Software testing news – Issue 482: Appreciating the value of testing

How do we amplify and demonstrate the value of testing? Join events and discover many ways to contribute to the community conversation in this week's software testing news.

  • by Simon Tomes
  • Aug 5, 2024
  • 9 min read
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— Simon Tomes, Community Lead at Ministry of Testing

 

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Community

Welcome, Sylvia Czarnecki. They are new to testing and say hi on the Introductions thread. Perhaps you could do the same. 

Trends: No tester is an Island! Are you curious about how often communities of practice meet? Jesper Ottosen explores the data.

Dan Billing announces that he's back via the MoT Slack. Aj Wilson, Fiona Reavley and Javier Aguirre Flores share welcome messages. Welcome back, Dan. It's good to see you! 👋

A new meetup! The very first Glasgow Meetup is happening on the 28th of August. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Is there a local meetup you could get involved in? How about helping them find a speaker or someone to run a workshop?

New collection: The Community's Guide to 99 Second Talks. Short sharp lessons and reflections from the community. Who could inspire you today?

 

Tooling

What is Cypress? How does it help? Where to get started? Who is it for? How can I see Cypress in action? This collection hopes to have answers to all your Cypress needs. The Community's Guide to Cypress.

 

Heuristics

Share a test idea in 5 words or less and join the Software Testing Test Ideas Hive Mind (STTIHM).

 

Accessibility

Thank you Conor O'Neill for reminding TestBash speakers to ensure presentations are accessible.

The anatomy of accessible forms: Best practices by Uday Shetty.

 

Automation

"My test didn’t fail an assertion, and it didn’t throw an exception or crash, however, it didn’t test the correct things, it didn’t check the correct workflows. So, by all accounts it failed because it didn’t provide value or cover any actual business need." – Sean H. Source.

Bug congrats to Mark Ingram and Gregory Gonzalez Lopez for passing the MoT Foundation Certificate in Test Automation. 🏆

How do I mediate the brewing war between automation and manual testers?

 

Tester value

More advice on how to share your value without getting people's backs up.

"I have curated a list of resources that I believe will significantly empower our software testing journey. This is not just a list; it’s a living repository of knowledge, curated with care, and can be enhanced by the collective wisdom of our community." Can you help Rahul Parwal by adding to this repo? 📋

Remind me again. Ash Winter shares his take on what developers think of testers and testing. 🌶️

Is fear-driven testing holding your software quality back? by Jose Carrera. Discover strategies to find a way forward in imperfect circumstances.

New collection: A software tester's guide to influence. 🤝

 

Strategy

What steps can we take to improve our testing process for critical bugs missed during testing?

What is trinity testing and how does it help? Handy post from Julian Harty.

How do you convince stakeholders that BDD is not Testing? asks Rahul Parwal.

I keep letting bugs go live on purpose. What should I do? 🐞

Do you delete tests as part of your testing strategy?

 

Requirements

I want a system just like that by Maaret Pyhäjärvi.

 

Anti-patterns

Two red-coloured leave buttons leave Bob Salmon sharing thoughts about usability.

Ady Stokes would like to know, what’s the worst anti-pattern you have seen?

 

AI in Testing

Do you use AI for test planning?

How’s your GenAI / LLM learning journey going? by Lisa Crispin.

 

Mobile testing

James Wadley recommends The Community's Guide to Mobile Testing and the TestBash Mobile 2022 collection, via the MoT Slack. 

What test strategies do you use in mobile game testing? asks Nikita Shvets.

 

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Good times! Join the testing community at TestBash.

 

Certifications

Cassandra H. Leung has sparked a hot topic discussion. It's great to see Cassandra be so conversational with their replies. How agile can ISTQB really be?

 

Security testing

Selenium Greed: ongoing cyber attack targets exposed Selenium Grid services by Aj Wilson. 😮

Security in Golang: How to Protect Your Applications from Common Vulnerabilities by Serhii Kotenko. 

 

Just for fun

Have you had a test pass today?

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🗓️ Events


New events are always added, so keep checking the events page for up-to-date info.

 

🗞️ Industry News

 

✏️ Continuous Call for Contributions


"We believe people have so much to give and our role at MoT is to find the best place for them to fit."

Rosie Sherry shares a look inside our Continuous Call for Contributions process.

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