Weekly Newsletter: Crowd testing providers, should you use them?
4 min readJul 16, 2019
TestBash Germany
We’ve a line up of talks and workshops that will help you progress your testing career, plus you’ll get to spend time with the awesome testing community in a safe, friendly environment. Win all round. See you there?
Testing and the Community
- Crowd Testing Providers — How do they work and should you use them?
- Brighton Call For Papers ending — It’s ending on the 2nd August! Get your idea submitted.
- Power Hour — Personas — Cassandra is here to answer all your questions on Personas!
- When to Say No to Automation — Join us at TestBash Germany to discover if automation is the best answer to your test problems
- What’s your biggest learning blocker? — I’d love to know what your particular blockers are too.
- What are you favourite software testing tools? — Aren’t all software testers always looking for useful and new tools?
- Finding the Four Month Bug: A debugging story — figuring out a bug is so satisfying.
- The Wellspring of Quality — Why debugging conversations and testing ideas is the ultimate quality approach — Good tp have these discussions early on.
- Continuous Testing in DevOps: A gamification approach — great to see the positive outcome of this experiment.
Automation
- Testing With Non-Relational Databases — Looking at non-relational databases, describe how they are different from relational databases, and discuss how to query them in your testing.
- Unbloating the UI automation — Is UI automation overused?
Upcoming MoT Events
- Masterclass: Exploratory Testing: What are microheuristics and how can you find and use them? — Alexandra Schladebeck — 16th July 2019, 8pm UK Time
- Power Hour on Personas — 24th July 2109, 7pm UK Time
- TestBash Germany — 12th — 13th September 2019
- TestBash Manchester — 2nd — Thursday 3rd October 2019
- Test.bash(); — 4th October 2019
- TestBash Australia — 24th — 25th October 2019
- TestBash New Zealand — 29th October 2019
- TestBash San Francisco — 6th — 7th November 2019
Accessibility
- Maybe You Don’t Need a Date Picker — What we know is that native and custom calendar controls are often a problem for users and applied where they are not needed.
- How to identify a Toxic Accessibility Culture, and what you can do about it — some useful information.
- An Intro To Screen Reader Testing for Sighted Developers — This quick guide will give you an introduction to the why and how of testing your website’s user experience using screen readers.
- Assumptions: How to Track Them in the UX Design Process — How can we best use and track assumptions as we go through design iterations?
- Using VoiceOver to Evaluate Web Accessibility — Using VoiceOver to Evaluate Web Accessibility.
Business Posts
- AI in Testing: The Future is Here >- AI is already impacting our lives, how will it impact testing?
- How to Setup Selenium Grid For Parallel Execution In Different Browsers — Some handy information.
Podcasts
Check out our forever automagically updated list of software testing podcasts…
- Leading Quality — Talking to Ronald Cummings-John about how we can all help to change the quality narrative in organisations.
- 260: Python Test Automation with Andrew Knight — Andrew Knight shares the reason why he loves Python, as well as tips on how you can get started using it for all your test automation efforts.
- #21: Deep Dev Dive — Talking about the process of developing accessible apps.
- 136: Oops, we created Iran’s hacking exploit -Zoom video conferencing app hijacked, scammers are deepfaking audio to steal from businesses and Iranian cyberattack against US organisations.
- Episode 533 — IoT Strikes Again — Turns Out Amazon Is Keep Your Recordings Forever — Amazon Echo devices record your voice and creates transcripts on what you said.
Tools
- Nimbus Screenshot & Screen Video Recorder — Screen Capture full Web page or any part. Edit screenshots. Record screencasts — record video from your screen.
- Full Page Screen Capture — Capture a screenshot of your current page in entirety and reliably — without requesting any extra permissions
- InfluxData — Real-time visibility into stacks, sensors and systems
Security
- Zoom Zero Day: 4+ Million Webcams & maybe an RCE? Just get them to visit your website! — A vulnerability in the Mac Zoom Client allows any malicious website to enable your camera without your permission.
- Backdoor found in Ruby library for checking for strong passwords — security practices have uncovered a backdoor in a popular Ruby library for checking the password strength of user-chosen passwords.
- Microsoft admitted to private Linux developer security list — as recognition of their contributions to Linux and security.
- Mozilla Blocks DarkMatter From Becoming a Trusted CA in Firefox — their certificates could be used for malicious purpose.
- Finland brings cybersecurity to the fore as EU presidency commences — Hybrid security exercises planned to counter threats
Jobs
- Test Engineer — manual and automation — Glasgow, Scotland
- Non-functional Test Engineer — London, UK
Meetups
- Lightning Talk Night — Columbus
- July Meetup — Cleveland
- YOW! Night — Modern Testing: Testing the hard stuff — Brisbane
- AI for Ordinary Folk, Biosignal Processing, & Lightning Talks — North West Techn Talks
- July #MidsTest with Louise Gibbs — Birmingham
- MoT Berlin #17 @ OneFootball — Berlin
- The First One — Fareham
