Ministry of Testing’s Weekly Software Testing Newsletter

Should the Testing Team Own CI/CD?

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All Things Ministry of Testing

The latest news, along with recent Dojo additions, events and interesting Club posts.

• All I Wanted Was A Ride Home — Solving a location based testing problem for a friend took Paul down a new career path.
• Testers’ Island Discs Ep40 — Louise Gibbs — Neil chats with Louise about her experiences of introducing sustainable test automation practices within a team and discuss some of the situations in which record/playback tools can serve to be a net benefit.
• MoT Pro Membership Up For Grabs thanks to Xray! — All you have to do is answer a question before 5pm UK Time on the 18th November.
• Do you work in a team that does not feel like a team? — Ileana gives great advice on how to bring cross-functional and cross-cultural teams to collaborate.
• Challenges Testing Blockchain Applications — If you were asked to test a blockchain application, would you know where to start? Let Sanne help you get started.
• HolidayBash Crystal Maze — Test your skills in teams of six to complete three-minute challenges to win crystals. Crystals mean prizes! (Yes it is awesome).
• What is Your Goal For November 2020? — No matter how big or small the goal, we’re here to help you achieve it 💪
• Do You Think the Testing Team Should Own CI/CD? — Share your thoughts with Jaswanth, what are some of the challenges that testers face when tackling CI/CD?
• MoT Dojo Watch Party — Episode #3 — This time we will be watching a personal favourite of Mark’s, Managing Application Performance Throughout the LifeCycle — Scott Barber. Come find out what a watch party is and join in.

This newsletter is also kindly supported by Telerik

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Community News & Podcasts

We’ve spent time picking out posts from our blog & podcast feeds that we think would be useful to you. You can always check out the feeds if you want more.

• Web Performance Testing with Google Lighthouse — Marie helping you get familiar with Lighthouse, you can even use it with Cypress!
• Shifting left & right in our continuous world — What does this actually mean?
• AB Testing — Episode 130: The Pre-Election Episode — Talking a bit about the upcoming U.S. Election, discuss ideal team size, and then workshop some ideas on what “advanced” training for Modern Testing may look like.
• Episode 863 — Protecting Your Backups From Ransomware — Having good backups is a start but those can still be attacked by hackers.
• 203: Testing times, naming names, and the bald truth about AI — Students are being spied on as they do online exams, how did a televised football match reveal the truth about artificial intelligence, and what on earth is the Canny Lumpsucker vulnerability?

99-Minute Workshops — November

Find out what time the workshops are happening in your time zone by clicking on a workshop.

• An Introduction to Web UI Automation — Join Mark Winteringham at 12pm UK Time — 9th November
• Interactive Accessibility Quiz — Join Ady Stokes at 6pm UK Time — 11th November
• Mocks and Testability — Join Ali Haydar at 11pm UK Time — 12th November
• API Testing in Python with Requests — Join Bas Dijkstra at 12pm UK Time — 16th November
• Git Foundations — Join Simon Berner at 6pm UK Time — 18th November
• Exploring Quality — Join Dan Ashby at 12pm UK Time — 23rd November
• Introduction to Creating Test Strategies — Join Huib Schoots at 6pm UK Time — 25th November
• There’s No U in Coach — Join Gareth Waterhouse, Lindsay Strydom at 12pm UK Time — 30th November

Business

Posts selected from our business feed

• Quickstart to Automated Functional Testing with Visual Testing — Taking you through how you can use visual testing to detect visual regressions and as a bonus, get automated functional testing out of it too.
• qTest Integration with Applitools — Integrating them in the agile process will solve challenges and makes testing practise in an agile environment.
• Creating resilient tests with mabl — Creating resilient tests has become all the more important as development cycles become shorter and faster.

Upcoming MoT Events

• 99 Minute Workshops — We have multiple workshops running during different timezones in upcoming months.
• Masterclass: A Guide to Usability — 8pm UK time — 10th November 2020
• MoT Dojo Watch Party — Episode #3–3.30pm UK time — 16th November 2020
• TestBash New Zealand Online — 20th November 2020
• Masterclass: Explore the unknown with exploratory testing — 8pm UK time — 24th November 2020
• HolidayBash — 4th — 5th December 2020

Things You Might Have Missed

Articles and posts on Security, Accessibility and Automation from around the web.

• Using destructuring in Cypress — Have you tried wrapping your head around restructuring?
• Apple fixes three iOS zero-days exploited in the wild — Apple has released security updates today for iOS to patch three zero-day vulnerabilities that were discovered being abused in attacks against its users.
• GitHub denies getting hacked — Someone attached a copy of the GitHub Enterprise Server source code to GitHub’s DMCA section, but the GitHub CEO said they mistakenly leaked that code months ago.

Meetups

• Techniques for a Whole Team Approach to Quality — Online, Kula Lumpur
• How I created UI tests for complex web applications — Online, Brisbane