Robot Process Automation As A Power Tool For Testing
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5 Ways to Time Travel Test Whitepaper
Temporal testing is critical for date sensitive business rules such as insurance rates, billing, and enrollment. Efficient time travel testing can increase your test coverage, accelerate development, and improve software quality. Read our whitepaper to learn the 5 ways to time travel software.
Robot Process Automation As A Power Tool For Testing
Business automation tools called Robot Process Automation (RPA), provide a new powerful tool for testers and business users doing testing, especially in the context of implementing large scale standard systems like SAP, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Salesforce etc.
STAREAST Software Testing Conference | April 29–May 4, 2018 | Orlando, FL
The full program is now available! Whether you have recently been asked to undertake testing as a part of your role or if you have years of experience, this event will keep you on top of the latest and greatest knowledge and help you excel in your job role.
Testers’ Island Discs Ep 11 — Karo Stoltzenburg
Karo Stolzenburg talks about her experiences in Cambridge, the growth of the Software Testing Clinic, and an unavoidable discussion about Brexit. We also get into discussions about creating safe environments for learning, generating test ideas and avoiding cognitive biases in our testing, whilst also finding time to hear a range of song selections.
Complex Problem Solving
Business processes rely more and more on increasingly complex ICT services. This means our problems will become more complex, but also the solving process will also become more complex. At TestBash Netherlands Martijn Maas will discuss what makes a problem complex, how you can develop your problem-solving skills and why it’s important to apply a powerful problem-solving approach.
MoT Meetups
Each week we will feature one of our upcoming MoT community Meetups.
SWTC Glasgow — Technical Testing — 26th March
Technical testing encompasses lots of different techniques, so instead of the usual exercises and discussions, we will be hosting a Technical Testing circus! Our circus will involve Mentors hosting ‘stands’ demonstrating different Technical testing techniques all at the same time!
The Club
We’ve picked a few topics of interest from The Club for you to read, contribute and generally get involved with.
What Is The “Definition of Done”?
In your context, can you share what your definition of done is? As Satyajit says, a commonly agreed definition is pretty hard but have you managed to at least get a common definition within your workplace?
Giving A Talk On Quality As A Culture
I wanted to know if anyone here has any advice on going from complete novice to becoming an engaging speaker that they could share? I really appreciate any help you can give me.
Community Posts
Highlighting a selection of blog posts from the testing community.
The Chain Reaction Of Self Belief: 3 Post Test Bash Thoughts — This Girl Tests
This week has been immense — I started a new job and finally attended the long awaited Test Bash Brighton 2018 (my first ever Test Bash)! To say it’s been a rollercoaster is an understatement. I left Test Bash feeling pretty overwhelmed (in the best way) and feel like the events of this week have really changed something in me.
What The Bug!? (An Attempt At Knowledge Sharing, Two Ways) — Gregory Testing
When I was making the transition from waterfall style projects to agile teams in a previous company, one of the main things I struggled with was the loss of the testing team as we all became generic “software engineers”. There were a lot of positive effects from the change, but I kept feeling like without dedicated testers focused on improving our testing craft, we’d stagnate. What I was missing, as I eventually realized, was a testing community.
Testing Blogs
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- Testers and Future Angst — Stories from a Software Tester
- Top 5 pitfalls when writing Integration Tests and how to avoid them — James Penning
- Putting Pressure on Testers (and why it is wrong) — Software Testing — A Journey Of Discovery
- Testing Tour Stop #3: Pair Debugging with Thiago — A Tester’s Journey
- Obstacles to True Consensus — The Dominant Impatient Visionary — Think Different
- Leading by example — rafazzevedo
- Phased vs Threaded Testing — Aaron Hodder
- Decision By Precision? — Hiccupps
- The beauty of meetups — Quality is King by Peter Gould
Testing Podcasts
MoT host various podcasts, but here is a selection of interesting testing podcasts from around the web.
- 195: JavaScript Testing Using Jest with Kent C. Dodds — Test Talks
- 38: Prioritize software tests with RCRCRC — Test and Code
- Episode 78: Digging in on Modern Testing Principles — AB Testing
- 057 Ensuring Blockchain Performance with David Jones — PurePerformance
- 194: The Reality of Testing in an Artificial World with Angie Jones — Test Talks
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.
- Testing Unity games and apps using Appium — Altom — AltUnityTester
- Scrum Master — The Questions to ask | Supreme Agile — David Tzemach’s Blog
- Testing and Fault Localization Part 2 — ortask
- Facebook and Cambridge Analytica face mounting pressure over data scandal — The Guardian
- Blackberry modified to ‘help drug cartels’ — BBC News
