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Reflects on the author's journey to public speaking, highlighting the roles of blogging, community involvement (KraQA), and teaching experience in overcoming fear, concluding with feedback and slides from an Engineering Productivity talk.
Read more: My road to public speaking + slides from Engineering Productivity talkA satirical guide offering tongue-in-cheek advice on how to fail as a software tester, covering neglecting personal development, abusing the 'quality guardian' role, avoiding technology, shirking environment responsibility, disrupting team flow, and ignoring the community.
Read more: How to be a failure as a software testerIntroduces Google Lighthouse as a quick and easy tool for performance analysis, showing how to install it via npm and generate desktop/mobile reports from the command line with options for throttling and headers, also mentioning CI integration.
Read more: Five minutes performance report with Google LighthouseIntroduces the concept of antifragility and argues that the 'TestOps' role (strong automation skills across testing, CI/CD, environments) is the most antifragile testing role due to the wide range of career options it enables, recommending programming skills for increased job security.
Read more: TestOps - the most antifragile testing roleExplains how to leverage existing automated functional tests (Selenium, Rest-Assured) by running them through a local proxy (JMeter, Burp, ZAP etc.) to capture traffic, which can then drive security scanning, performance testing, and exploratory testing efforts.
Read more: How to use automated functional tests to drive your exploratory, security and performance testing efforts?