Explore Learns More: Your Weekly Testing News - Issue 455

How do you reveal information about something new? [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 455 | Monday 22nd January 2024 | [View Online →]( Testmo kindly supports this newsletter [UPDATE: Testmo - #1 Unified Test Management Tool]( Testmo is the #1 unified modern test management tool. Now even better with faster test steps, rich PDF reporting, automation fields, improved Jira add-on, extended API & more. Affordable for teams of all sizes with enterprise-grade reliability & support. Try Testmo free! --------------------------------------------------------------- It's Simon here with a roundup of what's been happening in the testing community. Let's go! 🚗 AI - Alan Barr has set up a waitlist for [Testing AI Products]( a place for him to support those interested in AI and Testing. - Can you help Pedro? Lots of [questions about Large Language Models (LLMs)](. Automation - This partner webinar covers various Selenium 4 features, including recording double clicks and right clicks, obtaining attributes of specific elements, and leveraging Ranorex's UI test automation tool without writing code. [Selenium 4 Integrations with Rhett Devlin]( - Guilherme Machado would like to know [how do you deal with waits in your code?]( Books - What Testing and AI books have you been reading? [Add books to this wiki](. 📚 Certifications - Early bird pricing for our MoT Certifications ends this month. Register before January 31st to receive 41% off! There are three distinct certification courses built on a solid, industry-informed curriculum that offers a flexible online format designed to enhance your learning experience and propel your career forward. [Register for the MoT Certifications in Test Automation]( 🎓 Community - What do you have in common? [Meet people who are new to the community and say hi](. 👋 - "We want to level out the experience and opportunities for everyone by treating, rewarding and valuing all the contributions equally." [Help shape TestBash](. - 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 this week on Thursday 25th January](. - "I really appreciate Ministry of Testing. They are very supportive in sharing work from those in the community and lift other people up. Thank you for all you do!" – Melissa Fisher. [Source](. 🙌 - [9 out of 10 Testers discuss their red flags]( on Friday 26th January. I do enjoy their rants and, if not on your radar, I think you will too. 🙂 Exploratory Testing - Learn the latest exploratory testing trends, and find out how to deal with context switching and the need for proper documentation in this partner webinar: [How to Overcome Common Challenges in Exploratory Testing]( with Ivan Filippov from Xray. - James Lynsay encourages us to [have purposeful play with our explorations]( – to be clear about the shapes and limits we take as we work on exploratory testing. - Cevdet Ayaz reshared a helpful blog post about pushing a quality narrative. [Testers: Don't wait to be asked for info]( by Callum Akehurst-Ryan. - [How do you capture notes and evidence?]( Paul French would like to know how you demonstrate your testing efforts, and in what context. Heuristics - Stuck on what to test? The ideas keep coming. [Share a test idea in 5 words or less](. 🪴 Just for fun - [When does a bug become a good bug?]( 🐞 Strategy & Methodologies - Imagine a Jira ticket as a spell (or a curse) and an epic as a quest in this brilliant role-playing inspired blog post by Louise Woodhams: [In A World Of Pure Imagination](. - Every two weeks Poloho Mohotsi and their team nominate a "[bug of the sprint](. Test Cases - This partner webinar showcases the flexibility of TestRail's workflow, allowing teams to easily collaborate, communicate and build a comprehensive test case library. [Test Case Review and Approvals with Heather Vercillo](. - Nate Bosscher proposes [three levels of test cases](. What do you think? Have a good week. — Simon, CommunityBoss --------------------------------------------------------------- JetBrains kindly supports this newsletter [Try JetBrains Aqua – An IDE for Writing Tests You Can Be Proud of]( Aqua is an all-in-one polyglot IDE for test automation that supports Selenium, Cypress, and Playwright. Aqua features a Web Inspector that works like a built-in browser, letting you stay inside the IDE. Try Aqua for free! --------------------------------------------------------------- [Several woman gathered around a table having a discussion. There is an angry looking red monster character in the background. ]( Gather with the testing community. 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