Software Testing News – Issue 469: Welcome the Newbies

What's been happening in the testing, QA and quality engineering community? Let's go!????

New to Testing

• People join the community each week and recently I've noticed more have joined?than usual. New folks are unsure where to start and can feel overwhelmed. It's good when we gather and support those new to our craft. I've been sharing this collection.?Software Testing Essentials: Resources for Beginners?
• Welcome to Dajah Robertson,?Marilena Ch and?Kaarina Mikalson. Thanks for getting active on The Club.

Tools

• How do you discover new tools to help with your testing????
• We're in the process of producing Episode 3 of The Testing Planet. It's all about testing tools! Sign up?for free and set a reminder to join live —?Thursday, 23 May.?It's been good to gather in real-time during previous episodes. ??

Community

• Congrats to Dan Caseley and the NottsTest meetup organisers. Dan was buzzing after facilitating a discussion arguing for and against test cases and test steps. A hot topic indeed! More in-person meetups coming soon.?
• How can we help you?
• Join the weekly online Office Hours!?It's yet another way to meet fellow testing professionals and get help with your MoT professional membership.

Advocating for Testers

• Melissa Fisher asks, have you ever been told how to test where the person telling you doesn't understand or respect your role?
• What does a software QA Analyst actually do? with Elsa. This also covers a review of job listings.
• Callum Akehurst-Ryan shares why you need testers in a new team.
• What could you add to The Software Testers Verb List?

Automation

• "In this article, we will uncover what an API (Application Programming Interface) Interception is and how to effectively use API Intercepts in UI (User Interface) tests using the tool Cypress" – Swathika Visagn ????????????♀???♀? . A Guide to Using Cypress for API Interception in UI Test Automation.
• How Much Do You Invest Into Automation Efforts Per Year??Another helpful testing trends analysis. ??
• Top 20 Desktop Automation Tools For 2024 by Piyusha.
• How do you determine the ratio between unit, integration and end-to-end tests? asks RasaTester.
• Martin Tellevik earned a MoT Advanced Certificate in Test Automation. Bug congrats! ??
• How to Use pytest Skip Test And XFail in Selenium by Paulo Oliveira .

AI in Testing

• From Brighton to Vermont, and across the North of England, Rosie Sherry , Lisa Crispin and Ash Winter share insights, poll results, and community feedback on the adoption, challenges, and potential of AI in Testing.
• Getting Started with Ollama (LLMs) — A Simple “Chat” Client by Marquis.
• I enjoyed this conversation with Joyz Ng . Lots shared about using AI tools to assist manual testing.
• One person's blog post can make all the difference. Mahathee Dandibhotla celebrated Pricilla Bilavendran 's?article on Day 2 of AI in Testing. ??
• AI For All: Embracing Equity for All by Microsoft Research.
• AI Testing Expedition: Practical Insights from My 30-Day Journey with the brilliant Rahul Parwal .
• Jenna Charlton and Bill Matthews had a cosmic conversation about the evolution of AI. ??

Heuristics

• What Are Heuristics? (In 99 Seconds).
• I updated the Software Testing Test Ideas Hive Mind (STTIHM) article and spreadsheet with an idea from Mahathee Dandibhotla. If you've not checked it out, it's worth a look. It's a handy tool for sparking test ideas! ??

Personas

• What’s your default testing persona??How can adopting various personas help our testing efforts?

UX

• Improving UX-Business Fit by Jakob Nielsen .

Getting Hired

• It's been great to see someone ask for their CV to be reviewed in the new MoT Slack. And instantly three people offered to help! Perhaps you could do the same.?
• "Interviews are pretty weird when you really think about it." Interview Interrogations — Surely there’s a better way? by Melissa Fisher.

Bugs in the Wild

• Beth Marshall shares another bug in the wild.
• What’s another word for “software bug”? A?hot topic. ???
• Stefan Papusoi shares several?software testing and bug stories in the news.

Performance Testing

• How many types of performance testing are there? ??Ioan S. offers up his thoughts.
• Marie Cruz shares how flame graph visualization works in Grafana Labs.

Exploratory Testing

• Ben Dowen live-streamed a test session with Neil Studd . Find out what happened!

Database Testing

• JSON Jungle: Why Another Tool? Because We Can’t Get Enough! by Toni Maxx.
• Jose Canciani offers an SQL Queries Quickstart.
• ETL Incremental Data Load using Data Load Tool (dlt) by Haq Nawaz.

CI/CD

• How to Create a CI/CD Pipeline Using GitHub and AWS EC2 by Wes Huber.

API Testing

• Login with OTP Authentication in Django and Django REST Framework by Rayyan Shaikh .

Mobile Testing

• Mobile Test Automation Tools for 2024 and beyond with Daniel Knott .

Just for Fun

• The "turn off the wifi" test. ??

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Have a good week.

— Simon Tomes, part of the Community Team at Ministry of Testing ?

?Gather with the testing community.?Join an?event, Slack and The Club.

????Events

New events are always added, so keep checking the events page for up-to-date info.

• Brighton Meetup Wed 8 May
• Leiria Meetup Tue 14 May?
• Human-Centric Exploratory Testing Wed 15 May
• Manchester Meetup Wed 22 May
• Episode Three: The Toolsmith?Thu 23 May ??
• Belgium Meetup?Tue 28 May
• Athens Meetup?Thu 30 May
• Test Exchange Thu 6 Jun
• Coventry Meetup?Thu 6 Jun
• Sheffield Meetup?Thu 13 Jun
• TestBash Brighton 2024?Thu 12 Sep - Fri 13 Sep

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???Industry News

• Types of Software Testing Strategies with Examples —?Hannah Son
• Quality becomes a team effort with Xray Exploratory App 3 —?Petruta Paraschiv
• A guide to acceptance testing —?Rustam Sabirov

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