Mob Testing: An Introduction & Experience Report
The latest links, discussions, articles and more
TestBash Brighton Early Bird Tickets
What better way to brighten your Blue Monday than to book your tickets for TestBash Brighton! It’s a 2 day event with some additional pre-TestBash courses. Our Early Bird tickets are available until Monday 31st January, so you’ve time to raise that request at work, or convince yourself to finally attend!
A Message From BossBoss: Vision for 2018
We have something special coming in the next few weeks to share all that was awesome in 2017 for us, but for now, we to talk to you briefly about Ministry of Testing, becoming BossBoss and to share our vision and ideas for 2018.
Mob Testing: An Introduction & Experience Report
Mob Testing is about the whole team working on testing on one computer, getting the best of everyone from the work they are doing. This is Maaret Pyhäjärvi’s story of how she grew to favour Mob Testing and Mob Programming and how you could try it too.
Scholarship Story: My TestBash Philadelphia Experience
Jasmin shares her experience of being on the receiving end of a Ministry of Testing Scholarship and getting to attend TestBash Philly!
Life At The Ministry of Testing: A Year Of Editing
When Rosie Sherry gave me the opportunity to edit content for Ministry of Testing I was elated. I was over the moon. Then I was in a mild shock for a while. She was letting me take on what continues to be an important part of Ministry of Testing: the article content.
Encouraging Engagement — Changing Our Work Culture
How do you encourage engagement? What actions do you take every day that bring you and colleagues to work with a smile? Marianne Duisjst wants to challenge others to think about how to proactively chart a course of their own liking. Find out more about this and our other TestBash Netherlands talks and workshops.
Ask Me Anything With Toby Sinclair About Coaching
We held an insightful Ask Me Anything with Toby recently, covering quite a few areas on not only coaching but how you approach working well alongside your colleagues. There were a number of discussions around useful resources to expand your knowledge, as well as providing inspiration. The full video is available for all to watch on The Dojo.
The Club
We’ve picked a few topics of interest from The Club for you to read, contribute and generally get involved with.
Getting The Minimum Documentation From The Agile Developers
Sometimes while working on a story, the original idea for the change is abandoned. But the developers are unwilling to update the JIRA to show what was actually implemented! Any advice to better enforce what I feel is simply common sense?
Suggestions For Windows Desktop Testing Environments
I work as a Test Coordinator at a university and we currently have a very high maintenance setup of nine Windows base units each with a minimum of three VMs on them representing our Win 7 staff/student images and Win 10 standalone installs.
Community Posts
Highlighting a selection of blog posts from the testing community.
Code Coverage Dos and Don’ts — Knowledge Tester
Code Coverage is a good indicator of how well your tests are covering your code base. Here are my opinions based upon experience on how to best use Code Coverage in your project.
5 Tips for Humans in Tech from “The Confidence Code” — Let Me Try Software Testing!
Being a woman in tech myself, talking about issues like feeling shy, an impostor and uncomfortable in a sometimes man-dominated tech world has helped me greatly to improve myself and even the way I work. However, I truly think that these discussions can be useful to men, too — maybe not as commonly, but every single human can have issues with confidence.
Testing Blogs
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- Modifying EC2 security groups via AWS Lambda functions — Agile Testing
- Write fewer automated checks/tests — Musing about Software Testing
- “The Biscuit Factory Model” for test sampling — TestSheepNZ
- How to turn your Bug Report into a Quality Offer — The Life Of One Man
- Revisiting Testing vs Checking — Stories from a Software Tester
- But….I want it now! — cemueses
- WOMEN TESTERS JANUARY 2018 EDITION — Women Testers
- Python & Selenium Webdriver :: working with dropdown options inside a select tag — The_reluctant_tester’s
- The earlier the better… — The Interpretive Tester
- Do we need step by step test cases? — The Pragmatic Tester
- Practicing Ruby Through Exercism! — Adventures in Automation
- Continuous Testing Principles for Cross Browser Testing and Mobile Apps — Mobile Testing Blog
- New: #System #Design #Heuristics — Gerald Weinberg’s Secrets of Writing and Consulting
- Learning Ruby — Adventures in Automation
Testing Podcasts
A selection of interesting testing podcasts from around the web
- Ep 21: La La Land — Screen Testing
- Cafe 042: Dynatrace Hackathon at PERFORM 2018 — Get Ready! Get On-Stage! — PurePerformance Cafe
- 185: Automation Trends for 2018 with Angie Jones, Gil Tayar, Richard Bradshaw — Test Talks
- Digital dystopia: tech slavery and the death of privacy -Technology — The Guardian
- NOTD Jan 5 2018 — News of The Damned
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.
- Facebook plans major changes to news feed — BBC News
- CES 2018: voice-controlled showers, non-compliant robots and smart toilets | Technology | The Guardian
- Apple health data used in murder trial — BBC News
- Success Story : Easy Test Management with Layering
- Cucumberish — BDD testing framework for iOS applications + sample application
