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All Things Ministry of Testing

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

• MoT Podcast — Adam Meets Jonathan Wright — They talk about Model-Based Testing, what it is, why it’s growing in adoption and the benefits of it in the quality engineering process.
• From Accidental Professional Career Path to True Calling — Could your love of testing help you along a new path?
• MoT Podcast — Adam Meets Paul Reinheimer — Paul discusses how you could test your website in lots of different locations around the world — all without stepping on a plane or using dodgy hacks.
• Career Building Testing Ask Me Anything — Lena is joining us on 13th October at 8pm UK Time, to answer your questions around building your career. From landing your first job to progressing, ask Lena.
• How to Solve Integration Issues with Contract Testing — How many times two different teams have been working on user stories that work properly on isolation but that fail drastically when they are integrated? Join Roman’s 99-Minute workshop to figure out how fix the problems.
• How Would You Test a Soda Machine? — Lisa Crispin challenged TestBash attendees to think about how they would test a soda machine in her talk. So how would you do it?
• How to Build Your Personal Brand with Gabbi Trotter — An incredibly useful talk, especially in the current situation. Have you considered your personal brand?

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Community News & Podcasts

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

• Scale Your Thinking For Better Testing — There are many compelling reasons to make this mindset shift, that can really set you apart when it comes to testing.
• Creating A Test Automation Portfolio — Have you considered creating a test portfolio? This week Beth is sharing her API testing investigations.
• TestBash Manchester 2020 — Pre-Bash Sketchnotes — The start of TestBash Manchester!
• Episode 838 — Ransomware Report Shows How Organized Attackers Are — Ransomware is a growing problem for anyone on the Internet, it can happen at any time.
• Episode 15 Quality Coach Roadshow Maaret Pyhäjärvi — Talking a lot about learning, different approaches to learning, being a catalyst within an organisation and sitting with discomfort.

99-Minute Workshops — October

Find out what time the workshops are happening in your time zone by clicking on a workshop.

• How to Solve Integration Issues with Contract Testing — Join Roman Segdor at 12pm UK Time — 12th October 2020
• API Testing With Postman — Join Suman Bala at 12pm UK Time — 19th October 2020
• Team Care: Making Mental Health an Agile Practice — Join Jenna Charlton at 6pm UK Time — 21st October 2020

Business

Posts selected from our business feed

• Switcher: Independent Security Audit Complete — A browser plugin that sits on customers’ computers. Carrying out a third-party security audit was in order.
• Is remote-first the new reality for software companies (and 4 ways to adapt) — While the digital nomad lifestyle changed the face of work-from-home, the coronavirus brought remote work to a new level.
• How to guide end users with purposeful error messaging — When an error is encountered during the use of software, does it help the user?

Upcoming MoT Events

• 99 Minute Workshops — We have multiple workshops running during different timezones in upcoming months.
• Testing Ask Me Anything — Career Building — 8pm UK Time — 13th October 2020
• TestBash Netherlands Online — 15th — 16th October 2020
• MASTERCLASS
• 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.

• New WCAG 2.2 Release Impacts 2021 Web Accessibility — The second update of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) since 2018 is expected to be published in November 2020.
• Google sets up research grant for finding bugs in browser JavaScript engines — Eligible browser JavaScript engines include JavaScriptCore (Safari), V8 (Chrome, Edge), and Spidermonkey (Firefox).

Meetups

• Scripts a prueba de balas en 10 pasos — Leandro Melendez — Online Uruguay
• The Power of Mocking APIs — Online Porto
• Online Lean Coffee: Bring your conversation starters! — Online, Boston
• #NottsTest — Stuart Day: How to Achieve Speed With Quality — Online, Nottingham
• Load Testing with K6 — Online, Sheffield
• Introduction to performance testing with open source tools — Online, Gothenburg
• Measuring quality in production — Abby Bangser — Online, Cork
• Waterfall to DevOps — A tester’s journey by Hanna Dernbrant — Online, Manila
• Challenges Testing Blockchain Applications — Online, Bangalore