Your Weekly Testing News - Issue 421

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What could you do to help create the next generation of testers?

Lots of folks in the community are doing their bit to support the next generation of testers. Nicola Lindgren wrote a book: Starting Your Software Testing Career. Johanna South shares five things QA Engineers can do to ace an interview. Simon Prior and the Testing Peers continue to help folks get into testing. I recently shared three ways to launch a career in software testing.

Ministry of Testing is creating a modern, open-source curriculum for those looking to get into software testing. Have a look at this list of tasks a Junior Test Engineer would complete as part of their job. We collated this list from over 160 surveys taken by Junior Testers, Managers and recruiters in the community. We'd love to get your feedback before we move to the next stage of creating the curriculum. It's a great way to give back to the next generation of software testers.

🙋 Learn, share your knowledge, add to the following

Hong wants to know how to demonstrate you're serious about moving into a testing role
Eric is curious about writing Selenium/Appium automation that checks Apple Pay on iOS devices with web pages
How do you promote your value as a tester/QA?
A long-time manual tester is unsure of where to go next
Mark would like to know how has context contributed to successes and failures in delivering valuable automation.
What’s one thing you like about a tool you no longer use?
What changes to your CV/Resume have helped you?
What's missing from the products, places, apps and websites to practice software testing wiki?

Have a good week.

— Simon, CommunityBoss

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📚 Reading List of the Week

We have another fantastic reading list to share with you for the week. This reading list is all about Software Testing Essentials and focuses on the fundamentals of testing.

It contains helpful lists of testing resources, answers to common testing questions and quick start guides into more technical aspects of testing. It’s an essential reading list for anyone getting started in the world of testing.

If there's an article in there that you think someone would find useful then please do share.