Your Weekly Testing News - Issue 438

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Could you run a watch party? 

Last week I spotted that Philippa Jennings had a watch party during their Quality Engineering Chapter. They watched Anne-Marie Charrett's brilliant talk 'Quality != Testing' from TestBash Manchester 2017. 

It’s a great reminder that in this testing community, we don’t need to chase “the new thing” all the time. A lot of what people look for in this community is already there, ready and waiting to be discovered. This is the power of a strong community. It continues to add value to itself regardless of timeframes. And watch parties are a great way to spark ideas and take action. 

I had a good catch-up with Diana Dromey (EventBoss here at Ministry of Testing). We discussed how things were going with TestBash UK given it's nearly "ready for release" on the 20th of September. The behind-the-scenes detail makes all the difference. All I can reveal at this stage is that it's gonna be epic and likely an incredible experience for every participant. There's still time to grab a ticket and join more than 420 people from the community. 🎟️

ARTICLE: In A World Of Record And Play, Where Does Playwright Fit In? Ioan Solderea explores the record and playback features of the playwright ecosystem.

Mark Winteringham and Richard Bradshaw talked to Test Guild's Joe Colantonio about Leaning Journeys for Automation Engineers. If you're serious about the impact automation has on your career growth it's worth a listen. Mark and Richard describe how the multiple courses of a learning journey will help people land jobs such as an SDET (Software Development Engineer in Test) and Automation Engineer in Testing. 🎧 

ARTICLE: Five Optimization And Performance Tools That Enhance Website User Experience. Learn how to expand your testing tool kit with these recommendations from Kasturi Rajamanikkam. 🧰

🙋🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️ Join the conversation

1. How do you share with others what you’ve learned about a product in your testing?
2. Lito would like to know what tools/patterns you use for component/integration testing
3. What depth should an automation tester be able to code? asks Swettha
4. Parameswaran is curious to know what the current job market is like for Quality Assurance (QA) positions in Europe
5. Conrad asks, what is the easiest way to test that keyboard layouts for specific languages work?
6. Is it necessary for testers to learn coding and programming?
7. Help Hanan improve their CV
8. What data/state do you have to manage for your automated checks?
9. Do you have any more common misconceptions about test automation? 

Have a good week.
— Simon, CommunityBoss

 

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📖 Helpful business posts

• Understanding Smoke Testing – Ensuring Test Environment Health — Jane Temov
• How To Create A Test Plan (Steps, Examples, & Template) — Hannah Son
• Allurectl: respect your system, don’t drown it with http-requests — Artem Eroshenko, Mikhail Lankin
• A Framework for Using Generative AI in Software Testing — John Kinnebrew
• Test Observability – A Paradigm Shift from Automation to Autonomous to Deep Observability for Better ROI [Testμ 2023] — LambdaTest
• Allure Testops for manual testers — Mikhail Lankin
• Exploratory testing and the software testing life cycle — Petruta Paraschiv

🗓️ Events

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• Tue 05 Sep Communicating an Understanding of a Product Task Analysis
• Wed 06 Sep Continuous Testing Approach For Cross-Functional Requirements
• Tue 12 Sep Working With Automation (UI and API)
• Wed 13 Sep 5 Ways to Foster a Culture of Quality in a DevOps World
• Wed 13 Sep Understanding New Situations With Strategy Maps
• Tue 19 Sep Pre-TestBash UK 2023 Meetup
  • 🔜 Wed 20 Sep - Thu 21 Sep TestBash UK 2023
• Wed 20 Sep Testing & Quality Recruitment Fair at TestBash UK 2023
• Tue 26 Sep Creating Test Plans
• Tue 26 Sep Selling Testing Into Project Teams: A Guide to Convincing Teams To Test
• Wed 27 Sep Hands on Test Automation with Playwright
• Thu 28 Sep Testing Ask Me Anything on Talking Testing With Stakeholders
• Tue 03 Oct Following Test Plans
• Tue 03 Oct What Agile Testing is NOT
• Tue 17 Oct Maintaining Test Plans
• Tue 31 Oct Analyse Requirements
• Thu 02 Nov ReTestBash UK 2023
• Tue 07 Nov Collaborate With Team (Agile)
• Tue 14 Nov Apply Systems Thinking
• Wed 22 Nov - Thu 23 Nov TestBash Autumn 2023

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