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 April 11th – April 17th, 2021.

Testing

• 6 Ways to Grow Your Testing Career in 2021 – Nishi Grover Garg – https://blog.gurock.com/6-ways-grow-testing-career-2021/
• 10 Steps on How to Land a Well-paid QA Engineer Job that You Will Love – Helena Hrubesova – https://youintechnology.com/10-steps-to-well-paid-qa-engineer-job/
• A More Advisory Role – Jesper Ottosen – https://jlottosen.wordpress.com/2021/04/15/a-more-advisory-role/
• Evaluating Test Cases, Checks, and Tools – Michael Bolton – https://www.developsense.com/blog/2021/04/evaluating-test-cases-checks-and-tools/
• Is talking about “scaling” human testing missing the point? – Lee Hawkins – https://therockertester.wordpress.com/2021/04/17/is-talking-about-scaling-human-testing-missing-the-point/
• Mutation Testing – Goran Petrovic – https://testing.googleblog.com/2021/04/mutation-testing.html
• Testing By Exploring – James Thomas – https://qahiccupps.blogspot.com /2021/04/testing-by-exploring.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 April 4th – April 10th, 2021.

Testing

• 5 Things QA Engineers Can Do To Ace An Interview – Johanna South – https://theqaconnection.com/2021/04/07/5-things-qa-engineers-can-do-to-ace-an-interview/
• A11Y With Ady: April 2021 – Ady Stokes – https://www.thebigtesttheory.com/blog/2021/4/6/a11y-with-ady-april-2021
• Driving A Change In Product Direction – Adam Knight – https://www.a-sisyphean-task.com/2021/04/driving-change-in-product-direction.
• From Dev to Quality Assurance: insights for all engineers – João Pires – https://jgonpires.medium.com/from-dev-to-quality-assurance-insights-for-all-engineers-b1e1c4c5b4e7
• How to Optimize Customer Experience Using Testing – Luna Bell – https://www.stickyminds.com/article/how-optimize-customer-experience-using-testing
• Is There Such Things as “Untestable Code”? – Gil Zilberfeld – http://www.everydayunittesting.com/2021/04/is-there-such-thing-as-untestable-code.html
• Journey of a Tester to a Super Tester – Prashant Kumar – https://prashant-kumar.medium.com/journey-of-a-tester-man-to-a-super-tester-ironman-6c814ccbb27f

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 March 28th – April 3rd, 2021.

Testing

• 7 Lessons Learned in My Journey From Junior to Senior Developer in 2 Years – Livio Benčik – https://betterprogramming.pub/junior-to-senior-developer-in-2-years-3740bd8f8cca
• A Guide on How to Test Cloud-Native Applications – Sumon Dey – https://blog.testproject.io/2021/03/30/a-guide-on-how-to-test-cloud-native-applications/
• Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD) – David Tzemach – https://www.agilequalitymadeeasy.com/post/acceptance-test-driven-development-atdd-david-tzemach
• Common Database Testing Problems – Kovid Rathee – https://medium.com/weareservian/common-database-testing-problems-2f0541975690
• Exploratory Tooling – James Thomas – https://qahiccupps.blogspot.com/2021/03/exploratory-tooling.html
• Exploring Pipelines – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – https://dev.to/maaretp/exploring-pipelines-32og
• Five QA Trends To Keep When We Get Back To The ‘New Normal’ – Joel Montvelisky – https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2021/03/30/five-qa-trends-to-keep-when-we-get-back-to-the-new-normal/

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 March 21st – March 27th, 2021.

Testing

• 7 Reasons Why Software Developers Are Prone to Bugs – Fabio Veronese – https://betterprogramming.pub/7-reasons-why-software-developers-are-prone-to-bugs-bda2fa91e156
• Connecting Testing Success to Business Success – Bridget Hughes – https://www.mabl.com/blog/connecting-testing-success-to-business-success-mabl
• Decoupling Deployments from Releases: in Other People’s Words – Areti Panou – https://unremarkabletester.com/2021/03/24/decoupling-deployments-from-releases-in-other-peoples-words/
• Do Testers read research papers? – Balaji Santhanagopalan – https://synapse-qa.com/2021/03/23/do-testers-read-research-papers/
• Expanding on the Tester Bill of Rights – Jonathan Thompson – https://medium.com/geekculture/expanding-on-the-tester-bill-of-rights-cae6d43a6491
• Hiring a Software Tester, an Analysis – Chris Kenst – https://www.kenst.com/2021/03/hiring-a-software-tester-an-analysis/
• How to Be a QA Leader – Kristin Jackvony – https://huddle.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/how-to-be-a-qa-leader/

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 March 14th – March 20th, 2021.

Testing

• 5 Ways to Improve Your Software Job Search Results – Jonathan Thompson – https://javascript.plainenglish.io/5-ways-to-improve-your-software-job-search-results-5e24fa3dceaa
• 10 Best Software Testing Certifications To Take In 2021 – Arnab Roy Chowdhury – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/10-best-software-testing-certifications-2021/
• Continuous testing: What every DevOps team needs to know – Justin Rohrman – https://techbeacon.com/app-dev-testing/continuous-testing-what-every-devops-teams-needs-know
• Darlings, Pets, Cattle and GUID’s – Jesper Ottosen – https://jlottosen.wordpress.com/2021/03/20/darlings-pets-cattle-and-guids/
• Great people: Definition – Erik Brickarp – http://erik.brickarp.se/2019/01/my-learning-part-8-people.html
• How I break the shell with L.I.E.S – Nithin S – https://synapse-qa.com/2021/03/14/how-i-break-the-shell-with-lies/
• Tackling SQL Query Performance – Diego Garber – https://medium.com/slalom-build/tackling-sql-query-performance-a48178eb5570

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 March 7th – March 13th, 2021.

Testing

• 10 inspiring women in test to follow – Angie Jones – https://techbeacon.com/app-dev-testing/10-inspiring-women-test-follow
• Benefits of Continuous Testing (Part 2: to Wise Managers) – Zhimin Zhan – https://zhiminzhan.medium.com/benefits-of-continuous-testing-part-2-to-wise-managers-1992487c2ba9
• Daily Standups – An Introduction Daily Standup Meetings – Jake Bartlett – https://blog.testlodge.com/agile-daily-standups/
• Going Beyond Test Coverage – Thomas Shipley – https://tomdriven.dev/automated-test/2021/03/11/going-beyond-test-coverage.html
• Pet Peeves on Software Testers – Ivan Tay – https://ivantay2003.medium.com/pet-peeves-on-software-testers-df0a1f8b031a
• RISE – A Synapse QA Anthology – Synapse QA – https://synapse-qa.com/2021/03/08/rise-2021/
• The Basics of Protocol Testing (L2&L3) – Sagar Arunrao Dhoble – https://medium.com/globant/the-basics-of-protocol-testing-l2-l3-ce810bb0d5fa

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 February 28th – March 6th, 2021.

Testing

• Achieve More with Less: Pareto’s Principle in Software Testing – Prashant Hedge – https://blog.testproject.io/2021/03/03/achieve-more-with-less-paretos-principle-in-software-testing/
• Benefits of Continuous Testing (Part 1: to Executives) – Zhimin Zhan – https://zhiminzhan.medium.com/benefits-of-continuous-testing-part-1-to-executives-4a4c34c0c1a
• DevOps demands quality engineering. Is your team ready? – Gerie Owen – https://techbeacon.com/app-dev-testing/devops-demands-quality-engineering-your-team-ready
• Dilemmas Of Testing In Production (And A Way Forward) – Niall Lynch – https://theqalead.com/topics/testing-in-production/
• How Different Are Software and Hardware Testing? – Software Testing Magazine – https://www.softwaretestingmagazine.com/knowledge/how-different-are-software-and-hardware-testing/
• How do you keep up with deadlines as a QA engineer? – Cognizant Softvision – https://medium.com/cognizantsoftvision-guildhall/how-do-you-keep-up-with-deadlines-as-a-qa-engineer-7906e464fc26
• How I use Time Blocking (or calendar blocking) to get things done – Rob Lambert – https://cultivatedmanagement.com/timeblocking/

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 February 21st, 2021 – February 27th, 2021.

Testing

• Building Culture for Remote Teams in Times of Crisis – Leandro Butteri – https://medium.com/globant/building-culture-for-remote-teams-in-times-of-crisis-50555761e64e
• Conversational User Interfaces (CUI) Testing Strategies – Marcelo Aristegui – https://medium.com/globant/conversational-user-interfaces-cui-testing-strategies-adb08b97fc50
• Creating the Space for People to Learn Together – Elisabeth Hocke Retweeted – https://www.lisihocke.com/2021/02/creating-the-space-for-people-to-learn.html
• Don’t stop me now –  Ileana Belfiore – https://www.ileanabelfiore.me/dont-stop-me-now/
• Do You Really Need a Test Plan? – Dennis Martinez – https://dev-tester.com/do-you-really-need-a-test-plan/
• End to End Testing as a Test Strategist – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – https://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2021/02/end-to-end-testing-as-test-strategist.html
• Exploring Kafka – Steve – https://allthingstesting.com/exploring-kafka/

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 February 14th, 2021 – February 20th, 2021.

Testing

• Bug Scoring — a way to distinguish “same” bugs. – Chernikova Kateryna – https://medium.com/wix-engineering/bug-scoring-a-way-to-distinguish-same-bugs-2bb7647da535
• Challenges for Black Box Testing and how to solve them – Andreas Willich – https://specflow.org/blog/challenges-for-black-box-testing-and-how-to-solve-them/
• Defect Detection and Security Prevention: How does Shift-Left Adoption Helps? – Dzuy Tran – https://continuoustesting.dev/2021/02/16/defect-detection-and-security-prevention-how-does-shift-left-adoption-helps/
• Did you break your code today? – Kevin Hicks – https://kevinhicks.software/blog/9/did-you-break-your-code-today
• Doesn’t Everybody Know This? – Paul Grizzaffi – https://responsibleautomation.wordpress.com/2021/02/17/doesnt-everybody-know-this/
• Ensemble Is the New Mob – Elisabeth Hocke – https://www.lisihocke.com/2021/02/ensemble-is-the-new-mob.html
• Free Feedback for #accessiBe – Adrian Roselli – https://adrianroselli.com/2021/02/free-feedback-for-accessibe.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 February 7th, 2021 – February 13th, 2021.

Testing

• 20 Elements of Modern Web Design That You Need to Know – Harish Rajora – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/20-elements-of-modern-web-design/
• An improved test design method – Neil Jennings – https://synapse-qa.com/2021/02/11/an-improved-test-design-method/
• Are Your Developers As Good At Testing As They Think They Are? – Sushma Singh – https://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/testers-and-developers-codependency/
• Bog-Standard Testing – James Thomas – https://qahiccupps.blogspot.com/2021/02/bog-standard-testing.html
• Common search engine questions about testing #10: “What will software testing look like in 2021?” – Lee Hawkins – https://therockertester.wordpress.com/2021/02/11/common-search-engine-questions-about-testing-10-what-will-software-testing-look-like-in-2021/
• Dependency Confusion: How I Hacked Into Apple, Microsoft and Dozens of Other Companies – Alex Birsan – https://medium.com/@alex.birsan/dependency-confusion-4a5d60fec610
• How to Make 100 Releases Per Day with Only 6 Quality Engineers – Evgeny Tkachenko – https://www.stickyminds.com/article/how-make-100-releases-day-only-6-quality-engineers