Is testing instinct or deliberate practise?
4 min readAug 4, 2020
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Pairwise Test Design: It Only Looks Like Magic — Configurations: Arranging The Forest
Complex configurations can seem like a forest of settings and constraints. Physical configuration changes are particularly challenging without automation. Testing with a small number of configurations improves efficiency. Pairwise testing aims to do that.
All Things Ministry of Testing
The latest news, along with recent Dojo additions, events and interesting club posts.
- Testers’ Island Discs Ep37 — Louise Woodhams discusses imposter syndrome, debates with Mark whether testing can be taught and the difference between instincts and deliberate practise and their love of testing APIs.
- How The Jobs To Be Done Concept Can Help Quality And Testing — Interesting idea that can improve my testing understanding of quality.
- Understanding Testability — Join Richard at 1pm New York, US Time on 5th August 2020. Learn to define testability, explore its characteristics, survey a given context to better understand its testability and create a testability canvas/map/worksheet.
- How Would You Test a Calculator? — It may appear simple on the outside but had hidden complexities once you started to dive deeper. So how would you do it?
- What Packages/Plugins/Frameworks Do You Use In Cypress? — Cypress out of the box is pretty great, but what other packages/plugins/frameworks do you use to make it better?
- TDD for Testers with Gary Fleming — Learn more about what TDD is, why it’s such a useful tool and when/how to use it as a tester
- My Automation In Testing Online Experience — Mayura Taoself was able to take AiT course because of the MoT scholarship fund. Read all about Mayura’s experience.
- A Software Tester’s Guide To Influence — How much more could you achieve if you knew how to communicate in a useful way?
- Introduction to Python for Software Testers — This course is not about becoming a programmer, it is to give you another tool in your testing tool belt.
Community News & Podcasts
Posts from our blog & podcast feeds — you can always check out the feeds if you want more!
- Announcing API Testing Challenges — A set of challenges designed to guide you through the basic technologies and principles, built into our online gamification learning environment.
- Is reviewing code a risk? — Some tips of doing a useful code review.
- GitHub Actions — Tania Allard — Lots of Python projects are starting to use GitHub Actions for Continous Integration & Deployment (CI/CD), as well as other workflows.
- AB Testing — Episode 125: P* Management and ATAOSQ — Talking about how Program Management can help with Modern Testing and Accelerating the Achievement of Shippable Quality.
- Episode 797 — New Tool Helps You Find Shadow Admin Account In AWS and Azure — This episode talks about how the tool works and why you should use it on your cloud environments regularly.
99-Minute Workshops — August
- Git Foundations — 12pm UK Time — 3rd August 2020
- Understanding Testability — 1pm New York, US Time — 5th August 2020
- An introduction to Web UI automation — 12pm New Zealand Time — 7th August 2020
- What is testing in production and why would we ever do that?! — 12pm UK Time — 10th August 2020
- Approval Testing — 1pm New York, US Time — 12th August 2020
- Introduction to creating test strategies — 12pm New Zealand Time — 14th August 2020
- Interactive Accessibility Quiz — 12pm UK Time — 17th August 2020
- API testing in Python with requests — 1pm New York, US Time — 19th August 2020
- There’s no U in Coach — 12pm UK Time — 24th August 2020
- Exploring Quality — 1pm New York, US Time — 26th August 2020
Business
Posts selected from our business feed
- Unscripted — Aled Miles & Elke Edwards — Learning Agility — Elke talks about how Ivy House brings the best training to emerging leaders — and how the best leaders are open to learning agility from their experience.
- How to approach quality reporting for QA Managers — How do you report on quality, what do you look for, and what are the most important metrics to measure?
- The Role of Testing in DevOps — There is nothing more frustrating than trying to add value to a team, but at the same time, temporarily blocking the team’s release process.
Upcoming MoT Events
- 99 Min Workshops — We have multiple workshops running during different timezones in upcoming months.
- Masterclass: Reporting on Testing & Quality — 8pm UK Time — 11th August 2020
- Testing Ask Me Anything — Automation — 8pm UK Time — 8th September 2020
- TestBash Manchester Online — 2nd October 2020
- TestBash Netherlands Online — 15th — 16th October 2020
- 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.
- A Beginner’s Guide to ADA Website Accessibility Compliance — Learn about inclusive design and how to optimize your website for ADA compliance.
- We’ve forgotten the most important thing about AI. It’s time to remember it again — AI doesn’t have agency, it doesn’t look human, and it is actually still pretty restricted.
- BootHole fixes causing boot problems across multiple Linux distros — Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat, CentOS, Fedora users report issues with booting or dual-booting their devices.
Meetups
- Summer 2020 #2 — Vilnius
- Webinar: Encontrando tu voz durante las transformaciones ágiles — Fanny Gallardo — Online, Uruguay
- Taiko with Amit Sarkar — Online, Nottingham
- Testability : Custom Tools — Online, Sheffield
- Thomas Shipley — Consumer-Driven Contract Tests and Microservices — Online, Buckinghamshire
- Lunchtime TestSphere Discussion — Online, Buckinghamshire
