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What's been happening in the testing, QA and quality engineering community? Let's go! 🛻
Community
- Jesper Ottosen is launching a book. Join the book launch for Leading Testing Activities! 📘
- It's cool to see Nicola Lindgren experimenting with an idea for a course.
- Congrats to the MoT Athens Meetup team for hosting another successful summer meetup. We heard it was a lot of fun!
- The MoT NYC Meetup is back! The list of meetups grows — is there one near you?
- Lee Marshall shares a short sharp tip to support your community of practice. Talking of which, register for Episode 4 of The Testing Planet. Discover the importance of communities of practice and their relationship with learning and career growth.
- Stuart Day and Chris Henderson host their first-ever podcast. Find out what it's all about. Quality Talks Podcast. Bug congrats on the launch!
Career Growth
- Keep 'em coming! What’s your origin story?
- Konstantin Sakhchinskiy is looking for their next opportunity, as is Simon Devon.
- Bug congrats to Stephen Mark Smith for starting a new job as a QA Tester at Freejam. 🎉
- Diego Gavilanes is hiring a QA Automation Engineer at Beloved Robot.
- Scopic is hiring a Remote Automation QA Engineer.
New to Testing & Quality
- Learn to apply these quick and effective bug-hunting hacks! Reboot Your Bug-Hunting: Five Ways To Supercharge Your Software Testing by Hanisha Arora. 🐞
- I added the above article to two handy collections: We're going on a bug hunt! and Software Testing Essentials: Resources for Beginners. 📂
- What is a test case? with The Test Lead.
- Who Is Responsible for Quality in IT Projects? by Maria Golubeva.
- The difference between a test case and a requirement is the moment of discovery by Joep Schuurkes.
- Manish Saini urges: Don’t Overlook Soft Skills in Your Quest for Technical Proficiency!
- The pros and cons of certification. It's good to read the comments of previous The Testing Planet contributor, Nataliia Burmei.
Tools & Models
- Jason Huggins delivers a thought-provoking idea about testing real devices in the real world. 📱
- The Hobbit's Guide to Testing Tools - Small Steps to a Powerful Choice with Kat Obring. The storytelling approach on this is next level! I can't get enough of it.
- Marie Cruz and Nate Bosscher have just met, yet that didn't stop them from having a brilliant conversation on selecting the right tool.
- Philippa Jennings celebrates the ever-helpful agile testing quadrants.
- Testers are the journalists of software development. What do you think?
Bugs in Production
- Fred Herbert explores incident reviews: The Review Is the Action Item.
- UnknownHostException? CoreDNS fail? A Journey of Troubleshooting a National Platform Incident by Kangsheng Wong.
Automation
- What does working in a hummus factory teach us about automation?
- Bug congrats to Dmitrijs Petrovs for earning a MoT Foundation Certificate in Test Automation.
- In this feature spotlight, learn about Parasoft Selenic with Renata Santillan, a powerful tool that enhances Selenium testing with AI-powered capabilities.
- What automation analogies can help us?
- Optimizing Cypress Test Scripts: Chained Commands vs. Individual Commands by Ioan Solderea.
API Testing
- Previous TestBash contributor, Ivan Karaman asks, is it possible to test an API without E2E tests?! And provides a Node + Express + Supertest example.
- Exploring API Gateway Testing Strategies with Naman Garg.
Security Testing
Performance Testing
- Boost User Engagement by Optimizing Web Performance and Loading Times by Pricilla Bilavendran.
- Should performance testing be led by developers or testers? asks Richard Hinton.
Mobile Testing
- Can you help Jason Huggins explore his idea for testing real devices anywhere in the world using a decentralised network?
Leadership
- Another Leeds Testing Atelier talk worth watching! Do you have a minute? A better approach to feedback culture with Clem Pickering.
- David Williams is looking for another term for "sprint".
Metrics
- The purpose of metrics by Lisa Crispin.
- This article from 2023 on metrics is worth a read: Finding Adequate Metrics for Outer, Inner, and Process Quality in Software Development by Michael Kutz and Ben Linders.
Coding
Contract Testing
- What is contract testing? with Daniel Knott, featuring a shout-out to previous TestBash contributors, Marie Cruz and Lewis Prescott's, new book.
Just for Fun
- Every so often jump on this thread and share an error message! ⚠️
- Join the fun discussion on the MoT Slack about what could possibly go wrong with a mirror-wrapped Cybertruck. 🙈
- Jim Holmes shares a handy flowchart about giving feedback.
I hope you have a great week.
— Simon Tomes, part of the Community Team at Ministry of Testing
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🗓️ Events
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- Munich Meetup Mon 03 Jun
- Office Hours Wed 05 Jun
- Newcastle Meetup Wed 05 Jun
- Nottingham Meetup Wed 05 Jun
- Test Exchange Thu 06 Jun
- Coventry Meetup Thu 06 Jun
- This Week in Testing Fri 07 Jun
- York Meetup Thu 20 Jun
- Episode Four: The Practitioner Thu 27 Jun
- Episode Five: The Apprentice Thu 18 Jul
- Sheffield Meetup Thu 18 Jul
- TestBash Brighton 2024 Thu 12 Sep - Fri 13 Sep
🗞️ Industry News
- User acceptance testing (UAT): How to navigate the last development hurdle before production — Nick Moore
- Developing Disaster Recovery Plans for Regulated Industries — Hannah Son
- Alternatives to Session-Based Test Management and how Xray Exploratory App fits — Ivan Filippov
✏️ Calls for Contributions
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Read more from MoT's founder and CEO, Rosie Sherry, in her post: Introducing MoT’s Continuous Call for Contributions.
