MOT Boston - Matt Wynne Talks About How To Fail at BDD - Nov 1 2018

Thursday, November 1st, 2018 Matt Wynne of Cucumber.io spoke to the Ministry of Testing - Boston while he was it town teaching his BDD Kickstarter class at SmartBear Software.

Watch the YouTube streaming video below:

Bring on the BDD @ SmartBear Software
https://youtu.be/JyZO-GnpYyI

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MOT Boston - Lisa Crispin hosts testing webinar in DevOps, Wed. Oct. 24th @ 6:00 pm EST

Lisa Crispin, the newest event organizer of the Ministry of Testing - Boston Meetup, is putting together her first Meetup event -- an Ask Us Anything about testing in DevOps!

Can't make it to Boston? Register for the Zoom webinar! It will be held on Wednesday October 24, 6:00 pm EST.

Register now!

"Join Lisa, along with John Kinnebrew, Tamara Yu and Geoff Cooney from the mabl engineering team for a fun Ask Me Anything session. Bring your questions about anything to do with DevTestOps, and the vital role testers and testing play to give teams confidence to release frequently to production. We’ll share our experiences, and if we don’t have the answers we’ll give you recommendations for where you might find those answers. We also welcome questions about how AI and machine learning technology can help with continuous delivery and testing.

"Lisa Crispin is a testing advocate with mabl. With Janet Gregory, she co-wrote More Agile Testing: Learning Journeys for the Whole Team (2014), Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams (2009), the LiveLessons “Agile Testing Essentials” video course, and “The Whole Team Approach to Agile Testing” 3-day training course. Lisa was voted by her peers as the Most Influential Agile Testing Professional Person at Agile Testing Days in 2012".

Happy Testing!

-T.J. Maher
Sr. QA Engineer, Software Engineer in Test
Meetup Organizer, Ministry of Testing - Boston

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So You Want to Be an Automation Developer

Are you a software tester trying to break into automation? Need pointers to get your first job? Although I only have three years of experience as an automation developer, I may be able to point you in the right direction.

Video Talk: How to Pass a Coding Interview as an Automation Developer

I gave my first talk, ever, outside of the local software testing Meetup group I run, back in January 2018, as part of the Automation Guild, basing it on a TechBeacon article I wrote when I was looking for new positions in Boston in the Summer of 2016.

Enjoy!

How to Pass a Coding Interview as an Automation Developer
https://youtu.be/fgT3Q9vJ74s

Happy Testing!

-T.J. Maher
Sr. QA Engineer, Software Engineer in Test
Meetup Organizer, Ministry of Testing - Boston

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Excerpt: How to Gauge What Your Tests Are Doing

Excerpted from Continuous Testing for DevOps Professionals (2018), featuring stories from over twenty software testers. Order your copy now!

How to Gauge What Your Tests Are Doing

Introduction

Every software development team struggles with answering two questions:

• How can the entire team, from business analysts to developers to testers, determine how your product should behave? 
• How can you gauge how your software product is truly behaving? 

Dan North, as an answer to those questions, came up with the concept of Behavior Driven Development (BDD). Phrasing the Testing part of Test Driven Development (TDD) as a Behavior, it transformed BDD from a testing tool into a communication tool.

With BDD, the entire team as a whole can brainstorm together on how the product should (and should not) work. By breaking down behaviors into small, simple, and understandable sentences, the documentation being created can be used as a product specification, as a blueprint developers and testers can use and as acceptance criteria the business analysts can evaluate.

Continuous Testing for DevOps Professionals - Launch date September 12!

September 12th, Continuous Testing for DevOps Professionals, the first book I have ever contributed to, will be launching!

"The Continuous Testing for DevOps Professionals book, is a definitive guide for DevOps teams covering practices required to excel in implementing and sustaining continuous testing (CT) in each step of the DevOps pipeline. The book was developed in collaboration with industry experts from the DevOps domain, that includes CloudBees, Tricentis, Testim.IO, Test.AI, Perfecto, and many more.

"The book addresses all the DevOps practitioners including software developers, testers, operation managers, and IT/Business executives.

"[...] All profits from this book will be donated to code.org to support kids that wish to learn programming".

Find more information here!

What a fun project! I am thrilled to have been asked to contribute.

Happy Testing!

-T.J. Maher
Sr. QA Engineer, Software Engineer in Test
Meetup Organizer, Ministry of Testing - Boston

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Blogging about software testing has been temporarily interrupted on account of baby related cuteness

Here, I wanted to start a new software testing project for this blog...

Each time I try to work on a new side project at https://t.co/HWLWVew4E2 while I am home on paternity leave.

"Sorry for the inconvenience, but blogging about anything relating to software testing has been temporarily interrupted".#firsttimefather #geekdad pic.twitter.com/gXZ68HVGVk

— T.J. Maher (@tjmaher1) July 12, 2018

Happy Testing!

-T.J. Maher
Sr. QA Engineer, Software Engineer in Test
Meetup Organizer, Ministry of Testing - Boston

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Release Date of Project Tiny Human: July 6, 2018 -- Welcome to the World, Tommy!

Project Tiny Human is a success! 

Project Tiny Human has been released to production July 6, 2018!

The initial release date was July 4, 2018, and everything was on track up to the last minute... but you know how dates for production release can slip.

My wife has been acting as Product Owner and Head Developer for the entire project. I have volunteered for daily production and overnight support.

Thomas "Tommy" Edmund Maher was born July 6, 2018 at 2:16 pm to Melissa and T.J. Maher.

• Weight: 8 lbs, 12 oz
• Length: 19.7 inches long

"Hello world!"

#firsttimefather #proudpappa #GeekDad

-T.J. Maher
Sr. QA Engineer, Software Engineer in Test
Meetup Organizer, Ministry of Testing - Boston

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Stop Compromising Quality: Setting Automation Up for Success - Angie Jones, Ministry of Testing - Boston

Missed last Wednesday's Ministry of Testing - Boston Meetup, hosted and sponsored by SmartBear? Where Angie Jones, SDET at Twitter, provides metrics that help her decide what to automated at Twitter?

Have no fear! SmartBear live-streamed the conference. It starts at the 52 minute mark.

Stop Compromising Quality: Setting Automation Up for Success https://youtu.be/WAu1gWmKp5w


Thank you so much Brianne Cordima and Bria Grangard of SmartBear for setting up this event as the Ministry of Testing - Boston's event organizers!


Slides:Which Tests Should We Automate? - Angie Jones

Notes: Day Two of Agile Testing Days USA - Wed. June 27, 2018

This is Part Two of Two. Care to go back to the beginning?

Lean Coffee

More lean coffee today with @tjmaher1 @lisacrispin @mheusser #AgileTDUSA pic.twitter.com/4054BmE7wY

— Alex Kell (@Wiggly) June 27, 2018

Unicorn Held For Ransom

I noticed there was something different on Day Two of the Agile Testing Days USA conference immediately. Where was the giant inflatable unicorn??

Oh no! The unicorn for #AgileTDUsa is being held for ransom for $100! #SavingLinnea pic.twitter.com/EkDK4V6bxi

— T.J. Maher (@tjmaher1) June 27, 2018