Mean Green Testing Machine: Software Testing News - Issue 465

What's the carbon footprint of training LLMs for testing? [An illustration of a bespectacled orange monster creature. It's reading a newspaper. The text "your weekly testing news" is displayed alongside the Ministry of Testing logo.]( Issue 465 | Monday 1st April 2024 | [View Online →]( What's been happening in the testing, QA and quality engineering community? Let's go! 🚀 AI in Testing - I was recently reminded of this wonderful poem by Ioan Solderea: [What is Artificial Intelligence?]( 😃 - Indre Stasiuniene shares a snappy summary of [valuable skills for an AI testing team](. - It's great to see Katja Meyer hosting [a MoT Meetup to discuss the 30 Days of AI in Testing](. - [How does AI support visual testing?]( Several tools get a mention. - A reminder that we can't all be expected to learn about AI in our own time. "Considering a “Growth Mindset” [all parties should receive proper AI training]( - Claudia Mueller. - Lisa Crispin shares [concerns about the carbon footprint of training LLMs](. - Many folks take time to learn how to read code and explain what it means. [Poojitha Manam puts ChatGPT to the test with some Bubble Sort Python Code](. View more experiments of code explanation with AI tooling. - [AI in QA: automation of the TestRail update process]( by Dmytro Stekanov. - [Amruta Bhokare offers five AI-infused security testing tools](. What tools could you add to the list? - Stuart Thomas writes about [how to run the Llama 2 large language model locally]( through being inspired by the 30 Days of AI in Testing challenge. Talking of which, it's great to see all the [shared gratitude]( amongst those who have participated. Congrats! 🏆 - Here's a handy set of [steps to check your teams' readiness to implement AI in Testing](. Thanks to Manoj Kumar Barik. - Ash Winter provides another helpful update about his [experiences exploring AI in Testing](. Plus [more great video updates from Rahul Parwal](. Automation - [From Fragile to Agile: Automating the fight against Flaky Tests]( by Abinodh Thomas. - Justas Laužadis shares reflections on [dangerous advice about end-to-end tests](. - Mary Evans earned a [MoT Foundation Certificate in Test Automation]( and Stamatis Sarris earned a [MoT Intermediate Certificate in Test Automation](. Congrats, Mary and Stamatis! 🎯 Observability - Marie Cruz explains [how to create a state timeline in Grafana](. - What do you think about observability? Ken Hamric shares his take. [Will the Real Test Observability Please Stand Up?]( Green Testing - We spotted [a LinkedIn group about green testing](. - [Are overnight runs more environmentally friendly?]( Beth Marshall shares this from Richard Bishop. - [Daryl Elfield spoke about green testing at a MoT Manchester meetup](. Quality Criteria - Melissa Fisher asks for [advice about quality criteria](. 🧾 - "Sometimes you need a better story". [Think Like A Tester And Modify The User Stories]( by Wayne Roseberry. - What word can follow these words? "Bug", "Product" and "Automation". In this case, it's "Metrics". [Brienna Ransom discusses Quality Metrics](. Exploratory Testing - "Asking developers to start exploratory testing can be hard; many testers haven’t had the opportunity to practise this type of testing, let alone developers." Callum Akehurst-Ryan shares: [How To Involve Developers In Exploratory Testing](. Microservices Testing - Artem and Oleksandr discuss [how to get to grips with microservices testing](. Test Cases - [How do you consider a list of all possibilities and input combinations?]( Can you help Nate? Security Testing - [Konstantin Sakhchinskiy shares a list of handy articles they have written about security testing](. Plus, there are several security testing pages to check out on LinkedIn. Community - Previous TestBash speaker [Ivan Karaman is offering his time to help](. - [Lisi Hocke shares an update about her contributing in new ways challenge](. Discover what she's achieved so far. - [Mahathee Dandibhotla promotes Kristin Jackvony's book]( The Complete Software Tester. - Check out this write-up of a recent [Women In Tech meetup by Saskia Keil](. Recruitment - Software Tester frustration with job ads: [Where QA job ads go wrong](. - Daniel Knott had a good chat with Leonardo Lanni. [Learn how he moved into freelancing](. Bugs in the Wild - [Greggs bugs, a national crisis!]( 🥧 - [nullnullnullnull]( Just for Fun - "[I always wanted to form a software band...]( – Caleb Crandall. - What are your [songs for software testers]( 🎶 Have a good week. — Simon Tomes --------------------------------------------------------------- [People gathered around small tables. 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