March RoundUp of All Things MoT
Hooray, we’re almost in April and into our first month of TestBash fun! Are we seeing you in Brighton? If you are, you can find some folks introducing themselves over on Twitter.
The Club
A few selected discussions from The Club that we thought you might find interesting.
- ISTQB — That´s it! No more certification exams, as they prove nothing by bjoern_w. I am still a little upset, but I wanted to share my thoughts about ISTQB certification.
- Started to use Selenium but still don’t know what I am doing by mazza. I’ve been testing for a number years now and started to use Selenium but, the problem I have is understanding how it works and some basic concept of it.
- Tools for supplying high quality data for test by adamattonic. Curious what data folks at MoT use to test?
- TestBash Brighton Week 2019: Everything You Need To Knowby heather_reid. As TestBash Essentials and TestBash Brighton approach, it’s time to get everything you need to know in the one place!
- How do you know what to test? by rosie. I’m asking this as I know it’s such a common question and it would be really useful to have an epic discussion on it.
The Club Ninja
Each month we select one of our Club users to be our Ninja of the Month. Our Club Ninja this month is Gerard McCann.
MoT News
More European Tickets on Sale! TestBash Germany is now live!
We’ve been growing from strength to strength in Germany over the past number of years and listening to feedback from the community at every turn. So this year, we’re adding a workshop day on September 12th which gives you 6 half-day workshops to choose from on an exciting range of topics.
The Dojo
We’ve another addition of the DojoBoss vlog and here’s the new content that’s waiting for you on The Dojo:
- An unmissable Masterclass with Daniel Hunt on How to Test Data Analytics without knowing anything about Data Analytics. This is Data Analytics testing 101! Traversing such buzzwords as machine learning, data science and predictive analytics we’ll take a look at some simple methods, common pitfalls and general approaches that will make sense out of the data. There’s nothing better than proving that testers can test more than we’re supposed to!
- Another talk from one of our many MoT Meetups “Are We There Yet?” Driving Quality & Tackling Automation Debt with Amber Pollack-Berti. “Automate All the Things!” your team cheers. But it’s easier said than done — particularly with new features in need of testing every sprint and near-constant support demands that cannot wait. When there’s always something that seems higher priority how do you find the time to tackle tech debt, and more specifically test automation debt?
A few great articles in The Testing Planet 2019:
- Defining Story Completion As A Software Tester by Elizabeth Zagroba. There comes a point in your life when you realize: this story is done. The team has figured out what the feature should be, they’ve made it what it is, and it’s been tested.
- The Art Of The Bug Report by Anneliese Herbosa. Testers are storytellers. Coming from a communications background, one of the striking parallels I have made since working in quality assurance and software testing is that an important part of their role is to tell short stories through immediate product feedback. One powerful storytelling device they use to achieve this is: the bug report.
- TestBash Playlists — The Most Popular TestBash Talks of All Time. Why does automation fail? What’s modern testing? Why do we need testing? When do you test? A tester had a number 1 hit with Macklemore?! These 12 talks hold the answers and are the most popular TestBash talks that the MoT community can’t stop watching!
April Online Events
Testing Ask Me Anything — Whole Team Testing — Lisa Crispin
In this AMA on 9th April at 8pm UK time, Lisa will answer questions about how whole-team testing works in practice. If you’re wondering how in the world you get non-testers interested in doing work that they’ve purposely avoided in the past, or interested in newer practices that involve more of the delivery team, such as pair and mob testing, please join in with your questions.
Future Events
Just a quick sneak peek at what events are coming up in the next few months
- TestBash Essentials Brighton — 1 day — Wednesday 3rd April 2019 — Tickets on Sale!
- TestBash Brighton — 1 day — Friday 5th April 2019 — Tickets on Sale!
- Testing Ask Me Anything: Whole Team Testing — Lisa Crispin — 1 hour — Tuesday 9th April 2019
- Online Meetup: Knowing your Automation with Hugh McCamphill — 2 hours — Thursday 9th May 2019
- TestBash Netherlands — 2 days — Thursday 23rd — Friday 24th May 2019 — Tickets on Sale!
- London Tester Gathering Workshops — 3 days — Wednesday 26th — Friday 28th June 2019 — Super Early Bird Tickets on Sale!
- TestBash Germany — 2 days — Thursday 12th — Friday 13th September 2019 — Super Early Bird Tickets on Sale!
- TestBash Manchester — 2 days — Wednesday 2nd — Thursday 3rd October 2019 — Sign up to the launch list
- Test.bash(); — 1 day — Friday 4th October 2019 — Sign up to the launch list
- TestBash Australia — 2 days — Thursday 24th — Friday 25th October 2019 — Sign up to the launch list
- TestBash New Zealand — 1 day — Tuesday 29th October 2019 — Sign up to the launch list
- TestBash San Francisco — 2 days — Wednesday 6th — Thursday 7th November 2019 — Sign up to the launch list
