What Does HTTP Mean For Testers

4 min readAug 7, 2018

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How Mature is Your Organizations Test Environment Management?

The EMMI© (Environment Management Maturity Index) is a “holistic” framework that enterprises can use to quickly baseline their current test environment capability (i.e. strengths & weaknesses) and immediately highlight areas that need improvement. Rate yourself using this online version from Enov8.

New Course — What Does HTTP Mean For Testers

Welcome to an Introduction to HTTP, an eleven-part course that takes you through the fundamental rules that make up HTTP requests and responses as well as the testing opportunities available when leveraging HTTP rules.

TestBash Brighton Call For Papers Ending

Just a friendly reminder that you have until the 17th August 2018 to submit your talk for TestBash Brighton and TestBash Essentials Brighton 2019! Time to get those ideas typed up and sent in.

The Pen-Testing Ebook — Free Download

Pen Testing is an activity intended to expose vulnerabilities in systems before real attackers find them. Pen Testing can be a valuable part of a solid security strategy if it is implemented well, and the sponsoring organization responds to the findings. Download Your Free Ebook Today!

Testers’ Island Discs Ep20 — Mark Winteringham

This week we’re joined by Mark Winteringham, co-creator of both the Software Testing Clinic and Automation in Testing, for a conversation about the aforementioned initiatives and much more besides. On an epically hot day, Neil and Mark talk about building pathways for learning, optimising delivery for classroom and online training, supporting worldwide franchises, and how to get testing talked about more within universities.

Early Bird Tickets for Test.Bash(); Manchester

Our first ever conference day looking all technical testing and automation is happening in September. By the end of your day, you will have a better working knowledge of code and automation, from getting started to maintaining it. Discover the 9 talks that will help you on our toolsmith journey. Early Bird tickets are still available!

MoT Meetups

Each week we will feature one of our upcoming MoT community Meetups. Find or start a MoT meetup.

Testing Requirements — Software Testing Clinic 1.6 — Brighton & Hove — 15th August — 6pm

When testing, it’s important to focus not only how the product works but how the business or client wants the product to work. Testing requirements as they are created is a great way to weed out the misunderstandings and help your own understanding when it comes to testing the product.

The Club

We’ve picked a few topics of interest from The Club for you to read, contribute and generally get involved with?

Basic Testing Practices for Web Application Testing

There are various extents of web application those need to be tested to avoid every possible glitch. Can anyone enlist basic testing practices for software application testing?

Accessibility and UX/Navigation for Voice Devices/Interfaces

I’ve just started a new role, working with Voice devices/apps/skills, and as accessibility is close to my heart, I’m really fascinated by how we can make the apps/skills we make as accessible as possible

Community Posts

Highlighting a selection of blog posts from the testing community.

Hindsight Lessons About Automation: Test Isolation principle — Mr.Slavchev

In this part of hindsight lessons about automation, I will continue with the principles of automation and I will focus on the one, that I believe is the most significant, at least in my career — the test isolation principle.

Can an AI Become a Tester? — Stories from a Software Tester

If you are going to have an AI that “does testing” — as opposed to some other activity like analysis or pattern recognition — you are going to have to move from a focus solely on perception and add the dimension of actions.

Testing Blogs

Want to get featured here? Submit your blog to our Testing Feeds!

Interviewing for new testers — advice from the community — Journey Into Quality
Modelling for Testers — dragons for elevenses
Prune Your Automation! — Arch DevOps
Mobile Testing Part I: Twelve Challenges of Mobile — Think Like a Tester
A Vigilante For Quality vs Bridging The Us VS Them Gap — Testing and Movies and stuff

Testing Podcasts

MoT host various podcasts, but here is a selection of interesting testing podcasts from around the web.

Episode 25: The Tech That Powers a ‘Challenger Bank’ — Modern Software Podcast
Episode 3 — Christopher Lampert — Not Signing Stuff Off — The Guilty Tester
067 Redefine Testing for Microservice Delivery Pipelines with Chris Burrell — PurePerformance
213: Automation in Testing Superfriends with Richard Bradshaw & Mark Winteringham — Test Talks
Top Resources for Test Automation Engineers (Not Blogs) — Test Automation Made Easy

Testing Chatter

We keep a close eye on our two slack groups — testers.chat and our MoT Slack. This is what they’ve been sharing.