How Would You Introduce Devs To Testing?
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Do you have a story to share or knowledge/skills you want to teach to others? Well, we want to support you, and help you achieve those goals. Lately, we’ve been doing a lot of work around opening up our calls for content and talks, all of which you can find here: Contribute. We’ve also been publically training new instructors for new 99 Minute workshops, so keep an eye on the contribute page for details about how you could become an instructor in the future.
- Mark, OpsBoss
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What’s New With Ministry of Testing?
There are lots of opportunities to get involved this week with new training, articles and calls for content! Share and boost your testing skills.
The recording for Dan Ashby’s Ask Me Anything session on Testing Essentials. Very insightful, he shared how various models could help you test, the skills we should focus on as testers and how you can introduce developers to testing.
Gwen Diagram will be joined by Rosie Sherry, Tristan Lombard and Lee Marshall on Tuesday 15th at 8pm UK time for a Discussion on Community. Learn how you can build a community with your cross-functional teams, or how you can start a community of practice. Join us and ask your questions.
Aaron Flynn shares his accessibility testing approach. From when he and his team learned an accessibility audit, the experiences of their users, and he provided some additional resources for learning.
DevBoss has been busy again this week! If you’re part of a Pro team, the team admin can now see the learning history of everyone within the team. Learn more.
Due to the success of the TestBash Home shorts videos shared with us, we want to continue sharing the community love by hosting short ‘testing tips’ videos on the Ministry of Testing site that we need your help to create.
See our latest news and Dojo additions, catch up on anything you might have missed in the last few weeks.
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Upcoming MoT Events
All of our upcoming events — including Masterclasses, Ask Me Anythings, Discussions and Training Courses.
- Discussion: Growing Your Community with Rosie Sherry, Tristan Lombard and Lee Marshall — 8pm UK Time — 15th June 2021
- TestBash Home 2021–17th and 18th June 2021
- Masterclass: Grow your Career with Tech Communities with Nishi Grover Garg — 8pm UK Time — 29th June 2021
- Testing Web Services and APIs Training 1-Day training with Mark Winteringham — 6th July 2021
- Practice Pairing Under Constraints to Level Up Your Collaboration Skills 1-Day training with Simon Berner and Lisi Hocke — 9th July 2021
- Testing Ask Me Anything — Test Leadership with Butch Mayhew — 8pm UK Time — 13th July 2021
If you’re interested in finding out about future meetups, whether online or in person, please check out the Club meetup section or keep an eye on the Slack Events channel.
Community
We’ve picked out a few posts from our Club, blog and podcast feeds that we think would be useful to you.
Criminals are caught in an encrypted chat trap, should you trust Apple’s repair team with your photos, and do you think the FBI should be able to tell who has been reading the USA Today website? Another great podcast from Smashing Security.
Do you have testing regrets? Oleksandr has an interesting take on this — focusing on career path and self development.
When trying to assert that the JSON body (or XML) in an API response is correct, which approach do you use? Do you use the same method as Mirza?
Business
Posts selected from our business feed. Highlighting interesting posts from our annual partners for 2021 — they make sure we’re able to bring you excellent events, articles and everything else we do!
It’s always useful to have a list of Git commands, do you know these 10?
Some book suggestions to add to your To Be Read list for the summer?
99-Minute Workshops — June 2021
Find out what time the workshops are happening in your time zone by clicking on a workshop. Have a look at all our 99-Minute workshops.
- Visual Facilitation and Sketchnoting — With Louise Gibbs — 12pm UK Time — 14th June 2021
- How to Solve Integration Issues with Contract Testing — With Roman Segador — 8pm UK Time — 16th June 2021
- A Deep Dive into Junit 5 — With Boni García — 12pm UK Time — 21st June 2021
- API Testing in Python with Requests — With Bas Dijkstra — 8pm UK Time — 23rd June 2021
- Approval Testing — With Emily Bache — 12pm UK Time — 28th June 2021
- Interactive Accessibility Quiz — With Ady Stokes — 8pm UK Time — 30th June 2021
