that next job interview.
“Worst” Practices of Software Testing — Viktor Slavchev
Our #TestBash Germany videos have started to go live! All of them are available on a pro-membership, but we do have a free video too! The testing troll is a mythical creature, you probably heard about it in the last year’s edition of QA challenge accepted In fact, he was so committed to his idea of worst practices in software testing that he wrote a book about them.
Quest for a Flawless Digital User Experience
Learn about the threats, challenges and key shifts that are coming your way soon, discover the test automation tools and best practices that will help you come out triumphant. Even if you can’t make it to the live session sign up to get the recording.
Testers’ Island Discs Ep 2 — Cassandra H. Leung
We discuss some tips for recruiting testers, finding allies in the test community, overcoming your fears and meeting new people at conferences — including learning how to play Tester Bingo!
Getting the Best out of Your Penetration Test(ers)
In this podcast episode, The Super Testing Bros speak to Dan Billing and Brendan Seerup about security, and how to work with third-party pen testers.
Getting started with testing APIs
If someone asked you “How would I get started with testing APIs?” what would be the first thing that springs to mind for you?
Working While Female: Sexual Harassment in Technology & Testing — Cassandra H. Leung
The problem of sexism within the technology space and the software testing industry goes way beyond issues of diversity or representation. There is also a very real problem of men making sexual or otherwise inappropriate advances towards women who they’ve contacted under the guise of a professional context.
Crash test dummies or judges — what do Testers really do? — Jeremias Rößler
I read a lot about what the job of testers is. But no one wrote about what the job of testers really is. What is the first and principal thing a tester does? What needs does a tester serve, by testing?
How to test a chair
So, how would you test a chair? It sounds simple on the surface but once you get a team from various different backgrounds working on ideas, you’d be amazed at what you can come up with.
Testing Blogs
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- Q&A with Jean Ann Harrison — richrtesting
- What the autonomous robotic vacuum cleaner teaches us: analogy with software testing — Lyon Testing
- Providing valuable information as Testers — Knowledge Tester
- Leeds Testing Atelier — October 2017 — Nation Of Software Testers
- Integration Testing with Spring — Mocking — Everyday Unit Testing
- On why and how I became a freelancer — On Test Automation
- Me too. — Liz Keogh, lunivore
- The cost of a single software bug. — Antti Niittyviita
- How is European Testing Conference Different? — A Seasoned Tester’s Crystal Ball
- Automated Tests with Golem — Luciano Puccio
- What can I do about Mr Creep? — Testing & Life
- Can you program a Manual Tester? — stevencrossblog
- Innocent until proven guilty — A Seasoned Tester’s Crystal Ball
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.
- Test design: write tests with proper console output to easily identify failure reasons — iAmALittleTester
- Testbash Germany 2017 — wurst practices and trolls — Mr.Slavchev
- Test data management: how to improve it — James Sheasby Thomas
- The Coming Software Apocalypse — The Atlantic
- אשרי אדם מפחד תמה אני מחפש אצל מועמדים What do I look for in a candidate
- BDD in 3 Minutes — Kushang Gajjar
- Software Testing Quotes — Software Testing Fundamentals
