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All Things Ministry of Testing

The latest news, along with recent Dojo additions, events and interesting club posts.

• Win MoT Pro Membership thanks to BrowserStack! — Just answer the question before 5pm on Friday 18th September to be in with a chance of getting a Pro Membership for a year.
• Automating API Checks With RestSharp — Hilary Weaver-Robb — Learn everything you need to start automating checks of APIs using RestSharp in C# with this new course from Hilary.
• Meet The Coaches Podcast — Anand Bagmar — Adam Leon Smith speaks with Anand Bagmar to get to know about his background and experiences.
• How To Start Blogging AMA with Louise Gibbs, Bruce, Chris Armstrong & Lee Marshall — Learn why its good to write things down and empty your brain to the world.
• Visual testing: How it works and getting started with Mike Fotinakis — Visual bugs are hard to detect through functional tests, learn how visual testing works under the hood with Percy.
• What Does Your Career Timeline Look Like? — Most of us have taken a meandering career path to becoming a tester, trying different roles on. What does your path look like?
• Can you defeat the impossible checkbox? — Can you defeat the bear and keep the checkbox checked? If so, tell us how you did it.

Community News & Podcasts

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

• Psychological safety and inclusion in agile teams — Feeling safe is easy if you are the norm.
• Visualize the Test Strategy — To plan a test strategy we need to understand the pipeline, the relative value of the test activities and the relative evolution of the test activities.
• Test Data Management Strategies — Different approaches to handle your test data when running automated tests and the trade-offs.
• Episode 821 — TLS Certificates Now Have Lifespan Of 398 Days, Be Prepared — As of September 1, 2020 TLS certificates will only be valid for 398 days.
• 194: Carry on droning — A Bitcoin bungle causes one user to lose millions, hackers attempt to bribe a Tesla employee into infecting the company’s network, and are we ready for a sky full of drones?

99-Minute Workshops — September

• Leading a test automation strategy — Join Dana Aonofriesei at 1pm New York, US Time — 9th September 2020
• Mocks and Testability — Join Ali Haydar at 12pm New Zealand time (NZST) — 11th September 2020
• Property-based testing in Java — Join Mike Solomon at 12pm UK Time — 14th September 2020
• A Deep Dive into JUnit 5 — Join Boni García at 1pm New York, US Time — 16th September 2020
• Continuous Testing Throughout the SDLC — Join Dan Ashby at 12pm UK Time — 21st September 2020

Business

Posts selected from our business feed

• Mindful Testing — because testing should not be done on autopilot — Be present and work on the highest value testing task.
• Best Practices for Large Test Automation Projects — Working on a group project always raises challenges, but with automation projects, where the UI keeps changing and components are shared, collaboration is essential.

Upcoming MoT Events

• 99 Min Workshops — We have multiple workshops running during different timezones in upcoming months.
• Testing Ask Me Anything — Automation — 8pm UK Time — 8th September 2020
• Masterclass: Let’s Go Larvae Hunting! — 8pm UK Time — 22nd September 2020
• TestBash Manchester Online — 2nd 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.

• Coming Next: WCAG 2.2 — It is a myth that website accessibility is a once and done exercise.
• Bridgefy, the messenger promoted for mass protests, is a privacy disaster — Researchers notified the company in April of serious flaws that have yet to be fixed.
• Firefox will add a new drive-by-download protection — Firefox will block automatic downloads initiated from sandboxed iframes.

Meetups

• Recap of lessons learned during Test Leadership Summer 2020 by Anna Royzman — Online, Austin
• Test clinic — Gothenburg
• September Double Header! — Al Goodall and Simon Prior — Online, Buckinghamshire
• No estimates: dream or reality — Darryn Downey — Online, Cork
• Devbridge Test Automation Hackathon — Vilnius