Pairing With Developers: A Guide For Testers
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Getting started with Behavior Driven Development!
Shift left has revolutionized the way DevOps & Agile teams develop software. Discover how to adopt it easily with this step-by-step tutorial! You’ll also get the best practices to start with BDD! Complete the tutorial at no cost.
Pairing With Developers: A Guide For Testers
Have you ever considered pairing up with a developer? Read how to prepare for a pairing session, what you can expect, how you can set goals for the pairing session and of course, why pairing is such a good idea. Read the article.
Top testing company DevOps meetup, London
Join QualiTest 14th Sept 6 PM in London with their Partner PractiTest where they will discuss the challenges when moving towards DevOps testing in this informal tester’s meet up and customer based discussion panel. Complementary entry and evening meal included. Limited seats! Register Now!
#TestChat Automation
We have a #TestChat happening this week, Wednesday 13th September at 8pm UK time. If you’ve never attended at #TestChat before the format is very simple, we have four planned questions on the topic of Automation in the context of Testing. We’ll share those questions one at a time using CrowdChat. You get to answer the questions, get involved in group discussions, chat with other testers! Register to take part.
Cracking Your Test Automation Code
What constitutes an adequate degree of test automation coverage? Does every single function need a test associated with it, or just core functionality? Are you struggling to answer these questions? Register for the webinar to find the right testing approach for your application.
How to be a Redshirt, and Survive!
Understand how to identify the biases at play when security testing. Explore the negative behaviours that can challenge you when security testing. The security mindset is more than tools and technical skill. It’s about having an instinct for spotting problems that are often hidden in plain sight. Learn more about this TestBash Philly talk.
AI for Testing: Identifying App State
You know that feeling when you see a new app for the first time? That is because many apps look and behave pretty in a very similar way. To teach a machine to use and test all apps, like a human, we need to instill this same sense of recognition and intuition. How can we do that? Read the blog post.
5 Ws & H, is it enough?
When discovering the limitations of a new application, do you use the 5Ws & H model to discover the edges? Do you think the model is enough? Maybe you pair it with another oracle or heuristic? Join the discussion.
The Sucky Answer Heuristic
We all know that there’s no such thing as a stupid question, but there are certainly stupid answers. All this recent talk of heuristics caused my brain to come up with what I’m calling The Sucky Answer Heuristic. Why does the answer suck? Read the post.
30 Days of Agile testing, Day 9: Pairing on a code review
The challenge for Day 9 is to pair with a developer on a code review. This may be an intimidating thing, or it may bring out your imposter syndrome. How can you identify risks in code for a language you’ve never seen before? How do you approach this? Do we need to have these programming skills? Or can you participate in a code review without them? Share your experience.
60 Powerful Heuristics to Bust a Testing Groove
One of the things you’ve probably noticed when you’ve been software testing for a while, is that your brain starts to settle into some established ways of thinking about the software you’re testing. Maybe it’s time to branch off in a completely different direction? What might you find instead? Download the “60 Power Heuristics to a Testing Groove” eBook by Simon Knight.
The Uncomfortable
Something that might put your teeth on edge or might spark the curious in you. How would you go about testing these? Maybe you can think of alternative uses! Check out the curious objects.
Testing Blogs
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- On Real Options and Speculative Investments — Liz Keogh, lunivore
- Testing vs. Checking — so what? — Jeremias Rößler
- Why So Serious (About Your Code)? — Responsible Automation
- Do we want to be “compliant” or valuable? — James Christie’s Blog
- AMA: Testing an Angular app — WatirMelon.Blog
- Paying Off the Technical Debt in Your Agile Projects — testwithnishi
- Four Ways to Improve Airline Customer — An Aspiring UX Alchemist
- 30 Days of Agile Testing — Exploratory Testing — offbeattesting
- Agile Manifesto during test — Mindful tester
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.
- Google Drive to be shut down, replaced by Backup and Sync — TechSpot
- SpectoLabs/hoverfly: Lightweight service virtualization/API simulation tool for developers and testers — GitHub
- Pipeline — Jenkins
- My Thoughts on “AI for Testing: Identifying App State”
- 5 Ways to Simplify Your Automated Test Cases — Beaufort Fairmont
- Tip 9 | Technical Software Testing — Jmeter Tips & Tricks
- The Hypertext Transfer Protocol
- PageSpeed Insights
- Lorem Ipsum Generator — Samuel L Ipsum
- 30 Days of agile testing — Day 1 : Pick a book — Matt Frampton
