Resources
Book by the awesome Emily Webber
https://ministryoftesting.com/dojo/series/99-second-talks-from-testbash
Questions
The questions we didn’t get to:
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Who sets up a session? How do you setup a session? Who do you invite?
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Could we use the community of practice concept to create a software testing apprenticeships?
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If you had a magic wand, what would the perfect community of practice look like?
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What is the most challenging while building a CoP in your experiences? How did you overcome it?
an answer from the comments My main problem was people assuming our Quality Guild was the same as a QA retro. I sent out ‘advertising’ emails, a bit like freshers’ week. I also got the QAs to invite squad members. -
What is the worse thing about starting a CoP? Are there any downsides?
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What is the aim of creating a community? Should there be a specific goal in mind? Or do we let the community decide the goal? Could this goal change over time?
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At my work, we have an engineering and QA CoP. Would you suggest splitting testing and development, or not? It seems like everything is always geared towards engineers, and QA is just bolted on without being included. Thanks!
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Is there a place in the community (forum,slack,discord) where CoP or Guild organizers can collaborate and get ideas from each other?
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Kinda community related; do you ever experience imposter syndrome being surrounded / presenting to people with diverse experience?
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What has kept you motivated to continue within testing?
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Hi Lee, How can we create a community in an agile way ?
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How do you manage the engineering teams expectations on your testing efforts and experience?
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Hi Lee , with whole industry moving for test and devlopers in the same team … what will be the growth path for testers and wouldnt it be that developes would be given that extra benefit as their into codi g ?? Would it be eventually that there will be no testers and everyone doing coding and testing … whole concept of testing with e2e perspective wouldnt it fade away
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Has the mention of Automation frameworks made you fear for your role within manual testing - especially considering the current economic ambiguity in the UK? / did you progress to automation?
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What are your recommendation to maintain CoP and make people always more motivated?
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Can you give tips on using inclusive language for communities of practice? What I mean is that I want others to be able to attend the developer or tester guild even if they are not developers or testers. Maybe even have them turn up especially because they are not from that same discipline background
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Hi Lee, Did you try the ‘testingtour’ defined by Elisabeth Hocke in your testing community ? How it goes with more than 2 testers ?
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Hello guys, I am fresh CS graduate and I would like to be a Tester. Can you suggest me any tips to land on my first job as a Tester? Also where do I start in order to be a good tester as we have not had a proper tutoring for Testing? Finally do I need to obtain professional certifcate in Testing in order to get a job as Tester ? I answered with “Welcome! I’d suggest looking at a few Club posts Club Posts To Help You Get Started With Software Testing And QA Are software Testing Certifications worth it? and possibly also ask over on the Club :)”
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How do you feel about combining different industry testing community practices - such as gaming industry and web?
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How would we start with community of practice how can we attract one to join And actively participate in community of practice?