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Workroom Playtime 035: build 3 throwaway tools in 15 minutes

Oct 21, 2025

(it's for the 23rd – I know what it says in the email summary... I messed up)

This week's Workroom PlayTime is Thursday 23 October at 3pm London time.

We'll gather on Zoom to build 3 throwaway tools. This 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:

  • 036 30 October: bespoke matchers via an LLM
  • 037 6 November: xargs for testers
  • 038 13 November: parts for tools
  • 039 20 November: «something fun»

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.