TestBash Brighton 2020: Our Biggest TestBash Yet!
4 min readOct 22, 2019
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Testing and the Community
- TestBash Brighton 2020: Our Biggest TestBash Yet! — We’ve made some exciting changes! Plus a line up of workshops and speakers that will definitely get your brain firing.
- From Strategy To Execution In A Lean And Effective Way — Working in agile mode is not working fast, it is working smart and efficiently.
- Masterclass: [E] Building a World Class QA team with Chris Thacker — Learn how you can grow a successful remote testing team in our next Masterclass on 12th November.
- Testers’ Island Discs Ep28 — Jenna Charlton — Discussing culture, team dynamics and collaboration.
- How to decide what tests should be done across multiple browsers? — “I have a whole bunch of tests to run but I need to decide which ones need to be cross-browser tested”
- When Subject Matter Experts test — Jesper giving a sneak peek at his TestBash Brighton 2020 talk.
- All testing is exploratory: change my mind — Interesting thoughts around some of the myths associated with testing.
Upcoming MoT Events
- TestBash Australia — 24th — 25th October 2019
- TestBash New Zealand — 29th October 2019
- TestBash San Francisco — 6th — 7th November 2019
- Masterclass: [E] Building a World Class QA team with Chris Thacker — 1hour — 8pm UK Time 12th November 2019.
- TestBash Brighton — 26th — 27th March 2020
- TestBash Detroit — 23rd — 24th April 2020
- TestBash Netherlands — 28th -29th May 2020
Accessibility
- Un-Expo Software Accessibility Quiz — TestBash Manchester 2019 — Interesting way of discovering from shocking facts about accessibility!
- Beyond automatic accessibility testing: 6 things I check on every website I build — Something that you can apply to your project right away.
- The Challenge of Identifying UX Success Metrics — How would you know if the new system is an improvement over the existing system?
- An Introductory Guide to Understanding Cognitive Disabilities — Disabilities that impact emotions, problem-solving, memory and other ways we use our brain.
Automation
- More Selenium4 Goodies — Some interesting information on Selenium4 features and in WebElement and WebDriver interfaces.
- How we design suitable selenium test automation framework as per our requirement — Might give you some ideas when planning your own framework.
Business Posts
- Checklist of Best Practices for Writing Assertions — Load tests are important. At least as important as unit and integration tests.
- 6 Key Factors That Improve Cross Browser Testing — Test early and often, use tools that fit your needs, run automated tests on real devices as often as possible!
- Announcing Cucumber-JVM v5.0.0-RC1 — Sharing notable changes in this release.
- Finding Table Cells by Header Text in Java Applications — Some ideas on how to achieve this in tests against your Java AUT.
- How to Test Multilingual Websites — Does your website support multiple languages?
Tools
- Accessibility tools and plugins — Although it’s aimed at designers, there are lots that cross over to testing.
Podcasts
Check out our forever automagically updated list of software testing podcasts…
- Python 3.8 — there’s a lot more new than most people are talking about — Running through what’s new, picking out the interesting bits.
- Episode 601 — IoT Strikes Again — D-Link Home Routers Won’t Be Fixed — This episode is about the risks of relying on vendors to do the right thing with their products.
- Chai Assertions and Accessibility Testing with Aparna Gopalakrishnan — Discover how and why to use Chai Assertions for your JavaScript tests.
- AB Testing — Episode 109: The MT Guide to Promotions — Discussion (and rants) on career maps and our experiences in how to make these fail spectacularly (and sometimes work).
- 150: Liverpool WAGs, Facebook politics, and a selfie stalker — Says it all.
Security
- Sudo Flaw Lets Linux Users Run Commands As Root Even When They’re Restricted — A new vulnerability has been discovered in Sudo.
- About that “Any fingerprint can unlock your Samsung Galaxy S10” report — Possibly the wrong type of technology used.
- Warning: Russian Hackers Break Into European Embassy In Washington — The hackers who infamously breached the Democratic National Committee have continued to cause havoc, according to research released Thursday.
- Unencrypted Mobile Traffic on Tor Network Leaks PII — Researchers create digital dossiers of mobile users scraped from Tor network traffic.
Jobs
- Test Manager (m/f/x) — French speaking — Berlin, Germany
- Software Quality Engineer — State College, PA. United States
Meetups
- How Edward de Bono’s 6 Hats Can Help Your Testing & Improve Test Coverage — Auckland
- We love Testing! Join Us! — Costa Rica
- Lean Coffee Style Join us for a Night of Topics, Brainstorming & Problem Solving — Atlanta
- Ministry of Testing #11- São Paulo
- #7: Domain Knowledge & Timings API & Jenkins as code — Athens
- Open Source Performance Testing — An intro to Taurus & BlazeMeter — Kansas City
- Pre Workshop TestBash Australia Meetup — Sydney
- Exploring a DevOps Transformation Like a Tester with Parveen Khan — Detroit
- Ministry of Testing October 2019 — Leeds
- Angie Jones Pre TestBash Meetup — Sydney
- Lean Coffee Morning — St Neots — Cambridge
- Putting Personas to Work — Richard Douglass — Columbus
- Freelance BGC with Lisa Crispin — Manila
- Post TestBash Australia Meetup — Sydney
- Pre TestBash Meetup — Wellington
- Agile Champion versus Agile Skeptic — Brisbane
- Planning for Performance and Automation — scoping for the most benefit — Glasgow
