Is TDD old news? Why or why not?
4 min readFeb 11, 2020
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- Revolutionary Software Testing Training for Beginners — After much time spent creating and planning a new software testing training solution, we’re so unbelievably excited to announce the Ministry of Testing Essentials!
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- Is TDD old news? Why or why not? — What do you think?
- TestBash Brighton 2020 Meetups & Activities — Find out what’s happening at that week!
- The beginning of discovery — Interesting read about test design and the use of part knowledge to generate your tests.
- Goodbye Testing Columns, Part 3: Return of the… — Bruce’s continued experience of removing the testing columns.
- Exploratory Testing Is Not Just ‘Clicking Around’ — Bit of a deep dive into exploratory testing.
Upcoming MoT Events
- Testing Ask Me Anything — DevOps — 1 hour — 8pm UK Time — 11th February 2020
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Accessibility
- 5 tips for making your app accessible — Accessible product development is the responsibility of all designers and developers.
- PowerPoint Accessibility Checklist — How to Create Accessible PowerPoint presentations.
- Could browsers fix more accessibility problems automatically? — Browsers could be more proactive in fixing accessibility issues for end users.
- Accessibility: why you should get on board — It is the right thing to do; that making things accessible for a particular group often helps improve the experience for everyone.
Automation
- “Less” is More, Part I: Serverless Architecture — Have you heard of serverless architecture and wondered what it could possibly be?
- Tips for Healthy Page Object Classes — Some very useful information.
- CssSelectors — Not only for styling — Do you use Selenium? Have you ever used these as locators?
- Contract Testing with Pact.js + GraphQL — Contract test is part of an integration test stage where you don’t really need to hit the API, so it is faster and reliable, completely independent of your internet connection.
Business Posts
- Take control of your testing time — One of the biggest challenges, distractions.
- WonderSwitcher now available for Microsoft Edge — The WonderSwitcher browser extension is now available for the new Microsoft Edge.
- There’s No Escaping Test Maintenance — Maintaining test scripts is unavoidable if you want to develop a collection of reusable test scripts.
Podcasts
Check out our forever automagically updated list of software testing podcasts…
- Areti Panou — Quality Coach at SAP Episode 4 — Areti talks about working in a centralised quality coaching team that supports multiple Dev teams and more.
- Episode 673 — Google Open Sources Security Key Code — This move is to help improve the project and increase the adoption of authentication security.
Security
- How your network could be hacked through a Philips Hue smart bulb — Security researchers at Check Point have published details of vulnerabilities they have found in Philips Hue smart bulbs that could be exploited by hackers to compromise networks remotely.
- Twitter Discovers Attackers Trying to Match Usernames and Phone Numbers — Do you check that this can’t be matched.
- TeamViewer — TeamViewer stored user passwords encrypted with AES-128-CBC with they key. If the password is reused anywhere, privilege escalation is possible.
Jobs
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Meetups
- Exploring Automation in Testing with Richard Bradshaw — Copenhagen
- Costquest of the Planet of the Bugs — Manchester
- Don’t fear test automation! — Curitiba
- Brian Matheson, Intro to Kubernetes and Chaos Testing — Boston
- Embracing Change: From Tester to Quality Coach — Cork
- NodeJS and Testing & Community of Practice — Athens
