Announce Exploratory Testing Workshop at #TestBash Netherlands

Test Bash is going to The Netherlands!!

Register here.

It's happening at the end of January 2017 in Utrecht.

There are workshops on the 26th and the conference day is on the 27th.

Along with Sharath Byregowda I will be running a workshop on the 26th.

Here are the details - 

Announce Exploratory Testing
by Sharath Byregowda & Tony Bruce

You know Exploratory Testing is not following a script. You know Exploratory Testing provides quick feedback. You know Exploratory Testing is a perfect fit to your context. You have notes from test sessions. What next? How do you share this information? What do you share? How do you produce metrics? What can you visualise? How can you visualise it? In this workshop Sharath and Tony will introduce you to a framework to help manage and report your testing sessions. This framework can be used to produce useful trends and metrics to quickly to share with your stakeholders.

• Through a day of discussions, teamwork and exercises we will
• Get familarised with the framework
• Look at different ways of producing your notes
• Produce trends and metrics from your test sessions
• Give an idea of coverage

Attendees will leave with:

• A understanding of different note taking methods
• A method of producing trends and metrics
• A view of coverage
• Visualisation of their Exploratory Testing

Get your place before they all sell out!!!

Presentations and materials from the London Tester Gathering Workshops 2016

#ltgworkshops for 2016 have just passed.

There are some photos if you'd like to have a look.


And here are the presentations and materials:

Programme - 2016.

Hands-on Screen Reader Workshop
Steve Green

Testing web services
www.mwtestconsultancy.co.uk/presentations/understanding_web_services/

www.mwtestconsultancy.co.uk/presentations/what_makes_a_service_restful/

www.mwtestconsultancy.co.uk/presentations/observing_rest/

https://github.com/mwinteringham/restful-booker

Mark Winteringham

Dimensions of Testability
Maria Kedemo

Agile Exploratory Testing
Shared under this Creative Commons License

Agile Exploratory Testing van Jean-Paul Varwijk is in licentie gegeven volgens een Creative Commons Naamsvermelding-NietCommercieel-GeenAfgeleideWerken 4.0 Internationaal-licentie
Jean-Paul Varwijk

Better Check
Peter Houghton

Fast Feedback And Fun Using Ruby
Fast Feedback Using Ruby Book
Stephan Kämper

Questions are powerful. Learn to use them.
Tony Bruce

Get Into Coaching And Mentoring
Dan Ashby and Tony Bruce

Write more robust and extensible BDD tests faster with Serenity and the Journey/Screenplay Pattern
John Smart and Jan Molak

From Example Mapping to Serenity
Kishen Simbhoedatpanday and Arjan Blok

'What is this Exploratory Testing Thing?' presentation given at Agile Tour London 2014

London #TesterGathering Workshops 2014 materials. #ltgworkshops

London #TesterGathering Workshops 2014 - Presentations and materials

Here are the some materials from the London #TesterGathering Workshops 2014.

Photos!

You can check out the full programme and podcosts here

The materials from 2013 are available here.

2015 is already on early bird sale. 

Exploratory Testing Session - Tony Bruce

Debugging, testing and hacking JavaScript Web Applications  Resources -  Carlos Ble and Jenny Mulholland


Testing Mobile Software - Stephen Janaway

Introduction to the WebDriver API - Richard Bradshaw
Java and C#

Making your WebDriver tests fast, portable and reliable - Mark Collin

Security Testing with OWASP ZAP: from zero to hero - Bill Matthews

I started listing resources & guides

 I started listing resources & guides please add more!

Cheers.

• Exploratory Testing
  • Ministry of Testing ET Resources
  • Ministry of Testing Session Based Test Management Resources
  • 10 Ways To Do Exploratory Testing Badly
• Security Testing
  • OWASP Testing Guide
  • Low Hanging Fruit
  • Ministry of Testing Security Testing
• Tools
  • Fiddler
  • ZAProxy
  • Burp Suite
  • Charles
  • Firebug
  • Ministry of Testing Tools List
  • YSlow
  • AutoIt
  • Jmeter
• Ideas
  • 36 Days of Web Testing
  • Technical Web Testing 101
  • You Are Not Done Yet
  • The Little Black Book On Test Design
  • Software Quality Characteristics 1.1
  • Alternative Uses for Fiddler
  • 37 Sources for Test Ideas 1.0
  • Software Quality Characteristics Poster
  • Introduction to Test Strategy
  • Exploratory Test Design
  • What does a technical exploratory test session look like?
  • 77 Test Idea Triggers
  • How to chain HTTP Debug Proxies
  • No time left at the end of the sprint for proper testing
  • Onion Patch Strategy
  • 101 tactics for revolutionaries
• Automation
  • Models of Automation
    
  • Throw it Away
  • Selenium Simplified
  • Selenium HQ
  • Webdriver Google Group
  • Selenium Users Google Group
  • Junit
• Humour

• • Software Tester Reactions
  • DevOps Reactions
  • Cartoon Tester
  • Explaining Testing
  • QA Hates You
• Books
  • Ministry of Testing Ebooks List 
• Accessibility
  • Web Accessibility Testing Heuristics 
    
• Cheat Sheets
  • XPath, CSS, DOM and Selenium: The Rosetta Stone

• • Test Heuristics Cheat Sheet Data Type Attacks
  • Web Test Heuristics
  • Selenium 2 WebDriver Java API Cheat Sheets
• Responsive
  • Responsive Web Design Testing 10-Tools You Need to Know

Collected blog posts - #ltgw2013

I've gathered up a list of blog posts related to the London #TesterGathering Workshops 2013.
I'll keep adding as I come across any but If I've missed any please let me know.

Pre:
Carlos Ble - London Tester Gathering Workshops

@webcowgirl - The Cheater's Guide to Levelling Up

Post:
Stephen Janaway - London Tester Gathering Workshops 2013

Simon Knight - Focussed Awareness

conferize - Attend any conference online.

R B's Prezi

Dan Ashby - Lessons from the Black Ops Testing LTG Workshop!

Weeknight Testing: Is ATDD perceived to be the next silver bullet?

The next Weeknight testing session is on the 19th June at Skillsmatter
We will hold a workshop to demonstrate:

• why software investigation is needed even if you have acceptance criteria.

• the difference between checking off acceptance criteria and investigating the software with exploratory testing sessions.

• how you can strengthen your acceptance criteria checks with information gathered through exploratory testing sessions.

Bring a laptop.

Register here

Explaining testing: New test ideas

Weeknight Testing....BRB..

So a while back a bunch of clever people started this thing called Weekend Testing. 

About us
WT formerly known as Bangalore Weekend Testers is the acronym for Weekend Testers. We are a group of testers who have synergy towards testing software and learning from it. We also belong to the group of testers whose vision is to improve the craft. We are bringing Weekend Testing through our first chapter – Bangalore Weekend Testers, to find people with similar synergy.
Mission of WT
A platform for software testers to collaborate, test various kinds of software, foster hope, gain peer recognition, and be of value to the community.

You should already be aware of it, if not, look into it. Good times.
 
And out of it grew Weeknight Testing.

Weeknight Testing slowed down as we all got busy with life and there hasn't been a session for quite while.

Sharath has been in contact and we're looking at reviving it.

If there is anything you would like covered or if you're interested in running a session let us know.

I think (tbc) we're going to be looking at running it in different ways, not sure exactly yet but I think we'll mix between in person and on-line sessions.

Details on a couple of past sessions:

WNT – Black Box Security Testing

Week Night Testing: Requirements analysis & testing traps

Weeknight Testing #04 – an experience report

Agile Testing UK:Weeknight Testing Live 

  - Live video streamed between Germany, San Francisco and London.

Get involved.

Test. Learn. Contribute.


Cheers

Tony.

LTG Talk - Testing Without Testing - James Marcus Bach

James Marcus Bach spoke at the November London Tester Gathering which was sponsored by Test Partners Ltd and hosted by Skillsmatter.

Skillsmatter have podcast the talk.

London Tester Gathering - Thurs 11th October - The Shooting Star

The October London Tester Gathering will be on Thursday 11th October at The Shooting Star.

Address:

Function Room 125-129 Middlesex Street London E1 7JF 0207 929 6818

The plan:

We have the function room from 5:30pm onwards.

Talks:

Intro to Project Partners

Extending the page object pattern with widgets and

reflection - Rob Fahey

Sponsorship:

Project Partners, part of the Hydrogen Group

RSVP: http://linkd.in/UaSXyN

Hope to see you there.

Cheers and Kind Regards

Tony Bruce.

Testing? Thoughts? Idea? What?

Yesterday I tried a experiment I'd been toying with in my head.

I've been with a organisation for roughly 8mths now and I've not actually had a lot of time to spend with the Testers as we've all been busy and I wanted to know more about how they think and what they think about what they do.

My role has changed slightly now and I have more time to work with the Testers and so yesterday was the first of the 'sessions' I'll be running.

I had 3 Testers on the exercise and essentially just asked them to write down thoughts on testing.

We then discussed what they had written down and wrote it on a whiteboard.

I then added to it with my thoughts which we also discussed.

There were notes being taken and thoughtful nods and comments.

Mine are in red.

Francesco, a colleague who wasn't on the exercise later pointed out that we'd not written anything about 'who'.

What else did we miss?

I think the session was a success as it seemed to get the guys thinking and I learnt about their thinking.

I would like to punch it up a bit, not sure what I could add to jazz it up a little.

Have you run anything similar? Or taken part in something similar? How did you get on?

It might have worked a little better if thoughts had been written the night before and then we got together to discuss as I'm thinking of new stuff to add all the time.

10 Ways To Do Exploratory Testing Badly

Moved from my old blog, originally posted here.

1. Don't stay on track, if you come across something you think needs some exploring, do it then and there.
2. Answer your emails, take and make phone calls, talk about the weather, cats and dogs, how The Princess Bride is the only movie ever where the lead actor is prettier then the lead actress.
3. Don't take any notes, keep it in your head.
4. Don't have anything written down, no need for a mission/charter.
5. Read articles, white papers, blogs on Exploratory Testing as you perform Exploratory Testing.
6. There are a few tools out and about to help with Exploratory Testing, ignore all of them. Tools? We ain't got no Tools. We don't need no Tools! I don't have to show you any stinkin' Tools!'
7. Don't log anything you find, keep it to yourself, all mine, mine, mine mine. My Precioussssssss.
8. Once you've finished, do it again, and keep repeating the same thing.
9. Don't worry about coverage, you covered stuff, that'll do.
10. Don't look for anything odd.