Weekly Newsletter: Testing Facial Recognition Systems

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All Things Ministry of Testing

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

Approval Testing 99-Minute Workshop - Approval Testing is an automation technique that can be more effective than traditional assertion-based test automation. Learn more in Emily's 99-Minute workshop on 12 August 1 PM (New York, US Time)
Visual testing: How it works and getting started - Visual bugs are hard to detect through functional tests and manual testing is not built for velocity. Join this Masterclass to get to grips with tools that could help you.
Reporting on Testing & Quality - Join the Masterclass on 11th August at 8pm, learn to make your reporting work easier and more impactful.
How to Test Facial Recognition Systems? - Could you share ideas on how to test it? What are some edge cases? How to approach it?
Feature priority - MVP, Parity or something else? - When building a new feature, what is usually your priority?

Community News & Podcasts

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

Let your test automation choose the input data - What if you do not need to figure out what test data you have to put into your tests?
It's All About The "Auth" - So what exactly does Auth service mean?
ABT 343 – Danny Faught - Talking about his move out of being a dedicated tester, and well as the biography he’s putting together.
Episode 801 - The Best Practice To Handle Ransomware Are Backups and Zero Tolerance - A health care company in New Jersey was hit by ransomware but they didn't pay and recovered from it.
190: Twitter hack arrests, email bad behaviour, and Fawkes vs facial recognition - Discussing the creepy (and apparently legal) way websites can find out your email and postal address even if you don't give it to them, take a look at how the alleged Twitter hackers were identified, and learn about Fawkes - the technology fighting back at facial recognition.
Rob Meaney, Poppulo - Epiphanies and Abilities - Episode 1 - Rob talks about his career and using his experiences to help him grow.

99-Minute Workshops - August

Approval Testing - 1pm New York, US Time - 12th August 2020
Introduction to creating test strategies - 12pm New Zealand Time - 14th August 2020
Interactive Accessibility Quiz - 12pm UK Time - 17th August 2020
API testing in Python with requests - 1pm New York, US Time - 19th August 2020
There's no U in Coach - 12pm UK Time - 24th August 2020
Exploring Quality - 1pm New York, US Time - 26th August 2020

Business

Posts selected from our business feed

Continuous Testing in the Retail Industry - To match the pace of innovation, continuous testing throughout the software development life cycle is the best way to build digital confidence. What is digital confidence?
Introducing Support for Cypress Tests on BrowserStack - BrowserStack Automate becomes the first cloud infrastructure for running Cypress test automation out-of-the-box.
TomTom migrates to Xray from HP ALM for better efficiency - Leaving behind a legacy tool made TomTom faster and more efficient.

Upcoming MoT Events

99 Min Workshops - We have multiple workshops running during different timezones in upcoming months.
Masterclass: Reporting on Testing & Quality - 8pm UK Time - 11th August 2020
Masterclass: Visual testing: How it works and getting started - 8pm UK Time - 20th August 2020
Testing Ask Me Anything - Automation - 8pm UK Time - 8th September 2020
TestBash Manchester Online - 2nd October 2020
TestBash Netherlands Online - 15th - 16th October 2020
Test.bash(Online); - 29th October 2020
TestBash New Zealand Online - 20th November 2020

Things You Might Have Missed

Articles and posts on Security, Accessibility and Automation from around the web.

PDF Accessibility Tools & Resources Roundup - Some resources to help you get started with PDF Accessibility.
Cops Arrest 17-Year-Old Suspect in Massive Twitter Hack - Hackers hijacked some of the most high profile accounts on the social network by leveraging an internal Twitter tool.
Black Hat: Hackers are using skeleton keys to target chip vendors - Operation Chimera focuses on the theft of valuable intellectual property and semiconductor designs.