Stop, start, keep doing: MoT Weekly – Issue 496

Stop, start, keep doing: MoT Weekly – Issue 496

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.



??Speak or teach at TestBash Brighton 2025??

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.????? ???? ???? ????

The Testing Planet travels again. ??

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.

TestBash TestMatch Memory lane.

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Career Growth?

Now hiring

Open to work

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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 .

Test like a developer, develop like a tester.

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Automation

Scott Kilgallon earned a MoT Foundation Certificate in Test Automation. Bug congrats! ??

Do you delete tests as part of your testing strategy?

Automatic snapshot creation in CI for Playwright by Gary Parker.

Melissa Fisher asks, how do you approach figuring out what to automate?

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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?? The certification that gives junior testers confidence, community and connections.

Explore MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate

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Performance testing

Testing Video Streaming Apps Under Stress by Irfan Mujagi? .

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

When you can't quite commit to accepting and checking the rebrand. ??

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!

Spaghetti code?

?? Three Germans walk into a TestBash photobooth ...???

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A conference auditorium space looking at the stage from the back of the room. Lots of people are listening to a talk. There is a woman and man on stage. A duck and bug character are hiding.
A conference auditorium space looking at the stage from the back of the room. Lots of people are listening to a talk. There is a woman and man on stage. A duck and bug character are hiding.

Share your memories with the community

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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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??? Industry News

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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?

Look at the contributions page. ??

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Poll of the Week (with?commentary)

Results of a poll asking "Have you created your public MoT profile yet?" Yes: 24% No: 66% Going to MyMoT to do it now!: 10% The poll has received 106 votes and has 2 weeks left.
Results of a poll asking "Have you created your public MoT profile yet?" Yes: 24% No: 66% Going to MyMoT to do it now!: 10% The poll has received 106 votes and has 2 weeks left.


Thanks for featuring Ana Sofia Gala's blog post!! ??

Lena Pejgan Nystr?m

Founder and CEO @ Test Scouts Stockholm | Teststrateg | Author of ”Would Heu-risk it” | Keynote Speaker

3 个月

Thank you for sharing my article ??

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Irfan Mujagi?

Senior Quality Assurance Automation Engineer at HTEC Group

3 个月

Thanks for sharing my blog post Ministry of Testing!

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