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What's been happening in the testing, QA and quality engineering community? Let's go! 🥏
I hope you have a great week.
— Simon Tomes, Community Lead at Ministry of Testing
Career growth
Bug congrats to everyone who has taken on a new role. Meg MacKay has a new job as a software developer for On the Beach.
"I am thrilled to share that today is my first day as a QAT Architect in the amazing 2i team!" – David Williams. Source.
Andrew Burnip starts a new position as QA Consultant at Opencast and Melissa Holland has been promoted to Senior Test Analyst at Bunch. 🎉
Are you looking for your next opportunity? Tag the MoT LinkedIn page and we'll repost it. Our network is your network.
The following folks tagged MoT. Check out their profiles on LinkedIn and see if they could help you and your team: Pranjali Naik, Roy Baker, Subramanian Arumugam, Alfa Pulikka, Evgheni Barducov, Joël Grimberg and Gabriel Oliveira. We also recommend contributing to the community. It's good for your CV/Resume!
Authorium, Anima, FreedomPay are hiring. Visit the MoT job page for more info. And if you're hiring, how about posting an advert?
Community
Are you new to testing? Say hi on the introductions thread, like Riley Larsen did.
Shout out to Greg Munt for getting involved on The Club. Being helpful is an excellent way to contribute.
"It's like I have been reborn into the QA family again". This made us all smile to hear Iziren Chima refer to the MoT community like this.
Daniella Gabbai celebrates a successful MoT Berlin.
We've overhauled the product range on the MoT store. Does anything take your fancy? Gift or otherwise. 😉
Excitement grows! Thanks to everyone who joined the Ask Me Anything about TestBash Brighton. Lovely to connect with you all. 🏖️
Bugs in the news
Get the community's take on the Crowdstrike Mass Global IT Outage. Last week's technology outage, an unprecedented global crisis— started in the USA, and ominously rippled across the globe.
Chris Kenst, Beth Marshall and many community members are keen to see a post-mortem and root cause analysis.
Automation
Great to see your certificate celebrated online, Marija Popov. We love it when organisations take learning and development seriously.
What should I automate first? asks Phil.
Bug congrats to Bjorn van der Neut for earning a MoT Advanced Certificate in Test Automation. 🏆
How to: Drag-and-Drop Automation by Irfan Mujagic.
Milosh Sjeklokja is working their way through the MoT Foundation Certificate in Test Automation. Can you help them with this question?
A Simple and Effective E2E Test Architecture with Playwright and TypeScript by Denis Skvortsov.
Developer experience
Understand how improving the developer experience can easily and efficiently contribute to creating high-quality software. Software Quality and Developer Experience: Why testers should care about it by Fernando Teixeira. 💗
In this episode, Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory talk with Ashley Hunsberger about developer experience and developing character skills.
Essentials
A software tester is...
New to a company, what questions do you ask to get to know the business processes?
Strategy and planning
Recently updated: Responsible for Test Strategies and/or Plans? Check out these resources on how to create robust plans. The Community's Guide to Test Plans and Strategies.
What do you think of the DORA core model? Lisa Crispin shares her favourite parts.
Testability
Nataliia Burmei recently got hold of a copy of Ash Winter's book. Have you read it? What are some of your takeaways? Team Guide to Software Testability.
Bug reporting
Scrum Teams Without Developers - Is It Worth Logging Bugs As Backlog Items? asks Eric Jacobson.
Logs
Do you bug hunt in the logs? Martin Drugge would like your help creating a game.
Scripting
Python and JavaScript code languages are the top choice for testers scripting? by Ady Stokes.
Tools
We surveyed the community to get an up-to-date reading of the testing trade's tools. Jesper Ottosen shares a helpful analysis of what testing tools are in your current tech stack.
Risks
Beyond Automation: Mark Winspear on the human touch in testing.
Leadership
Engineering organizations face unique challenges when setting up testing due to their dynamic and technical nature. Callum Akehurst-Ryan shares advice on setting up testing at an engineering organisation.
API Testing
Stanislav Taran has written a cool blog post about how to reverse engineer an API through the UI to generate a Postman collection or an OpenAPI spec.
Just for fun
"Dad, I want to be a software tester..."
Good times! Join the testing community at TestBash.
🗓️ Events
New events are always added, so keep checking the events page for up-to-date info.
- Munich Meetup Wed 24 Jul
- Test Exchange Thu 25 Jul
- Pre-TestBash meetup by the beach Wed 11 Sep 🏖️
- TestBash Brighton 2024 Thu 12 Sep - Fri 13 Sep
- Leuven Meetup Thu 26 Sep
- Episode Five: The Apprentice Thu 24 Oct
🗞️ Industry News
- 3 mindset shifts to succeed in Exploratory Testing – Beatriz Biscaia
- Test Automation Challenges: Insights and Solutions – Deepika Kale
- How stress testing software improves stability – Rustam Sabirov.
✏️ Continuous Call for Contributions
"If people contribute continuously, we should review them with the same mindset. We believe people have so much to give and our role at MoT is to find the best place for them to fit."
Read more from MoT's founder and CEO, Rosie Sherry, in her post: A look inside our Continuous Call for Contributions process.
