Software testing news – Issue 479: Habit of a lifetime

What habits and biases impact our testing? Discover many ways to participate in the testing, QA and quality engineering community. Read it all in this week's software testing news.

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

Contributing

• We spotted Mirza Sisic list he's a Technical Writer for MoT. If you've contributed to the community then celebrate it. This is a great way to demonstrate your commitment to your career and the software testing craft.
• Every week I message a couple of people to encourage them to contribute to the community. There are many ways to get involved. Share your knowledge to inspire yourself and your fellow professionals. ??
• Samir A. amplifies that he's speaking at MoT Berlin plus two other meetups (about AI). Samir shares three handy reasons to join a meetup.
• Thanks, Scout Burghardt , for amplifying the next?MoT Brighton?meetup – on testability. Kudos to Kim Knup and the team for organising it. Bring people together and we all learn.
• "Ministry of Testing kindly provided me with a scholarship to attend TestBash 2023, it was a massively inspirational and valuable experience, I highly recommend applying for the scholarship if you need it! ??" – Amy Stuart . Apply for the scholarship fund.

Career Growth

• Artlogic is looking for a Staff Quality Engineer. Ping the CTO directly to discuss.
• INSTANDA is hiring a?Lead Quality Engineer. Source: Ben Fellows
• Erin C. at VML is looking for another solid automation expert.
• Bug congrats to Liam Patience ,? Adrià S. and? Sharon Biju Cheyezhathu for starting new roles. ??
• Nicola Louise Martin has announced she has become independent. "While I'll still be working with companies to enhance their quality, testing and other areas, I'll also be focusing on building?Nicola Martin Coaching & Consultancy". I highly recommend you connect with Nicola.

Essentials

• I enjoyed reading?Martin's?learnings as they worked through the?Essentials - Introduction to Software Development and Testing course. I do love it when someone learns in public. What could you learn from them today?
• The Overlooked Question in Test Automation: "Why Are We Automating?" Nice one,? Lee Sainsbury , for starting this discussion.
• We've updated the look and feel of our?On-Demand Software Testing Courses page and Certifications page. What do you think?
• A complete guide to canary testing by Vitaly Sharovatov .
• 75% of software testers script as part of their testing role. Read more from? Swathika Visagn ????????????♀???♀? ??

Automation

• Check out this live test automation session with Ben Dowen and Lisi Hocke . Very cool indeed! Ben's mentioned there will?be more.?
• Does anyone have references to GitHub framework repositories (Python + Appium)? asks Taazaa.
• SOLID Principles for Testers: The Interface Segregation Principle by Kristin Jackvony .
• Bug congrats to Marija Popov for earning?a MoT Intermediate Certificate in Test Automation.
• Cypress vs Playwright?package download counts over time. ???

Strategy

• How do you review the testing on in-flight projects? asks Emily O'Connor .
• A good discussion started by Konstantin Sakhchinskiy . Should devs do more testing? And also on The Club.
• Nuwangi Kiriwaththuduwa would love to hear about your practices, strategies, and success stories related to balancing quality and velocity.
• Stuart Thomas shared a couple of books in reply to Ady Stokes ' question: Any experience with Quality Engineering or Testing Impact Assessments?
• Testing Too Late: A Case Study by Brie Ransom .

AI in Testing

• "Is there a problem here? Are you ok with all of this? Sometimes we amplify fail signals so much that no other signals are left." – Maaret Pyh?j?rvi : Testing is amplifying fail signals.

Biases

• While I was researching a bit about Rachel Kibler , I discovered this TestBash talk from Lisa Crispin . Thinking Outside the Box: Cognitive Bias and Testing.
• Melissa Fisher shares on social about Habituation: when we encounter something repeatedly, we become less likely to notice it.?

Inclusivity

• Powerful blog post from Maaike Brinkhof : Why don’t you hear what I say?

Accessibility

• How Google is approaching the European Accessibility Act (EAA) by Kelly Chan.

Testability

• New collection: The Community's Guide to Testability.

Containerisation

• Mastering Docker with the 80/20 Rule: Insights from My Repository by Matheus Araujo Souza.

Monitoring

• Jan Grzesik describes?how we saved $5k a month with a single Grafana Query.?

Just for Fun

• Bug's survival strategy by Torsten J. Zegler.

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I hope you have a great week.

— Simon Tomes, Community Lead at Ministry of Testing ?

Good times! Join the testing community at TestBash.

????Events

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

• 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
• Ask Me Anything About TestBash Brighton 2024 Thu 18 Jul
• Sheffield Meetup?Thu 18 Jul
• Leeds Meetup Thu 18 Jul
• This Week in Testing Fri 19 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

??? Industry News

• Manual Testing vs Automation Testing: get the best of both worlds —?Hy Nguyen
• Comprehensive Test Management Tool Evaluation Checklist for Teams —?Carl Shaulis
• Exploratory testing: an introductory guide — Jenna Charlton

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