Technical Testing Ask Me Anything
The latest links, discussions, articles and more
TimeShiftX — Travel in Time, Test with Ease
TimeShiftX lets you time travel your software to test all date and time sensitive functionality and code such as year-end, daylight savings, leap year, and billing. Employ instant time travel inside Active Directory & Kerberos without code changes and removing all pain points.
Testing Ask Me Anything — Technical Testing — Mark Winteringham
We have a new Ask Me Anything live webinar on Tuesday 10th April at 8pm UK time. This time we’re talking all things Technical Testing. What is technical testing and how do I learn more about it? What is the difference between technical testing and automation? All potential questions you could ask Mark once you’ve registered.
Video: 99 Second Introduction to Lateral and Critical Thinking
In this video, Dan and Mark will introduce you to what lateral and critical thinking are, why these types of thinking are relevant to testers, provide some examples and discuss the pitfalls you should be aware of.
AppiumConf — 6 April — London
The brand new AppiumConf is taking place next month, featuring Dan Cuellar (Creator of Appium) and a speaker line-up of more than a dozen industry-leading mobile testers! Standard price tickets are available until Friday 23 March.
Masterclass Video: Introduction to VR Testing with Syed Ali
The recording from our latest Masterclass is now available to all Pro-Dojo Members. This masterclass aims to give you a brief introduction to VR Testing. Helping you to understand the different ways in which your Testing approach to VR Software has to adjust. Understanding concepts such as minor issues now existing within VR, and the way your body is part of the interface. Also, some technical aspects of VR Software will be discussed.
SWTC Monthly Update — April 2018 — Software Testing Clinic
It’s great to look back but it’s equally exciting looking to the future of SWTC. There is a lot going on behind the scenes to help educate, support and encourage a new generation of testers as well provide new opportunities to those already in the industry, and we want to share with you what we have planned.
Choose Not To Be A Software Testing Hero
Our 99 Second Talks are becoming more renowned with each TestBash. At TestBash Brighton we had some outstanding talks — one, in particular, rang all the bells. There was lots of nodding and agreement around the room as Ali Hill delivered this rousing talk titled Choose Not To Be A Software Testing Hero.
The UnExpo Full Report
During the 3 breaks of TestBash Brighton 2018, The Ministry of Testing (MoT) trialled a new experimental conference engagement method named The UnExpo. The aim of the UnExpo was to boost the awesome community feels that are present at every TestBash and to provide a space in which software testers could converse deeply on topics of interest.
MoT Meetups
Each week we will feature one of our upcoming MoT community Meetups. Find or start a MoT meetup.
Copenhagen — Docker and Kubernetes for the Busy Tester — 12th April
For this meetup, Laszlo Fogas will give a practical introduction to Docker and Kubernetes focusing on their role and practical use in modern software delivery workflows.
The Club
We’ve picked a few topics of interest from The Club for you to read, contribute and generally get involved with.
How Would You Test Airline Check-In?
I saw a blog post recently about a bug in airport check-in software for passengers. My recent travels and reading the blog post got me thinking. How would you approach airline check-inn from a testing point of view? How would you test it?
Super Testing Bros: Goal Setting with Tom Griffin and Mike Clarke
The Super Testing Bros released a podcast at the start of March about goal setting. In this post, Heather has shared some of the goals she created through listening to the podcast. Now we want to know — what goals and skills did you come up with during the podcast?
Community Posts
Highlighting a selection of blog posts from the testing community.
Confirmation Culture (and How to Challenge and Change) — richrtesting
One of the most common themes in discussions about testing is how testers can not only add value but demonstrate how they add value to the teams and organisations they work with. Sometimes the benefits of having skilled and knowledgeable testers within teams can be undermined by a Confirmation Culture; a culture where those teams focus heavily (sometimes exclusively) on confirming that pre-defined requirements have been fulfilled.
I Downloaded My Facebook Data — Here’s What I Found — Cassandra HL
There have been many discussions lately around the “breach, not hack” of Facebook user data, specifically in light of how Cambridge Analytica may or may not have used it to influence elections around the world. I have a lot of opinions on this, from the perspective of both a user and a technologist, but I don’t want my opinions to be based purely on assumptions and what I’ve heard from other people.
Testing Blogs
Want to get featured here? Submit your blog to our Testing Feeds!
- 26/3/18 Test Community of Practice: Pair Testing — The Growing Tester
- Maintaining Value — Automation’s Forgotten Cost — TestProject
- Hindsight lessons about automation: Layers of automation — Mr.Slavchev
- A Developer’s Idea of Exploration — A Seasoned Tester’s Crystal Ball
- Tester Horror Story: Omission — DragonQA
- Starting a Selenium Grid using AWS + SeleniumHQ Docker images + Docker Compose — Adventures in Automation
- Manual Testing Deniers — Stories from a Software Tester
- Being Sidetracked — Part 1 — Mindful tester
- Conference Week — March 2018 — Edinburgh Tester
- Hey Bandcamp, thank you for the treasure hunt! — Testing Bits Blog
- The courage to work under Uncertainty in Scrum teams | Supreme Agile — David Tzemach’s Blog
- Tech Develops — A day dedicated to YOU! — TESTING THE WATERHOUSE
- The Test Automation Trap — A Seasoned Tester’s Crystal Ball
- Let’s Broaden Our Testing Wisdom — Stories from a Software Tester
Testing Podcasts
MoT host various podcasts, but here is a selection of interesting testing podcasts from around the web.
- 39: Thorough software testing for critical features — Test and Code
- Episode 79: The Modern Tester Goes to Testbash — AB Testing
- 002 — Lyssa Adkins — Letting Go of Control for Conscious Leadership — Selena Delesie
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.
- Introduction to Property Based Testing — Nicolas Dubien
- Application Security in a DevOps Environment — Lyft Engineering
- What kind of software do you want to deliver? | Always With The Comparisons
- Using Machine Learning to Improve Streaming Quality at Netflix
- Agile’s dark secret? IT has little need for the usual methodologies — CIO
- 5 tools for increasing your code project’s quality — Ana Ribeiro
- How to see (and delete) everything Apple knows about you — Cult of Mac
- Mercedes discovers true cause of lost win — Formula 1 — Eurosport UK
- TestBash Brighton 2018 — QualityMinds
