Worst testing advice you’ve ever heard?
4 min readSep 3, 2019
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Get started with Machine Learning
2 day course on Machine Learning happening at TestBash Manchester with Bill Matthews! Get a working knowledge of ML and your own set of samples for how to build Deep Neural Networks to solve problems.
Testing and the Community
- MoT Podcast Challenge — Carlos Kidman meets Angela Riggs — They discuss test automation and the culture of quality.
- TestBash Playlists — Great First Time Speakers at TestBash — Here are 25 great TestBash talks given by first-time speakers.
- What’s the worst testing advice you’ve ever heard? — Lets put it out there…bad testing advice, I see it everywhere on the ‘internet’.
- How You Can Support Ministry of Testing? — We get asked this rather awesome question regularly, so we thought we’d put together all the answers.
- Successful integration of Exploratory Testing within Regression — Has anyone found a good way to accomplish this?
- Transitioning from a Non-IT Background to Software QA: A Learning Guide — Interesting read on transitioning into testing.
- Visualising Testable Architectures — Architecture is a key enabling constraint to testability.
- How a ‘NULL’ License Plate Landed One Hacker in Ticket Hell — Joseph Tartaro never meant to cause this much trouble.
- I test in prod — Testing in production is a superpower.
Upcoming MoT Events
- Masterclass: Onboarding testers: Growing your new hire with AJ Larson — 10th September at 8pm UK Time
- TestBash Germany — 12th — 13th September 2019
- TestBash Manchester — 2nd — Thursday 3rd October 2019
- Test.bash(); — 4th October 2019
- TestBash Australia — 24th — 25th October 2019
- TestBash New Zealand — 29th October 2019
- TestBash San Francisco — 6th — 7th November 2019
- TestBash Brighton — 26th — 27th March 2020
- TestBash Detroit — 23rd — 24th April 2020
Accessibility
- UX accessibility for elderly — 12 principles — It’s rather challenging to find guides on how to design for something, that even more of us will experience sooner or later — senility.
- What You Should Know About Audio Description — What is it, how does it work, and why is it important?
- Exploring prefers-reduced-motion — A whole lot of people are sensitive to motion, does your site cause motion sickness and dizziness?
- The truth about the ROI of Web Accessibility — Can you turn accessibility risk into accessibility ROI by being proactive about accessibility?
Automation
- Scenarios using custom DSLs — Discussing alternatives to Cucumber or JBehave.
- Waymo Open Dataset: Sharing our self-driving data for research — Data is a critical ingredient for machine learning.
Business Posts
- How & Why to Make Your Website Multilingual — Is it something you’ve considered?
- API Testing Mistake #3: Shielding QA Team From End Users — Robert Schneider — How often does your software QA team talk with your end users?
- Establishing a Performance Test Strategy for Microservice-oriented application — Creating an effective performance testing strategy is hard enough when an application is essentially monolithic.
- WonderProxy Switcher now supports browser location testing — Switcher is a browser extension that enables interactive localization testing.
- How often does your software QA team talk with your end users? — Elastic Stack is extremely powerful, and, even better, it’s open source.
- How Do I Validate Visually? — How does anyone maintain their functional test automation infrastructure without missing visual errors?
Podcasts
Check out our forever automagically updated list of software testing podcasts…
- Speed Up Test Suites — Niklas Meinzer — Sharing optimization techniques.
- Women Who Change Tech — Alison Wade and Jessie Shternshus chat with Portia Tung, a Woman Who uses the Power of Play.
- What an Anthropologist Brings to a Software Company — Hosts Fredric Paul and Tori Wieldt welcome Ali Colleen Neff, PhD, a trained anthropologist and user experience researcher on New Relic’s product team.
- The Testing Show: Women In Tech — Elle Gee, Jessica Ingrassellino, Rachel Kibler, Claire Moss, and Lihi Segev share their own journies in the world of technology.
- Episode 567 — What Is Personally Identifiable Information (PII) Really — We hear the term PII quite a bit.
- 143: Hacking from outer space, Ukrainian cryptomining, and deepfaked Canadians — The title says it all really!
Security
- A very deep dive into iOS Exploit chains found in the wild — Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) discovered a small collection of hacked websites.
- Phishing scammer gained access to information of 6,600 people through the Oregon court system’s email — Individuals whose data might have been compromised in the phishing scam will receive letters notifying.
- Ransomware Attack Hits 400 Dental Offices Across the US — The attack struck on Monday morning by targeting The Digital Dental Record.
- Google Will Now Pay Anyone Who Reports Apps Abusing Users’ Data — In the wake of data abuse scandals and malware app being discovered on the Play Store, Google today expanded its bug bounty program.
- Facebook acknowledges flaw in Messenger Kids app — Facebook acknowledged a flaw weeks after two U.S. senators raised privacy concerns.
- Bulgaria’s tax agency fined $3 million over data breach, will appeal — The tax agency is also considering legal action against the hackers who penetrated its systems in June
- Sweden bans facial recognition technology in schools — One of the country’s high-school students attempted to use the controversial software to keep track of attendance.
Jobs
- Software Tester — Edinburgh, Scotland
- QA Automation Engineer — French Riviera. France
Meetups
- Third-Wave Thinking — Fraser Crichton — Wellington
- MoTEC — Part 2 — Edinburgh
- WEBINAR: Puro JMeter, Pura Vida! Base de Datos y Webservices desde JMeter — Costa Rica
- #NottsTest — Lisa Crispin : Testing in DevOps — Nottingham
- A Whole Team Approach to Getting Traction with Test Automation with Lisa Crispin — Phoenix
