What Do Non-Testers Assume You Do as a Tester?
Hello and welcome to your weekly testing news.
We’re pleased to announce that we’ll be running not one, not two, but three 99 Minute Workshops a week from September onwards. Based on the success of our previous workshops, we’re excited to offer a range of different themed 99 Minute Workshops that cover the fundamentals of testing, test automation, and so much more. Read all about the exciting new workshop themes.
Have a good day!
Simon, CommunityBoss
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What’s New With Ministry of Testing?
While MoT work reduced hours in August, here’s a reminder of all the recent exciting news, plus great new conversations on The Club!
- Announcing 30 Days of Tools!
- The Future Of TestBash
- New 99 Minute Workshops Coming In September
- Bloggers Club August 2021 — Implementing Change, including excellent contributions from Nicola and Jesper.
- Domain Knowledge — Always Starting Back From Zero, can you share your thoughts on acquiring meta-knowledge as you move from one job/team to another?
- Where to slot in UI automation in a pipeline when working with microservices, the discussion continues on this important topic.
- What is the most senior testing specialist in your org’s job title?, with a good number of shared examples.
TOP TIP: Stuck on any topic related to testing? You can search our content and discover a wealth of useful resources or perform a keyword search on The Club and discover so much useful information. Dig deeper to rediscover and reignite great conversations.
Join Online Events
All of our upcoming events — including Masterclasses, Ask Me Anythings, Discussions, Training Courses and 99 Minute Workshops.
- New 99 Minute Workshops Coming In September
- Test.bash(); — 28th October 2021
If you’re interested in finding out about future meetups, whether online or in person, please check out the Club meetup section or keep an eye on the Slack Events channel
Discover Useful Business Posts
Posts selected from our business feed. Highlighting interesting posts from our annual partners for 2021!
- How QE Builds Better Engineering Organizations — Quality Engineering is able to have a profound impact on the entire organization, making it central to DevOps adoption.
- Automation Testing in Agile Teams — what are the downsides of automation tests being crafted outside of the scrum team?
- To Validate or Verify? — Verification and Validation are software testing concepts that end up confusing many people. Improve testing and delivery by learning the difference.
Get Closer to the Community
We’ve picked out some posts from our blog and podcast feeds that we think would be useful.
- Oleksandr shares their tips on the do’s and don’t’s of a test automation interview.
- Emna and Zoé discuss the Bingo of Nutty Tests, an excellent testing-focused icebreaker.
- It’s a first in the series for Theodore, check out their excellent post on A beginner’s guide to Page Object Model (POM) and Page Factory.
- What do non-testers assume you do as a tester? Mirza shares a brilliant reply. Perhaps you could share your take!
