How to Become a Software Tester Without A Computer Science Degree
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Survey: The State of Behavior Driven Development (BDD)
BDD is a development approach aiming to redefine team collaboration and whether you’ve adopted BDD or not, we want to hear from you! Everyone who takes the survey will get advanced access to the second annual State of BDD Report.
How to Become a Software Tester Without A Computer Science Degree
Instead of getting into computers and testing at an early age, my scenic route to testing started after university, with my first full-time job working for a bank. I made a conscious decision to pursue a role directly related to technology.
TestBash Brighton 2019
TestBash Brighton, our biggest and much loved software testing conference, is coming back next year. As always we are evolving as we feel and see the community change. You can now submit to talk or run a workshop and sign up to our launch list!
TestBash Essentials 2019
We have a new addition to TestBash Brighton, a one-day software testing conference focusing on teaching those that are newer to testing ideas all about testing in a really good way. The ideas do not need to be new, they could be, however, it is more important that people who do not know a lot about testing should walk away feeling like they understand testing better. Find out more and submit a talk!
99 Second Talk — Sunjeet Khokhar — Dealing with a Personal Attack at Work
A very personal 99-second talk about how Sunjeet calmly dealt with a personal attack at work, and how you could do the same.
Ask Me Anything — Ash Coleman — Diversity in Testing
Our recent Ask Me Anything is now available for you to watch. There are so many different aspects of diversity and lots of great questions were asked on the night. Ash left us with plenty to consider.
MoT Meetups
Each week we will feature one of our upcoming MoT community Meetups. Find or start a MoT meetup
MoT Dublin — Mobile App Testing — Start Of A Journey — 26th June
This month we have a good friend of ours speaking, Michael Dixon. Michael is going to talk through the experience he had from switching over from a web based to a more mobile world, some of basic things needed to be able to test on mobile.
The Club
We’ve picked a few topics of interest from The Club for you to read, contribute and generally get involved with.
Violate Data Format Rules — Featured TestSphere Card
This is one of my favourite TestSphere anecdotes. In the first print of TestSphere there was a bug. It took us months to figure it out. Furthermore, the card that triggered the bug is actually the same concept that describes the type of bug.
Agile Release Trains
Who is working in an Agile environment where you’re using the Release Train method to deliver software incrementally and often? If you’re using Release Trains, what challenges are you exeriencing from a testing angle (if any)?
Community Posts
Highlighting a selection of blog posts from the testing community.
My Speaker Rider and Why It’s Needed | Friendly Tester
I was about to go to sleep when I decided to check Twitter, a habit I can’t seem to kick! I was expecting the norm, a few new notifications to check and to skim over the latest tweets. I got that, but I also had a DM from the awesome Julie Sharp directing me towards a tweet from Karolina Szczur, or @fox on Twitter. Julie had seen this tweet, checked the lineup and saw I was speaking there, I was one of those 87 men.
Chronicles Of Testing: Generating Test Ideas
It is interesting to analyze what we subscribe to and are involuntarily subscribing to, especially when we are in the beacon-range with active signals. With each and every idea generated while testing how greatly the quality of the product can be improved. The quest for test ideas is unending for anyone who is test-obsessed.
Testing Blogs
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- What do you mean by UI tests? — Automation in Testing
- The Blogging Imperative — Stories from a Software Tester
- Getting Started in Automation — Taking Screenshots — The Rambling Tester
- 5 steps for testers who want be more comfortable with code — ITestStuff.ca
- The Qualities and Characteristics of a Great Scrum Team | Supreme Agile — David Tzemach’s Blog
- Basic Chef + Test Kitchen: Setting up Ubuntu with Vagrant + Virtual Box + the Test-Kitchen Ruby Gem on a MacBook — Adventures in Automation
- Manual Test Cases vs. Automated Test Cases — who wins? — Alexey Sotskov
- Have No Testers Is Not Cool — Testing Bits Blog
- A Changing Mindset — Isle of Testing
- If you didn’t test it, it doesn’t work — Gregory Testing
- Role-playing — not a dirty word — Daniel Gold
- Contracting — Thoughts on getting set-up ~ It’s all about…Testing & Technology
- The red lines of Contributors and Observers in Scrum | Supreme Agile — David Tzemach’s Blog
- Three Ways to Test for Cross-Site Scripting — Think Like a Tester
Testing Podcasts
MoT host various podcasts, but here is a selection of interesting testing podcasts from around the web.
- Cafe 054: What’s the Dynatrace ONE Experience with Stephen Hull — PurePerformance Cafe
- The Testing Show: When Complete Automation Seems Impossible with Graeme Harvey — The Testing Show
- Episode 48 — More Psychology In Testing — Testing In The Pub
- Cafe 052: Big Data Ignite — PurePerformance Cafe
- Cafe 052: Redefine Dashboarding: What’s New & Coming from the Product Team — PurePerformance Cafe
- 206: Shift-left Your Teams QA Efforts with the Testing Guild- 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.
- MyHeritage Genealogy Site Announces Mega Breach Affecting 92 Million Accounts
- Facebook alerts 14M to privacy bug that changed status composer to public — TechCrunch
- Dockerless container builds using Buildah — Täckblog
- Hacker Stole 26 Million Email And Home Addresses Of Ticketfly Users — Motherboard
- Pwned Passwords in Practice: Real World Examples of Blocking the Worst Passwords — Troy Hunt
- Encrypted Messaging Apps Have Limitations You Should Know — WIRED
- What happens when the AI bubble bursts?
- This quick change helps protect your computer from hackers
- Docker now helps you manage containers across clouds — ZDNet
- JavaScript String Methods You Probably Haven’t Heard Of and that’s Okay
- Scientists Have Invented a Software That Can ‘See’ Several Minutes Into The Future
