Your Weekly Testing News - Issue 447

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What's been happening in the testing community?

First up, thank you to everyone who took part in ReTestBash UK last week. What a fun way to reconnect with the many things we learned at TestBash UK. Great to see so many questions asked and answered on a number of important topics. We covered strategy, accessibility, communication, learning, security, performance and automation.

I counted 73 questions from the community which sparked another 37 from Team MoT. That's 110 questions! We'll resurface them over the coming months to spark learning and connection opportunities. The speakers shared an incredible amount of knowledge during all the Ask Me Anything sessions. Keep a look/listen out for the recordings coming soon to the MoT platform.

Here's what else the testing community have been talking about.

Accessibility Testing

Accessibility Testing is important and easy to do! by David Burns

And here . . . we . . . go! by Keith Klain

Automation

Bun's Test Runner: The Future of JavaScript Testing? by Irfan Mujagic
Writing test automation standards is a journey, not a destination by Mike Harris

Bugs

What was the best bug I have ever found? What was yours? by Daniel Knott

Leadership

We Can’t Always Be Perfect – Owning Your Leadership Mistakes by Simon Prior

Strategy & Methodologies

25th anniversary of my very first testing lesson by Rikard Edgren
Leading quality in software organizations by Lisa Crispin
Play to Play by James Thomas

There are three new MoT site resources to check out this week.

1️⃣ Nicola Lindgren expertly bridges the gap between testers and stakeholders, as she answers key questions from the community. Watch Ask Me Anything - Talking Testing With Stakeholders.

2️⃣ Sam McCall demonstrates the mabl Mailbox, which is an email inbox you can use to automate the email journey. Watch mabl Mailbox with Sam McCall.

3️⃣ Compatibility testing is crucial to ensure a quality user experience no matter the operating system, device, or browser. Read Compatibility Testing Tools by Kasturi Rajamanikkam.

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