Today I will share with you 3 readings recommendations, covering 3 very different subjects: Comparing Executable Specification tools 7 Reasons to Choose Consumer-Driven Contract Tests Over End-to-End Tests 8 free security tools every developer should know and use to Shift Left First, if you are interested in these tools, we suggest you to read the very detailed article written by Jean-Pierre Lambert comparing executable specification tools like Cucumber, FitNess or Gauge: Comparing Executable Specification tools. The article is a bit old (3 years), so don’t hesitate to comment here if ..read more

I’ve been working from home since I’ve been independent (3 years ago) and as an introvert, I must admit that I like it a lot. I see a lot of advantages, and almost no disadvantages. But now that we all have to stay at home because of COVID-19, it is becoming very difficult to work from home for one simple reason: I am no longer alone. No problem with my wife who now also works at home, but with a 7 year old boy who has to do home schooling at the same time, I decided that it was more reasonable not to start a new contract (unless it was the lack of interesting opportunities linked to the perio ..read more

Like most of us, I wasn’t born a tester. Even at school, I never said I wanted to be a tester. As a child, I probably wanted to be an astronaut or maybe a professional cyclist (the Tour de France caught up with me). So I started as a land surveyor, making maps (not mental maps) and preparing land for future airports, sports buildings, roads, mainly in French Polynesia. Then I decided to go back to school and learn computer science. My first job was as a software developer, where I built user interfaces in C++/Qt. At that time, nobody was testing what I was doing, not even reviewing the code ..read more

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Everyone knows Beren: he’s the TestSphere guy and he came in 2018 for a RiskStorming workshop during MixIt in Lyon. Today, as a former tester, a coach, a conference organiser or a Product Manager, he answers our questions in this new interview. Expect unusual answers! Who are you, what are you doing, where are you working? I’m Beren, a Belgian former-tester. I’m afraid I don’t have an easy answer to the question of what I do, as I do many things: Consult, create products, do workshops, help organise a conference and manage a company.
 All that… while traveling most of the time. I’m also homele ..read more

Here we are with our first reading recommendations of this year. A perfect time to wish you a happy Testing year, hoping that all your wishes will come true. The 3 things we wanted to share with you are the following: Parking meters are rejecting credit cards in Y2K-Type Glitch: It is time to get serious about software testing in the 2020’s: Postmodern Automation learning The first article is, contrary to appearances, a recent one. Indeed, in New York city, the very old Y2k bug is back in 2020. 14,000 meters were unable to be used with credit card due to a software glitch that recalled the Y ..read more

Hello and welcome to our reading recommendations of the month! This week will feature: Recent investigation about a deadly self-driving car crash, Free card deck for 50 Quick Ideas to Improve User Stories, How to apply Shift-Left Testing in Continuous Testing. Welcome back to our new weekly recommendations. If you are involved with testing self-driving cars, you may have heard of this deadly ‘car-that-thinks’ crash in the USA which occurred in March 2018. The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), in charge of the investigation, very recently released the final report explaining ..read more

Dear readers, it’s not easy to find time for reading and improve our tester skills. Hopefully, we try to gather a few articles that have a certain interest if you are in a continuous improvement process. This week, we share with you these 3 subjects around automation: Writing Good Gherkin Enables Good Test Automation UI Test Automation Frameworks Showdown: TestCafé versus Nightwatch.js Beyond Page Objects: Next Generation Test Automation with Serenity and the Screenplay Pattern Behavior Driven Development is a must known by the 3 amigos: Product Owners, Developers and testers. Using Gherkin ..read more

Welcome back from holidays ! We hope you spent a great summer. You will find here our reading recommendations : A card game for testers involving God, Prophets and scientists : Eleusis I test in production Resources to learn Python To carry on with the fun time you had during your summer break, let’s talk about games! “Eleusis” is a game for testers in which you can alternatively become a scientist, God or a prophet. Watch the complete video tutorial to know the rules. Gregory Paciga gives us a review by explaining why he thinks this game is made for testers, and has other interesting articl ..read more