Your Weekly Testing News - Issue 414

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It's good to remind yourself of the things folks do for the testing community. 

Recently I've taken to the Ministry of Testing (MoT) LinkedIn page to publish short sharp articles. I do so by taking an existing article from the MoT site and sharing a fresh take. Not only does it spread the MoT word, but it's also our way of reminding people that there are many brilliant contributors to the testing community. Try the following and celebrate the author/s who inspired each post — just look for a name and article link at the end:

• Three Question Types Every Tester Should Know
• Five Essential Heuristics Every Tester Should Know
• Three Reasons Why Your Exploratory Testing Sessions Are Failing

Can you help with the following?

1. What career advice would you give to your younger self?
2. Romina would like to know: How do you fill out your performance review?
3. What testing mindmaps do you know of? asks Bolette.
4. Veronika is keen to find out what characteristics make for a good tester
5. What should you include in an interview?
6. Inspire others with your writing. Add your recent blog post to this thread. ✍️

Have a great week.

— Simon, CommunityBoss

P.S. Have you broken Kate's record?

📖 Helpful business posts

• Observability – A foundation for SRE — Andrew Walker
• Controlling the Costs of Test Environments — Enov8
• 23 Software Testing Trends To Look Out For In 2023 — Yash Bansal
• Solving Engineering Headaches with Better Software Testing Processes — Bridget Hughes
• Getting Started with Bootstrap Testing — Harish Rajora
• Ansible : How do I protect sensitive data with encrypted files — Jane Temov
• A Guide To Newly Supported CSS Pseudo-Class Selectors — Tahera Alam
• What is Ansible? : Ansible for Dummies — Enov8
• How To Automate ServiceNow With Appium — Faisal Khatri
• Optimizing Client-Side Performance: A Comprehensive Guide To Improving User Experience — Srinivasan Sekar
• Webinar: From Chaos To Control: Observability And Testing In Production [Voices Of Community] — Sparsh Kesari
• Harnessing Low-Code Test Automation for End-to-End Testing — Fernando Mattos
• Feb’23 Updates: Live With HyperExecute Private Cloud, Cypress Testing On macOS Ventura, And More — Salman Khan
• Allure TestOps 4.16.0 – Mikhail Lankin

🗓️ Events

An important announcement from MoT's very own Diana Dromey

"It’s March! But what does that mean? It’s TestBash month! 🎉 TestBash Spring is happening on the 23rd of March so make sure you register or buy your ticket to let new ideas root, grow your knowledge and connect with the rest of your testing community."

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• Tue 14 Mar How to test smarter (not harder) with model-based test design
• Wed 15 Mar Hands on Test Automation with Playwright
• Wed 22 Mar Can You Do API Testing With Cypress?
• Thu 23 Mar TestBash Spring 2023 🌷
• Tue 28 Mar Simple Tests for Accessibility
• Wed 19 Apr API Testing 102: Security And More Request Types
• Wed 26 Apr Identifying Codified Oracles In Automated Test Design
• Wed 03 May API Testing 201: API Testing Tools
• Wed 17 May API Testing 202: Automating API checks with Postman
• Tue 27 Jun Learning To Lead Before Becoming a Leader
• Wed 20 Sep - Thu 21 Sep TestBash UK 2023

🤝 Calls for Contributions

• Write for us
• Present a Webinar
• Complete a Survey — Share your knowledge and insights to help create a modern and relevant Junior Software Testing Curriculum
• Ask Me Anything Speakers

Stay up-to-date with the community via the Ministry of Testing Community Timeline, read an article or watch a talk. Discover what the testing community is sharing via the community blog feed.