“Worst” Practices Of Software Testing
The latest links, discussions, articles and more
The Skills for Agile Testers — Complimentary E-book
In a modern engineering team, keeping pace with the latest tools, skills and practices can be a significant challenge. Enjoy this new E-book and take both your team and your career to the next level.
TestBash Netherlands Tickets on Sale
We’re very excited to have our TestBash Netherlands 2018 tickets officially on sale! This year it’s a 2-day event with an additional pre-event course thrown in for good measure.
Getting Started With Technical Mobile Testing
Over this three day course, Richard will help you explore mobile testing, specifically where you can utilise tools to support it. However, you won’t be adopting a tool first approach, instead, you will be discussing the common challenges and problems with testing on mobile.
“Worst” Practices of Software Testing
One of our many talks from TestBash Germany earlier this month is now available to all club members. Viktor discusses using requirements to direct testing, regression testing, automating testing to reduce costs, assuring quality and of course believing in best practices
The Club
We’ve picked a few topics of interest from The Club for you to read, contribute and generally get involved with.
Resources for learning SQL
Do you know of any good online resources to learn SQL? Where have you learned it yourself? Maybe there’s a course you’ve taken or a book that might be useful?
Testing Microsoft Dynamics CRM: Beyond the UI
Have you experience in testing a customized third-party tool? Have you been able to move beyond testing the UI? How did you carry out Unit and Integration tests?
Community Posts
Highlighting a selection of blog posts from the testing community.
Invest in Quality Now! — offbeattesting
We’ve all been there at some point. It’s crunch time. The deadline is looming. Everyone on the team is frantically working to get the product shipped.
Don’t make it easy to be ignored — Testing the Mind
There will be times when you have to ask for help, and failing to get people to agree will mean things don’t happen…almost everyone working in these collaborative environments is expecting to be asked for help, you just need to learn how to do it.
Testing Blogs
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- Automation and the break even. — Antti Niittyviita
- Artificial Intelligence is Real — Avoid being the “Andrea Gail” of Perfect Storm — QA Revolution
- Recruitment as an exercise in trust — Neil Studd
- On the test automation pyramid (again), opposing views and TestBash Manchester — On Test Automation
- AMA: Trunk Guardian Service? — WatirMelon.Blog
- Mobile Web testing on Android 8.0 and Chrome 61 — Darjan Dzamto
- What is Regression Testing? Software Testing FAQs and Definitions — Evil Tester
- Leading By Example — QA Intelligence
- Urgency is a great excuse. — Antti Niittyviita
- Testers and Developers — Thoughts about Collaboration — A Tester’s Journey
- About Testing — Stories from a Software Tester
- How to Get Rid of Tests (Smartly) — offbeattesting
- Which Test Cases to Automate — soft circuitry
- Your technical skills are obsolete: now what? — code without rules
- On Privilege, Power & Perspective | iTesting
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.
- REST API Tester Tour Enhanced — Burdette’s Test Blog
- Testers Diary — Changing Locations and Strategies
- Artificial Intelligence is More than “Just a Technology”
- Look (Listen and Design) Before You Leap! — Microsoft Design
- Bad Rabbit: Ten things you need to know about the latest ransomware outbreak — ZDNet
