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Shift Left: 5 Steps for Advancing Quality into The Dev Cycle
Want shorter, higher quality releases? “Shift left” and introduce automated QA cycles into the SDLC. Download this eBook to learn which tests to automate and how to get started, how to build trust with developers, what to do when a test fails and more.
TestBash San Francisco Super Early Bird Tickets On Sale
The US edition of our software testing conference TestBash is heading to the home of the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco. It’s a two-day event in our single track format consisting of 17 talks, a few surprises and, of course, our famously fun 99-second talks. The event is taking place on the 8–9 November 2018. Get your Super Early Bird Ticket!
Testing Ask Me Anything: Diversity In Testing
We have an Ask Me Anything on Tuesday 12th June at 8pm UK time. This time we’re talking about Diversity in Testing. Simon Tomes will be joined by Ash Coleman to answer all your questions, for example: When software interacts with people what do we consider edge cases in test? What impact can we anticipate when we lack diversity on our teams? Considering we all have biases, how do we plan for success despite our shortcomings?
Automated Exploratory Testing: Proven “How-to” Guide and Real-World Best Practices
Join us on Wednesday, May 30 6 pm BST, for an advanced session with Sr. Software Engineer Justin Ison, as he presents the crucial information automated exploratory tests give us on our mobile app, and walks us through his proven step-by-step “How-to and Best Practices” Guide.
Testers’ Island Discs Ep15 — Dan Billing
In a predictably madcap episode, we throw away most of the questions and get into discussing the deep role that music (and movies) play within Dan’s personal and testing lives. There’s also some serious discussion about Dan’s professional influences, mentors, and coping with anxiety, illness and loss.
TestBash In The Air
On the 12th May 2018, six testers found themselves on the same flight back and TestBash in the Air was born. Five of the testers recorded a talk, covering Sharing, Baking Quality In, Testers and Children, Testers Exchange Programme and Test Strategy. We hope you enjoy them!
MoT Meetups
Each week we will feature one of our upcoming MoT community Meetups. Find or start a MoT meetup.
Reflections On Testing Machine Learning systems — Gothenburg — 7th June
It is the times when ML is becoming omnipresent in numerous technologies surrounding us, AI is a buzzword for such systems which take crucial decisions on which human lives depend. This meetup will have discussions on AI and how dynamic testing needs to become.
The Club
We’ve picked a few topics of interest from The Club for you to read, contribute and generally get involved with.
How To Measure Defect Detection Efficiency/Rate?
I’ve been working on some quality metrics and was advised to focus on defect containment numbers. One recommendation was to provide a formula for “Defect Detection Efficiency” and “Defect Detection Rate” metrics. Can you shed some light if I am on the correct path or have some better formula to use?
Quality Principles?
Anyone ever come up with a set of quality principles with a team? Any one know any activities to help provoke discussion around this area?
Community Posts
Highlighting a selection of blog posts from the testing community.
The Rabbit Poop Approach to Learning — Cassandra HL
I’ve been thinking a lot about learning, and have been trying to examine and understand more about the way that I learn. For me, there are three levels or stages of learning: Absorb, Experience and Teach. However, it isn’t always as simple or straightforward as going from step one, to two, to three.
Women in Technology — Raising Female Technology Leaders — Maverick Tester
It didn’t surprise me that women were leaving tech mid-career. Anecdotally, I hear it a lot. But there’s nothing like empirical evidence to bring the message home. The number of women leaving tech mid-career is double that of men. What’s more, they’re not leaving to stay at home and mind the kiddies. The majority of women either leave to work outside of tech or go to start their own business.
Testing Blogs
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- Sticking Your Nose Where It Does Not Belong — A Seasoned Tester’s Crystal Ball
- Discussing Tester’s Value, Beyond the Echo Chamber — ITestStuff.ca
- Most Common Mistakes During the Transition to Agile (Part 2) | Supreme Agile — David Tzemach’s Blog
- Going beyond “how are we going to test this?” — Testing Is Believing
- Proxying UI Automation to OWASP ZAP — Automated Tester
- Test Automation — What now? — The Life Of One Man
- Cambridge Lean Coffee — Hiccupps
- Real Life TDD With Spring — The Road to the First Test I — Everyday Unit Testing
- Using Kanban in the Scrum Team — Edinburgh Tester
- thewaiter: clicking on an element by using waits with Selenium — imALittleTester
- How to improve test automation effectiveness with functional UI unit test
- Hold on, wait a moment… — Danny Dainton
- How fasting helped shape my testing career — All things testing
- Mob Testing A Mobile App
Testing Podcasts
MoT host various podcasts, but here is a selection of interesting testing podcasts from around the web.
- Cafe 049: ChatOps! — What’s, How’s & Possibilities… with Arnab Sinha — PurePerformance Cafe
- Cafe 048: No Nouns! Or! To Microservice or Not with Jan de Vries — PurePerformance Cafe
- Episode 82: Brent Talks to Alan About Data — AB Testing
- Is it a False Negative or a False Positive? — Ask PerfBytes
- Cafe 047: Don’t panic! How to launch large-scale sites with calm and confidence with Ryan Townsend — PurePerformance Cafe
- 062 How Microsoft became a cool company again — a DevOps Transformation Story with Donovan Brown — PurePerformance
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.
- Amazon’s Alexa recorded private conversation and sent it to random contact — The Guardian
- ‘Facebook takes data from my phone — but I don’t have an account!’ — The Register
- Gone in 1100 seconds — The weirdest bug I have ever met
- GDPR: US news sites blocked to EU users over data protection rules — BBC News
- It takes work to keep your data private online. These apps can help — CNET
