the barefoot tester

After years of talking saying “We should create a workshop together”, Vernon Richards and I have finally done just that. Join us at the Leeds Testing Atelier on the 9th October where we’ll be running The making of a Conversation

Throughout our careers, we join and form teams with people from all walks of life. We work in a creative industry, and we invest a lot of ourselves into our work so it’s essential that we can have crucial conversations while remaining congruent.
In our workshop, we’ll take you through the Satir Interaction model to exaggerate a conversation, highlighting how much goes on between hearing and seeing someone speak, to responding.

Takeaways:
A better understanding of congruent conversations, how you interact with others and why you have specific responses.
A model to break down interactions allowing you to respond congruently
We’ll look at the process we go through from hearing and seeing someone through to responding.

Pre-requisites:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/haoscmfzm1m8dfi/Pre_Requisites_Map_V2.pdf?dl=0

 

Links to the “Lifes a riot with Stubs, Fakes, Spies & Mocks” Repos

https://github.com/chrischant3/lifes-a-riot-with-stubs

https://github.com/chrischant3/lifes-a-riot-with-spies

https://github.com/chrischant3/lifes-a-riot-with-mocks

 

Useful LInks
Use JSON generator to create some example data. https://www.json-generator.com/

Useful resources on POSTMAN https://github.com/DannyDainton/All-Things-Postman

 

Once again, it gives me great pleasure to sponsor the Leeds Testing Atelier.

The Atelier will be on the 17th April @ the Wharf Chambers in Leeds. It’s free to attend and includes food and drink (including craft beer!). Details, including the fantastic lineup, can be found here.

Register today and come along and say hi.

I’m delighted to share that  Ash Winter and I will be attending the Testing Cup 2018 in Poland to deliver our workshop, Life’s a Riot with Stubs, Fakes, Spies and Mocks.

For anyone who missed out on a space in Brighton, join us in Lodz, Poland on the 29th May. More information can be found here

 

I’m delighted to say I’ll be delivering a workshop with Ash Winter on Stubs, Fakes, Spies and Mocks. Our first workshop will be hosted by the Ministry of Testing at Testbash Brighton on the 15th March 2018.

You’ll find the abstract below and can view event information on the Ministry of Testing website:

Life’s a Riot with Stubs, Fakes, Spies, and Mocks

Ever wished you had more control over third party API responses? Have you been unable to test specific API responses? Perhaps you’re trying to improve the stability of your automation suites? Have you just started writing unit and integration tests? Maybe you’re building a client for an API that hasn’t been built yet, and you want to get testing earlier? Facing these challenges, mocks, stubs, fakes and spies are essential to testability and can be used both in your automation and as a tool to aid you in your exploratory testing.

In this workshop, the group will explore mocks, stubs, fakes and spies. You’ll come away with ideas on when these techniques are appropriate, how to gradually build up features in the tools you create to mimic services and you will know just how quick it is to go from idea to working tool. Some programming experience is preferred, but anyone who has an interest in testability will find the workshop rewarding.

Key takeaways are:

• Recognise the common terminology used in the stubs, fakes, spies and mocks domain
• Understand the difference between stubs, fakes, spies and mocks through their characteristics and use cases
• Apply this foundational knowledge to build a gradually more featured tool to illustrate the journey from stub to fully fledged mock

The systems we test are massively integrated with many different data sources, and this is only going to increase. With the ability to mimic key services, your dependencies won’t be the bottleneck that stops you from delivering information of value, early and often.

It gives me great pleasure to sponsor the Leeds Testing atelier for the second time this year. I lived and worked in Leeds for a year at a time when the testing community was just starting to take off, and it’s fantastic to see it thrive over the last few years. I believe in the people behind the Leeds Testing Atelier and love their Punk / DIY approach to conferences.

The Atelier will be on the 17th October @ the Wharf Chambers in Leeds. It’s free to attend and includes food and drink (including craft beer!). Details, including the fantastic lineup, can be found here.

Register today and come along and say hi.

I recently had the pleasure of joining Neil Studd and Daniel Billing as a guest on the Screen Testing Podcast where we talked about coaching and the film, Whiplash.

http://screentesting.libsyn.com/ep-10-whiplash
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/ep-10-whiplash/