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Testing and the community

How do you do an exploratory testing session? Have a look at how Bruce went about it!
P hil has been to a few TestBashes, are they worth it? Find out!
Want to be more efficient with Git? Here's simple work flow.
Find out how Siri and Alexa are enforcing gender bias. What should testers do about this?
Can you explain exploratory testing in 5 minutes? Get inspired from this post!
Do you have a culture of referring to testing quotes? This post will get you thinking!
Do you think your personal definition of quality influences the way you test? Do you agree with Patrick?
The value of testing is...(includes a handy mindmap!)
What's does a tester mindset have? And does it match with yours?

Automation

Do you know why your test automation is failing? Could your test environment be inhibiting your automation?
Is there a good way to write automated tests for ugly apps? Do you have any monstrous stories to share?
The manual vs automation debate is wrong. And yes, so many of us are tired of it!
Automate or die! Opinionated stuff from the Evil Tester.

Accessibility

The key to accessibility...is simplicity!
How do you make a form accessible? Here's a handy guide.
Are you testing for focus? Here's what you should be thinking about.
A great example of why not to rely on automatic accessibility testing. As testers we'd never rely on automation, would we?

Business Posts

Testim raises $10m. Interesting.
What should devops engineers know about testing? There's no excuse for testers not to pass on the knowledge!
How do you plan for localization testing? Free guide available.

Podcasts

Check out our forever automagically updated list of software testing podcasts...

A New Castaway Arrives! at Testers' Island!
Need to maintain test suites for complex software? This Test&Code podcast may be just for you!
Come learn about the power of feature flags and think about what they could mean for testing.
Think twice about using those free USB charging hubs!

Tools

Karate - Web-Services Testing Made Simple.
Dashing - The exceptionally handsome dashboard framework.
BrowserUp Proxy is a free utility to watch, test, and manipulate web application network traffic and performance.
Mimesis is fast and extremely easy to use Python package, which helps generate big volumes of fake data for a variety of purposes in a variety of languages.
LightStep answers questions and diagnoses anomalies at scale, spanning mobile, monoliths, and microservices.