Becoming A More Powerful Tester
The latest links, discussions, articles and more
Watch TestBash Online!
But which TestBash, you ask? All of them! The choice is yours! We have an entire archive of all our TestBash conference talks. Go make yourself a better tester one TestBash talk at a time. No excuses, you know you want to.
TestBash Dublin Tickets on Sale!
We’re delighted to announce that our TestBash Dublin tickets are now on sale! We’ll be having our single-track conference day consisting of 9 talks and 99-second talks with an additional pre-TestBash workshop thrown in for good measure.
How To Grow Your Mobile Application Testing Skills
Whether you are currently testing a mobile app, or want to learn more about mobile testing and what it involves; this article has suggestions and ideas that can help you get started and aid you with your testing journey in the mobile space.
Testers’ Island Discs — Christmas Special
It’s an extra-special festive treat, as Neil gives us the top five Yuletide songs, as voted by the testing community. Neil also reviews the TestBashes he attended in 2017 and recommendations for talks to watch. Bonus, there’s a competition too!
James’ Story: Becoming A More Powerful Tester
Read how James won his scholarship to attend the Rapid Software Testing training course in Manchester and the impact the course has already had on his day to day work life.
The Club
We’ve picked a few topics of interest from The Club for you to read, contribute and generally get involved with.
How To Grow Your Mobile Application Testing Skills
What are your own tips for mobile testing? Are there any other tools you’d recommend other than those in the article?
Advice for testing data micro services?
I have a story where I want to test one service calling another and receiving an error from the second service when doing so — the story is concerned with the error handling process of the first service. Any ideas from a tester’s point of view would be most welcome.
Community Posts
Highlighting a selection of blog posts from the testing community.
A new model for test strategies… (An update to the Heuristic Test Strategy Model). — Dan Ashby
The heuristic test strategy model was created by James Bach with the purpose of offering a set of patterns for designing a test strategy. Read how Dan has created a testing model based on HTSM. You are invited to critique the model, adjust it, mould it, enhance it and make it your own.
Mobile, Cross Browser Testing, DevOps and Continuous Testing Trends and Projections for 2018 — Mobile Testing Blog
As we about to wrap out 2017, it’s the right time to get ready to see what’s expected next year in the mobile, cross-browser testing and DevOps landscape.
Testing Blogs
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- REST Assured Serialization Object Mapper with JSON and XML
- Automated UI Test Heuristic: Sleep and Wait — Chris McMahon’s blog
- Dear tester! Others care about quality, too. — Let Me Try Software Testing!
- Stories from a Software Tester — Modeling Testing
- The Pact — Not a Remake, but a Sequel — A Tester’s Journey
- On preventing your test suite from becoming too user interface-heavy — On Test Automation
- Pairing for skill vs. Pairing for confidence — Katrina the Tester
- Simple trick to improve team productivity — Knowledge Tester
- Proper Product Backlog Prioritization | Supreme Agile — David Tzemach’s Blog
- Manual testing has no future, manual testing has no past. It never existed! — Mr.Slavchev
- When you try to stop testing…..you end up testing anyway
- Why Testing Is Like Writing: It Takes Years Of Practice — Testing & Movies & Stuff
- How to use TestSphere for Lean Lunch — Testknight
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.
- US regulator scraps net neutrality rules that protect open internet — The Guardian
- NatWest bank spat prompts web security changes — BBC News
- Billions of video site visitors unwittingly mine cryptocurrency as they watch — The Guardian
- Welcome To The Surveillance State: China’s AI Cameras See All — HuffPost
- Google bans apps from displaying lock screen ads — Android Authority
