What Makes Software Testers Tick?
4 min readMay 19, 2020
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Testing and the Community
- Masterclass: How to Plan a Workshop? — Do you want to run a workshop but not really sure what to teach? Are you struggling to sell your workshop to others? Whether it’s internal or external training, you could pick up a trick or two from this lunchtime Masterclass.
- What Makes Software Testers Tick? — What do you think makes testers tick and how can you use that knowledge to better lead them?
- Masters of the Ministry: The Community’s Best Software Testing Training — We’re very excited to introduce a new initiative around training!
- An Update on TestBash and MoT from BossBoss Richard Bradshaw — Changes to TestBash and changes MoT are making.
- Bringing You TestBash Netherlands Online — We’re very excited to announce our next online TestBash!
- Mental Health Awareness Week 2020 Kindness: Treat Monday — Have you planned a treat? If you want to share to give others ideas of what they could plan for themselves, please do.
- What do you want to see in a job ad? — What makes you read a job spec and think “Oooh I have to apply to them”? Likewise, what makes you read a job spec and think “absolutely not a company I want to work for”?
- 30 Days of DevOps Day 13: Misconceptions — Share a misconception about ‘DevOps’ and your thoughts on it.
- What are mnemonics and how can they help with software testing? — Do you use mnemonics?
- Understanding about Contract Testing — Contract Tests can fail even before actual testing starts.
- Delivery Teams and Popping the What Stack — What questions do you ask?
Upcoming MoT Events
- Masterclass: How to Plan a Workshop? — 12.30–1 hour — 19th May 2020
- Software Testing Essentials Live Online — 1st — 3rd June 2020
- Automation in Testing Online — 3-Day Course — 22nd — 24th June 2020
- TestBash Netherlands Online — 15th — 16h October 2020
Automation
- Testing Email Without Tears — Turns out APIs are great to test all kinds of things!
- Writing tests for RESTful APIs in Python using requests — part 4: mocking responses — Bas sharing a post on working mocking responses for unit testing purposes.
- Selenium 4: Mocking Geolocation — Angie testing out the new features of Selenium 4 alpha mode.
Business Posts
- Testing Better Together With the 2020 Continuous Testing Benchmark Report — See how your continuous testing efforts stack up against both critical best practices and the testing efforts of other enterprises.
- Summer of Learning Episode 1 — ‘The Basics: Getting started with Selenium’ — A free 5-part webinar series covering practical takeaways on test automation with Selenium and BrowserStack.
- AI Testing Tools: 3 That You Should Get to Know — A bit of an intro to AI testing tools
Accessibility
- Accessibility 101 for Content Creators — A perfectly coded website will still break down if the content isn’t written and built accessibly.
- Accessibility and IoT / Smart and Connected Communities — User experience design efforts must involve and consider people with disabilities, including the world’s rapidly ageing population of seniors.
- Accessibility Checklist — Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.
Podcast
Check out our forever automagically updated list of software testing podcasts…
- Episode 741 — Tools, Tips and Tricks — Gitmind.com — Mind mapping is an effective way to get your ideas into a visual representation, build relationships between your ideas, and help plan and organize your mind on projects.
- Six Principles of Readable Tests — David Seddon — When you are trying to understand why a test is failing, you’ll be very grateful to the test author if they’ve taken the care to make it readable.
- Power cycling; not just for your PCs and routers — Discussing a bug where Boeing 787s need to be restarted every 51 days.
Security
- Zoom’s Cyber Security Issues: Lessons to Take Away — Some things to consider.
- This powerful Android malware stayed hidden years, infected tens of thousands of smartphones — Mandrake spyware hoovers up information.
- Stealing your SMS messages with iOS 0day — Siguza told us that his 0day was patched in the iOS 13.5 beta3.
Meetups
- PTM Meetup #4.5 — Online, Porto
- Spring 2020 #2 — Online, Kaunas
- Lukasz Nowanski — Real world Example of Performance Testing — Online, Cork
- M#11- [Test Heuristic] What’s love got to do with it? a communication heuristic — Online, Manilla
