Introduction to VR Testing
The latest links, discussions, articles and more
Ebook — Drive development and streamline collaboration with Behavior Driven Development
Successful Agile & DevOps teams use BDD to deliver the right product, as they imagined it. By aligning teams on what should be developed, these teams create better software, faster. In this ebook, discover the best practices and some tips to adopt BDD.
Masterclass — Introduction to VR Testing
Join our Masterclass on 20th March at 8pm UK Time. VR applications are becoming more present in our daily lives. This means it will become increasingly important for Testers to have exposure to the unique context of this domain. Our masterclass aims to help you to understand the different ways in which your Testing approach to VR Software has to adjust.
[Course] Selenium Web Automation From Basics To Continuous Integration
Learn everything about automated web testing with Selenium. The course features 30+ lessons, 100+ screencasts, a private Slack Channel and much more. Covering JavaScript, Java, C#, Ruby, Python. Lessons include Selenium Basics, Writing Maintainable Tests, Frameworks and CI servers.
Beware The Pickle
At TestBash Dublin on the 18th May, Beren Van Daele and Ard Kramer will offer the attendees insight into the uniqueness of testers, how their biggest power stems from being different, thinking different and acting different. In a world where conformity, repetition and colouring between the lines is worshipped, testers provide the much needed alternative point of view. Dare to be different. Aim to be different and beware the subtle tools of assimilation. Beware The Pickle.
Masterclass Recording — Not All Who Wander Are Lost: A Career Experience Report
Watch the recording from our recent Masterclass with Hilary Weaver-Robb. She shared career path that took her from QA Lead to QA Engineer, to Quality Architect, and back to Engineer. This journey took time, and a lot of introspection — be prepared to do some of your own! Lots of great questions were asked at the end of the session.
MoT Meetups
Each week we will feature one of our upcoming MoT community Meetups.
Munich — Learn about Mob Programming, Testing and Everything — 14th March
We will have two sessions doing hands-on mob-approach — learning about the main ideas of this approach and trying out different formats to get insights on the methodology and ourselves.
The Club
We’ve picked a few topics of interest from The Club for you to read, contribute and generally get involved with.
Memory leak and utilisation testing
Anyone got any tips for testing memory leak and utilisation on a web app? We have a suspicion one of our projects is not as efficient as it could be but I have no experience with testing any of this stuff.
Device Testing TestChat
Catch up on our TestChat, from the questions asked to the resources shared by all who participated. Do you have anything you could add? Or maybe you missed the chat and want to learn more about Device Testing.
Community Posts
Highlighting a selection of blog posts from the testing community.
Do’s and don’ts of starting up test automation — Kavliwashere.com
Ah, the promised land of test automation. So much money, time and energy saved! When starting up test automation, your goal is efficiency and frequent checks! Yet, a lot of automation efforts are far from efficient. And that’s too bad, because there really is a lot of good things in test automation — if done right.
Writing Abstracts: Non-Advice from a Speaker and Reviewer — Cassandra HL
I recently saw a thread from Richard Bradshaw with his opinions on writing and reviewing abstracts for conferences or call for papers (CFPs), and I thought it would be a good time to share my own thoughts too, having recently gone through another round of reviewing.
Testing Blogs
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- It has been a long time….https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/AmyWP — The expected result was 42. Now what was the test?
- Decentralized Databases — Enabling Pragmatic Travel! — A Blog by Vipul Gupta
- How to use mind maps to clarity your tests — rafazzevedo
- Interviewing a Tester as Developer — Stories from a Software Tester
- Experimenters Regress — Knightly Builds
- An Introduction to Postmand API Testing — VR
- Real World TDD With Spring: Introduction — Everyday Unit Testing
- Don’t Be An Agile Beatnick — Thoughts On Testing
- Essential testing tools — Michał Dymek
- Regression Testing Manifesto — Conformity Over Complexity — Assert.This
- Collaborating with Developers — The Life Of One Man
- Scriptless Automated Testing — a Solution for Business Testers? — Testhexen
- Expectations of Scrum Masters — knowing what important | Supreme Agile — David Tzemach’s Blog
Testing Podcasts
MoT host various podcasts, but here is a selection of interesting testing podcasts from around the web.
- 193: Biscuit Testing a Scientific Approach with Mike Talks — Test Talks
- Who needs ethics anyway? — Chips with Everything podcast — The Guardian
- Shifting Security Left with Jeffrey Wheat — The Testing Show
- How white is the tech sector? — Chips with Everything podcast — The Guardian
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.
- Advance Web Application Testing using Burpsuite — Hacking Articles
- Palantir has secretly been using New Orleans to test its predictive policing technology — The Verge
- Amazon to acquire Ring video doorbell maker, cracking open the door in home security market — GeekWire
- IBM’s Watson is going to space — The Next Web
- Ad network uses advanced malware technique to conceal CPU-draining mining ads — Ars Technica
- Katim smartphone cuts off camera, microphone so no one can spy on you — CNBC
- A video game-playing AI beat Q*bert in a way no one’s ever seen before — The Verge
- EU gives Facebook and Google three months to tackle extremist content — The Guardian
- Bill Gates says crypto-currencies cause deaths — BBC News
