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.

• One Off TestBash Tickets — You can now get individual tickets to TestBash Manchester!
• Reducing Waste In Scrum And Improving Team Efficiency — This article describes a retrospective activity to improve your Scrum process based on the 8 lean wastes.
• Tech Trends and You — In the hyper agile era, the role of a Software Tester is ever-changing.
• Let’s Go Larvae Hunting! with Jen Kitson — Identify issues early and we have a chance to fix them with less work, meaning we need fewer expensive bug fixes later in the development process.
• No estimates: dream or reality — Darryn Downey — Estimation is key to the success of any agile team…or is it? This talk will answer that question.
• How Can We Help You Develop Your Career? — If your boss asked you what would you say to them?

Community News & Podcasts

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

• How to Use Breakpoints in Dev Tools- Part I — Wouldn’t it be great if you were able to find the causes of JavaScript bugs rather than just reporting on them?
• Lesser known Cypress.io tricks — Some undocumented or not so widely used features that you might find helpful.
• Testers can learn from the Hunger games — We as testers in agile teams need to adapt to changes. Try to do it, then you will survive.
• Test Smarter, Not Harder — Some people avoid writing tests. Some drudge through it painfully.
  There is a better way.
• Episode 128: Brent’s Path to Modern Testing — Brent’s testing career and how he found his way into the thing we now call Modern Testing.
• Episode 836 — Personal Story, How To Detect A Scam Website — It can happen to anyone, even security professionals and experts.
• The Testing Show: Dealing with Tech Burnout — It’s safe to say that 2020 has introduced challenges into people’s lives in unprecedented ways

99-Minute Workshops — September — October

Find out what time the workshops are happening in your time zone by clicking on a workshop.

• Speed-testing Using Mind-maps — Join Lena Wiberg at 12pm UK Time — 5th October 2020
• API Testing With Postman — Join Suman Bala at 12pm UK Time — 19th October 2020
• Team Care: Making Mental Health an Agile Practice — Join Jenna Charlton at 6pm UK Time — 21st October 2020

Business

Posts selected from our business feed

• Speeding Up Your Tests — Unlikely disclaimer: test speed might not be what you should be prioritizing.
• Become an Expert Customer-Advocate in 5 Steps — “I have always promoted the concept that our job as testers is to provide quality to the products being released with the end user in mind.”

Upcoming MoT Events

• 99 Minute Workshops — We have multiple workshops running during different timezones in upcoming months.
• TestBash Manchester Online — 2nd October 2020
• Testing Ask Me Anything — Career Building — 8pm UK Time — 13th 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.

• VoiceOver on iOS 14 Supports Description Lists — Neither VoiceOver on iOS nor iPadOS had support for this core feature of HTML that was in existence for 16 years when VoiceOver was released — until now with the release of iOS / iPadOS version 14.
• First Steps to an Accessible Website — Once you have your Accessibility Statement in place, it is time to focus on some of the most common and basic accessibility issues.
• Twitter warns of possible API keys leak — Incorrect server settings on the Twitter Developer portal led to browsers caching API keys, account access token and secret.
• Cisco warns over 25 high-impact flaws in its IOS and IOS XE software — Cisco urges customers using IOS and IOS XE devices and software to apply updates for dozens of high-severity vulnerabilities.

Meetups

• TMMi, world standard for test process improvement — Erik van Veenendaal — Online, Uruguay
• Sept 2020 -Growing A Culture of Quality by Simon Prior — Online, Manila