Ministry of Testing Weekly Newsletter

TestBash Netherlands is back in 2019!

Ministry of Testing
3 min readAug 13, 2018

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The latest links, discussions, articles and more

An Integrated Kanban Board to Manage Your Testing Process

Remember when tests were managed in one platform and tasks in another? Well, those days are gone! With PractiTest’s customizable Task-Board you can prioritize, share progress, assign tasks and have an actionable cross module view of all your QA project tasks

TestBash Netherlands is back in 2019!

We are very excited to announce that TestBash, our conference for software testing, is coming back to the Netherlands for the third time! Submit your workshops or talks by Sunday, October 14th.

99 Second Talk — Sharing Knowledge with Junior Testers

Sunjeet is on a roll with another 99-second talk! This time, we hear how Sunjeet coaches and mentors Junior Testers. You can create your own 99-second talk too and join in on the fun!

Turbo-Charge Your Functional Tests With Just 8 Lines of Code

On 15th August at 6pm BST join Applitools to learn what visual testing is and how it can augment your existing regression automation test suite. How you can enhance your existing functional tests with visual testing additions and how easy it is to write code that visually tests an entire application.

New eBooks Created From Our Software Testing Courses & Guides!

We’ve had a few requests to view individual software testing courses and guides from testers that are unable to pay for the full pro membership. We put on our thinking hats and tried to figure out how could we best help out our awesome community of software testers?

MoT Meetups

Each week we will feature one of our upcoming MoT community Meetups. Find or start a MoT meetup.

Automate all the things with Ruby — Boston — 22nd August

Learn about replacing rspec with minitest. Learn about enumerables made just for you. See how metaprogramming can turn yml files into Page Object methods and grab some food.

The Club

We’ve picked a few topics of interest from The Club for you to read, contribute and generally get involved with?

“But I have nothing to talk about!”: Ideas for Testbash talks

A common thing I hear a lot from people who would like to speak at a conference is “I have nothing to talk about! And I’m sure we have topics that we’d love to hear more about!

Business Acceptance Testing: How Do You Manage The Process?

How do people manage BAT (Business Acceptance Testing)? I’ve been asked to come up with a process that we can use for future features that we release.

Community Posts

Highlighting a selection of blog posts from the testing community.

Getting Started with TestProject — Tooth of the Weasel

This post is a walk-through of my experience creating a simple web test. I plan to write a few follow-up posts to cover mobile device testing and finally a bit on my experiences playing with their Java SDK.

Testing Blogs

Want to get featured here? Submit your blog to our Testing Feeds!

Testing Podcasts

MoT host various podcasts, but here is a selection of interesting testing podcasts from around the web.

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.

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