Your Weekly Testing News - Issue 449

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How do you talk about quality with people who aren't testers?

This was the topic of discussion during last week's This Week in Testing. We agreed it's important to understand what quality means for the people we work with closely, such as developers and product managers, as well as people we don't work with on a day-to-day basis, for example, senior leadership.

Al Goodall highlighted that we need to try to connect and understand their quality language. Paul Maxwell-Walters proposed a helpful question to ask yourself and others, "Where is quality in the context of the company?". Incidentally, Al is speaking at TestBash Autumn this week on a similar topic: How Collaborating with the Wider Business Helps with Testing.

Here's what else the testing community have been sharing.

CI/CD

Stress testing Playwright tests using GitHub Actions by Luc Gagan

Leadership

📘 Jesper Ottosen is writing a book on testing and leadership. Leading Testing Activities – A Guidebook for New Leaders of Testing
Simon Prior shares six tips on supporting your team. In It Together! – Supporting your Team
The Testing Peers announce their first conference, PeersCon in Nottingham, UK, 14th March 2024
A Day In The Life of a Head of Software Testing by Daniel Knott

Reading code

Empowering Software Testing: The Impact of Fundamental Coding Knowledge by Natalia Demianenko

Role titles

Ravisuriya Eshwara asks, Who is a Developer?

Strategy & Methodologies

📗 New book. A Guide for Facilitating Quality Assessments, With Case Studies using QPAM by Janet Gregory and Selena Delesie
Secret sauce to great testing is to change the managers by Maaret Pyhäjärvi

Testing in Production

🌶️ This study includes some draw-dropping stats and advises organizations to re-evaluate their testing processes and security protocols: The Lazy Developer: Testing in production is real, but… by Antonija Bilic Arar

Tools

Melissa Fisher reminds us that "we all work differently, so the ways we provide "test evidence" is going to be different."

New-to-MoT to check out this week

📂 What do jewellery making, carpentry and construction have in common with software quality? Find out in this article by Atmaram Naik: Drawing Parallels Of Software Quality With Other Fields

📂 Ask Me Anything - Holistic Testing with Janet Gregory. How has holistic testing had a significant impact on a product's quality? What does holistic testing even mean? How do you build it into your ways of working? Find out answers to these questions plus several more. Hosted by the brilliant Vernon Richards.

📂 In this feature spotlight, Diogo Rede explains how milestones can help organise all your testing efforts into one place.

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