Weekly Newsletter: What are microheuristics and how can you find and use them?
4 min readJun 25, 2019
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Testing and the Community
- Masterclass: Exploratory Testing: What are microheuristics and how can you find and use them? Join Alex Schladebeck on the 16th July at 8pm to find out more.
- Getting started with Machine Learning with Bill Matthews. This is a highly practical course and at the end of this course, you will have a working knowledge of ML and your own set of samples for how to build Deep Neural Networks to solve problems.
- Early Bird tickets are ending for TestBash Germany. An abundance of talks that will help your testing career.
- Testing Ask Me Anything on Shift Left, Shift Right with Marcus Merrell. If you missed it, the webinar is now live for watching, or rewatching!
- Should ISTQB exist? Lee touching on a topic of constant discussion.
- Two Twenty Testing (short testing related tips shared via video). Simon has suggested a rather interesting idea.
Automation
- Chromedriver — Under The Hood. Daniel gives you a very simple introduction to “chromedriver” and the way it works.
- Throttling network in Selenium tests using BrowserMob Proxy. How can you create an automated functional test to check that everything works fine with limited bandwidth?
Accessibility
- Form accessibility: a practical guide. How to make a form accessible.
- Designing and coding for low vision. Mallory van Achterberg, discusses the dos and don’ts of designing and coding for low vision.
- Notes from the a11y underground #2. Always good to get more insights into accessibility.
Business Posts
- Test Automation Aging in the Era of Continuous Testing. Have you considered how you will manage your test automation?
- Using DevOps Practices to Improve Productivity and Happiness. Nice breakdown of ideas.
- LoadNinja FAQs: Top Questions about Managing Continuous Performance in Your CI/ CD Pipeline. Some really useful information shared.
Podcasts
Check out our forever automagically updated list of software testing podcasts…
- I don’t write tests because … by Test& Code. Roadblocks to writing tests, and what to do about it.
- Episode 517 — Breaches Have Consequences by Security in Five. This episode talks about a company that was the cause of the Quest Diagnostics breach and had to shut its doors.
- 133: Cookie cock-ups, Hong Kong protests, and smart TV virus scans by Smashing Security. How technology has helped anti-government protesters, virus scan your Samsung devices and more.
- Episode 010 — The Automate or Die Special by The Evil Tester Show. In this podcast, we consider the concern that people need to learn to Automate or they will not have a testing career.
Tools
- SecAlerts. Keep track of vulnerabilities in your stack, rather handy tool.
- Grasshopper. Manage your calls online. Good way to have a business number.
- BugTower. The Simple Issue Tracker for Productive Teams.
- Hyperping. Beautifully simple and reliable uptime monitoring.
- Deep Web Monitor. Monitor website pages for changes behind login, web forms and inside web apps.
- Paw. A full-featured HTTP client that lets you test and describe the APIs you build or consume.
- Monkey Test. Interesting way to test every element on your page.
- Shake. A new way to report bugs?
Security
- Is there a spy in your pocket? Who is it and what can you do about it?
- Millions of Patient Records Exposed in Breach at Medical Testing Giants’ Third-Party Vendor. It’s been a tough week for the healthcare industry.
- For two hours, a large chunk of European mobile traffic was rerouted through China. The same ISP accused last year of “hijacking the vital internet backbone of western countries.”
- Personal data of 2.7 million people leaked from Desjardins. Another data breach to add to the list.
Upcoming MoT 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
- Test Engineer — UK home based
Meetups
- Ministry of Testing #11 — Rio De Janeiro
- Customer Feedback Channels & Meetup Collider — Glasgow
- Being a trusted advisor as a tester with Elizabeth Fiennes — Detroit
- Testing Requirements — Software Testing Clinic Nottingham
- Agile Game On! — Dallas
- API Testing-How and where to start-in doing API testing? Come and meet others — Cincinnati
- June Meetup — Leeds
- Are you a Manager & is Cypress better than Selenium? — Munich
- Soirée Lean Coffee du Test — venez discuter de vos problématiques — Lyon
