Weekly News & Insights: Getting Started With Cross Browser Testing
Where do Testers and QA Fit in the Story of DevOps
Join Sunil Sehgal, Managing Partner at TechArcis, and QASymphony for a webinar on the testing-DevOps relationship. We’ll cover misconceptions of DevOps and QA, where testers must adapt to fit in and tools for testing in DevOps. Register for the webinar here.
Getting Started With Cross Browser Testing
You’re a tester. You’ve been handed a story that needs testing, and the developer working on it has asked you to do some cross browser testing on it. What does that mean? Why would someone want to test a story in multiple browsers? Which browsers should you test this in? What are you looking for while you are testing? Read more of this pro article here, free for this week only!
Lego Automation Workshop
Lego Automation with Richard Bradshaw. In this interactive experiential workshop we will explore automation using Lego Duplo! We will create a number of ‘automated scripts’, ever increasing in complexity. We will adapt existing scripts for new purposes. All without writing a single line of code. Find out more here.
Call for Papers for Philadelphia & Manchester
Don’t forget the TestBash Germany call for papers closes on the 14th February! We’re also now taking paper submissions for TestBash Philadelphia and Manchester. If you would like to speak at any of these conferences you can submit your paper here.
60 Powerful Heuristics to Bust a Testing Groove
One of the things you’ve probably noticed when you’ve been software testing for a while, and particularly when you’ve been testing the same product for any length of time, is that your brain starts to settle into some established ways of thinking about the software you’re testing. Download the ebook here.
Has anyone written about *why* you should explore while testing?
What are some good examples of why you need to explore as opposed to thinking in advance (about risk)? If you aren’t aware of examples, feel free to give your explanation. I don’t think the passage below explains why? I also understand there may not be a compelling reason why you shouldn’t explore. I am also not questioning that exploring is very effective. I just want to know *why*. Join the discussion here.
Test Automation for 3D Modeling (Ruby)
Hello! SketchUp is looking for a talented Software Automation Engineer to work on our Extensibility team. The position involves working directly on the Ruby API that developers use to write extensions for use within SketchUp. Find our full job listing here.
Testing Blogs
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- Keep it Simple — offbeattesting
- A Corollary to the Red-Bead Experiment, with Salmon — John Ruberto
- How Do I Test This? — Chris Kenst’s Blog
- How to incorporate humour into speeches — Nicky Tests Software
- Testers, how good is your waggle dance? | Rockin’ and Testing All Over The World — therockertester
- My First Exploratory Testing Workshop — Test Retreat
- Model-Based Testing and Test Impact Analysis — Mobile Testing Blog
- Better Test Code Principles: #2 Don’t generate ALL your test data in @BeforeClass — iAmALittleTester
- #30DaysOfSecurityTesting — Task V — Test Retreat
- Building type-code.com [Part 2]: Write and Run tests with Mocha and Chai — Federico Silva Armas
- Concurrent Test Running with Specflow and NUnit 3 — Automated Tester
- As a tester, what do I know, and what would I like to know? — The Growing Tester
- Why Getting a Job is Easy | iTesting
- The one where browser suddenly restarts with Serenity — Test Automation Notes
Testing Chatter
We go hunting to see what testers are talking about, so you don’t have to!
- Writing Solid Bug Reports for Mobile Apps — Modus Create
- Online Cyber Security Training, Free, Forever — Cybrary
- Establishing a Selenium Grid Using Docker and Docker -Compose — Shawn Conlin
- Software Test Engineer — Instructure
- Job Application for Quality Assurance Engineer — Apto
- Best Web Development Trends For 2017! — Usersnap
- Contract Game Tester II — 3rd Party F2P — Big Fish
- GitHub — Xceptance/XCMailr: A small mailer for us but a big helper for testing
- How Artificial Intelligence Can Transform Your Business Today — Inc.com
