Software testing news – Issue 485: Time to gather

How often should a testing community get together? Read a roundup of news, events, trends and ideas from the testing, QA and quality engineering community in this week's software testing news.

  • by Simon Tomes
  • Sep 9, 2024
  • 9 min read
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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

 

Community

Mairem Safi is a solo tester based in Susah, Tunisia and says hi on the The Club introductions thread. Connor is based in the UK, is new to testing and also says hi. Who could you meet via the latest additions to the introductions thread?

Rahul Parwal celebrates the launch of MoT's new course on Prompting for Testers! He put a look of effort into making it happen. Nice one, Rahul.

Louise Gibbs is excited to run her sketchnoting activity sessions at TestBash.

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It was great to see Nicola Martin launch her Tech Pathways newsletter. "Tech Pathways is your resource for insights, strategies, and inspiration tailored to women and diverse groups in tech." Do subscribe.

Thanks to Sumeyra for sharing her experience at the shiny new Glasgow Meetup! Talking of meetups, there's a new Berlin meetup this week on Thursday 12th of September.

Have you asked your employer to fund your Professional MoT Membership? Interesting results.

 

Career Growth

New roles

Open to work

With your help, we’re polling, enquiring about, and supporting the testing job market. Read: An introduction to the software testing edition of 'Open to Work'.

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Konstantin Sakhchinskiy ponders: is asking candidates to test a live app in production as part of the application process legit or just a way to get free work?

 

Essentials

Lee Marshall would like to know: what is your favourite thing to test, and why?

How to know what to test? asks Matea.

This continues to be a hot topic: What skills make you a good tester? 🔥

Why Values Matter For Software Tester by Daniel Knott.

 

Just for fun

MoT cat got a sneak preview of travel cups.

we can add memes. 😃

 

Automation

John Nahajski earned a MoT Foundation Certificate in Test Automation. Bug congrats! 🏆

Automating screenshot and log file capture for Allure reports by Nick Karamaniolas. Discover how a custom Allure Attachments Handler streamlines debugging and enhances test reports.

What Automated Testing Tools will dominate in the near future? asks Anthony Green.

Swettha S would like to know, what tools do you use to check spelling on websites? 

 

CI/CD

What do software testers need to know about CI/CD? – Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery.

 

 

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Error handling

Advanced Error Handling by Irfan Mujagic.

 

Test reporting

Ebrahim would like to know how you present the progress and results of the testing phase to management?

 

Leadership

Forget about job titles! Testing leadership for all. Another excellent article by Jesper Ottosen.

Brie Ransom shares change management tips.

 

Risks

A map of content to help quality engineers understand how to limit and mitigate issues caused by complex system failures. Thanks for this, Jit Gosai.

 

Ethics

The Jurassic Park Problem & Software Development by Lena Pejgan Nyström. This is an excellent blog post. 

 

Accessibility

Computer engineer and accessibility expert Suleyman Gokyigit shares three key accessibility lessons.

 

AI

Who Are You Paying to Learn AI with You? asks Maaret Pyhäjärvi.

Aj Wilson ponders, is this the next frontier in plain English code for testers? 8 tips for testers to utilise the latest AI trend -  Cursor AI.

Can Gen-AI understand payments? by Peter Houghton.

Direct Nash Optimization: Teaching language models to self-improve with general preferences.

 

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 It's here! TestBash Brighton 2024

 

🗓️ Events

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

 

🗞️ Industry News

 

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Simon is the Community Lead at Ministry of Testing and his pronouns are he/him. He has a passion for all things testing with a career in various testing and tech roles since 2003. He particularly enjoys promoting and sharing the value of exploratory testing, leadership, collaboration, creativity and community.