Quality Coach newsletter #34

🤖 Coaching Teams on using AI

Use the enthusiasm and curiosity around AI to help teams improve their test coverage and or solve other problems.

Using AI in Quality Coaching

Many teams are keen to explore how AI can help them in improve test coverage or reduce the time required for testing.

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⏳ What shape is your test automation in?

This fun workshop helps a team identify their test automation model, which can lead to fruitful discussions about what good looks like.

Create a Team Test Automation Strategy

You don’t have to be an expert in test automation to facilitate a team test automation strategy. Here’s a fun workshop you can run with any team.

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Finally, my cringe, which I wrote after waking up at 3 a.m. in some stupid panic. I finally managed to claw myself down off the cliff. This is what I felt compelled to write.

Togetherness

My little one. Do not be afraid. The morning is upon us and the dawn sheds a new light. You are loved. I am with you and will hold your hand as we walk through the shadows. I cannot go where you have been. That door is closed leaving whispers

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📚 From the Archives

Is Test Automation the new Test Documentation?

In terms of effort and maintenance has test automation taken over from test documentation? We need to keep the tester at the centre of testing

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Back To Basics: Automated Testing

Automating parts of testing has always existed since people have tested software. In my early days of testing the concept of separating testing into manual and automated testing never really existed. Well not where I worked anyhow. We tested, and sometimes we used tools to help us test. In conformance

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Experiments in Quality Coaching

Use the concept of experiments to encourage product teams to try new approaches, tools and ways of working

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🏘️ Picks from the Community

Test Automation is the theme!

Don't go past this great post by Melissa Fisher, which has readily available templates and training to help you achieve a risk-based approach to test automation.

Decide what tests to automate.

At my workplace we are very strategic with what we automate. It’s not automating for the sake of it but a thought out strategic process. I…

MediumMelissa Fisher

As I obsess over playwright scripts, this article by Mike Harris caught my eye. 👀

Benefit from a richer Page Object Model with abstract classes and functions

The Page Object Model we create to support our automated tests can be described as a model of the application we are testing. We can make it a richer model using abstract classes and functions. “cl…

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And another gem, this one from Jit Gosai, on where test automation offers real value 👇

Can We Automate All the Things? Exploring the Limits of Testing in Software Systems

Can you automate all your testing? It depends on how certain you are about your software system’s behaviour.

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Upcoming speaking engagements

I'm finishing up my speaking events with a rant on enshittification. Join me!

Xmas Double Bill - Talking Quality & Job Search, AM Charrett & Cerosh Jacob , Thu, Dec 5, 2024, 5:30 PM | Meetup

For our December event we have a Christmas Special for you! Anne-Marie Charrett and Cerosh Jacob return with some talks on great, prescient and provocative topics! Come alo

Meetup

I'll be hanging out networking at Yow! Sydney - reach out if you will be there 👥

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