What Drives A Person To Create Their Own Testing Tool?

3 min readJul 11, 2017

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The #1 Guide for Mobile and Web App Testers

Get the reference guide that covers every aspect of planning, building and releasing apps. It includes a 2017 mobile and web browser release calendar, insights on Android fragmentation, and much more. Read it here.

Why Matt Obee Created TestNote.io

Community Stories is a collection of spotlight articles on testers and events in the community. This time we’re focusing on Matt Obee and how he fixed his problem of trying to take testing notes for his exploratory testing sessions. Read the article to learn more.

Being Frank About Crowd Source Testing

What has been your experience with crowd source testing? Has it been viewed as a silver bullet by your company? Or have you been a crowd sourced tester? Was it a good or bad experience? So, what do you think the pros and cons of crowd source testing are? Get involved in the discussion.

IoT Masterclass Is Ready For Watching

Our Testing Challenges in the Highly Interconnected World of IoT with Bede Ngaruko Masterclass is now live on The Dojo. You might have been there on the night and fancy rewatching, or you missed it and want to catch up. Don’t forget we have a huge catalogue of videos, courses and articles available as a pro member. Watch the Masterclass.

Resources To Learn About Web Application Architecture?

What resources have you rediscovered to help improve your knowledge of web application architecture? Have you any good videos or articles to share? Maybe you’ve discovered a few new ones! Share your resources.

A Guide To Gainful Employment

Benjamin Kelly has written a book called Standout. The aim is to give you the practical tools you need to stand out in today’s job market, from writing an eye-catching CV through to nailing the interview. It’s all there. Buy the book.

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Architecting a Testable Web Service in Spark Framework — Java For Testers
Automation cannot be Generalized — Knowledge Tester
The new way of testing — spriteCloud
Where To Start Part 2 — Thoughts On Testing
Hiring preselection tester — Lyon Testing
Predictions and other stupid things — Angry Weasel
How to become Jedi Master — KingaTest
THE PHASES TO AN AWESOME PERFORMANCE TEST 2 — Senor Performo
30 Days of Performance Testing, sponsored by the Ministry of Testing! — Adventures in Automation
This is not a bug! — Testheader
Valori Agile Hackathon — Innovation on a free Saturday — Derk-Jan de Grood
Be careful with your testing tools — zagorski software tester
30 Days of Performance Testing — Edinburgh Tester

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