Overcoming Cognitive Dissonance
4 min readMar 17, 2020
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Testing and the Community
- Overcoming Cognitive Dissonance: How to Effectively Deliver Unbelievable Test Results — Our next Masterclass happening on 14th April at 8pm UK time.
- Masterclass Recording Rewrite Vs Refactor with Anand Bagmar — This fascinating Masterclass now available to all of our pro members, Ananad has shared a wealth of information.
- State of Testing Training Survey — We’re changing how we provide training, help us. Take a few minutes to answer our survey, have your say.
- Culture — A new topic page for you, with an introduction from Jim Holmes.
- 30 Days of Quality Day 13: Podcasts — Have you any podcasts you’d add to the list?
- What does leadership and parenting have in common? — What do you think? We’ve had some interesting answers, there are likely more insights to gain.
- Strategies for working through Coronovirus outbreak — Covid-19 outbreak is being handled differently across the world, how testers are have been affected, and how you have adapted to changes in working conditions. Interesting discussions happening.
- Software tools — It’s worth investing time in yourself where it comes to tools — learn what they’re capable of and how you can use them to achieve your goals most easily.
- Would Heu-Risk It? Part 24: Lost In Translation — Interesting language problems.
- Test architecture in a nutshell — Useful questions to ask yourself, no harm in getting reminders.
- A Servant Leadership Journey — Do you lead from the front, or from the back?
- Is Your QA Team Prepared for Remote Working? — Some tips to help with remote working.
Upcoming MoT Events
- Testing Ask Me Anything — Test Strategies — 1 hour — 8pm UK Time — 31st March 2020
- Masterclass: Overcoming Cognitive Dissonance: How to Effectively Deliver Unbelievable Test Results — 1 hour — 8pm UK Time — 14th April 2020
- TestBash Netherlands — 28th — 29th May 2020
- TestBashX Edinburgh — 26th June 2020
- TestBash Manchester — 30th September — 1st October 2020
- Test.bash(); Manchester — 2nd October 2020
- TestBash New Zealand — 16th — 17th November 2020
Accessibility
- Web Accessibility Checklist — 16 Things to Improve Your Website Accessibility.
- Create Your Own AHA Moment — When people see the impact of an inaccessible website, they “get it”. They understand why accessibility is critical. That’s an “aha” moment.
- 7 Reasons Why Accessibility Overlays Aren’t a Magical Solution — Because of add ons.
Automation
- AWS examples in C# — basic DynamoDB operations — Code examples with DynamoDB write and read operations.
- API Contract Testing Made Easy — This simple example illustrates the importance of contract testing, and the responsibilities of each API team when setting up contracts.
- An Introduction to building a CI/CD pipeline with Jenkins and Octopus — A high level overview of building a CI / CD pipeline using Jenkins and Octopus.
- Cypress tips #3: Improve your error screenshots in Cypress — Handy command to know.
- Mocking XHR requests with Cypress — Mocking has some advantages such as faster running of tests and enables your front end tests to be decoupled from any backend API.
- Tracking functional coverage from your api / functional UI (e2e) tests — Tracking and having a high coverage of your product code via automated tests is an important way of building a quality product.
Business Posts
- How to Evolve Your Manual Test Plan Toward Automation — Let’s take a look at how to transition from manual test plans to automated testing as an application matures.
- How QA Teams Can Use Software Monitoring Tools — But the reality is that monitoring tools aren’t just for IT teams. They can also help QA engineers do their jobs more effectively.
- What do Software Development and Disease Control have in common? — How many times have you heard someone asking to push a small change to production without going over proper testing?
- Key Management with Vault at BrowserStack — In the summer of 2019, we decided it was time to re-architect the key management system of our Rails application.
Podcasts
Check out our forever automagically updated list of software testing podcasts…
- Episode 698 — Work From Home Week — IT Considerations — With the current situation in the world today perception is becoming reality as a part of that allowing employees to work remotely is something that needs to be addressed.
- Episode 17: Davar Ardalan — A Woman Who Vows to Improve Cultural Intelligence — Davar is aiming to make navigating the global marketplace easier via cultural analysis.
- 169: Burglaries, breaches, and bidets — How one guy’s exercise routine made him a burglary suspect, how multi-factor authentication can cause headaches as well as stop hacks, and how Virgin Media got itself in a pickle over its sloppy data security.
Security
- Warning: An Android Security App With 1 Billion Downloads Is Recording Users’ Web Browsing — Clean Master, a security tool promising antivirus protection and private browsing. Do you have it?
- iOS, macOS bug let hackers remotely dump memory — The bug shows how a hacker can remotely dump the memory of iPhones and Macs. Apple has fixed the bugs.
- Contacts of 1m Virgin Media customers left on unsecured database — How secure is your customer database?
- Microsoft delivers emergency patch to fix wormable Windows 10 flaw — Attackers got a head start when critical SMBv3 flaw details leaked.
Jobs
- Automation Engineer — Northampton or Plymouth, Northamptonshire or Devon. UK
- Quality Analyst & Consultant — Ann Arbor, MI. US
Meetups
- Ministry of Testing #14 — São Paulo
- Continuous Testing with Containers, with Melissa Benua — Boston
