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Workroom Playtime 036: Custom Asserts

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This week's Workroom PlayTime is Thursday 30 October at 4pm London time. That's 4pm. 4.

We'll gather on Zoom to work with Custom Asserts – which bring reusable deep checks to your test automation. We'll work in pre-built environments, on working software with a test harness, so you don't need to bring anything but a browser. 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:

  • 037 6 November: xargs for testers
  • 038 13 November: parts for tools
  • 039 20 November: «something fun»
  • 040 27 November: from ATD!

We've set a date, so we'd like to invite you to a trial run of Testing Transparently – the keynote that Elizabeth Zagroba and I are working on for ATD. We'll do it on Zoom at 9:30am (UK time) on Friday 14 November. Ping me for an invite if you've not already heard from us.

I'll run a chunk of the Crafting Custom Tools tute with Bart Knaack and Huib Schoots soon, too. Reply to this to catch that train.

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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