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What's been happening in the testing, QA and quality engineering community? Let's go! 🚠
Career Growth
- Melissa Fisher shares ten tips from her recent job search. Bug congrats on the new role! I'm pleased that Melissa is speaking at TestBash. 🎉
- "Software testers can go on to become product owners, business analysts, scrum masters, project/product managers, or engineering managers." Mirza Sisic describes each option in Less Technical Career Options for Testers.
Jobs
- Senior Software Quality Engineer at Sun Life Financial. Work with The Testing Planet presenter, Kulas Angeles — here's a reminder of his excellent talk: Why Do Testers Feel Lesser Than Developers?
- Moneybox are hiring a Senior QA Engineer.
Essentials
- What’s your current definition of software testing? Let's not be afraid to answer this question. It's an interesting exercise no matter where you are in your career. We’re using answers to help us create foundational content for a course. The replies so far are unique and insightful. Good on everyone for getting stuck in!
- Rahul Parwal shares helpful GitHub repos for testers.
- How did you get into testing? What's your origin story? 🦸
- Callum Akehurst-Ryan describes fourteen ways testers can be technical without writing code.
- Someone tells you that testing isn’t needed! How do you explain the value of software testing?
Community
- Thank you to everyone who has jumped on our new Unlimited Membership offer. How very exciting! Your commitment to learning and development is fantastic and we look forward to continuing to support your career growth.
- Big shout out to some MoT instructors who continue to donate their royalties to the MoT Scholarship Fund. Wonderful!
- Russell Thomas and David Rutt share reflections on their recent NottsTest meetup.
- Melanie Ford celebrates the Brighton Meetup. Thanks for getting it up and running again, Kim Knup and Emma Keaveny.
- Last week we experimented with our first-ever Office Hours. It was good for the community to connect in this way. Join this week's.
Tools
- What tools are in your testing stack? 🛠️
- Bruno seems to be getting a lot of attention at the moment. I spotted a few discussions in various places. Particularly Ashutosh Mishra helping a community member get up and running (via the MoT Slack). Nice one, Ashutosh.
- How do you prefer to learn how to use new software testing tools?
- Are you satisfied with the test tools that are available to you today?
Compliance
Coaching
- When to coach, when to mentor? by Toby Sinclair.
Critical Thinking
- Balaji Santhanagopalan has gone on a journey to discover critical thinking.
Measuring
- Good discussion about measuring quality. I thought it might get spicy but it hasn't.
Scrum
- Two short checklists for Scrum by Joep Schuurkes.
Automation
- Katja Obring says "stop calling automated testing 'checking'"
- What situations do you find yourself in where you have to add little bits of glue code? Paul Samuels shares one.
- Is Test Automation a Hard Skill That Pushes Out the Soft? Handy testing trends analysis from Ady Stokes. 📊
- I like how Mike Harris breaks down three types of requirements in his post, How long will that test automation take?
- Understanding Swift Autoclosures: Why They Matter and How to Use Them by Darshana Jaisingh.
CI/CD
- Learn gRPC, GraphQL, and Kubernetes by building Microservices: Part 3 — Kubernetes by Keigo Kida.
- Md Rajoan Rahman Rifat offers advice on Automating Build and Release Processes with GitHub Actions.
- Docker Multi-Stage Build in Detail by Koushik Dutta.
3rd Party Suppliers
- Ian Smith and Ash Winter delve into the complexities of managing IT service providers, exploring the challenges of working with consultancies and independent contractors.
Sanity Testing
- A guide to sanity testing by Rustam Sabirov.
AI in Testing
- What is a Large Action Model (LAM)?
- 30 Days of AI in Testing now has a dedicated page so it's easy for folks to take the challenge. How about sharing the PDF with one of your team? 🤖
Exploratory Testing
- Blog post: Why checking an AC isn't enough.
- Maaret Pyhäjärvi shares her definition of exploratory testing.
- Lina Kulakova shares the difference between ad-hoc testing and exploratory testing.
I hope you have a great week.
— Simon Tomes, part of the Community Team at Ministry of Testing
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🗓️ Events
New events are always added, so keep checking the events page for up-to-date info.
- Leiria Meetup Tue 14 May
- Human-Centric Exploratory Testing Wed 15 May
- Leeds Meetup Thu 16 May
- Manchester Meetup Wed 22 May
- Episode Three: The Toolsmith Thu 23 May 🪐
- Belgium Meetup Tue 28 May
- Athens Meetup Thu 30 May
- Test Exchange Thu 6 Jun
- Coventry Meetup Thu 6 Jun
- Sheffield Meetup Thu 13 Jun
- York Meetup Thu 20 Jun
- TestBash Brighton 2024 Thu 12 Sep - Fri 13 Sep
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