Ministry Of Testing

Ever wondered what's involved when you write an article for Ministry of Testing? In this podcast, Mark introduces our two editors Amy Brown and Gareth Waterhouse. The three discuss experiences and thoughts on writing and share advise for potential future authors looking to write their first article and beyond. If you'd like to write for Ministry of Testing, you can learn more about how on our contribute page

Adam Leon Smith talks to Marie Drake about Cypress and her new workshop.  They talk about the benefits of Cypress, who should try it out, some misconceptions, and plenty more! This podcast is sponsored by Applitools who invite you to download the Modern Cross-Browser Testing Report -- which compiles 3,112 hours of cross-environment testing data, based on a responsive e-commerce app, tested cross 21 browser and viewport combinations. It is the most comprehensive study of its kind to date. The report focuses on: The time needed to complete an end-to-end test cycle including writing, running, analyzing, reporting, and maintaining the test suite Test code efficiency Test locator stability Engineering satisfaction Click to get access to the Modern Cross-Browser Testing Report.

Mark speaks with Lena Wiberg the creator of the new testing card deck 'Would Heu-Risk It?'. The two talk about where the idea for the cards came from, how the cards were created and how Lena hopes they will be used by teams to aid their testing and improve their quality. To get your deck of 'Would Heu-Risk It?' cards, head over to store.ministryoftesting.com

A happy new year to all! Deborah Reid finds herself as the first guest to be marooned on the island in 2021, to talk to us about getting started with accessibility testing, in support of her upcoming accessibility course which will be released on the Ministry of Testing Dojo in April. We discuss a wide range of different accessibility needs, which can sometimes include temporary limitations that we don’t think of as accessibility problems. There are tips on simulating accessibility within your usability testing, some shout-outs for tools, advice on getting issues fixed, and we look at the growing legal imperative which will make such problems difficult to ignore in the future. We also open with some chatter about our comparative experiences in working with online retail/services during the weirdest of weird years, including the challenges of predicting traffic spikes, and how we’ve all had to iterate our performance/scalability to keep up. On the music front, there are some upbeat selections, s

In this Meet The Instructor Podcast, we meet Roman Segador whose workshop is 'How to solve integration issues with Contract Testing' The Meet the Instructor mini series is a collection of short podcasts with our instructors for the 2020/21 99 Minute Workshop series. Each podcast gives you an opportunity to get to know the instructor and what they are covering in their workshop. So you can discover which workshop is the right one for you. To learn more about the 99 Minute Workshop on Testing, visit the Ministry of Testing events page

In this Meet The Instructor Podcast, we meet Dana Aonofreisei whose workshop is 'Leading a Test Automation Strategy' The Meet the Instructor mini series is a collection of short podcasts with our instructors for the 2020/21 99 Minute Workshop series. Each podcast gives you an opportunity to get to know the instructor and what they are covering in their workshop. So you can discover which workshop is the right one for you. To learn more about the 99 Minute Workshop on Testing, visit the Ministry of Testing events page

In this Meet The Instructor Podcast, we meet Louise Gibbs whose workshop is 'Visual Facilitation and Sketchnoting' The Meet the Instructor mini series is a collection of short podcasts with our instructors for the 2020/21 99 Minute Workshop series. Each podcast gives you an opportunity to get to know the instructor and what they are covering in their workshop. So you can discover which workshop is the right one for you. To learn more about the 99 Minute Workshop on Testing, visit the Ministry of Testing events page

In this Meet The Instructor Podcast, we meet Lee Marshall whose workshop is 'An Introduction to SQL for testers' The Meet the Instructor mini series is a collection of short podcasts with our instructors for the 2020/21 99 Minute Workshop series. Each podcast gives you an opportunity to get to know the instructor and what they are covering in their workshop. So you can discover which workshop is the right one for you. To learn more about the 99 Minute Workshop on Testing, visit the Ministry of Testing events page

In this Meet The Instructor Podcast, we meet Jenna Charlton whose workshop is 'Team Care: Making Mental Health an Agile Practice' The Meet the Instructor mini series is a collection of short podcasts with our instructors for the 2020/21 99 Minute Workshop series. Each podcast gives you an opportunity to get to know the instructor and what they are covering in their workshop. So you can discover which workshop is the right one for you. To learn more about the 99 Minute Workshop on Testing, visit the Ministry of Testing events page

In this Meet The Instructor Podcast, we meet Butch Mayhew whose workshop is 'Uncovering the Power of Browser DevTools' The Meet the Instructor mini series is a collection of short podcasts with our instructors for the 2020/21 99 Minute Workshop series. Each podcast gives you an opportunity to get to know the instructor and what they are covering in their workshop. So you can discover which workshop is the right one for you. To learn more about the 99 Minute Workshop on Testing, visit the Ministry of Testing events page

In this Meet The Instructor Podcast, we meet Ali Haydar whose workshop is 'Mocks and Testability' The Meet the Instructor mini series is a collection of short podcasts with our instructors for the 2020/21 99 Minute Workshop series. Each podcast gives you an opportunity to get to know the instructor and what they are covering in their workshop. So you can discover which workshop is the right one for you. To learn more about the 99 Minute Workshop on Testing, visit the Ministry of Testing events page

In this Meet The Instructor Podcast, we meet Ady Stokes whose workshop is 'Interactive Accessibility Quiz' The Meet the Instructor mini series is a collection of short podcasts with our instructors for the 2020/21 99 Minute Workshop series. Each podcast gives you an opportunity to get to know the instructor and what they are covering in their workshop. So you can discover which workshop is the right one for you. To learn more about the 99 Minute Workshop on Testing, visit the Ministry of Testing events page

In this Meet The Instructor Podcast, we meet Simon Berner whose workshop is 'Git Foundations' The Meet the Instructor mini series is a collection of short podcasts with our instructors for the 2020/21 99 Minute Workshop series. Each podcast gives you an opportunity to get to know the instructor and what they are covering in their workshop. So you can discover which workshop is the right one for you. To learn more about the 99 Minute Workshop on Testing, visit the Ministry of Testing events page

In this Meet The Instructor Podcast, we meet Abby Bangser whose workshop is 'What is testing in production and why would we ever do that?!' The Meet the Instructor mini series is a collection of short podcasts with our instructors for the 2020/21 99 Minute Workshop series. Each podcast gives you an opportunity to get to know the instructor and what they are covering in their workshop. So you can discover which workshop is the right one for you. To learn more about the 99 Minute Workshop on Testing, visit the Ministry of Testing events page

In this Meet The Instructor Podcast, we meet Beren Van Daele whose workshop is 'RiskStorming Online' The Meet the Instructor mini series is a collection of short podcasts with our instructors for the 2020/21 99 Minute Workshop series. Each podcast gives you an opportunity to get to know the instructor and what they are covering in their workshop. So you can discover which workshop is the right one for you. To learn more about the 99 Minute Workshop on Testing, visit the Ministry of Testing events page

Happy new year everyone and happy new podcast season! Carlos kicks things off with a chat with Ash Winter about their new Dojo Course all around Operability. They talk about what Operability is, why it's important, how testers can be involved and leverage it, and what the course will be covering. If you would like to take Ash's new course, click to learn more about 'Improving your testing through operability'

In the final island broadcast of 2020, Drew Pontikis floats by to build upon last episode’s discussions around shaping quality culture within your organisation, and how you can help by developing communities of practice. We touch upon Drew’s experiences with starting the Ministry of Testing Peterborough meetup group, with some top tips on how to create a group from scratch, including some valuable advice about not losing your passwords. As we’re feeling festive, there’s also a bit of chat about so-bad-they’re-good films, we look back on 2020 and forward to 2021, and Neil makes the sort of promise that you shouldn’t make on a publicly-available podcast. (Note that Neil has since realised that his own Beatles anecdote actually related to “When I’m Sixty-Four”, rather than the song being discussed on the podcast, but it was too good to leave out!) Podcast Links: Ministry of Testing Cambridge Ministry of Testing Peterborough Neil’s pro

In this Podcast, Mike chats with David Burns covering the topic of Automated testing and how to find a balance between Manual and Automated testing. David is the Chair of the W3C Browser Testing and Tools Working group and co-editor of the WebDriver specification, trying to ensure automation frameworks in browsers are interoperable. He was an engineering manager at Mozilla within Developer Experience working on tooling and infrastructure to help make a better web and now heads up the Open Source work at BrowserStack. David has been a core contributor on the Selenium project for over a decade supporting Firefox and the Python client bindings. The discussion covers how "When you're a hammer, everything will look like a nail", "The Shift Left approach" and differences between Automation Testing & Manual Testing? When would you would introduce/use automation Will automation replace manual testing? spell the end of the need for manual testers? Tools The challenge in getting the

In this podcast Mark meets Valentin a software testing professional for more than ten years. Valentin has worked in several roles, including test environment management, manual functional testing, mobile, and testing process improvement. The two get together for a discussion and a reflection on COVID-19 testing and what the challenges of testing for the virus can teach us about the challenges we have in software testing. And more specifically automation for software testing. This podcast is sponsored by Sauce Labs

In an episode which was two years in the making, Neil welcomes Angela Riggs to the island, for a discussion about building QA departments within an organisation: how to get buy-in for change, suggestions for “quick wins”, what can you do if you’re short of budget or people, and how to make quality a part of your company’s culture. Recorded on the day that the media finally decided to project the US election result, there’s an air of optimism (and a few fireworks in the background) as Angela takes us though her song selections, which include some of her karaoke favourites, some songs with strong personal connections, as well as a song which was composed during lockdown. This episode is sponsored by PractiTest. PractiTest is an end-to-end test management solution to organize, run and visualize all your QA efforts in one centralized hub. It incorporates all testing types: manual, exploratory and automation for any testing methodology. Create a unified QA process and improve team c