Ministry of Testing

Implementing a test automation strategy is more than user adoption.  You need to do your due diligence to mediate inhibitors before you turn the keys over to your team.

Kristof talks to Diogo about how TestRail is trying to leverage open source to provide value to their customers. Get to know their current open source projects, where you can find some goodies, and also how they manage code contributions and how you can even contribute yourself.

We’re doing it live! For our five-year anniversary, Neil throws caution (and editing) to the wind as he roams The Lowry in Manchester during TestBash UK 2022, contending with challenges including a tea service, a hotel restaurant, tannoy systems, outside broadcasts and interviewing multiple guests at once.

Betwixt the background buzz, we talk to speakers and attendees about the return of face-to-face events, the novelty of a multi-track TestBash, and the common themes that we observed during the two-day conference, including quality engineering, culture, coaching and cognition.

There are music selections as usual, with a mixture of new and old, and a first appearance for possibly the quintessential 90s one-hit wonder (even though Neil is aware that they actually had multiple follow-up singles).

With thanks to all of our guests who volunteered their time for this episode: Yanir Taflev, Alex Reynolds, Simon Prior, Vernon Richards, Stuart Day, Diana Dromey, Julia Förster and Steve Moss.

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Kristof talks to Diogo about how effective test reporting can provide valuable insights and help make testing more efficient. From testers to managers, everyone can benefit from using test reporting and Diogo gives us some hints about what pieces of reporting data everyone should be looking into.

This month it’s a truly worldwide affair as Neil is joined by Nicola Lindgren, a New Zealander who’s based in Sweden, to share stories of her testing journey and her community content creation, including a newly-published book, “Starting Your Software Testing Career”.

We talk about how to reserve the time to participate in extra-curricular activities, and take a deep-dive into the process of creating a book from start to finish, including finding value for your audience, how contributors can help you to create more well-rounded content, getting your content reviewed, and how to promote effectively on social media.

On the music front, there are memories of Nicaraguan night-life, graduation parties, Korean dance routines and “songs for squats”!

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Leanpub: Starting Your Software Testing Career

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House of Test

The Culture Trip: Why High School Celebrations Are So Big In Sweden 

YouTube: LifeLikeJosie - What Graduation Is Like In Sweden

Mojovation Consulting - the “germ of an idea” that Neil referred to!

Amazon Direct Publishing: Proof Copies

Google Docs to Markdown converter

Leanpub: Markua manual

Leanpub: How Can I Test This?

YouTube: Nicola Lindgren - The CV that Got Me My First Testing Role

Wiktionary claims that “nicheness” is a word

Jake Knapp & John Zeratsky - Make Time

Gary Keller - The One Thing

Testit 2022 (Malmö, 13 September)

SANAE 2022 (Bratislava, 28-29 September)

TestBash UK 2022 (Manchester, 22-23 September)

Nicola on Twitter: @NicolaLindgren

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In this podcast, Juliette MacPhail, a Product Manager at mabl, discusses a recent product release from mabl, including the ability to support testing packaged applications, such as Salesforce, and shadow DOM elements.

Learn more about mabl's Salesforce testing capabilities in this recorded webinar.

Kristof meets with Ranorex team members Julie Fuelberth & Aaron Stearns from Ranorex to discuss the following:

Stakeholders at every level are focusing on their technology that supports critical business processes knowing that they need to make a change. RPA technology can help mitigate process vulnerabilities and support scale and growth