Try Something Crew: Your Weekly Testing News - Issue 452

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?? Simon here with a round-up of what's been happening?in the testing community. ?? ?

Certifications

• In case you missed it, we've got three new automation courses to sign up for.?Introducing Our New MoT Certifications in Test Automation????

Continuous Integration and Containerisation

• J. A. Pardo explores?the discrepancies between environments, the pitfalls of a lack of standardisation and insufficient testing practices.?“But… it works on my machine…”

Community

• The Test Exchange is an opportunity to gather, get to know each other and explore ways of helping us all on our journey of advancing our software testing career. Join us on Wednesday 13th December.?Myself and MoT founder, Rosie Sherry , are hosting.
• We're coming back to Brighton, UK!?Exciting TestBash news coming soon. ??

Exploratory Testing

• What Is Exploratory Testing, and Which Tools Can I use for it? by Daniel Knott

Heuristics

• "Quality is so much more than just having well-written automated regression tests." – Rachel G amplified the importance of using heuristics to generate test ideas and shared the Test Heuristics Cheat Sheet.?

Just for fun

• It's just a small change???

Leadership

• The role of the quality coach is relatively new and remains virtually unknown to many testers and IT professionals. Fortunately, Mirza Sisic is here to help as he?outlines aspects of the role in his advice-filled article:?Quality Coaching: A Road Less Traveled???

Reporting

• What dashboards could you create to drive conversations? Melissa Fisher shares a couple of examples.?

Security Testing

• Lisi Hocke set herself a challenge for?2023. Great to read how she?connected?with security folks and grew?her application security knowledge and skills.?Perhaps there's something similar you could try in 2024? ??

Strategy & Methodologies

• Ben Dowen 's Masterclass webinar is now available to watch.?He simplifies the complexities of software systems, breaking them down into digestible segments. I like how he offered up a?unique model to help identify and address knowledge gaps across system layers. One to watch if you'd like to improve how you do collaborative testing.?Teamwork Makes the Full-Stack Testing Dream Work????
• Model-Based Testing in Python by Maaret Pyh?j?rvi
• Jeff Nyman deep dives into the "checking" and "testing" narrative:?Reframing Testing Arguments

Test Case Management

• This spotlight with TestRail shows how you can use the application to delve deeper into the API layer.? Jorge Spratley demonstrates?how to generate multiple tests against a wide range of data sets allowing you to decide how you want to manage test runs.

Have a great week.

— Simon, CommunityBoss ?

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?How could you gather with the community this week? Find out. ?

????♀???♂? Join the conversation

1. ?? Hot topic:?What would you prioritize to break into software testing with no experience?
2. Mark would like to know what types of automation reports you send
3. What can you share about testing in a regulated industry?
4. What are your thoughts on?ISO 9001 and VDA 6.2?
5. Can you help?Caroline L with their approach to automation??
6. How are you using peer groups and communities to hold yourself accountable and encourage you to keep going with your automation journey? asks Ben
7. Conrad is curious, what's the first 3rd party bug you ever raised?
8. How as a junior tester do you get involved in conversations related to system architecture?
9. What tool are you using to automate and which tool do you prefer??
10. What caused?your automation run to fail?

?? Industry News

• Using pytest asyncio to Reduce Test Execution Time — Milos Kajkut
• How to Improve Automation Test Coverage — Taryn McMillan
• The Perfect TDM Balance : Fake & Masked Real Data —?Jane Temov
• How a Digital Asset Management Company Streamlined Testing and Boosted Efficiency with TestRail and Reflect — Nane Martirosyan
• Gain Deeper Testing Insights Using LambdaTest and New Relic Integration — Mythili Raju
• Role of AI in requirements engineering?— Ivan Filippov

??? Events

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• Wed 13 Dec How to Overcome Common Challenges in Exploratory Testing
• Wed 13 Dec Test Exchange????
• Thu 14 Dec Testing Ask Me Anything on Playwright
• Plus many more events to come in?2024!

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