Weekly Newsletter: How Can We Assess Quality Through Our Testing?

This newsletter is kindly supported by PractiTest!

Mastering the new reality of manual and automation test management

[Whitepaper] The challenges of managing manual & automated testing together, and how to overcome them using the right approach, tools, and planning. Effortlessly coordinate all your testing efforts with the following six tips and ensure full QA coverage. Read on.

All Things Ministry of Testing

The latest news, along with recent Dojo additions, events and interesting club posts.

MoT Podcast - Perspectives On Test Data - Part 2 - Talking about perspectives on test data. What is test data, what are typical challenges, and innovative solutions to them? In particular, in integrated complex data flows.
The Club Is Changing - The Club has been getting a bit of a makeover, which layout do you prefer for the categories?
Power Hour - Visual Facilitation and Sketchnoting - Add your questions before 6pm on 25th August for Louise to answer.
Exploring Quality 99-Minute Workshop - Bring an open mind to explore the depths of quality; what it is, how we can assess it through our testing, and how we can display a measure of it for our stakeholders.

Community News & Podcasts

Posts from our blog & podcast feeds - you can always check out the feeds if you want more!

Can You Test This Real Quick? - We’ve all been there. Cornered by your boss, usually near the end of the day, and you’re asked to test something “real quick”.
Testing for accessibility - Testing for accessibility in your apps/websites doesn’t have to be a chore.
Fix Your Automation Hourglass - But have you heard of the Test Automation Hourglass? As you can probably guess, this is a situation where the developers have written a lot of unit tests and the testers have written a lot of UI tests, but nobody has written any integration tests.
AB Testing – Episode 126: Azure Powered - Answering a mailbag question about bottlenecks in delivering mobile apps.
Making Manual Testing Better- Five shortfalls and Suggestions - Though it is a critical element of software testing, it is certainly not the be-all and end-all.

99-Minute Workshops - August - September

Exploring Quality - 1pm New York, US Time - 26th August 2020
An introduction to Web UI automation - 12pm New Zealand time (NZST) - 28th August 2020
Visual Facilitation and Sketchnoting - 12pm UK Time - 31st August 2020
Exploring Requirements with a Tester’s Mindset - 1pm New York, US Time - 2nd September 2020
Uncovering the Power of Browser DevTools - 12pm New Zealand time (NZST) - 4th September 2020
An Introduction to SQL for testers - 12pm UK Time - 7th September 2020
Leading a test automation strategy - 1pm New York, US Time - 9th September 2020
Mocks and Testability - 12pm New Zealand time (NZST) - 11th September 2020
Property-based testing in Java - 12pm UK Time - 14th September 2020
Continuous Testing Throughout the SDLC - 12pm UK Time - 21st September 2020
There's no U in Coach - 12pm UK Time - 30th September 2020

Business

Posts selected from our business feed

Diving into the World of APIs - As API development technologies evolve further, engineering teams involved in the design, development, QA and DevOps of APIs must understand the capabilities and nuances of all major API protocols.
Quality with Minimal Testing – Q&A with Pete Walen - We are all witnesses to a large amount of talk and chatter around expanding testing outside of the traditional realms and boundaries of our profession.