Testing In Production, The Mad Science Way
The latest links, discussions, articles and more
Scale Load Testing for JMeter, Gatling, Selenium, and HTTP
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Testing In Production The Mad Science Way
Deploying big changes to production can be scary. Even when you’ve done as much testing as you think you possibly can, you still may not feel comfortable with making changes in production. Some changes might have a lot of edge cases, or be very high risk.
Agile Testing Days USA | June 25–29, 2018 | Boston, MA
Europe’s fun & wildly popular agile testing festival is coming to Boston! Join this agile-focused learning experience to get deep insights and the latest developments in testing — plus network with other “wicked awesome” agile software professionals.
Testers’ Island Discs Ep 10 — Shey Crompton
Neil is joined by Shey Crompton, to discuss the worlds of contracting and consulting. There are tales of dealing with the challenges of working independently, surviving a long commute, tips on how to lead effectively when you’re parachuted-in to an organisation, and some rock/dance tracks which span the decades and continents.
Appium Architect Jonathan Lipps Talks About The Shifting Landscape of Mobile Automation
Don’t miss this expert session and live Q&A on Friday, February 23rd @ 11 am PT. Jonathan will describe the current landscape of the mobile testing, writing tests with each of the available automation tools, and when each might be a good (or bad) choice.
Masterclass — A Career Experience Report
Sometimes, your career path leads you in unexpected directions, and there’s nothing to be ashamed of! Join Hilary Weaver-Robb as she shares her journey that took her from QA Lead to QA Engineer, to Quality Architect, and back to Engineer. This journey took time, and a lot of introspection — be prepared to do some of your own! Join us on 20th February at 8pm UK Time.
MoT Meetups
Each week we will feature one of our upcoming MoT community Meetups.
Dublin Unwrapping Example Mapping — 27th February
This time, our good friend Rob Meaney joins us from Cork. In his own words: “In this talk I’ll outline the pitfalls, frustrations and catastrophes that paved the road to example mapping. I’ll give an introduction to the technique, how we implemented it and the results we experienced.”
The Club
We’ve picked a few topics of interest from The Club for you to read, contribute and generally get involved with.
How Testers Can Help With Acceptance Criteria
Do you have any good reads for how testers can help with fleshing out acceptance criteria? Or what advice would you give to someone who wants to understand how testers can help flesh out user story acceptance criteria?
Sprint Planning And Retrospective Tools
I saw a recent post on retrospectives and that inspired me to think of software tools. What sprint planning and retrospective tools do you use and find most effective?
Community Posts
Highlighting a selection of blog posts from the testing community.
Preventing Interruptions With Sticky Notes — Cassandra HL
In software production, there are all kinds of techniques that utilise sticky notes. Whether it’s in a physical Kanban board, example mapping, risk storming, or just general reminders, we seem to like them a lot. At the Open Space day of TestBash Germany last year, I decided to use sticky notes in a different way.
Why Testers Need To Be Involved Early — Edinburgh Tester
We’re moving our clients’ data from one database technology to another. This may not sound like anybody’s idea of fun — data migrations, new schema structure and learning how to support this new technology are all part of the challenge. The main reason I’m enjoying it is that testing has been considered from the very beginning.
Testing Blogs
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- How do you decide what to automate? — Katrina the Tester
- About Conference Moberators and Beneficial Mobs — A Tester’s Journey
- QA story: How I became a tester — DragonQA
- The Three Commitments to what you do — The Life Of One Man
- Retrospectives for large teams with many sub-teams — Agile Testing with Lisa Crispin
- Testing deep learning chatbots — Kavliwashere
- Regression Testing Manifesto — Common Over Complete — Assert This
- Manumation, the worst best practice — Investigating Software
- Only test changes — Knowledge Tester
- Are You a Gauge Expert? How Do You Graft On a Fluent Selenium-Ruby Framework? — Adventures in Automation
- What is software testing? — Antti Niittyviita
- Deciding on the test automation toolset — Automating Guy
- 3 Tips for Thriving as a Tester: Impressions from “How to thrive as a Web Tester” by Rob Lambert — Let Me Try Software Testing!
- Exploring It! — Hiccupps
Testing Podcasts
MoT host various podcasts, but here is a selection of interesting testing podcasts from around the web.
- Ep 97: Against Energy and the Caring Angry Friend — Let’s Talk About Tests, Baby
- Ep 22: The Silence of The Lambs — Screen Testing
- Episode 75: From Spider to Starfish — AB Testing
- 36: Stephanie Hurlburt — Mentoring and Open Office Hours Test and Code
- 055 Monitoring in the Time of Cloud Native with James Turnbull — PurePerformance
- 190: Integration Automation Using Citrus Testing Framework with Christoph Deppisch — Test Talks
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.
- Sun Tzu Was a Tester?? — Arch DevOps
- 10 Free Must-Read Machine Learning E-Books For Data Scientists & AI Engineers
- The next level of driverless cars: how to solve the problem of humans falling asleep — The Guardian
- Bitcoin is ‘noxious poison’, says Warren Buffett’s investment chief — The Guardian
- Google Chrome launches default ad-blocker — BBC News
- Will AI look upon humans the same way we look upon animals? — Tomorrow’s World
- Anger at Google image search ‘peace deal’ — BBC News
