Tips For Interviewing Junior Software Testers
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Masterclass | Stubbing & Service Virtualization Explained with Wojciech Bulaty
Stubbing and service virtualization are great tools to understand and use for testing. You can also think of them as simulators for APIs. Join this Masterclass to learn how a service virtualization tool can work in cooperation with your testing framework
Tips For Interviewing Junior Software Testers
Rather than diving straight into a list of steps to follow when interviewing junior testers, you can learn how to use your own context to shape the interview process and increase your odds of a successful hire.
Gamifying The Workplace
Part two of our Gamifying series is up. Gamifying the workplace can help to ease some barriers and enable smoother communication throughout your team or company.
99 Second Introduction to Testing
In this video Dan and Mark will introduce you to what testing is, the value of testing, provide some examples and discuss the pitfalls you should be aware of.
How To Do Good Regression Testing
Struggle with what and how to practically implement a good regression testing strategy? This article will help you get you started.
Becoming a Community Boss — Heather Reid
Heather shares her journey from life as a software tester to becoming the Ministry of Testing Community Boss, her dream job.
Estimating effort on a story
How do you estimate effort on stories? Is it purely dev effort? Do you include deployment of the feature to the live environment in the estimate? Do you include testing?
Eight Reasons Why No One’s Listening To You — Amy Phillips
One of the most frustrating things about working with other people is trying to convince them of something you really believe in, only to have them dismiss it as unimportant. So, how can you get people to listen?
Testing Blogs
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- 30 Days of Agile Testing — Learning Culture — offbeattesting
- 7 questions for your coaching toolbox — Diary of a hungry mind
- Why there’s no such thing as codeless automation — On Test Automation
- “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success” (Carol S. Dweck) — therockertester
- Heuristics for Mushroom Picking (and testing) — The Pain and Gain of Edward Bear
- How TDD Can Conquer The World (And Why It’s Unlikely To Happen) — Everyday Unit Testing
- The Lure of Testing — Angry Weasel
- Automation Sync: Exploring Strategy and Results — Angie Jones
- Testing Fundamentalism? — Stories from a Software 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.
- Ishikawa diagram — Wikipedia
- How mutation testing causes deeper thinking about your code + constructor for an included module in Ruby | Arkency
- How an internet mapping glitch turned a random Kansas farm into a digital hell
- The CCleaner Malware Fiasco Targeted at Least 18 Specific Tech Firms | WIRED
- Equifax Has Been Sending Consumers to a Fake Phishing Site for Almost Two Weeks
- xkcd: USB Cables
- Mutual exclusion — Wikipedia
