Software testing news – Issue 478: Poised on the edge cases

What do we often miss about testing? Register for events and discover ways to join the testing conversation. Find out what's been happening in the community in this week's software testing news.

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

Career Growth

• Are you looking for your next opportunity? Tag the MoT LinkedIn page and we'll repost it. Our network is your network.?Paul McGraw,?Sarita Nanda, Konstantin Sakhchinskiy, Deljon Willis?and Cassandra Leung?are open to work.
• "Good news to share on the job searching side of things, I have just started a new position as a Junior QA Engineer at Searchlight Cyber - The Dark Web Experts!" Nice one, Stephen Mark Smith .?
• Bug congrats to Jo Richards-Steele for joining Solirus Consulting as a Test Analyst.?
• Stuart Pates is hiring a Lead Quality Engineer at Aviva and a Senior Quality Engineer.
• New opportunity on the MoT job board:?Lead QA Engineer at Authorium.

Strategy

• Kim Knup amplifies Kat Obring 's take on plans. “That is what a strategy is for - it aligns you and your team on the goal, you can define together what quality means to you and how you can demonstrate it in your product.“
• Learn better testing?and better bug reporting whilst building empathy and understanding assumptions. I was reminded of this excellent live experience of playing Would Heu-risk It??with Lena Pejgan Nystr?m , ?Karen T. , Rachel Kibler and Dermot Canniffe .
• Two ways of learning that benefit testing by Mike Harris CITP FBCS .

Community

• Martin Hynie (He/Him) reminds us that learning and career growth aren't so transactional. "It is important to recognize that the conversations, the story sharing, and truly enjoying the journey with those around you during these learnings often has the most dramatic impact on how you grow."
• A cosmic conversation about the advantages of communities of practice with Drew Pontikis and Kulas Angeles . If you want to start an internal community of practice, this is the one to watch!
• New Introductions Thread – Q3 2024. Say hi. ??
• Another meetup goes live. This one's in Leeds on the 18th of July:?Customers Are Not the Goal, They're the Starting Point with?Bryan Elder.
• The This Week in Testing podcast is now available on all good podcast hosting platforms, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Receive new episode notifications and debrief the week. ??
• Gather, learn, grow: Ask me anything about communities of practice with Beth Marshall , Alex Reynolds and Tristan Lombard at TDX .
• How often do colleagues meet as a community of practice and what stops them from getting involved? Hear answers and more in?Communities of practice - The Testing Planet news - episode 04 with Simon Tomes , Aj Wilson and Christine Pinto .
• Chris Armstrong speaks to community members about their blog posts. Here's one with Callum Akehurst-Ryan talking about manual testing.

Automation

• Bug congrats to Meriem Mechri , Carolina Feijóo Alves and Conn McKay for earning certificates in test automation. ??
• Thank you Stefan Papusoi and Adam McAnirn for helping Vidhyalakshmi Anbalagan with their MoT-FCTA questions.?
• Navigating ChromeDriver crashes in Kubernetes: A tale of test automation resilience by Dan Burlacu . ??
• "I am leading a very large, enterprise transformation E2E testing effort made up of a mix of junior and experienced testers and folks from the business and we are finding deep, complicated defects really quickly with exactly ZERO automation. ZERO." — Keith Klain . Source.
• Cool to read Petros Plakogiannis '?article inspired Abdulrozaq, someone new to the community.
• How to simulate real BeforeAll and AfterAll in JUnit 5 by Elias Nogueira.
• Ben Dowen and Lisi Hocke are doing a "Test Automation Live" challenge!
• From Angular to React & Back, Part 1 by Shelly Goldblit.

Tools

• Most software testers are obsessed with tools by Jesper Ottosen . ??

Business Continuity

• Monzo Stand-in, a smarter approach to DORA by Andrew Carr.

Quality

• Stuart Day publishes episode 2 of the Quality Talks Podcast. What is Quality?
• Bringing quality & risk to the organisation with Beren Van Daele . ??

Ensemble Testing

• "Exploring a feature together in an ensemble format is a great way to spot those hard-to-find issues and learn what might be missing. In an ensemble, people rotate through the roles of navigator and driver, with the navigator telling the driver what to type, and everyone in the ensemble is free to contribute their ideas." – Janet Gregory in Fostering collaboration with ensemble testing.

Accessibility

• European Accessibility Act (EAA) – Kiosks, touch screens and physical devices by Nathalie Pentler .

Leadership

• Are you a junior manager? Here's my cheat sheet to help you navigate the role's challenges by Mihaela Sfat .

Security

• Another feature spotlight worth checking out:?PreEmptive Dotfuscator for .NET with John Brawner .

Coding

• Lifting the Lid: A Look Under the Hood of Kotlin by Hasan Zohrevand .

Just for Fun

• BugBrother is watching you. ??

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I hope you have a great week.

— Simon Tomes, Community Lead at Ministry of Testing ?

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????Events

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

• Office Hours Wed 10 Jul
• Munich Meetup Thu 11 Jul
• This Week in Testing Fri 12 Jul
• Office Hours Wed 17 Jul
• Managing Distributed QA Teams: Strategies for Success Wed 17 Jul
• Berlin Meetup?Wed 17 Jul
• Brighton Meetup Wed 17 Jul
• Sheffield Meetup?Thu 18 Jul
• Leeds Meetup Thu 18 Jul
• Bengaluru Meetup Sat 20 Jul
• Office Hours Wed 24 Jul
• Munich Meetup Wed 24 Jul
• Test Exchange Thu 25 Jul
• Pre-TestBash meetup by the beach Wed 11 Sep ???
• TestBash Brighton 2024?Thu 12 Sep - Fri 13 Sep
• Leuven Meetup Thu 26 Sep
• Episode Five: The Apprentice?Thu 24 Oct?

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??? Industry News

• Human-Centric Exploratory Testing — ? Beatriz Biscaia
• A guide to defect management — Rustam Sabirov
• Roots of test smells —?Natalia Poliakova & Mikhail Lankin
• Agile Testing Trends That Are Here to Stay?— Hannah Son

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?? Continuous Call for Contributions

"We believe people have so much to give, but when it comes to submissions it is our role at MoT to find the best place for them to fit. We do not want them to gather dust."?

Read more from MoT's founder and CEO, Rosie Sherry , in her post:?A look inside our Continuous Call for Contributions process.