Weekly Newsletter: Become a modern tester with this new course!

4 min readNov 5, 2019

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Testing and the Community

Become a modern tester with this new course! — Learn how to identify, describe and apply each of the Modern Testing principles with this course and take whole-team quality up a notch.
[E] Building a World Class QA team with Chris Thacker — Learn how to recruit, retain and grow QA’s.
How to decrease the regression testing time? — Can the testing process be improved?
What do people think about lightning talks? — What are the benefits for both speakers and listeners? What is the ideal time for a lightning talk?
The Power of Not Knowing — There are times when not knowing can yield some of the most interesting bugs.
Mob Testing — How to Enable Better Habits and Skills — I learned people are often at their best behavior in groups.

TestBash San Francisco — 6th — 7th November 2019
Masterclass: [E] Building a World Class QA team with Chris Thacker — 1hour — 8pm UK Time 12th November 2019.
TestBash Brighton — 26th — 27th March 2020
TestBash Detroit — 23rd — 24th April 2020
TestBash Netherlands — 28th -29th May 2020

New Study: The Impact of Captions and Transcripts on Student Learning — A fascinating new report which gives insight into student’s uses and perspectives of captions and interactive transcripts in online courses.
Why Are Accessible Websites so Hard to Build? — Inaccessible websites are not just a consideration for designers and engineers but a serious problem for a company’s legal team as well.
Mozilla’s Accessibility Inspector helps developers to make websites and content accessible for all — For people with disabilities, technology often makes things possible in the first place.

Choosing which test cases to automate — Helping you decide what to automate.
C# PageFactory — Wrap Your Webdriver Calls — This entry is part 4 of 4 in the series Building a .Net Core PageFactory Framework.
So you want to Automate? — The first of a series of articles discussing myths about becoming a tester and “Automation Engineer”.
Removing duplicates from a List — When working with lists, sometimes you only want them to contain distinct elements.

Introducing Cucumber for Jira — Cucumber for Jira facilitates collaboration between all of your stakeholders by bringing native BDD support to Jira.
9 Mobile Testing Types to Double Down for Boosting App Quality — Talking about the What, Why, and How to get you started and publish great apps confidently.

Manifold — Manifold powers marketplace infrastructure that connects millions of developers to the best APIs, tools, and services in the fastest-growing communities.
Honeycomb — Gather data from any source — from your clients (mobile, IoT, browsers), vendored software, or your own code.

Check out our forever automagically updated list of software testing podcasts…

Magic Object Model Halloween with Paul Grossman — Paul shares some automation tales that will chill your testing bones.
The Testing Show: Coverage — Coverage is a broad area and asking ten people will probably get you ten different answers.
Episode 612 — What Is The Most Effective Phishing Tactic — This episode goes through those and why phishing simulations are valuable to your company.
AB Testing — Episode 110: PM, PM, and MT — They spend most of this podcast trying to understand each other while winding through conversations on Product Management, Project Management, Program Management and how they all fit into quality.
E24 — Do I Need To Write My Test Cases Before I Run Them? — Why the vast majority of times (not all times) it is better, maybe even essential, to document your test cases upfront.
The Guilty Tester — Episode 12 — Testbash Manchester Unexpo 2019 Part 1 — “In October 2019 I went to Testbash Manchester and had an Unexpo stand where I talked about guilt in software testing and collected things that people felt guilty about.”
152: Cats, hoodies, and rent — What’s the problem with IoT-enabled pet feeders? How are landlords using smart home technology to snoop upon their residents?
ABT 343 — Andrew Morton — “Our first real episode is a quick chat with Andrew Morton. Andrew is the Dev Boss at Ministry of Testing, and can be found at @testingchef on Twitter”

Getting people to think about security — Wanting to try and see if we can start a bit of a culture shift to get everyone thinking about security, including product owners/BAs/Project managers/UX. Can you share your experience?
WhatsApp launches fingerprint security lock support for Android devices — WhatsApp biometric authentication through fingerprint sensors on the Android platform.
This aggressive IoT malware is forcing Wi-Fi routers to join its botnet army — Gafgyt has been updated with new capabilities, and it spreads by killing rival malware.