Stop, start, keep doing: MoT Weekly – Issue 496
Ministry of Testing
Ministry of Testing is where software testing professionals grow their careers.
What tough calls are on your testing plate? Seek help and advice from the testing, QA and quality engineering community and join events to enhance your career. Read this week's MoT Weekly.
Call for Contributions are now open until 22nd December
What's been happening in the testing, QA and quality engineering community? Let's go!????
I hope you have a?good week.?
— Simon Tomes, Community Lead at Ministry of Testing
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Community
Good things are happening in the meetup space. Auckland?on the 10th of December thanks to Joyce Bolland , with speakers? Ryan Bevens & Yogita Sharma . Berlin on the 12th of December, organised by Jan Eumann and Nico Neuschitzer . Christine Pinto is also supporting the organisation of this one. And look at?MoT Belgium doing Open Space and getting ready to puzzle for success. And here's a cool pic from a recent Vancouver's QA TrailTalks meetup.????? ???? ???? ????
New: Certificate badges are now available?on public profile pages. Celebrate your certificate achievements. Check out?Christian Baumann and Rahul Parwal's profile pages to see what we mean.
"Being part of the Ministry of Testing community has been such a rewarding journey, and I’ve learned so much from the generous and collaborative spirit of this incredible group. ??" – Swathika Visagn ????????????♀???♀? . Source.
Help Cassandra H. Leung pick a topic theme for one of their future talks.
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Career Growth?
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Mahathee Dandibhotla would like to know how you recognise empathy when hiring.
The Community's Guide to Onboarding. Interviews, Resume, CVs. A handy collection created by Jesse B. to help you shape your CV/resume and interview like a legend.
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Quality coaching
What does a Quality Coach do? Callum Akehurst-Ryan shares his take.
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Essentials
"Testers and developers aren't opponents. We're partners in delivering quality software that serves users." – Filip Hric .
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Automation
Scott Kilgallon earned a MoT Foundation Certificate in Test Automation. Bug congrats! ??
Automatic snapshot creation in CI for Playwright by Gary Parker.
Can We Automate All the Things? Exploring the Limits of Testing in Software Systems by recent The Testing Planet contributor, Jitesh Gosai .
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Tooling
Tool of the Week: Qase ???
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Performance testing
Combining performance testing and exploratory testing with ??Leandro Melendez (Se?or Performo) , Sérgio Freire and Cristiano Cunha .
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Accessibility
Old alt text advice by Steve F.
Adrian Roselli recommends avoiding read-only controls.
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Just for fun
Where's Bug and Cosmo? – No. 6. And once you've found them, why not create your own edition by grabbing Bug and Cosmo from the MoT Kit page? Plus while you're at it download a fancy new LinkedIn banner!
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????Events
New events are always added, so keep checking the events page for up-to-date info.
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?? Continuous Call?for Contributions
We are now accepting abstracts for talks and workshops for TestBash Brighton 2025.?Go for it!?Submit an idea. ??
Contributing to the testing community is a positive way to support your career. Unsure how? There are many ways for you to contribute and be rewarded. The bonus: Sharing your knowledge?supports everyone's career growth!
Look out for specific requests in the "Help MoT"?channel on the MoT Slack. ? Need inspiration?
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Thanks for featuring Ana Sofia Gala's blog post!! ??
Founder and CEO @ Test Scouts Stockholm | Teststrateg | Author of ”Would Heu-risk it” | Keynote Speaker
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Senior Quality Assurance Automation Engineer at HTEC Group
3 个月Thanks for sharing my blog post Ministry of Testing!