November RoundUp of All Things MoT
November has been a great month, we had our two days of TestBash San Francisco and a large amount of content went live. Don’t forget you can contribute to Ministry of Testing by becoming a writer.
The Club
A few selected discussions from The Club that we thought you might find interesting.
- 30 Days of API Testing — Day 1: Define API testing posted by testerawesome. With over 50 replies, this is the go-to post to understand API testing!
- 30 Days of API Testing Day 3: Begin Reading an API Testing Related Book posted by heather_reid. There’s quite a lot of people in the challenge reading Alan Richardson’s book but there are also some other great suggestions from beginner to advanced levels.
- Ask Me Anything: CI/CD and Delivery Pipelines posted by heather_reid. Abby answered all of the unanswered questions from this months AMA, if you’re catching up on the Dojo, you can add your questions too.
- Practical ideas on creating empathy within your software testing team posted by rosie. As testers, many of us are skilled in having empathy for our users but how do we help the rest of the team become more empathetic with the people who are using the software?
- Tools use to discover what API calls our applications are making posted by oceannguyen. In order to help tackle Day 9 of the 30 days of testing challenge, oceannguyen asks about the differences between API testing tools and tools used to discover API calls.
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 Duong Ho Nguyen!
The Dojo
On The Dojo this month we have not one, not two but three new TestBash series packed with awesome, current testing talks from the best testing talent around including our new, technical testing conference Test.bash();. Dive in and learn all the things:
All the talks from TestBash Australia 2018:
- 99 Second Talks — TestBash Australia 2018
- Next Level Teamwork: Pairing And Mobbing — Maaret Pyhäjärvi
- Enchanting Experiences: The Future Of Mobile Apps — Parimala Hariprasad
- Exploratory Testing: LIVE — Adam Howard
- Avoid Sleepwalking to Failure! On Abstractions and Keeping it Real in Software Teams — Paul Maxwell-Walters
- Test Representatives: An Alternative Approach to Test Practice Management — Georgia de Pont
- A Tester’s Guide to Changing Hearts and Minds — Michele Playfair
- Advancing Quality by Turning Developers into Quality Champions — Peter Bartlett
- A Spectrum of Difference: Creating EPIC Software Testers — Paul Seaman & Lee Hawkins
- How Automated E2E Testing Enables a Consistently Great User Experience on an Ever Changing WordPress.com — Alister Scott
All the talks from TestBash Manchester 2018:
- 99 Second Talks — TestBash Manchester 2018
- Mapping Biases to Testing — Maaike Brinkhof
- Spot the Difference; Automating Visual Regression Testing — Viv Richards
- Thunderstruck by Serverless: a Tale of Learning and Testing Microservices — Conall Bennett
- Jedi Mind Tricks for Testers — Alex Schladebeck and Huib Schoots
- The Final Frontier? Testing in Production — Marcel Gehlen and Benjamin Hofmann
- Coaching Software Testing Using the GROW Model — Jose Lima
- The Bittersweetness of Security Testing — Anne Oikarinen
- The Tester’s 3 Cs: Criticism, Communication and Confidence — Dorothy Graham
- Recruiting for Potential — Lena Wiberg
All the talks from Test.bash(); Manchester 2018:
- 99 Second Talks — Test.bash(); Manchester 2018 — This video is available to all of our members.
- Test.bash(); 2018 Speaker AMA — 99 Second Edition. This video is available to all of our members.
- The Use and Abuse of Selenium — Simon Stewart. This video is available to all of our members
- Mobile Test Automation at the BBC: Then, Now and Next — Jit Gosai
- Pipeline Architectures to Fit Your Software Architecture — Abby Bangser
- What’s that Smell? Tidying Up Our Test Code — Angie Jones
- You Can Become a Toolsmith Too! — Matthew Bretten
- Of Spies, Fakes and Friends — Help Your Code Lead a Double Life! — Rabea Gleissner
- Digging In: Getting Familiar With The Code To Be A Better Tester — Hilary Weaver-Robb
- Scalable XCUITests within iOS Pipelines — Shashikant Jagtap
- We had a new #30DaysOfTesting challenge for November with 30 Days of API Testing that has been kindly sponsored by API Fortress.
- Another monthly edition of our Ministry of Testing Podcast, in collaboration with the Super Testing Bros, “Talking Mentoring” with Melissa Eaden and Martin Hynie. They discuss mentoring in software development and beyond.
- An unmissable Testing, Ask Me Anything with Abby Bangser on CI/CD and Delivery Pipelines. Abby Bangser has been an excited member of the Ministry of Testing family for 4 years now. In this session, Abby helps you understand the various aspects of CI/CD and Delivery Pipelines.
- A great new article from The Testing Planet 2018: RiskStorming Workshop Experience by Uros Stanisic. A considerable part of a software tester’s job includes creating a test strategy. The process of defining a test strategy often sounds intimidating and not straightforward when explained to less experienced colleagues. Some time ago, an awesome article was published proposing RiskStorming with TestSphere cards as a way to define a test strategy.
November Online Events
Testing Ask Me Anything — Testing in Compliance and Regulation with Milan Kuveljic
We have a new Ask Me Anything live webinar on Tuesday 11th December at 8 pm UK time. This time we’re talking about testing in a Compliance and Regulation world.
Once you’ve registered you could ask Milan any question you might have around Compliance and Regulation, here are a few more examples:
- How modern software development tools and processes are enabling digital bank to be competitive, but without sacrificing security and risk management?
- How Agile process and Regulations stay friendly all the way?
- Where is Automation helping to be effective but still compliant?
Once registered we encourage you to ask some questions on the topic in advance, ready for the webinar and upvote any questions you’d like to see answered.
Masterclass — Storytelling & Narratology for Software Testers with Marianne Duijst
Critical thinking skills are essential for software testers. They help us examine and expose our bias, find fresh perspectives on our software and our team dynamics, and allow us to learn from our hindsight moments. To truly be effective, we harness our communication skills to advocate those insights, the bugs we find and the processes we examined to our teams, our product owners and our customers.
After this masterclass we hope to have provided:
- The basics of narratology: what it is and how to apply it to software development and testing
- Figure out new ways to reexamine your own assumptions and foster critical thinking
- The building bricks of storytelling
- Improve your communication skills
- Learn how to seek out fresh perspectives
Save your space and register for the Masterclass today.
Future Events
Just a quick sneak peek at what events are coming up in the next few months
- Testing Ask Me Anything — Testing in Compliance and Regulation — 8pm UK Time 11th December
- Masterclass — Storytelling & Narratology for Software Testers — 8pm UK Time 20th December
- TestBash Essentials Brighton — 3rd April 2019
- TestBash Brighton — 3rd — 6th April 2019
- TestBash Netherlands — 23rd — 24th May 2019
- TestBash Germany — 12th — 13th September 2019
