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If you could magically eliminate one common widespread misconception about Software Testing, what would you wield away and why?

I signed up for the Load Testing. Best Practices, but am not seeing any way to join the webinar. I get a link toI then login and click Attend button which then indicates Attending, but I’m not entered into any webinar. And, I see no options to join. How do to join?BTW, I tried calling the Shiftsync US support number and it disconnects after one ring. Not seeing any other options of support so trying here.

What new skills/tool did you learn in 2023?

Hello Community,Since IT and Testing related concepts can be difficult to understand sometimes I was thinking of creating a serios of explain to me like I am 5 with Legos.In the link you can see one such artile and I was wondering if you could suggest topics to add to the serieshttps://medium.com/p/ca79b3b6f96e 

This should not happen as I use a password manager:Yet it happened the 2nd time. Is there a problem with the login. Are there illegal characters for passwords (mine are all generated random strings)?

How would you as a tester complete this sentence: When life gives you lemons… a) Lemon UX: Rate life's sour experience.b) Bug filed: Life delivered lemons!c) Test life's lemons: Sour or sweet?d) Lemon test: Life's acidity check.e) QA life: Lemons under analysis.f)Other….

What do you call the amount of memory that a generative AI can hold at any time?

Whether you’re a tester, software developer, or elsewhere in the tech industry, we all know that technology (and AI in particular) have seen a big jump over the past couple years. Many have understandably had concerns with retaining relevant skills as we move further and further into uncharted territory. What steps have you taken to help ensure your place in your line of work is secure? Are the fears of artificial replacement overblown? Is there anything you think we should prepare for? 

Hello,I'm a college student, trying to gather more and more knowledge about test automation with AI. That's why I chose Testim, but my free trial expired already, so I can't try all the AI-powered functionalities Testim can offer.My question is, if it's possible to run a web-app over localhost in Testim, to which I've implemented mutation tests? I'm aware that in the free plan there's only the Testim cloud grid, but still I'd love to reproduce the auto improve functionality of this Testool with my error-filled local code of the web-app. I've written tests with the localhost's URL as the starting point (my server built with Node.js and Express and gets run before the automated tests), but instead of the auto improved steps I get a warning that the locators have significantly changed. That's not quite the auto improve behaviour I'm looking for or the one displayed in the documentation. Would someone be nice enough to lend me some of their thoughts on the matter and how I could trigger th

Can anyone provide an example of how to validate data in an Excel sheet downloaded via a TestIM test case?I viewed the example provided here, but it only shows the means to extract the number of sheets in the spreadsheet and the title of the sheets, it does not provide an example of how to retrieve values from a cell (the value at cell A3 of the sheet) for example?I’m rather new at creating custom actions so any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

what are the possible steps you think a beginner in testing career can take after completing academic training in manual testing?

DevOps ways of working are designed to both accelerate the flow of work and simultaneously improve the quality, reliability and scalability of digital products. But research data suggests this hasn’t yet worked for everyone and that the majority of organisations are stalling in their implementations, unable to reach higher levels of capability. Where are you at with DevOps in your organization? Is it everything you hoped it would be? (Best answer wins a copy of Investments Unlimited!)

What do you spend more time doing during a day?Writing new tests? Fixing old tests?

Hey everyone, so I have a question for all of you. Recently, I have started my first ever Meetup group and before that I already went to couple of developer meetups, but I was wondering what do usually expect on the Meetups you are attending (two standard talks + networking afterwards or just one longer presentation)? Also are there any testing Meetups you are attending/enjoying?  

Hi Community, I would like to know how the security testing is performed and Is there any tools whichis used to scan the code and identify the vulnerabilities in the code.  

Wonderful People of the ShiftSync Community!We are looking for your input as practitioners on Test Data usage in the context of your testing work, and have launched an anonymous 3min survey to gather data on the subject.Even if you don’t use a lot of data in your testing, let us know, and share this with other colleagues you think might.Our results will be shared at a later time and will help us shape the future of product strategy, so this is a great opportunity to be heard. CLICK HERE TO TAKE THE SURVEY 

This is a question that I get asked a lot, especially from people outside of the IT Industry.How do you answer this?  

Open source projects are always considered as dev-only contribution repos. is there any possible way that testers can also contribute to it?

How are the points added and how can I check the tally against my activities?

I’m new to games testing , so I was wondering if there are any tools out there which uses re-enforced learning or ML to navigate through the game ?The game is being developed in Unity and I know Unity has tools to script automated tests but I’m more looking for tools which automatically would be able to traverse the game.  is there a tool out there which would do this?

I want to ask a question that is both simple and complex to answer: How do you write your test cases?Why do I say it is simple?Well I mean according to some definitions testers write test cases and since they do it often it should be easy. Also there is a ton of information online on how to write a test case, what should it contain, so again, easy and simple.Why do I say it is complex?Well, a PM once told me that the tests should be written in such a way that a person coming from the street should be able to run them. I mean that is not impossible to do but it will take time, a lot of time. One has to find a way to explain concepts that are not really in the day to day dictionary ( API for example).I think that they want somenthing like this When tests steps are really clear - YouTube 16What do you think? How do you do it?