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Increase your odds of thriving as a tester
Unsure of what career options are available to you as a tester? We all want to grow and keep moving forward, sometimes it can be hard figuring out which direction to go. We’ve got you covered with our online masterclass later this week with Fiona Charles! Save your spot & ask your questions now!
Automation: How do you avoid duplication of development work?
How do you avoid duplication of development work? i.e. by basically writing the same code to test the function as the function itself. Is it sometimes worth doing that anyway? Share your tips
Security in the Cloud
As more applications are moving to the cloud, security becomes less about SQL injections in a text field and more about attack vectors throughout infrastructure. Through hands on exercises in AWS and group discussion you will learn we will what security in infrastructure and the cloud actually means. Register for the London Tester Gathering workshop
Documentation so you can move on
Do you have experience in creating documentation, so you can move on or preparing for the “hit by a bus” scenario? How do you ensure that you aren’t a breaking point? Where would you start?
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Testing Blogs
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- Automated testing vs manual testing — security perspective — Awesome Testing
- Learning Serenity: Scaffolding a new project with Maven Archetypes — Adventures in Automation
- Working with AWS CodeDeploy
- Disobedience — offbeattesting
- Introduction to Unix — @KingaTest
- How do you interview testers? — Evil Tester
- Do you see what I see? — Nicky Tests Software
- Live Action Test Playing — QA Hates You
- Let the ‘Agile Manifesto’ guide your testing efforts! — testwithnishi
- Becoming an inspiration — The Test Sheep
- Scoping Test Automation Part 1: In Development — Alex Corrigan
- How to use secrets — QA & Testing
- Test Planning Workshop has Changed — A Seasoned Tester’s Crystal Ball
- Work it Make it Do it Make us….. — Christovskia
- On Test Automation | How I would approach creating automated user interface-driven tests
- My favorite podcasts — Testknight
- 20 Fundamentals for a Successful Test Automation Infrastructure
- Backtracking for testers — Mindful tester
- Why and how you should test your software — Code Without Rules
- Implication of emphasis on automation in CI — thoughts from the test eye
- Performance Testing Tutorial — starting point — Test Detective
- Levels of Description — Stories from a Software Tester
- From appreciation of shallow testing towards depth — A Seasoned Tester’s Crystal Ball
- Basic API Testing — Automation Testing Made Easy — Karate a Rest Test Tool
- Stop Telling Testers to Prevent Issues — Cassandra HL
- How to Test SQL Primary Key Constraints — TestProject
Testing Chatter We go hunting to see what testers are talking about, so you don’t have to!
- Backup Tales of Sysadmins — a World Backup Day Story — Spiceworks
- Spectron — Electron
- WebAIM: Screen Reader User Survey #6 Results
- UI/Application Exerciser Monkey — Android Studio
- How to Write a Git Commit Message
- What we found when we tested tools on the world’s least-accessible webpage — Accessibility
- You Are Ignoring Non-functional Testing — OpenCredo
- Fast feedback and virtuous cycle workshop — James Lyndsay
- Firefox gets complaint for labeling unencrypted login page insecure — Ars Technica
- How To Retrieve HTTP Status Codes
- What are your Mobile Testing Pain Points? — Adventures in QA
- Start the Emulator from the Command Line — Android Studio
- Test your HTML emails before sending them. — Litmus PutsMail
- 7 Steps to Improve Software Quality — Medium
- Selenium… polishing crap or gold?
