The Journey To Co-Creation
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The Artful Tester — The Journey To Co-creation
When we don’t see our experiences or hopes represented within the stories we tell one another, we may feel that they are insignificant and become discouraged. There is intense pressure on us as individuals to succeed, along pre-defined routes. What I’ve realised is that I don’t have to do this on my own.
Community Thoughts: Certifications
Certifications have been around for various software testing jobs and roles for a while. One of the more popular topics of discussion on The Club, our software testing community forum, has been around certifications. There are three certifications discussed.
#TestChat — Device Testing
We have a new #TestChat happening on Wednesday 28th February at 8pm (UK time) for an hour. We use the CrowdChat platform which allows you to take part from social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.
Testing Ask Me Anything — Quality Engineering
On Tuesday 13th March at 8pm UK time, we have a live AMA webinar focusing on Quality Engineering with Anne-Marie Charrett. What is Quality Engineering? How is it different to QA? Isn’t that some archaic process from the 1980’s? All potential questions you could ask Anne Marie in the Ask A Question section once you’ve registered.
Ask Me Anything — Test Management
The video from our latest Ask Me Anything is now live on The Dojo. For this Ask Me Anything we were joined by Trish Khoo on the topic of Test Management. Trish has been a student of testing for many years, with lots of experience gained while working at the likes of Microsoft and Google.
Welcome to Automation in Testing
This is going to be the home of Automation in Testing (AiT) a combined effort by Mark Winteringham and Richard Bradshaw. We’re going to publish and produce all sorts of content on automation, and publish it all right here! Then, hopefully in time also work by others in the community.
MoT Meetups
Each week we will feature one of our upcoming MoT community Meetups.
Milan Exploratory Testing 20th February
Exploratory testing! The theme of this meetup will be focused on how to improve techniques and make the most of innovative tools.
The Club
We’ve picked a few topics of interest from The Club for you to read, contribute and generally get involved with.
Favourite Retrospective Formats
I enjoy running and facilitating retrospectives — I think it’s a good way to dig into larger problems that tend to get lost in the day to day of scrums and deadlines and work. What do you like/not like about them? How do you do yours?
Requirements (Re)Engineering — Featured TestSphere Card
On the club, we’ll feature a card from the TestSphere deck for people to write their stories about every month. I challenge you to take a few minutes to think about your experiences with the featured card.
Community Posts
Highlighting a selection of blog posts from the testing community.
Hindsight Lessons About Automation: Why Automation? — Mr.Slavchev
I started the first post with coding and I made the first and most common mistake that everyone doing automation does — diving in explanations how to do automation, instead of trying to explain why automation is important and beneficial for us
How To Get More Testing Done — The Life Of One Man
In my posts, I emphasise doing the most important things and asking the why. However, I have not addressed the fact if I should be doing these things at once or together. Do I solely focus on one task or do I do multiple things at once? This post will describe 3 tips on how to get more done during the day.
Testing Blogs
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- Top Accessibility Testing Tools for Automation — Automation Testing Made Easy
- The Ideal Test Case — Appdiff
- The Evolution of Testing — Stories from a Software Tester
- My GitHub Markdown Tips — Burdette’s Test Blog
- Counting test cases — A Seasoned Tester’s Crystal Ball
- Quality Engineer Mindsets — rafazzevedo
- Product Owner of Test Automation — Isle of Testing
- Regression Testing Manifesto — Intent Over Implementation — Assert.This
- A Change in Perspective — Moving from Tech Lead to Manager — My World of Testing
- It’s Been A While — A #MakeATester Update — My World of Testing
- What is Testing? — Software Testing — A Journey Of Discovery
- The Siren Call of Test Metrics — Is it good enough yet?
- The Rise of Progressive Web Apps and The Impact on Cross-Browser Testing — Continuous Testing Blog for Mobile And Web Apps
Testing Podcasts
A selection of interesting testing podcasts from around the web.
- Ep 96: “Testers are the canary down the coalmine” — Let’s Talk About Tests, Baby
- 189: Automating Accessibility Tests with Manoj Kumar — 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.
- In just 24 hours, 5,000 Android devices are conscripted into mining botnet — Ars Technica
- 10 Latest Mobile App Interface Designs for Your Inspiration
- “Biggest iPhone Code Leak?” — Source Code Of The Most Critical Part Of iOS Dumped On GitHub
- Realistic, well-positioned Reddit clone is out to grab users’ login credentials — Help Net Security
- How To Get Hundreds of Stars on Your Github Project
- Top 10–2017 Top 10 — OWASP
- EBay is dumping PayPal for a Dutch rival
- Running Cucumber tests in parallel — Automation Rhapsody
