Your Weekly Testing News - Issue 419

Where do you practice testing? Plus many helpful business posts, testing events to check out and questions for you to answer. Read it all in this week's newsletter.

  • by Simon Tomes
  • Apr 11, 2023
  • 6 min read
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Where do you practice testing?

If you're completely new to the testing craft or a seasoned testing professional you could always check out this new wiki page: Products, places, apps and websites to practice software testing. It's editable too so feel free to add items you feel are missing from the list.

Last week I was pleased to see all the TestBash Spring talks go live. It always makes me smile how specific the watch time is for a collection of TestBash talks — this one is 8 hours 36 minutes and 20 seconds! 😃 The playlist now includes all the live interactive talks such as Laveena Ramchandani's Ask Me Anything on Skills and Strategies for New Test Managers and the discussion on How AI Can Impact Our Testing Roles with Nicola Martin, Tariq King and Daniel Knott. I managed to see both live and they were super informative. Well worth watching if you missed them.

📖 I see Mark Wintergham has been busy curating another type of list: Reading lists. Have a look at the following collections:

What a treasure trove of learning material! 🏆

 

🙋 Can you help with the following?

  1. Amílcar would like to know, what course or certification you would recommend for non-functional testing
  2. What do you think is the future of the tester role?
  3. Jaswanth is keen to hear about your experiences about a full rewrite and how to test it
  4. What are some of the reasons why we associate Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) with testing?
  5. Know any UI test automation tools to test Windows applications? asks Christian
  6. Michael is after more novel testing terms. What do you think is unfamiliar? 
  7. What tool are you using to do exploratory API testing? 
  8. Inspire the testing community with your writing. Share a blog post you published in April.

Have a good week.

— Simon, CommunityBoss

P.S. What beautiful bugs have made you smile? Check out some of these. 😆
 

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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 and tech roles since 2003. He particularly enjoys promoting and sharing the value of exploratory testing, leadership, collaboration, creativity and community.

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