Ministry of Testing’s Weekly Software Testing Newsletter

What is the first thing you ever tested?

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All Things Ministry of Testing

The latest news, along with recent Dojo additions, events and interesting Club posts.

• Exploring Requirements with a Tester’s Mindset — Janet Gregory is running this 99-Minute workshop on Wednesday at 6pm UK time, to give you different dimensions to consider for quality requirements.
• Accessibility Testing Ask Me Anything — Join us on Tuesday at 8pm UK time to ask all your accessibility questions.
• MoT Podcast — Mark meets Valentin Guerlesquin — The two reflect on COVID-19 testing and what the challenges of testing for the virus can teach us about the challenges we have in software testing.
• Testing Web Services and APIs — Join Mark Winteringham for this training day on the 11th January. Learn about Web services and APIs and how to test them.
• Testers’ Island Discs Ep41 — Angela Riggs — They talk about building QA departments within an organisation: how to get buy-in for change, what can you do if you’re short of budget or people, and how to make quality a part of your company’s culture.
• What is the first thing you ever tested? — Can you remember what you first tested?
• Test ideas for testing a percent calculation formula — Have you any experience testing this sort of calculation? Can you help?

Community News & Podcasts

We’ve spent time picking out posts from our blog & podcast feeds that we think would be useful to you. You can always check out the feeds if you want more.

• How Slow Is Too Slow to Run Your Tests? — Are your tests running too slow compared to others?
• Getting started with the Open API Specification — Get to grips with a basic, but functional schema.
• Generating useful date values for testing purposes — If you need to generate date values for your tests, this post will help you do just that.

99-Minute Workshops — December

Find out what time the workshops are happening in your time zone by clicking on a workshop.

• Leading a Test Automation Strategy — Join Dana Aonofriesei at 12pm UK Time — 7th December
• Exploring Requirements with a Tester’s Mindset — Join Janet Gregory at 6pm UK Time — 9th December
• Property-based Testing in Java — Join Mike Solomon at 6am UK Time — 11th December
• RiskStorming Online — Join Beren Van Daele at 12pm UK Time — 14th December
• How to Solve Integration Issues with Contract Testing — Join Roman Segador at 6pm UK Time — 16th December

Business

Posts selected from our business feed

• Tech Talk: How to Become an Appium Desktop Ninja, Chapter 1 — Wim Selles provides you with the foundational knowledge to get started with Appium Desktop.
• Testing for DevOps Pipelines: Understanding the Code Stage — It’s much easier to course-correct in the coding phase of development.
• How I ran 100 UI tests in just 20 seconds — The benefits of Applitools Ultrafast Grid.

Upcoming MoT Events

• Testing Ask Me Anything — Accessibility — 8pm UK Time — 8th December 2020
• Testing Web Services and APIs — 1 day — 11th January 2021
• Masterclass — Designing Test Cases Focused on the User Experience — 8pm UK Time — 12th January 2021
• Hands on WebdriverIO — 3 days — 1st — 3rd February 2021

Things You Might Have Missed

Articles and posts on Security, Accessibility and Automation from around the web.

• Bug Allowed Hackers to Get Anyone’s Email Address on Xbox Live — Microsoft patched a bug that allowed hackers to reveal the email address used to register any Xbox gamertag.
• Volunteering my phone to research Covid-19 while I sleep — Would you volunteer the power of your phone?
• Scammers stole millions last Christmas. These six tips could keep you safe online this time around — NCSC issues advice for online shoppers as cyber criminals gear up to take advantage of the busiest time of year for retail purchases.
• More Accessible Skeletons — Many skeleton patterns do a poor job presenting themselves to screen reader users in any meaningful way.

Upcoming Meetups

• An introduction to cypress testing — Online, Atlanta
• Evan Niedojadlo, Testing in Site Reliability Engineering: A Testing Mindset — Online, Boston