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 October 13th – October 19th, 2019.

Testing

• A reflection, not a goodbye: Tracing the path to job longevity – Toyer Mamoojee – https://toyerm.wordpress.com/2019/10/15/a-reflection-not-a-goodbye-tracing-the-path-to-job-longevity/
• A Simpler Way of Using Machine Learning to Shift Testing Left – James Farrier – https://www.stickyminds.com/article/simpler-way-using-machine-learning-shift-testing-left
• Accessibility Testing: Convincing Your Product Owner – Ben Linders – https://www.infoq.com/news/2019/10/accessibility-testing/
• All testing is exploratory: change my mind – Lee Hawkins – https://therockertester.wordpress.com/2019/10/16/all-testing-is-exploratory-change-my-mind/
• Developing Influence in Test – Matt Heusser – https://blog.gurock.com/tester-influence/
• How this company is encouraging young people to join the software testing world – Grace Barnott – https://www.softwaretestingnews.co.uk/how-this-company-is-encouraging-young-people-to-join-the-software-world/
• How to Test API Usability: Part 2 – Yuliya Bagriy – https://www.aviskase.com/articles/2019/10/19/how-to-test-api-usability-part-2/

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 October 6th – October 12th, 2019.

Testing

• Act Like a Developer to Become a Ninja Tester! – Jeff Nyman – https://blog.testproject.io/2019/10/10/act-like-a-developer-to-become-a-ninja-tester/
• formingYourCareerInTesting – Amanda – https://theuncodedcoder.com/2019/10/10/formingyourcareerintesting/
• Getting Performance Testing Back on Track – V.M.Guruprasath – https://www.softwaretestingmagazine.com/knowledge/getting-performance-testing-back-on-track/
• How Can You Easily End Up Wasting Your Time As a Tester? – Mihaela Sfat – https://blog.testing-land.com/how-can-you-easily-loose-time-as-a-tester/
• How to handle API rate limits: Do your integrations work at scale? – Vinod Chandru – https://techbeacon.com/app-dev-testing/how-handle-api-rate-limits-do-your-integrations-work-scale
• How Much Did Poor Quality Software Cost in 2018? – Alex Napier Holland – https://bitbar.com/blog/how-much-did-poor-quality-software-cost-in-2018/
• How to tame ever-changing requirements in software development – Stephen Bigelow – https://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/tip/How-to-tame-ever-changing-requirements-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 September 22nd – September 28th, 2019.

Testing

• 5 Handy Tips for Testers in DevOps – Bhavani R – https://testingindevops.org/5-handy-tips-for-testers-in-devops/
• 5 key ways to fulfill the role of QA in DevOps – Amy Reichert – https://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/tip/5-key-ways-to-fulfill-the-role-of-QA-in-DevOps
• A demonstration of Mutation Testing – Gregory Paciga – https://gerg.dev/2019/09/mutation-testing-demo/
• Did You Really Mean …? – Johanna Rothman – https://blog.gurock.com/agile-teams-understanding/
• Forgetting How To Test – Jeff Nyman – http://testerstories.com/2019/09/forgetting-how-to-test/
• Gherkin? – Greg Zealley – https://medium.com/@gregzed/gherkin-is-it-doing-what-you-think-c5abbeae1ce9
• How We Built a QA Team in a Fast-Growing Startup – Filip Hric – https://medium.com/slido-dev-blog/how-we-built-a-qa-team-in-a-fast-growing-startup-slido-blog-34b48ee64733

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 15th – September 21st, 2019.

Testing

• Automate some of the things – Robert Day – https://probetesting700171536.wordpress.com/2019/09/18/automate-some-of-the-things/
• Continuous Security – take care of your regression – Sławomir Radzymiński – https://www.awesome-testing.com/2019/09/continuous-security-take-care-of-your.html
• Five quality patterns in Agile development – Erik Zeedijk – https://xebia.com/blog/five-quality-patterns-in-agile-development/
• How to approach test case design – Gerie Owen – https://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/tip/How-to-approach-test-case-design
• How to avoid missing a bug – Nicolas Canseco – https://medium.com/@Nitcheasatester/how-to-avoid-missing-a-bug-7403fd77c80
• How to solve the testing challenges that come with serverless apps – Glenn Buckholz – https://techbeacon.com/app-dev-testing/how-solve-testing-challenges-come-serverless-apps
• Is This [Joke] Appropriate? – Daminan Synadinos – https://www.ineffable-solutions.com/post/is-this-joke-appropriate

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 8th – September 14th, 2019.

Testing

• 4 Ways to Create a Quality Culture in Your Company – Amelia Whyman – https://www.globalapptesting.com/blog/4-ways-to-create-a-quality-culture-in-your-company
• A Career Tip – Matt Heusser – https://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/uncharted-waters/a-career-tip/
• Are you sure the buses are still listed? Interacting with APIs with Ruby + NET::HTTP + Gauge – T.J. Maher – http://www.tjmaher.com/2019/09/gauge-ruby-api-2.html
• Experimenting with our Agile Story Wall – Alister Scott – https://watirmelon.blog/2019/09/11/experimenting-with-our-agile-story-wall/
• Hello World for Testers: Basics Part One – Arlene Andrews – https://dev.to/arleneandrews/hello-world-for-testers-basics-part-one-2bcm
• High Profile Job Interview — Five Ways to Make an Impact! – Antti Niittyviita – https://medium.com/@niittyviita/high-profile-job-interview-five-ways-to-make-an-impact-5e579ea11bf
• How to be [more] effective – Matt Heusser – https://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/uncharted-waters/how-to-be-more-effective/

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 1st – September 7th, 2019.

Testing

• Anticipating Problems with Infrastructure as Code in DevOps – Nilanjan Bhattacharya – https://testingindevops.org/anticipating-problems-with-infrastructure-as-code-in-devops
• Being an Accessibility Advocate – and why you should too – Adrian Stokes – https://www.thebigtesttheory.com/blog/2019/9/1/being-an-accessibility-advocate-and-why-you-should-too
• DevOps Security: Secrets from the Trenches – SpriteCloud – https://www.spritecloud.com/devops-security-secrets-from-the-trenches/
• Mobile and Responsive Design Testing: Solving the Combinatorics Problem – Matthew Heusser – https://blog.gurock.com/mobile-responsive-testing/
• My Approach to Regression Testing – R3C’sFI – Srinivas Kadiyala – https://testingeduindia.blogspot.com/2019/09/my-approach-to-regression-testing-r3csfi.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 August 18th – August 24th, 2019.

Testing

• 5 Patterns for Effective Communication in Agile Teams – Raj Subramanian – https://simpleprogrammer.com/effective-communication-agile-teams/
• Drop a Little AI on It: Random Test Data Generation – Matthew Heusser – https://blog.gurock.com/random-test-data/
• How I jumped from software testing to data science – Ken Johnston – https://techbeacon.com/app-dev-testing/how-i-jumped-software-testing-data-science
• How Testers Can Keep a Positive Outlook in a Negative Job – Rajini Padmanaban – https://www.techwell.com/techwell-insights/2019/08/how-testers-can-keep-positive-outlook-negative-job
• How To Thrive in Your Career – Rob Lambert – https://cultivatedmanagement.com/how-to-thrive-in-your-career/
• Let’s Go Deep! Part III: Internet Routing – Kristin Jackvony – http://thethinkingtester.blogspot.com/2019/08/lets-go-deep-part-iii-internet-routing.html
• Mind the test bottleneck – Matt Heusser – https://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/uncharted-waters/mind-the-test-bottleneck/

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 11th – August 17th, 2019.

Testing

• Agile Change is Hard – Pete Walen – http://rhythmoftesting.blogspot.com/2019/08/agile-change-is-hard.html
• Agile State Modelling – Adman Knight – https://www.a-sisyphean-task.com/2019/08/agile-state-modelling.html
• How to become a UX designer with your QA background – Matt Heusser – https://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/tip/How-to-become-a-UX-designer-with-your-QA-background
• Let’s Go Deep! Part II: Encryption, Tokens, and Cookies – Kristin Jackvony – http://thethinkingtester.blogspot.com/2019/08/lets-go-deep-part-ii-encryption-tokens.html
• Modelling Application Flow For Exploratory Testing – Alan Richardson – https://www.eviltester.com/blog/eviltester/2019/08/14-path-modelling-for-testing-google-example/
• Recipe for a healthy QA/test relationship with the rest of the org (TOAD!)  – Chris McMahon – http://chrismcmahonsblog.blogspot.com/2019/08/recipe-for-healthy-qatest-relationship.html