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 18th – October 24th, 2020.

Testing

• 3 Big Questions to Ask About Your Specifications – Pete Walen – https://blog.gurock.com/functional-specifications-testing/
• A day in the life of a mobile app tester – Sam Connelly – https://bughuntersam.com/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-mobile-app-tester/
• A Human’s guide to testing AI – Nilanjan Bhattacharya – https://revelutions.medium.com/a-humans-guide-to-testing-ai-325e370c60c2
• A Naïve Request from Management – Michael Bolton – https://www.developsense.com/blog/2020/10/a-naive-request-from-management/
• Chaos Engineering as management practice – João Rosa – https://www.joaorosa.io/2020/10/21/chaos-engineering-as-management-practice/
• Context-Driven, or What? – James Thomas – https://qahiccupps.blogspot.com/2020/10/context-driven-or-what.html
• “Dear Younger Me” – Derk-Jan de Grood – https://huddle.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/dear-younger-me-by-derk-jan-de-grood/

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 11th – October 17th, 2020.

Testing

• Contractor Life – Pt 4: Making Success – Pete Walen – https://rhythmoftesting.blogspot.com/2020/10/contractor-life-pt-4-making-success.html
• “Dear Younger Me” – Michael Bolton – https://huddle.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/dear-younger-me-michael-bolton/
• Dialog Focus in Screen Readers – Adrian Roselli – https://adrianroselli.com/2020/10/dialog-focus-in-screen-readers.html
• How to Get Started with Performance Testing: The Basics And A Little More – Johanna South – https://theqaconnection.com/2020/10/14/basics-of-performance-testing/
• How to Improve Quality – Beren Van Daele – https://isleof.it/2020/10/15/how-to-improve-quality/
• Is Mobile Testing A Challenge? – Aditi Mokasdar – https://blog.testproject.io/2020/10/12/is-mobile-testing-a-challenges/
• Leaders in Tech: Steve Davies – Constance Drugeot – https://www.softwaretestingnews.co.uk/leaders-in-tech-steve-davies/

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 4th – October 10th, 2020.

Testing

• 4 Ways to Handle Test Data for Your End-to-End Tests – Dennis Martinez – https://dev-tester.com/4-ways-to-handle-test-data-for-your-end-to-end-tests/
• 5 Lessons on leadership from coach John Wooden (lessons for managers too) – Rob Lambert – https://cultivatedmanagement.com/wooden/
• 6 Strategies to Maximize Your End-to-end Testing Impact – Bertold Kolics – https://www.mabl.com/blog/6-strategies-to-maximize-your-end-to-end-testing-impact
• 10 Years in Testing, 10 lessons – Lesson 10 – Maaike Brinkhof – https://www.maaikebrinkhof.nl/2020/10/10-years-in-testing-10-lessons-lesson-10/
• A Working Model for Thinking about Product Strategy Development – Simon Knight – https://sjpknight.com/post/a-working-model-for-thinking-about-product-strategy-development/
• Defining Your Definition of Done – Nishi Grover Garg – https://testwithnishi.com/2020/10/07/defining-your-definition-of-done/
• How testable is your or your team’s code? – Stuart Ashman – http://qa-matters.com/2020/10/05/how-testable-is-your-or-your-teams-code/

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 27th – October 3rd, 2020.

Testing

• 6 Things You Can Do To Be A Better Test Manager OR Lead – Johanna South – https://theqaconnection.com/2020/09/29/how-to-be-a-better-test-lead/
• 10 Years in Testing, 10 lessons – Lesson 9 – Maaike Brinkhof – https://www.maaikebrinkhof.nl/2020/10/10-years-in-testing-10-lessons-lesson-9/
• Automation will not replace your testing skills – Lina Zubyte – https://qualitybits.tech//writing/automation-will-not-replace-your-testing-skills#
• Contractor Life – Pt 3: Toward Success – Pete Walen – https://rhythmoftesting.blogspot.com/2020/09/contractor-life-pt-3-toward-success.html
• “Dear Younger Me” – Iris Pinkster O’Riordain – https://huddle.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/dear-younger-me-iris-pinkster/
• Five habits to adopt in order to be a better software tester – Kevin Tuck – https://kevintuck.co.uk/five-habits-to-adopt-in-order-to-be-a-better-software-tester/
• Functional vs. nonfunctional requirements in software engineering – Stephen J. Bigelow – https://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/answer/Functional-and-nonfunctional-requirements

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 20th – September 26th, 2020.

Testing

• 3 Visual Models on Quality – Jesper Ottosen – https://jlottosen.wordpress.com/2020/09/26/3-visual-models-on-quality/
• 10 Years in Testing, 10 lessons – Lesson 7 – Maaike Brinkhof – https://www.maaikebrinkhof.nl/2020/09/10-years-in-testing-10-lessons-lesson-7/
• 10 Years in Testing, 10 lessons – Lesson 8 – Maaike Brinkhof – https://www.maaikebrinkhof.nl/2020/09/10-years-in-testing-10-lessons-lesson-8/
• Become an Expert Customer-Advocate in 5 Steps – Joel Montvelisky – https://qablog.practitest.com/become-an-expert-customer-advocate-in-5-steps/
• Blockchain Testing in 2020: Ultimate Checklist & Tools – QATestLab – https://medium.com/@QATestLab/blockchain-testing-in-2020-ultimate-checklist-tools-6cc018eff7ae
• Contractor Life – Pt 2: Contractor or Consultant? – Pete Walen – https://rhythmoftesting.blogspot.com/2020/09/contractor-life-pt-2-contractor-or.html
• How To Communicate Your Testing Status – Johanna South – https://theqaconnection.com/2020/09/23/how-to-communicate-your-testing-status-free-downloadable-templates/

Welcome to the better late than never edition of Testing Bits, it’s been a couple of crazy 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 September 13th – September 19th, 2020.

Look for another edition tomorrow. Back to Back Testings Bits – A great end to the week & a great start to a new week!

Testing

• Account takeover by OTP bypass – Bhavarth Kandoria – https://medium.com/@bhavarth33/how-i-was-able-to-takeover-any-account-by-otp-bypass-bba698a725f
• Defining your Story – Owning Your Quality Narrative – Simon Prior – https://simon-prior.uk/2020/09/18/defining-your-story-owning-your-quality-narrative/
• Everything You Need To Know About Cloud Testing – Himanshu Sheth – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/cloud-testing-tutorial/
• How to Craft Superb QA Engineer CV: Guide + Interview Tips – QATestLab – https://medium.com/@QATestLab/how-to-craft-superb-qa-engineer-cv-guide-interview-tips-bce646150bc
• How to Define Quality – Beren Van Daele – https://isleof.it/2020/09/16/how-to-define-quality/
• Most Brutally Honest – James Thomas – https://qahiccupps.blogspot.com/2020/09/most-brutally-honest.html
• Organisational QA/Testing smells – The Reluctant Tester – https://thereluctanttester.com/2020/09/15/organisational-qa-testing-smells/

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/