What’s Your Dev — Tester Ratio?
4 min readAug 18, 2020
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All Things Ministry of Testing
The latest news, along with recent Dojo additions, events and interesting club posts.
- Meet The Coaches Podcast — Helena Jeret-Mäe — Adam Leon Smith speaks with Helena to get to know about her background and coaching experiences and how they could help you with your career.
- What Does Couples Therapy Have in Common With Your Team — The way we talk to each other reveals a lot, Daria explores negative communication patterns, when they appear and how to tackle them.
- Verifying Relationships: Consumer-Driven Contract Tests and Microservices with Thomas Shipley — Learn more about the Pact framework, Consumer-Driven Contract Tests, Microservices and how to leverage all of this to have more time for other test activities.
- Visual testing: How it works and getting started — Join the Masterclass on 20th August at 8pm UK time to learn tips to make visual testing do more for your team.
- What’s Your Dev — Tester Ratio? — What’s your current dev to tester ratio? And is it a ratio you’re comfortable with?
- Is it the right time change roles? — How do you balance your own desire to learn on a young developing team?
Community News & Podcasts
Posts from our blog & podcast feeds — you can always check out the feeds if you want more!
- Regression and Functional tests are meaningless — What are regression and functional tests really and when should you run them?
- 191: We are on the bird — Can a video game help your company’s staff choose stronger passwords? Why might satellite-based internet communications be bad for security? And what are the alternatives to TikTok?
- Risk is… — Difficult to define but no matter how you define it, there is no one size fits all approach to it.
- Episode 14: Beth Skurrie on PACT, Heuristics and Perfectionism — Beth talks about PACT applied, making conscious decisions around tool selection and keeping tech relevant.
- Creating A Test Automation Portfolio Episode 2: RPA Testing — Beth dives into the world of RPA by trying to automation booking a session at her local gym. Does she make it to the gym?
99-Minute Workshops — August
- API testing in Python with requests — 1pm New York, US Time — 19th August 2020
- Introduction to creating test strategies — 12pm New Zealand time (NZST) — 21st August 2020
- There’s no U in Coach — 12pm UK Time — 24th August 2020
- Exploring Quality — 1pm New York, US Time — 26th August 2020
- An introduction to Web UI automation — 12pm New Zealand time (NZST) — 28th August 2020
Business
Posts selected from our business feed
- Coordinating your automated and manual test management — Joel explores why people duplicate their testing efforts and some possible solutions to coordinate and better manage this.
- test.allTheThings() with Cypress and TestCafe — Sauce Labs have added Cypress and TestCafe support to the Sauce Testrunner Toolkit. Learn how to get it set up and try for yourself.
- A Really Useful List for Exploratory Testers — Brilliant resources to help you get started with exploratory testing, know where to ask questions, how to convince others and more.
Upcoming MoT Events
- 99 Min Workshops — We have multiple workshops running during different timezones in upcoming months.
- Masterclass: Visual testing: How it works and getting started — 8pm UK Time — 20th August 2020
- Testing Ask Me Anything — Automation — 8pm UK Time — 8th September 2020
- TestBash Manchester Online — 2nd October 2020
- TestBash Netherlands Online — 15th — 16th October 2020
- Test.bash(Online); — 29th October 2020
- TestBash New Zealand Online — 20th November 2020
Things You Might Have Missed
Articles and posts on Security, Accessibility and Automation from around the web.
- 6-Step Mobile App Accessibility Checklist — A handy guide if you’re developing mobile apps.
- These two basic flaws make it easy for hackers to break into your systems — Some potentially easy things to fix to make sure your systems are secure.
- Plymouth Passport Office’s pitiful password privacy — An interesting way to share passwords with your staff.
Meetups
- AMA: How to Blog about Testing and Tech — with your host Pirate Lee — Online, MidsTest
- Lunchtime TestSphere Discussion — Online, Buckinghamshire
