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Workroom Playtime 034: `jq` for testers

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This week's Workroom PlayTime is Thursday 16 October at 3pm London time.

We'll gather on Zoom to play with jq for testers. This is another in the series of UNIX tools for testers, and will become part of a tutorial at Agile Testing Days in Potsdam in November.

These exercises are for everyone, for free. Subscribers get to play together every week. If you can see a joining info section below, then that gives you access to the Zoom etc. for the workshop. If you'd like to bring a friend, you can do that. I'll say yes until I've got too many.

We'll be pretty tool-focussed over the coming weeks as I try out elements for that ATD tutorial. I plan to cover:

  • 034 16 October: jq for testers
  • 035 23 October: build 3 throwaway tools in 15 minutes
  • 036 30 October: bespoke matchers via an LLM
  • 037 6 November: xargs for testers

I'll also run a couple of longer things for subscribers; a chunk of the Crafting Custom Tools tute with Bart Knaack and Huib Schoots, and a rehearsal of the Testing Transparently keynote with Elizabeth Zagroba. Want to know more? Reply to this.

Thank you for reading!

Cheers –

James

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James Lyndsay

Getting better at software testing. Singing in Bulgarian. Staying in. Going out. Listening. Talking. Writing. Making.

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