Here is this week’s edition of curated collection of announcements, articles, blog posts, and news from the software testing community covering the days of September 6th – September 12th, 2020.

Testing

• 5 Excellent Ways For Mobile Website Testing – Rahul Jain – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/5-excellent-ways-for-mobile-website-testing/
• A Culture of Criticism in Software Companies – Qaiser Munir – https://www.techwell.com/techwell-insights/2020/09/culture-criticism-software-companies
• A Tale of Two Testers – Kristin Jackvony – https://thinkingtester.com/a-tale-of-two-testers/
• Are You Testing Your Website On Microsoft Edge? – Kritika Murari – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/edge-vs-chrome-browser-testing/
• About agile recruitment, agile organizations and employees trying to keep up – Kinga Witko – https://kingatest.wordpress.com/2020/09/07/about-agile-recruitment-agile-organizations-and-employees-trying-to-keep-up/
• An End to End Guide on Exploratory Testing – Johanna South – https://theqaconnection.com/2020/09/08/an-end-to-end-guide-on-exploratory-testing/
• Bug Reporting can be simple – Paul Seaman – https://beaglesays.blog/2020/09/08/bug-reporting-can-be-simple/

Here is this week’s edition of curated collection of announcements, articles, blog posts, and news from the software testing community covering the days of August 23rd – August 29th, 2020.

Testing

• 5 SMART goals for a QA analyst – Jim Brown – https://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/feature/Goal-1-for-the-QA-tester-Take-ownership
• 10 Years in Testing ,10 Lessons – Lesson 5 – Maaike Brinkhof – https://www.maaikebrinkhof.nl/2020/08/10-years-in-testing-10-lessons-lesson-5/
• 2020/08/21 My experience hosting an AMA on blogging – Lee Marshall – https://thepiratetester.wordpress.com/2020/08/25/2020-08-21-my-experience-hosting-an-ama-on-blogging/
• API Reply validation with Python – Bart Vanherck – https://www.thetestingpirate.be/2020/08/26/api-reply-validation-with-python/
• AWS testing with Jest Unit Tests: Part 1 – Kris Raven – https://medium.com/@krisraven/aws-testing-with-jest-unit-tests-part-1-4c93c1d4bf21
• Common functional testing types explained, with examples – Amy Reichert – https://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/tip/Common-functional-testing-types-explained-with-examples
• Expected Results – Michael Bolton – https://www.developsense.com/blog/2020/08/expected-results/

As mentioned yesterday, Testing Curator is back on the normal Sunday publishing schedule.  Thank you for all the well wishes, prayers, and positive thoughts sent over the lat few weeks.

Here is this week’s edition of curated collection of announcements, articles, blog posts, and news from the software testing community covering the days of August 16th – August 22nd, 2020.

Testing

• 10 Years in Testing, 10 lessons – Lesson 4 – Maaike Brinkhof – https://www.maaikebrinkhof.nl/2020/08/10-years-in-testing-10-lessons-lesson-4/
• 13 Years of Software Testing – Yogesh Khairnari – https://qa-qcarena.blogspot.com/2020/08/13-years-of-software-testing.html
• 23 software development metrics to track today – Ryan Black – https://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/tip/23-software-development-metrics-to-track-today
• 333-How much time do you need for testing? – Torsten Zelger – http://simply-the-test.blogspot.com/2020/08/333-how-much-time-do-you-need-for.html
• A Tester Hiring Experiment – Test with Them – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – https://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2020/08/a-tester-hiring-experiment-test-with.html
• Be Wary of doc-subtitle – Adrian Roselli – https://adrianroselli.com/2020/08/be-wary-of-doc-subtitle.html
• Building an Awesome Home Office Space – Chris Kenst – https://www.kenst.com/2020/08/building-an-awesome-home-office-space/

After a bout with anterior uveitis, Testing Curator is back in the curating seat.

Here is last week’s edition of curated collection of announcements, articles, blog posts, and news from the software testing community covering the days of August 9th – August 15th, 2020.  The next edition will be published on Sunday as normal.

Testing

• 10 Years in Testing, 10 lessons – Lesson 3 – Maaike Brinkhof – https://www.maaikebrinkhof.nl/2020/08/10-years-in-testing-10-lessons-lesson-3/
• Coordinating your automated and manual test management – Joel Montvelisky – https://qablog.practitest.com/coordinating-manual-and-automatic-testing/
• Dealing with mindsets: Mindset – part 3 – Huib Schoots – https://www.huibschoots.nl/wordpress/?p=3053
• Free Yourself From Test Estimation – Ash Winter – https://diagramindustries.com/2020/08/15/free-yourself-from-test-estimation/
• Good Enough (Perfectly Applied) – Anne-Marie Charrett – https://mavericktester.com/2020/08/11/good-enough-perfectly-applied/
• How to deal with groups of similar scenarios? #GivenWhenThenWithStyle – Gojko Adzic – https://specflow.org/blog/how-to-deal-with-groups-of-similar-scenarios-givenwhenthenwithstyle/
• Interviewing technical testers – Samantha Connelly – https://bughuntersam.com/interviewing-technical-testers/

Here is this week’s edition of curated collection of announcements, articles, blog posts, and news from the software testing community covering the days of August 2nd – August 8th, 2020.

Testing

• 5 Essentials to Ensure QA Fits Perfectly into DevOps – Jagadish Anandhan – https://www.stickyminds.com/article/5-essentials-ensure-qa-fits-perfectly-devops
• 10 Years in Testing, 10 lessons – Lesson 2 – Maaike Brinkhof – https://www.maaikebrinkhof.nl/2020/08/10-years-in-testing-10-lessons-lesson-2/
• A Guide for Software Testing in Scrum – Samuel Maniraj – https://www.softwaretestingmagazine.com/knowledge/a-guide-for-software-testing-in-scrum/
• An Analysis of Exploratory Testing – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – https://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2020/08/an-analysis-of-exploratory-testing.html
• Can Manual Testers Survive in the Age of DevOps? – Kevin Dunne – https://blog.testproject.io/2020/08/06/can-manual-testers-survive-in-the-age-of-devops/
• Given-When-Then With Style – Gojko Adzic – https://specflow.org/blog/given-when-then-beyond-features-givenwhenthenwithstyle/
• Good Testing When the Audience Calls for Jaja Ding Dong – Pete Walen – https://rhythmoftesting.blogspot.com/2020/08/good-testing-when-audience-calls-for.html

Here is this week’s edition of curated collection of announcements, articles, blog posts, and news from the software testing community covering the days of July 26th – Aug 1st, 2020.

Testing

• 10 Years in Testing, 10 lessons – Lesson 1 – Maaike Brinkhof – https://www.maaikebrinkhof.nl/2020/07/10-years-in-testing-10-lessons-lesson-1/
• 15 Tips for conducting an amazing remote interview – Rob Lambert – https://cultivatedmanagement.com/interview/
• An Exploratory Tester’s Zephyr – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – https://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2020/07/an-exploratory-testers-zephyr.html
• Announcing API Testing Challenges – Alan Richardson – https://www.eviltester.com/blog/eviltester/apichallenges/2020-07-28-announcement/
• Everyone’s talking about testing! – Lee Hwakins – https://therockertester.wordpress.com/2020/07/28/everyones-talking-about-testing/
• Interview #2: Driving quality forward with a customer first mindset – Emna Ayadi – https://emnaayadi.com/2020/07/30/interview-2-customer-success/
• Is reviewing code a risk ? – Bart Vanherck – https://www.thetestingpirate.be/2020/07/29/is-reviewing-code-a-risk/

Recovery from wrist surgery is going well.  Out of the soft cast and into a brace is increasing curating efficiency.   Here is this week’s edition of curated collection of announcements, articles, blog posts, and news from the software testing community covering the days of July 19th – July 25th, 2020.  What an awesome week of listening and reading!

Testing

• A simple hiring strategy – hire people who are overqualified – Rob Lambert – https://cultivatedmanagement.com/overqualified/
• All Pairs Testing – Steve Mellor – https://allthingstesting.com/all-pairs-testing/
• Anchoring an idea while Exploratory Testing an API – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – https://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2020/07/anchoring-idea-while-exploratory.html
• Breaking the Test Case Addiction (Part 11) – Michael Bolton – https://www.developsense.com/blog/2020/07/breaking-the-test-case-addiction-part-11/
• Breaking the Test Case Addiction (Part 12) – Michael Bolton – https://www.developsense.com/blog/2020/07/breaking-the-test-case-addiction-part-12/
• Changing The Role of QA in your SDLC Process – Amelia Whyman – https://www.globalapptesting.com/blog/the-role-of-qa-in-your-sdlc-process
• Community Building – James Thomas – https://qahiccupps.blogspot.com/2020/07/community-building.html

You might have noticed that Testing Bits was published later than normal this Sunday.  Due to recent wrist surgery, I have found that curating while in a soft cast using my non-dominant hand takes much longer than I anticipated.  This is especially true when recently there has been so much more awesome content to manually curate.  For the next few weeks, please excuse any delays or typos as I adjust.

Here is this week’s edition of curated collection of announcements, articles, blog posts, and news from the software testing community covering the days of July 12th – July 18th, 2020.

Testing

• 5 Root Cause Analysis Tools For Better Testing & QA – Jason Boog – https://theqalead.com/topics/root-cause-analysis/
• 5 Steps to Get to Test Driven Development – Evgeny Tkachenko – https://www.stickyminds.com/article/5-steps-get-test-driven-development
• A Fresh Take on The Learning Process: The Adaptive Loop – George Brooks – https://medium.com/ideas-by-crema/a-fresh-take-on-the-learning-process-the-adaptive-loop-d9b3548abe30
• A simple and powerful question to ask – Rob Lambert – https://cultivatedmanagement.com/thequestion/
• AI in testing: 13 essential resources for QA pros – Paul Merrill – https://techbeacon.com/app-dev-testing/ai-testing-13-essential-resources-qa-pros
• AI in testing: What it is, and why it matters – Paul Merrill – https://techbeacon.com/app-dev-testing/ai-testing-what-it-why-it-matters
• How to prevent accidental complexity in software development – George Lawton – https://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/tip/How-to-prevent-accidental-complexity-in-software-development

Here is this week’s edition of curated collection of announcements, articles, blog posts, and news from the software testing community covering the days of July 5th – July 11th, 2020

Testing

• 10 Responsive Web Design Challenges And Their Solution – Nimritee – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/10-responsive-web-design-challenges-and-their-solution/
• 12 Traits of Highly Effective Tests – Andrew Knight – https://automationpanda.com/2020/07/09/12-traits-of-highly-effective-tests/
• ARIA Grid As an Anti-Pattern – Adrian Roselli – https://adrianroselli.com/2020/07/aria-grid-as-an-anti-pattern.html
• Coaching Upwards – Anne-Marie Charrett – https://mavericktester.com/2020/07/08/coaching-upwards/
• Coaching upwards? Pair-blog #3 – Lena Wiberg – https://testing.pejgan.se/2020/07/08/coaching-upwards-pair-blog-3/
• Equivalence Partitioning & Boundary Value Analysis – Steve Mellor – https://allthingstesting.com/equivalence-partitioning-boundary-value-analysis/
• Four Exit Criteria to Determine When User Stories Are Done-Done – Nishi Grover Garg – https://blog.gurock.com/four-exit-criteria-user-stories/
• How Am I Going to Test This? – Paul Grizzaffi – https://responsibleautomation.wordpress.com/2020/07/09/how-am-i-going-to-test-this/
• How Does a DEVELOPER See Testers – Mihaela Sfat – https://blog.testing-land.com/how-does-a-developer-see-testers/
• How to Build a Mobile App That Customers Love – Amelia Whyman – https://www.globalapptesting.com/blog/how-to-build-a-mobile-app-that-customers-love
• Innovating From Home – Running An Innovation Sprint Remotely – Adam Knight – https://www.a-sisyphean-task.com/2020/07/innovation-from-home-running-innovation.html
• Metrics That Matter – Jeff Nyman – http://testerstories.com/2020/07/metrics-that-matter/
• Out Of Memory – Paul Gilson – https://harnessedtester.wordpress.com/2020/07/07/out-of-memory/
• Part 2: Testing vs quality management – Testing Activities – Janet Gregory – https://janetgregory.ca/part-2-testing-vs-quality-management-testing-activities/
• SOAP vs. REST: Solving the Testing Challenges of Each – Nathan Jakubiak – https://blog.parasoft.com/soap-vs.-rest-solving-the-testing-challenges-of-each
• Stuck in the Middle – James Thomas – https://qahiccupps.blogspot.com/2020/07/stuck-in-middle.html
• “Testers don’t break software!” – Lena Wiberg – https://testing.pejgan.se/2020/07/09/testers-dont-break-software/
• The dangers of becoming a full-stack tester – Michael Fritzius – https://techbeacon.com/app-dev-testing/dangers-becoming-full-stack-tester
• The Future of Testers in a Rapidly Changing World – Raj Subrameyer – https://www.ranorex.com/blog/future-testers-changing-world/
• The trust between test-dev – Noemi Ferrera – https://thetestlynx.wordpress.com/2020/07/07/the-trust-between-test-dev/
• What Testers Should Know About Microservices – Cameron Laird – https://blog.gurock.com/testers-microservices/

Test Automation/Programming/Tools

• Arrange-Act-Assert: A Pattern for Writing Good Tests – Andrew Knight – https://automationpanda.com/2020/07/07/arrange-act-assert-a-pattern-for-writing-good-tests/
• Capturing form loading time using HTTPwatch tool – Rahul Bhave – https://qxf2.com/blog/capturing-form-loading-time-using-httpwatch-tool/
• CircleCI vs Jenkins: Choosing The Right CI CD Tool – Praveen Mishra – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/circleci-vs-jenkins-choosing-the-right-ci-cd-tool/
• Continuous visual regression testing to enable regulatory compliance in the healthcare sector – Rudolf Grötz – https://applitools.com/blog/visual-regression-regulatory-compliance/
• Does your functional automation really add value? – Anand Bagmar – https://essenceoftesting.blogspot.com/2020/07/does-your-functional-automation-really.html
• Fast Forwarding Act – Han Toan Lim – https://www.mindfultester.com/fast-forwarding-act/
• How To Handle Web Table in Selenium WebDriver? – Himanshu Sheth – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/how-to-handle-web-table-in-selenium-webdriver/
• Jenkins X Cloud Native CI/CD with TestProject – Ajeet Singh Raina – https://blog.testproject.io/2020/07/09/jenkins-x-cloud-native-ci-cd-with-testproject/
• Learning Test Automation from Scratch: Journey of the (Automation) Hero – The Free Range Tester – https://blog.testproject.io/2020/07/07/learning-test-automation-from-scratch/
• Look Ma! I’m Testing without Scripting! – Collin Chau – https://www.continuoustesting.com/look-ma-im-testing-without-scripting/
• Manual vs Automation Testing – What Are The Differences? – Jake Bartlett – https://blog.testlodge.com/manual-vs-automation-testing/
• Ordering Headers In HTTP Requests – Alan Richardson – https://www.eviltester.com/post/unirest-vs-restassured-header-ordering/
• RestAssured Tips for Proxies and Logging – Alan Richardson – https://www.eviltester.com/post/restassured-tips-proxy-logging/
• Test Automation in 2020: Findings from the DevTestOps Landscape Report – Chou Yang – https://www.mabl.com/blog/test-automation-in-2020-findings-from-the-devtestops-landscape-report
• Testing Iframes with Cypress – Marie Drake – https://www.mariedrake.com/post/testing-iframes-with-cypress
• Using Faker to generate data for your Cypress tests – Kevin Tuck – https://kevintuck.co.uk/using-faker-to-generate-data-for-your-cypress-tests/
• WebDriverIO Tutorial: Handling Alerts & Overlay In Selenium – Harshit Paul – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/webdriverio-tutorial-handling-alerts-overlay-in-selenium/

Conferences/Events/Meetups/Organizations/Training

• Software People WFH: The Joy of Remote Mode –  Emna Ayadi – https://emnaayadi.wordpress.com/2020/07/09/remote-mode/

Book Reviews/Cartoons/Graphics/Podcasts/Webinars

• Book Review: Read Along- ‘Agile Testing’ Chapter-8 – Nishi Grover Garg – https://testwithnishi.com/2020/07/06/read-along-agile-testing-chapter-8/
• Cartoon: Empty Promises – Torsten Zelger – http://simply-the-test.blogspot.com/2020/07/empty-promises.html
• Cartoon: The Little Tester – Stories in Testing #103 – Corina Pip – https://imalittletester.com/2020/07/06/the-little-tester-103/
• Podcast: Sofia Palamarchuk – Mobile app performance – Federico Toledo – https://soundcloud.com/qualitysensepodcast/sofia-palamarchuk-mobile-apps-performance
• Podcast: Testing SAP APIs: Strategy and Execution with Michal Krawczyk – Joe Colantonio – https://testguild.com/podcast/automation/a311-michal/
• Podcast: The Pitfall of Estimations and How (try to) Avoid Them – Rob Lambert, Joel Montvelisky – https://qablog.practitest.com/podcast-pitfall-of-estimations/
• Podcast: The Therac-25, buggy software that killed. – Peter Houghton – http://www.investigatingsoftware.co.uk/2020/07/podcast-therac-25-buggy-software-that.html
• Video: How to Use Webdriver Wait in Selenium (With Demo)? – Promode Dutta – https://scrolltest.com/2020/07/09/webdriverwait-in-selenium/
• Video: Selenium Grid Tutorial For Beginners (Step By Step) – Promode Dutta – https://scrolltest.com/2020/07/08/selenium-grid-tutorial-for-beginners/