What's been happening in the testing, QA and quality engineering community? Let's go! 🚀
AI in Testing
- I was recently reminded of this wonderful poem by Ioan Solderea: What is Artificial Intelligence? 😃
- Indre Stasiuniene shares a snappy summary of valuable skills for an AI testing team.
- It's great to see Katja Meyer hosting a MoT Meetup to discuss the 30 Days of AI in Testing.
- How does AI support visual testing? Several tools get a mention.
- A reminder that we can't all be expected to learn about AI in our own time. "Considering a “Growth Mindset” all parties should receive proper AI training." - Claudia Mueller.
- Lisa Crispin shares concerns about the carbon footprint of training LLMs.
- Many folks take time to learn how to read code and explain what it means. Poojitha Manam puts ChatGPT to the test with some Bubble Sort Python Code. View more experiments of code explanation with AI tooling.
- AI in QA: automation of the TestRail update process by Dmytro Stekanov.
- Amruta Bhokare offers five AI-infused security testing tools. What tools could you add to the list?
- Stuart Thomas writes about how to run the Llama 2 large language model locally through being inspired by the 30 Days of AI in Testing challenge. Talking of which, it's great to see all the shared gratitude amongst those who have participated. Congrats! 🏆
- Here's a handy set of steps to check your teams' readiness to implement AI in Testing. Thanks to Manoj Kumar Barik.
- Ash Winter provides another helpful update about his experiences exploring AI in Testing. Plus more great video updates from Rahul Parwal.
Automation
- From Fragile to Agile: Automating the fight against Flaky Tests by Abinodh Thomas.
- Justas Laužadis shares reflections on dangerous advice about end-to-end tests.
- Mary Evans earned a MoT Foundation Certificate in Test Automation and Stamatis Sarris earned a MoT Intermediate Certificate in Test Automation. Congrats, Mary and Stamatis! 🎯
Observability
- Marie Cruz explains how to create a state timeline in Grafana.
- What do you think about observability? Ken Hamric shares his take. Will the Real Test Observability Please Stand Up?
Green Testing
- We spotted a LinkedIn group about green testing.
- Are overnight runs more environmentally friendly? Beth Marshall shares this from Richard Bishop.
- Daryl Elfield spoke about green testing at a MoT Manchester meetup.
Quality Criteria
- Melissa Fisher asks for advice about quality criteria. 🧾
- "Sometimes you need a better story". Think Like A Tester And Modify The User Stories by Wayne Roseberry.
- What word can follow these words? "Bug", "Product" and "Automation". In this case, it's "Metrics". Brienna Ransom discusses Quality Metrics.
Exploratory Testing
- "Asking developers to start exploratory testing can be hard; many testers haven’t had the opportunity to practise this type of testing, let alone developers." Callum Akehurst-Ryan shares: How To Involve Developers In Exploratory Testing.
Microservices Testing
- Artem and Oleksandr discuss how to get to grips with microservices testing.
Test Cases
- How do you consider a list of all possibilities and input combinations? Can you help Nate?
Security Testing
- Konstantin Sakhchinskiy shares a list of handy articles they have written about security testing. Plus, there are several security testing pages to check out on LinkedIn.
Community
- Previous TestBash speaker Ivan Karaman is offering his time to help.
- Lisi Hocke shares an update about her contributing in new ways challenge. Discover what she's achieved so far.
- Mahathee Dandibhotla promotes Kristin Jackvony's book: The Complete Software Tester.
- Check out this write-up of a recent Women In Tech meetup by Saskia Keil.
Recruitment
- Software Tester frustration with job ads: Where QA job ads go wrong.
- Daniel Knott had a good chat with Leonardo Lanni. Learn how he moved into freelancing.
Bugs in the Wild
Just for Fun
- "I always wanted to form a software band..." – Caleb Crandall.
- What are your songs for software testers? 🎶
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