How Do You Factor Automation into Your Test Planning?

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  • by Heather Reid
  • Feb 1, 2022
  • 8 min read

Hi,

This week I've been thinking a lot about quality and value. The value we provide to our teams, our communities and ourselves. I've felt disjointed trying to put my finger on exactly what it was. But then I was inspired when I read a blog post from Patrick acknowledging that quality is a complex system and I realised that I'll possibly never fully understand it and that's okay.

Have you any thoughts about the complexity of quality?
 
Have a great day!
- Heather, CommunityBoss



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What's New With Ministry of Testing?


Do you know someone who would benefit from all of the excellent things that a Pro membership has to offer? Someone who'd love to attend upcoming workshops and TestBashes? Well, there's a new opportunity to win a whole year of Pro membership thanks to Ranorex. Answer the question to be in with a chance to win.

It's time for another Ministry of Testing Townhall and you're all invited 🥳  Join us to hear about what we've been up to for the past month, ask us your questions and share your feedback.

Neil is joined by Simon Rigler in the latest Testers' Island Discs episode to discuss what draws people in and out of the world of testing, remote collaboration challenges and how to handle managers fixated on automation. It's a greatest hits episode not to be missed.

Can you help?

We're working on some magic for you all! We've combined TestBash Home and our meetups from all around the world to bring you something out of this world. We're taking you on a TestBash World adventure.

 

 

Register for these 99 Minute Workshops 

 

 

Take on these 99 Minute Challenges

  • API Automation Challenge with Mark Winteringham - Wed, 16 Feb 2022, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM GMT. Can you send an HTTP request to an API and check the response contents are correct in 99 Minutes?
  • Visually Model an Application Challenge with Mark Winteringham - Wed, 9 Mar 2022, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM GMT. Can you create a visual model of an application in 99 Minutes?
  • More coming soon!


 

Join these Online Events

Enjoy connecting with a local testing community? These online MoT Meetups are worth attending.

  1. Hilary Weaver-Robb joins MoT Sfax to share the hidden treasures of Static Analysis on Wed, 2 Feb, 7 PM GMT.
  2. MoT Athens will run a Lean Coffee on The Modern Testing Principles, the next day, on Thu, 3 Feb, 5:00 PM GMT.

 

 

Attend these in-person Events


🎟 Automation in Testing - Brighton – Mon, 28 Mar 2022 - Wed, 30 Mar 2022.  Automation is everywhere, its popularity and uptake have rocketed in recent years and it’s showing little sign of slowing down. Attend this multi sell-out training course to learn how to be successful with automation - it's more than knowing how to code.

🎟 TestBashX Brighton – Thu, 31 Mar 2022, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM GMT.  We're finally able to bring TestBashX to you! TestBashX is our new TestBash software testing conference experience and will debut in Brighton. As always, Ministry of Testing is closely collaborating with local testers and this time all-around awesome community member Emma Keaveny is working with us to bring this innovative event to you.

🎟 TestBashX Edinburgh – Thu, 28 Apr 2022, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM GMT. Our super MoT Edinburgh Meetup organiser Craig Wylie is working with us to bring this innovative event to you.


 

Discover Useful Business Posts


Do you have chatty Selenium tests? Are they telling the life story of the application but not getting to the point? There are ways to minimize the chatter.

Daniel explores the mindset shifts required to succeed with automation. Of course, there's no silver bullet but it's super helpful to have guidance you can apply in your own context.

With so many people in software engineering using Stack Overflow, just how do they ensure an efficient automation approach to continue to deliver at scale? Bridget spoke to their VP of Product Engineering and one of their software engineers to get a look under the hood.
 

 

Get Closer to the Community


Check out these 10 tips to help you find mistakes in your code while you're learning based on Sharon's own experience while learning Python. What mistakes could you find if you read your code backwards?

Are you stuck for inspiration with your Postman feature flows? Beth has shared a super helpful video to inspire you.

Following up on his learning SQL with LEGO series, Lee has shared some helpful tips about how you could start your own.

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Heather Reid

Test Engineer

Heather is currently a Test Engineer at Glofox with 10 years of experience in the software industry working as a developer, software tester and community manager. Testing and helping the software testing community is her passion. When she's not testing she's usually exploring or working on restoration projects.

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