Your Weekly Testing News - Issue 435

Where do you hang out online these days? Discover lots of testing events, helpful business posts and ways to get involved. Seek inspiration from your fellow testers in this week's newsletter.

Where do you hang out online these days?

I see folks moving away from Twitter/X and some remaining. LinkedIn appears ever popular. Some folks are on Mastodon and also dedicated Slacks/Discords for testers. And there are other places too, such as Threads. The online space for us testing folks to hang out seems a bit up in the air. 🎢

I've put out a handy list of testers on Bluesky. The latest count, there are 54 testers (some are testing-related profiles) on Bluesky. It's currently invite code only yet I see this community growing as we kindly share invites with those who don't yet have access. Ministry of Testing has also been experimenting each week with LinkedIn Live Audio events. Just another way for us to connect online. And if not on your radar, there's The Club. A place for testing discussions and quick chats. Such an excellent bunch of people hang out there. 🙂


📖 NEW ARTICLE: Konstantinos shares his experiences on the secrets of successful QA leadership. This one is jam-packed with top tips and defo worth a read: Achieving Quality And Speed: Tips For QA Leaders In Delivering Exceptional Products

Competition time! Here's an update from Áine: "We've our first Pro Membership Competition of the year thanks to our annual partner mabl.  You could win access to all of our learning content including our Workshops, Masterclasses, Courses, TestBash talks, online TestBashes and everything else! Plus, exclusive discounts to our software testing training and in-person events. 🎉" Win a Pro Membership for an ENTIRE year! Thanks to mabl.

One more thing. If you're attending TestBash UK this year then you might want to get involved with this from Diana. Who knows what surprises you might get when you arrive in Liverpool? 👀👂🤐
 

🙋🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️ Join the conversation

  1. William would like to know what is the best test case management tool for a startup
  2. More thoughts on where did all the test managers go
  3. Who do you write a test strategy for?
  4. What testing heuristic can you make out of your name or initials?
  5. How do we identify flaws in our accessibility tests?
  6. The conversation continues about a “go to” reference on testing terminology
  7. Specialist vs Generalist
  8. Mark asks, what causes a strategy to change?
  9. Say hi on this quarter's introductions thread 👋
  10. Share a woohoo! 🏆


Have a good week. 🙂 
— Simon, CommunityBoss
 

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Simon Tomes

Community Lead

Simon is the Community Lead at Ministry of Testing and his pronouns are he/him. He has a passion for all things testing with a career in various testing, tech leadership and coaching roles since 2003. He particularly enjoys promoting and sharing the value of exploratory testing, leadership, collaboration, creativity and community.

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