Software testing news – Issue 483: Hot for testing

What's got you excited about testing right now? Issue 483 | Monday 12th August 2024 | [View Online]( This newsletter is kindly supported by TestRail [Artificial Intelligence, Real Quality: A Webinar and Report Exploring the State of AI in QA]( To cut through the noise and gain real insights, TestRail has sent the first ever AI in QA research survey to over 1,000 quality professionals just like you. Register now to learn more. What's been happening in the testing, QA and quality engineering community? Let's go! 🚲 I hope you have a great week. — Simon Tomes, Community Lead at Ministry of Testing Scholarship Ministry of Testing is committed to matching all funds raised and donated by the community. We've been doing this since 2013. [Anyone can apply for our scholarship fund]( to be used towards a [Professional Membership]( [Certification]( or [TestBash Conference](. We see and hear all the amazing community folks who donate their fees to the scholarship fund to allow others to flourish. Thank you for being Scholarship Heroes. 🫶 Career Growth New roles - "I’m really excited to have accepted a new role as Staff Quality Engineer at Artlogic! Can't wait to meet everyone and start championing quality and testing ❤️" – [Callum Akehurst-Ryan](. - Shweta Sharma starts a new position as [Director of Quality Engineering at rtCamp](. - [Bug congrats to Alessandra Moreira]( on her new role as Director of Quality Engineering at BrainPop! - [William Carlos starts a new position]( as QA Manager at DroneShield. Tag the [MoT LinkedIn page]( with #OpenToWork. We'll repost your post to our network of 100k followers. Visit these profiles and see if they could help you or someone you know: - [Brian Sheen]( is based in Scotland and is open to a Test Analyst or Senior Test Analyst role. - [Thomas Bohn is looking]( for mid to senior level QA Engineer positions that are full time, and remote or hybrid in Southern Ontario. Now hiring - [Junior QA Engineer]( Solihull, West Midlands, UK. - "Anyone out there a QA wizard and looking for a bit of contractor work? We could use some QA expertise to sync up with our dev team as we're planning a release to ensure all is smooth. We'd estimating the workload to be 2-4 hours, 1-2x/month." [More info](. - EPIC GAMES/Twinmotion | Quality Assurance & Test | Montreal Quebec, Canada| 3D visualisation technology. [More info](. - Hiring? Add it to the [Ministry of Testing job board](. Oleksandr Romanov shares [a handy career progression chart](. Does it resonate with your career journey so far? And if you're new to testing, what path interests you? [Internal dialogues — self reflection and daily improvements — the road to a senior quality engineer!]( by Melissa Fisher. Including a handy set of questions to ask yourself each day and each week. Nice one, Melissa. Hanan Ur Rehman wonders if he's [chasing too many skillsets at once](. What do you think? TestBash host, Leigh Rathbone, encourages folks to [not mind the gap in your CV/resume](. Looking to change jobs? [Check out this collection to help you get hired](. [What's Ministry of Testing Professional Membership all about?]( A look inside at how we're supporting the software testing and quality engineering industry. Community Gather and get to know each other. Explore ways to advance our software testing, QA and quality engineering careers. [Register in good time for October's Test Exchange](. 🤝 Andrew Shaw, from BCS SIGiST kindly adds items from the MoT community to [Issue 75 of The Tester](. Thanks, Andrew. [Name a planet and win a TestBash ticket]( 🪐 Three more meetups: [Munich Meetup]( (18 Sep), [Manchester Meetup]( (19 Sep) and [Leeds Meetup]( (26 Sep). It's good to gather. Got a question about TestBash? Or would you like to meet some attendees beforehand? [Join the Pre-TestBash Online Social](. Catch up on [episode 53 of This Week in Testing](. Aj Wilson and I debriefed the week with the community, including Greg Paskal, Ben Dowen, David Shaw and Amandine Douguedroit. We discussed the impact and risks of the CrowdStrike incident, the pesticide paradox, risk-based exploratory testing and much more! [Deb Sherwood is looking good]( in the MoT rainbow testing t-shirt. 🌈 "Ministry of Testing is the one-stop shop for everything testing." — Ashutosh Mishra [Upgrade your software testing career with Ministry of Testing]( Just for fun 403.5 – Not Quite Forbidden Yet Nearly Not Found. [If you could add to the list of HTTP status codes, what would you add?]( The testing memes are abundant in the [MoT Slack]( right now. It seems we need to have our own space for them on the MoT website. 😅 Heuristics [What are your favourite low-hanging fruit tests?]( "What I do instead when doing regression testing or checking a fix that isn’t full-blown exploratory testing, for example, is usually to use a mental model of [HISToW]( to guide me." – Cassandra H. Leung reminded themselves of this the other day. It's handy! Discover how [the six principles of liminal thinking]( apply to software testing with Brie Ransom. Test cases "The responses that you can often get back when asking a related question about test cases or even manual testing in general, can be seen as negative." – Saviski. [What do you think?]( Solo QA/Tester New collection: [The Community's Guide to Being a Solo QA/Tester](. We need more for this collection. Are you a solo QA/Tester? [Consider contributing]( to help others like you. Scripting New trend analysis: [What are the 'x' ways testers use scripting?]( Ady Stokes dives into community member Chris Wood's great question on The Club, “What small tasks do testers use scripting for?” and shares his findings. 👋 TestBash is our annual conference happening in September in Brighton, UK. As we like to say, our network is your network, we'd love for you to join us. We will have 2 days of learning and community as testing professionals share what they know about testing, AI and more! [Explore the TestBash Experience]( Automation Bugs congrats to Michael Kamara, Kelly Kenyon and Ash Winter for earning a [MoT Foundation Certificate in Test Automation](. 🏆 Evan Christopher introduces themselves on the [Q3 2024 Introductions thread](. It's early days yet Evan is building Pusaqa, a codeless test automation tool for startups. Microservices "While duplicating environments might seem a practical way to ensure consistency, the infrastructure can be costly. A look at alternative strategies." – Nočnica Mellifera on [cutting the high cost of testing microservices](. Accessibility [AT Is More Than Screen Readers]( by Adrian Roselli. Eevis offers up an [Android Accessibility Checklist](. Leadership [Unlocking Your Team's Potential: A Proven Model for Performance Evaluation]( by Mihaela Sfat. [Five people and a grey monster character sat around a table working on laptops. There is concentration on all faces. There are some people doing something similar in the background.]( Good times! Join the testing community at [TestBash](. Ensemble testing "Ensemble Testing is ensembling on testing activities. Cleaning up test automation code. Exploring an application while writing code. Exploring an application without writing code." – Maaret Pyhäjärvi. [Read more](. Mobile testing Kshitij Sharma covers a lot of ground in [addressing major challenges in mobile app testing](. AI in Testing Join this partner event: [Artificial Intelligence, Real Quality]( with TestRail on the 20th of August. Graham Odds discusses [the central role of data governance in government]( and what that means for Machine Leaning Operations (MLOps). I was excited to see Christine Pinto's testing startup join an incubator. [Check out Epic Test Quest and sign up for updates](. Exciting things are happening! Bug congrats, Christine. 🎉 🗓️ Events New events are always added, so [keep checking the events page]( for up-to-date info. - [Pre-TestBash Social (online)]( Thu 15 Aug - [This Week in Testing]( Fri 16 Aug - [Artificial Intelligence, Real Quality]( Tue 20 Aug - [Glasgow Meetup]( Wed 28 Aug - [Pre-TestBash meetup by the beach]( Wed 11 Sep - [TestBash Brighton 2024]( Thu 12 Sep - Fri 13 Sep 🏖️ - [Munich Meetup]( Wed 18 Sep - [Manchester Meetup]( Thu 19 Sep - [Leuven Meetup]( Thu 26 Sep - [Leeds Meetup]( Thu 26 Sep - [Test Exchange]( Thu 3 Oct - [Episode Five: The Apprentice]( Thu 24 Oct 🗞️ Industry News - [How to Manage Bugs Across Development Stages]( by Deepika Kale - [Rediscovering the joy of crafting is making me a better tester]( by Jenna Charlton. ✏️ Continuous Call for Contributions "We believe people have so much to give and our role at MoT is to find the best place for them to fit." Rosie Sherry shares [a look inside MoT's Continuous Call for Contributions process](. 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