How do you test and plan for edge cases?
4 min readMar 10, 2020
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Testing and the Community
- An Introverted Experience At TestBash Manchester — For the socially anxious and introverted, it is possible to attend a TestBash alone and you’ll gain an unbelievable amount from the experience.
- New Security Topic Page — A new page gathering all of our articles, courses, webinars and podcasts on Security all in one place!
- 30 Days of Quality Day 1: Definitions — It’s a tricky thing to define quality and I expect there are going to be some interesting posts to discuss.
- How do you test and plan for edge cases — How do testers these days plan for testing for edge cases and how they work effectively with other team members?
- How did you miss that bug? — How can the whole team help prevent issues in future?
- Testing is Like Finding Exoplanets — Interesting way of looking at testing.
- The Regression Death Spiral — Sounds painfully familiar.
- Do we size bugs with story points? — Some helpful info.
Upcoming MoT Events
- Masterclass: Rewrite Vs Refactor — 1 hour — 8pm UK Time — 10th March 2020
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Accessibility
- Why accessibility is an important part of Customer Experience (CX) — What is digital accessibility at its core?
- Decoding Label and Name for Accessibility — The way these terms are used in WCAG does not always match how they are used by developers.
- Things to consider when doing usability testing with disabled people — They are not only a great way to evaluate the accessibility of the interface, but they can also help to grow awareness of accessibility within the design and development team.
- 5 Things You Need to Know About Manual Accessibility Testing with the Keyboard and Screen Readers — Are these things you consider?
Automation
- More Fun With Cypress — How to integrate API and UI tests together in Cypress.
- Feature Switching for Release Testing — Is this something you deal with?
- Robot Framework: The Key to Improve Testing — The Robot Framework is a generic open source automation framework for acceptance testing, acceptance test driven development (ATDD), and robotic process automation (RPA).
Business Posts
- Mobile Testing Considerations: Android versus iOS — Have you adopted a mobile first approach?
- Different Strategies to Reduce Scope Creep in Requirements — Good reminders and some solid processes you could introduce.
- Parameterizing Your Robot Framework Tests — Practical information to get it working.
- Open Source Spotlight: Star Wars Intro Creator with Bruno Orlandi — A thoroughly nostalgic project, it lets you type any text and see it roll across the screen like Star Wars opening credits.
- Open source load testing tool review 2020 — Comparing the best open source load testing tools since 2017.
Podcasts
Check out our forever automagically updated list of software testing podcasts…
- Ali Hill — Developer at ECS Digital Episode 5 — Anne-Marie Charrett speaks to Ali Hill on Quality Coaching security controls on an AWS Infrastructure.
- 99 Android phones and Google Maps — Berlin artist tricked Google maps into thinking there was a traffic jam. Also, how Strava location data being shared had unintended consequences.
- Episode 692 — Use The Coronavirus To Improve Your IT Disaster Recovery Plans — Is your business and personnel ready to deal with disruptions?
- AB Testing — Episode 116: What’s the Deal with ISTQB? — We have an in-depth discussion on the recently published Vision on the Future of Software Testing from ISTQB.
- 168: The Bitcoin fraud factory — Fraudsters steal millions from those hoping to jump on the Bitcoin bandwagon, Twitter verifies a fake US politician, and it’s another face palm for facial recognition.
Security
- Clearview’s Facial Recognition App Has Been Used By The Justice Department, ICE, Macy’s, Walmart, And The NBA — Company is working with more than 2,200 law enforcement agencies, companies, and individuals around the world.
- Android malware can steal Google Authenticator 2FA codes — A new version of the “Cerberus” Android banking trojan will be able to steal one-time codes generated by the Google Authenticator app and bypass 2FA-protected accounts.
- Flaw in billions of Wi-Fi devices left communications open to eavesdropping — Cypress and Broadcom chip bug bit iPhones, Macs, Android devices, Echoes, and more.
Jobs
- Senior QA Engineer — Cambridge, UK
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Meetups
- MoT KL Launch — Kuala Lumpur
- Ministry of Testing #15 — Rio de Janeiro
- No estimates: dream or reality — Darryn Downey — Cork
- Testing 101: Communicating the value of testing — Accra
- Quality — Essentials Meetup Manchester
