December 2020 Content Summary

TLDR; December content contains links to updated practice applications, and new videos.

The content on Patreon is accessible for only $1 a month at patreon.com/eviltester. Supporters gain access to downloadable PDFs of the content and micro courses e.g. How I Test - Web App, Test Ability Audit and more

Twitter

• Viv’s 12 Day’s Testing Advent Calendar was fun
  • https://twitter.com/eviltester/status/1343508075802718208
  • https://12daysoftestmas.netlify.app/
• Static Analysis in the Games Industry
  • https://www.viva64.com/en/b/0778/
• Static Analysis Top 10 Game Bugs
  • https://hownot2code.com/2018/05/08/static-analysis-in-video-game-development-top-10-software-bugs/
• Check the bottom of this post for an example of Google Colaboratory
  • https://tms1337.medium.com/but-dude-tdd-is-so-slow-and-besides-it-all-boils-down-to-the-same-sh-t-78ea3e8afe6d
• My TestFlix talk
  • https://twitter.com/eviltester/status/1338464444221956098

Blog Posts For December 2020

• API Testing Challenge - How To - GET todos id 404
  • How to solve challenge GET todos id 404.

Patreon Posts For December 2020

• XMas Testing Challenge

  • Your Challenge: What issues did The Pulper team miss in version 11?

• Cellular Automata

  • I’ve always been fascinated by Cellular Automata but never seen any good usecases.

• Open Source Profile - Open Quality Conference Keynote Recording

  • The recording of my talk: ‘Open Source Profile’ from the Open Quality Conference - Keynote Recording

• Buggy Games

  • games are essentially ’engines’

• Some beginner programing notes

  • Lessons reminded when coding with a beginner.

• The temptation to write a tool…

  • One of my biases is towards tooling. Not just finding and using tools but building tools. Thinking Tactically helps me.

• Secure by Design Book

  • Secure by Design Book

• Data Modelling takes practice

  • Data Modelling takes practice. Learn tools of structural modelling, and the approaches for semantic modelling.

• Analytics and Cookie Compliance Laws

  • One thing I’ve been meaning to do for a while is move off Google Analytics… and now have.

• Finishing is hard - tips to help

  • Tips for incrementally writing and releasing.

• Jupyter Colab Python

  • Some tools just keep popping back up on my radar.

• Content Summary for November 2020

  • Content Summary for November 2020

• November 2020 Collated PDFs

  • November 2020 Collated PDFs

• More Communication Solves Everything?

  • When in doubt put more communication out.

• Remote Agile

  • Remote Agile Pairing and time zones.

• Fear as a motivator

  • Is fear a motivator?

• What does that imply?

  • Very often our ’testing’ techniques don’t have to be complicated. I like summarising them to simple questions.

• Switching tooling considerations - sometimes you stick

  • Switching between strategic tooling is a big decision. You may have to migrate slowly, and use both in parallel.

• Onboarding and Quality

  • Onboarding is a very hard problem for tools that are ‘different’. Quality relates to our mental models.

• The Power of an Ask

  • The ‘Management Ask’ has a lot of power and too open to accidental abuse.

• Office Politics

  • Office politics are interesting, painful, but interesting.

• Estimates and Models

  • Treat the process of estimation of building a model. Try to identify what you can monitor to improve the model over time.

• Things not to automate using Selenium

  • I’ve broken the best practice ‘rules’ in the past. And I’ll explain why.

You can gain access to the content on Patreon for only $1 a month at patreon.com/eviltester. Supporters gain access to downloadable PDFs of the content and micro courses e.g. How I Test - Web App, Test Ability Audit and more