Is Gatekeeping Hurting Your Team?

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Delivering difficult news is something we do in the world of testing. And sometimes it can feel rubbish. At the end of last week, we announced the cancellation of TestBash Brighton. Yet good news prevails as we share a taster of positive things to come in 2022 - TestBash UK and TestBash World! Read the announcement or listen to Richard Bradshaw and Mark Winteringham to find out more. 🗺

- Simon, CommunityBoss



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What's New With Ministry of Testing?


Missed some of Test.bash();? You can now watch all the videos from the amazing day, plus a couple more bonus talks too! Inspire yourself and learn from so much tool awareness. 🧰

Talking of tools, you can now run a search on the ever-growing MoT Tools Directory. And tool vendors, request to add a demo video of your tool. Just email marketing@ministryoftesting.com.

NEW Article: Three Ways To Measure Unit Testing Effectiveness by Eduardo Fischer. In this post, Eduardo discusses three different ways of measuring whether the test suites are truly useful. The three ways are field-tested by big companies and have proven themselves reliable.

👉 Thinking about a career move or looking to hire? Visit the MoT jobs page.
👉 Head on over to the Pet Pics Thread. Soak up some love for our animal friends. 🐈‍⬛🐕‍🦺
👉 What are your guiding principles for testing? Read many views and add yours.  
👉 Can you recommend your company for an annual partner package? We're looking for Annual Partners for 2022!

Watch our recent session with Saskia Coplans in our recent Ask Me Anything. Saskia answered your questions about Security and find out about a big security testing horror story! 🙈   

30 Days of Tools might officially be over yet there's still space to join in whenever you like. Head on over to the Club to find out more. Even if you pick up only one challenge it could help you and your team. And for those of you who already got involved, would you mind sharing your feedback via this simple form?   

NEW Meetup Recording: MoT Sarajevo's first-ever meetup is now available to watch. Hear from Maaret Pyhäjärvi, Larry Goddard, and Conor Fitzgerald as they share their thoughts and advice on exploratory testing, automation frameworks, and the role of the tester.



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Join 2021 Online Events

  • Masterclass: Career Crafting - Date, Prepare, Share with Lena Pejgan Wiberg, Tue 23 Nov 2021, 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM GMT. This event is open to all. 
  • HolidayBash, Fri 3 Dec 2021, 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM GMT. Let's celebrate the best of the testing community’s achievements with an interactive, community-led, and most of all fun event. 

If you're interested in finding out about future meetups, whether online or in person, check out the many Ministry of Testing Meetups or keep an eye on the Slack Events channel.


 

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Discover Useful Business Posts


🔦 This article will shed light on the dilemma of choosing between manual and automated testing. 

Can Visual AI accelerate release velocity? We’re all looking for is to be able to deliver quality code faster, even as complexity grows.  🚀

What is Quality Engineering and how can you build it into your development lifecycle?  Bridget shares the benefits and how you can include it in your sprint planning. 

10 Things testers wish CIOs & CTOs knew about testing.  Can you relate? 

🐞 In software development, the sooner you find problems, the cheaper and easier it is to fix them. Any opportunity your team takes to shift left is a chance to identify deficiencies sooner.


 

Get Closer to the Community


Isaac Lyman shares many compelling reasons why code quality is everyone’s concern. It includes plenty of practical advice on how organisations can increase code quality.   

Is gatekeeping hurting your team? In this excellent article, Meg urges us to be aware of the tester as a gatekeeper.

Find out from Callum why ad-hoc testing is not exploratory testing. And discover a handy comparison chart too!

A11y with Ady's latest update features advice on when a button is not a button and amplifies a handy checklist version of the all-important Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.

Have you heard of The Quality Trilogy? Find out from Mike how it helps your team have discussions around quality.

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Simon Tomes

Community Team

Simon works in the community team at Ministry of Testing and his pronouns are he/him. Currently learning to be a better community enabler, he has a passion for all things testing with a career in various testing roles since 2003. He particularly enjoys promoting and sharing the value of exploratory testing.


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