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Where are testing roles shifting to?

We’ve heard of some companies getting rid of ‘testing roles’ entirely. Does anyone have stories of how they end up getting on? You can join the discussion here

Introduction to Agile and Exploratory Testing

Workshop with the Software Testing Clinic. The clinic is providing junior testers an opportunity to learn and enhance their testing skills. Learn good techniques and new approaches from leaders within the testing community. In the morning session, we’ll look at what it means to be ‘agile’ and what that entails when it comes to working as a Tester in an ‘agile’ team. In our afternoon session, we will spend some time looking at the benefits of Exploratory testing. Find out more here.

6 Practical Ways to Stay Creative in Software Testing

You may not have thought of software testing as being a particularly creative discipline before. But if you haven’t done so already, it may be time to start. If nothing else, thinking more innovatively about how you approach your testing projects will help you sharpen your own testing skills. Read more of the article here.

How to Explore with Intent — Exploratory Testing Self-Management

Exploratory testing is the wonderful idea that we can use our freedom of choice while testing, to learn as we go on and let that learning influence the choices we make next. The system we test is our external imagination, and it’s our responsibility to give it the chance to whisper out all the information there is. Read more of the article here.

Call for Papers for Philadelphia & Manchester

We are 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.

QA Analyst — New Publishing Stack

This is an exciting opportunity to get involved with cutting edge projects that will allow our content to reach wider audiences by enhancing the metadata we have around our content. We work with both established and new technologies such as Java, Go, Neo4J, MongoDB and provide an environment where we can experiment with new technologies if necessary. Find our full jobs listing here.

Testing Blogs

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• Organisational Psychotherapy In the Field — Think Different
• Should I test at the GUI Level or the API Level? Evil Tester
• Creating stubs using the Hoverfly Java DSL — On Test Automation
• Powershell 101: Using Custom Powershell Objects for JSON Requests — Nithin’s Blog
• People are Strange — Hiccupps
• Meeting Our Users for the First Time — A Tester’s Journey
• When your workflow is a bug — offbeattesting
• From QA with Love — KingaTest — the Blog
• 2 Ways Test Automation Can Break Your Heart — Automation Testing Made Easy — Joe Colantonio
• Features of my Android Test Automation Framework — Essence of Testing
• Taxonomy Tuesday — Cross Site Scripting — testzius
• #30daysofsecuritytesting — Task XVIII — Test Retreat
• Software Testing Guiding Principles — ThinkTesting.com
• On Safe Ground — Thoughts On Testing
• Mentorship — how to skyrocket your testing career — Awesome Testing Blog
• Pairing Exploratory and Unit Testing — A Seasoned Tester’s Crystal Ball
• 7 simple tests that will give any REST API service client outstanding reliability — Medium
• Testing for agile teams: Tests that support the team (#4) — The Geeky Gecko
• Sun Tzu Was a Tester?? — testzius
• 140: Reinventing Performance Testing with Alexander Podelko — Test Talks

Testing Chatter

We go hunting to see what testers are talking about, so you don’t have to!

• The Top 21 FREE Visual Validation Tools for Testers — Automation Testing Made Easy
• Nokia 3310, ‘the most reliable phone ever made’, to be re-launched at MWC 2017 — The Independent
• Guerrilla Mail — Disposable Temporary E-Mail Address
• Meet the Ipsums
• University attacked by its own vending machines, smart light bulbs & 5,000 IoT devices — Network World
• NetBeans Mind Map editor plugin
• Scientist: Measure Twice, Cut Over Once — GitHub Engineering
• Mobile Automation Project Example — Mobile Automation Testing
• One thing I can tell you is you got to be free….. — Christovskia