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What's been happening in the testing, QA and quality engineering community? Let's go! 🏄
Community
- Rafaela Azevedo shares her key takeaways from MoT Athens. Meetup On The Beach – Ministry of Test #Athens 2024. Kudos to Petros Plakogiannis and all the volunteers. ❤️
- Does your organisation have a testing community of practice?
- More contributors continue to donate their fees to the MoT Scholarship Fund. Thank you! 🙏
- Learn about those contributing to TestBash this year! How many can you find?
- How often do you meet with an internal testing community of practice?
- Express yourself through writing. Share your thoughts, ideas and stories with the community via an MoT article. Put forward an idea for an article. MoT pays £150 per article. There's also the option to donate the fee to the scholarship fund. Or turn it into 6 months of a professional membership for you or someone else. 📝
- What's most valuable in a community of practice?
- Thanks to everyone who joined last week's Test Exchange and the supportive messages from Mahathee Dandibhotla and Viviane Lyrio. Plenty of exchanges were had! 🤝
- MoT supporting Pride Month. T-shirts are now available on the MoT store, profits will be donated to a LGBTQIA+ cause. Thanks to Callum Akehurst-Ryan for the encouragement. 🏳️🌈
- Russell Thomas celebrates a successful MoT Coventry meetup as does Dave Rutt and the MoT NottsTest meetup. Plus, we've revived the MoT Glasgow Meetup and started a MoT Lisbon Meetup. It's good to gather.
- Miss it on a Friday? No problem! The This Week in Testing podcast is now live and available on YouTube. 🎧
Automation
- Congrats to Jen Cook, Tamara Josten, Meriem Mechri, Marcela Pereirafor and Kenneth McDaid for earning Certificates in Test Automation. Your certificate looks cool, Tamara.
- Kudos to Kelly Kenyon, Kristof Van Kriekingen, Mark Winteringham and Adam McAnirn for helping folks with their automation certificate-related questions.
- Melissa Fisher enjoyed Jenna Charlton's recent post on to automate or not to automate.
- "When we click the sign in button, an alert pops us "prohibit use on the console!" Can you help Mohammed?
AI in Testing
- Simon thinks the 3 why's approach to thinking about AI is cool! Nice one, Jiri Novacek. What is your 3rd Why for AI?
- Philippa Jennings wonders what automation tools are available to test conversational AI Chatbots?
Production Bugs
- A bug slips past your eye: What did you do? asks Hanan Rehman.
CI/CD
- How to Build a DevOps Pipeline? A Complete Guide by Chandrika Deb.
Test Cases
- Rosie Sherry asks, "Are you in favour of formal test cases?"
Data Migration Testing
- When Your Data Moves House: Practical Testing Tips For Clean Data Migrations. Master data migration and ensure seamless software transitions with Konstantin Sakhchinskiy. 🏠
- QA Checks for Big Datasets With Deequ & Statistical Methods by Akshay Jain.
Performance Testing
- New collection: A Community's Guide to Performance Testing
Career Growth
- In this conversation, Marcel and Irja discuss Irja's transition from product management to testing. Testing autonomous forklifts is fun!
- Bug congrats to Maciej Śliwiński for starting a new position as a Software Developer in Test. 🎉
- Are you open to work?
Essentials
- When would testing not be needed?
- Adam Konter shares a collection of Dummy sites - Practical testing for beginners.
- H is for […]. Add to the software testing glossary.
- What’s Another Word for “Software Bug"? by Ady Stokes. 🐞
- If you had to describe how your team is set up for testing, how would you describe it?
- Callum Akehurst-Ryan shares a handy diagram to describe types of testing.
- Judy Mosley learned what "testability" means via The Testing Planet News.
Mobile Testing
- Why does mobile testing matter? The 3 Steps Mobile Testing Strategy with Daniel Knott.
Tools
- Got a spare four minutes and four seconds? Learn about a tool via a 404 Talk from the community. 🧰
Accessibility
- Harris Schneiderman introduces the new axe DevTools Extension’s User Flow Analysis feature.
- The unclear case of usability widgets on your website by Erik Kroes.
- Accessibility Challenges in Airline Ticket Booking on Mobile by Michael Taylor.
- Eevis Panula describes Accessibility Tests in Compose - Name, Role, Value.
- What is a VPAT? by Mackenzie Boys-Eddy.
Security
- Abusing Active Directory Certificate Services (Part 4) with Alyssa Snow.
- Carlos Gomez would like to know, who should be responsible for Synk?
Quality
- How do you start a conversation with your colleagues about quality?
- See how software testing teams like yours are taking on testing and QA in the third edition of this industry report from TestRail: Software Testing & Quality Report.
Just for Fun
- How often do you hear/read “That’ll never happen!”?
- What does PMS stand for? And other system acronyms.
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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- Office Hours Wed 12 Jun
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- York Meetup Thu 20 Jun
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- Episode Four: The Practitioner Thu 27 Jun
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- Sheffield Meetup Thu 18 Jul
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🗞️ Industry News
- How to Simplify Test Planning in Agile — Hannah Son
- How to leverage AI for chaos testing — Vitaly Sharovatov
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