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Weekly Newsletter: Is there a good way to write automated tests for ugly apps?

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Testing and the community

• How do you do an exploratory testing session? Have a look at how Bruce went about it!
• Phil has been to a few TestBashes, are they worth it? Find out!
• Want to be more efficient with Git? Here’s simple work flow.
• Find out how Siri and Alexa are enforcing gender bias. What should testers do about this?
• Can you explain exploratory testing in 5 minutes? Get inspired from this post!
• Do you have a culture of referring to testing quotes? This post will get you thinking!
• Do you think your personal definition of quality influences the way you test? Do you agree with Patrick?
• The value of testing is…(includes a handy mindmap!)
• What’s does a tester mindset have? And does it match with yours?

Automation

• Do you know why your test automation is failing? Could your test environment be inhibiting your automation?
• Is there a good way to write automated tests for ugly apps? Do you have any monstrous stories to share?
• The manual vs automation debate is wrong. And yes, so many of us are tired of it!
• Automate or die! Opinionated stuff from the Evil Tester.

Accessibility

• The key to accessibility…is simplicity!
• How do you make a form accessible? Here’s a handy guide.
• Are you testing for focus? Here’s what you should be thinking about.
• A great example of why not to rely on automatic accessibility testing. As testers we’d never rely on automation, would we?

Business Posts

• Testim raises $10m. Interesting.
• What should devops engineers know about testing? There’s no excuse for testers not to pass on the knowledge!
• How do you plan for localization testing? Free guide available.

Podcasts

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

• A New Castaway Arrives! at Testers’ Island!
• Need to maintain test suites for complex software? This Test&Code podcast may be just for you!
• Come learn about the power of feature flags and think about what they could mean for testing.
• Think twice about using those free USB charging hubs!

Tools

• Karate — Web-Services Testing Made Simple.
• Dashing — The exceptionally handsome dashboard framework.
• BrowserUp Proxy is a free utility to watch, test, and manipulate web application network traffic and performance.
• Mimesis is fast and extremely easy to use Python package, which helps generate big volumes of fake data for a variety of purposes in a variety of languages.
• LightStep answers questions and diagnoses anomalies at scale, spanning mobile, monoliths, and microservices.

Security

• Do you trust your phone? How do you know there isn’t someone spying on you?
• Another day another leak. This one is from Radisson Rewards.
• Changing passwords is unsafe, says Microsoft. What do you think?

Upcoming events

• London Tester Gathering Workshops — 26th — 28th June
• TestBash Germany — 12th — 13th September
• 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

Jobs

• SDET, UK Wide — Ten10
• Production Engineer, Aylsesbury UK — Esri
• Test engineer (Remote/Cph is possible), Copenhagen — Pleo