Weekly Newsletter: Software Testing Heuristics: Mind The Gap!

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TestBash San Francisco November 6th - 7th 2019
Join over 300 testing professionals for 2 days of talks, discussions and meetups to give you key insights you need to build a strong testing infrastructure.

Testing and the Community

Software Testing Heuristics: Mind The Gap! - You can’t apply a checklist of heuristic techniques to all contexts and expect the same outcome, or for your problems to be resolved.
Testing Ask Me Anything - Mobile Testing - Daniel Knott - The recording is now live!
A Developer's Story From TestBash - The Ministry of Testing community is amazing and inspired us to try and start a new community here.
Linux Commands for Beginners - Lim Sim - Lim's course is filled with simple, accessible, hands-on tasks that you can follow.
Lessons Learnt: Testing in a changing context - Context can change, while you are working in a team.
TestBash Manchester – Selection of Sketch-notes - Louise Gibbs sharing her experience.
What tools and things do you use to help you with exploratory software testing? - Please don’t answer with ‘my brain’.
Testing is for You - TestBash Manchester 2019 - Poem performed by Ady at TestBash Manchester. Definitely worth a read.
Manual Cross browser testing - Do you have any suggestions on how to speed up browser checking manually?
TestBash Manchester 2019 - About Learning, Daring and Enjoying - Brace yourself for quite a lengthy report.

Upcoming MoT Events

TestBash Australia - 24th - 25th October 2019
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TestBash Detroit - 23rd - 24th April 2020
TestBash Netherlands - 28th - 29th May 2020

Accessibility

10 Tips for Optimising your Website for the Visually Impaired - You have a duty to make the digital products you create as accessible to as many people as possible.
Challenges to digital accessibility now and in the future - Challenges we currently face in improving digital accessibility, and the emerging challenges we need to tackle.
Major usability problems require less people to identify - The number of people you need to observe in order to identify the primary problems with your website or app depends on the quality of your website or app to a significant extent.

Automation

Selenium 4(ALPHA): Relative Locators - This functionality was added to help you locate elements that are nearby other elements.
Get Selenium & Appium C# Code from Recorded Tests with TestProject - Interested in learning how to code? Believe it or not – Record and playback might be the answer for you.

Business Posts

3 Ways to Personalize Your User Experience - Many websites and apps are designed from a business perspective rather than a user perspective.
How to build a Cross-platform matrix for Usability Testing - When developing an app, it’s vital that you build in a testing strategy for it.
Who should formulate the scenarios? - Over the past few years, there has been a growing recognition that BDD is an approach made up of three practices.
Why Should I Run My Selenium Tests in Headless? - Headless testing is greatly underutilized – here are three quick ways it can increase performance.
How to Reduce the Cost of Your Testing & Automation - There's always a push-and-pull when it comes to the time and costs associated with automation.

Tools

Helperbird - a browser extension that gives you features such as dyslexia fonts, change the font & background color, text to speech, overlays, dyslexia rulers and more to make the web accessible to your needs!
Baby steps into tracing - Investigating different tools to help with observability and tracing.

Podcasts

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

Improving Programming Education - Nicholas Tollervey - Nicholas is working toward better ways of teaching programming.
Episode 591 - If Your Own Any iPhone You Need To Hear About This Exploit - This episode talks about a new exploit for all iPhones with the A5 and A11 chips.
Episode 108: Lack of Testers vs. Lack of Testing - Talking about whether or not bugs in Windows 10 are due to a lack of a test team, and how you can apply MT principles if you’re a consultant asked to write automation.