Weekly Newsletter: Crowd testing providers,

TestBash Germany

We've a line up of talks and workshops that will help you progress your testing career, plus you'll get to spend time with the awesome testing community in a safe, friendly environment. Win all round. See you there?

Testing and the Community

Crowd Testing Providers - How do they work and should you use them?
Brighton Call For Papers ending - It's ending on the 2nd August! Get your idea submitted.
Power Hour - Personas - Cassandra is here to answer all your questions on Personas!
When to Say No to Automation - Join us at TestBash Germany to discover if automation is the best answer to your test problems
What’s your biggest learning blocker? - I’d love to know what your particular blockers are too.
What are you favourite software testing tools? - Aren’t all software testers always looking for useful and new tools?
Finding the Four Month Bug: A debugging story - figuring out a bug is so satisfying.
The Wellspring of Quality - Why debugging conversations and testing ideas is the ultimate quality approach - Good tp have these discussions early on.
Continuous Testing in DevOps: A gamification approach - great to see the positive outcome of this experiment.

Automation

Testing With Non-Relational Databases - Looking at non-relational databases, describe how they are different from relational databases, and discuss how to query them in your testing.
Unbloating the UI automation - Is UI automation overused?

Upcoming MoT Events

Masterclass: Exploratory Testing: What are microheuristics and how can you find and use them? - Alexandra Schladebeck - 16th July 2019, 8pm UK Time
Power Hour on Personas - 24th July 2109, 7pm 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

Accessibility

Maybe You Don’t Need a Date Picker - What we know is that native and custom calendar controls are often a problem for users and applied where they are not needed.
How to identify a Toxic Accessibility Culture, and what you can do about it - some useful information.
An Intro To Screen Reader Testing for Sighted Developers - This quick guide will give you an introduction to the why and how of testing your website's user experience using screen readers.
Assumptions: How to Track Them in the UX Design Process - How can we best use and track assumptions as we go through design iterations?
Using VoiceOver to Evaluate Web Accessibility - Using VoiceOver to Evaluate Web Accessibility.

Business Posts

AI in Testing: The Future is Here >- AI is already impacting our lives, how will it impact testing?
How to Setup Selenium Grid For Parallel Execution In Different Browsers - Some handy information.

Podcasts

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Leading Quality - Talking to Ronald Cummings-John about how we can all help to change the quality narrative in organisations.
260: Python Test Automation with Andrew Knight - Andrew Knight shares the reason why he loves Python, as well as tips on how you can get started using it for all your test automation efforts.
#21: Deep Dev Dive - Talking about the process of developing accessible apps.
136: Oops, we created Iran's hacking exploit -Zoom video conferencing app hijacked, scammers are deepfaking audio to steal from businesses and Iranian cyberattack against US organisations.
Episode 533 - IoT Strikes Again - Turns Out Amazon Is Keep Your Recordings Forever - Amazon Echo devices record your voice and creates transcripts on what you said.

Tools

Nimbus Screenshot & Screen Video Recorder - Screen Capture full Web page or any part. Edit screenshots. Record screencasts - record video from your screen.
Full Page Screen Capture - Capture a screenshot of your current page in entirety and reliably—without requesting any extra permissions
InfluxData - Real-time visibility into stacks, sensors and systems