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 9th – September 15th, 2018.

Testing

• AI Failure Story: Paying a Heavy Price for Test Strategy Errors – Anna Royzman – http://www.softwaretestingmagazine.com/knowledge/ai-failure-story-paying-a-heavy-price-for-test-strategy-errors/
• Are You Adding Value, Always? – Kim Engel – https://isitgoodenoughyet.com/2018/09/11/are-you-adding-value-always/
• Attribution for Work Performed in a Mob – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – http://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2018/09/attribution-for-work-performed-in-mob.html
• Challenges of Being the Team’s Sole Tester (Cont.) – Mike Talks – https://crossbrowsertesting.com/blog/test-automation/challenges-software-tester/
• Define Your Test Strategy Because Agile Does Not Mean Unstructured – Branka Rakic – https://huddle.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/define-test-strategy-agile-not-mean-unstructured/
• Demystifying Machine Learning, Part 2 – Jeff Nyman – http://testerstories.com/2018/09/demystifying-machine-learning-part-2/
• Demystifying Machine Learning, Part 3 – Jeff Nyman – http://testerstories.com/2018/09/demystifying-machine-learning-part-3/

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 2nd – September 8th, 2018.

Testing

• Behavior-Driven Blasphemy – Andrew Knight – https://automationpanda.com/2018/09/04/behavior-driven-blasphemy/
• Code Refactoring: Why The Testers Need to Know About It – Kamila A – https://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/code-refactoring/
• Demystifying Machine Learning, Part 1 – Jeff Nyman – http://testerstories.com/2018/09/learning-about-machine-learning-part-1/
• Do you answer your own rhetorical questions? – Alan Richardson – http://blog.eviltester.com/2018/09/answer-rhetorical-questions.html
• Evolve Your Mobile Usability Testing Methods – James Hoshor – https://www.stickyminds.com/article/evolve-your-mobile-usability-testing-methods
• How to sketchnote – the story of Katjasays – Ekaterina Budnikov – https://www.katjasays.com/how-to-sketchnote-the-story-of-katjasays/
• Life after GDPR: Data protection for software tester – Neil Syrett – https://syrett.blog/life-after-gdpr-data-protection-for-software-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 26th – September 1st, 2018.

Testing

• 7 Ways Monitoring Can Help You Be a Better Tester – Lina Zubyte – https://www.stickyminds.com/article/7-ways-monitoring-can-help-you-be-better-tester
• A BDD worked example – login page – Stuart Ashman – http://qa-matters.com/2018/08/27/a-bdd-worked-example-login-page/
• Assembly Line vs. Release Pipeline – Majd Uddin – https://knowledgetester.org/2018/08/27/release-pipeline/
• Challenges of Being the Team’s Sole Tester – Mike Talks – https://crossbrowsertesting.com/blog/uncategorized/challenges-lone-software-tester/
• Do You Need a Test Column?…. Let’s Talk. – Janet Gregory – https://janetgregory.ca/do-you-need-a-test-column-lets-talk/
• Hire a software testing team that fits your startup culture – Gerie Owen – https://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/tip/Hire-a-software-testing-team-that-fits-your-startup-culture
• How to Design a Load Test – Kristin Jackvony – http://thethinkingtester.blogspot.com/2018/09/how-to-design-load-test.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 19th – August 25th, 2018.

Testing

• Click bots for social media and beyond – Alan Richardson – http://blog.eviltester.com/2018/08/click-bots-for-social-media-and-beyond.html
• D, E, F’s of Software Testing – Jyothi Rangaiah – https://chroniclesoftesting.blogspot.com/2018/08/d-e-fs-of-software-testing.html
• How To Invest In Testing – Alan Richardson – http://blog.eviltester.com/2018/08/how-to-invest-in-testing.html
• Integrating Testers into Modern Agile – Justin Rohrman – https://blog.gurock.com/integrating-testers-agile/
• Introduction to Performance Testing – Kristin Jackvony – http://thethinkingtester.blogspot.com/2018/08/introduction-to-performance-testing.html
• On Reading: A Practical Guide To Testing in Devops – Part 1 – Brendan Connolly – http://www.brendanconnolly.net/reading-testing-in-devops-pt1/
• Put that in your Pipeline and Test it baby – Steve Cross – https://stevencrossblog.wordpress.com/2018/08/21/put-that-in-your-pipeline-and-test-it-baby/

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 12th – August 18th, 2018.

Testing

• A Salesperson for Testing – Adam Knight – http://www.a-sisyphean-task.com/2018/08/a-salesperson-for-testing.html
• Be Indispensable: Cross-Train like a Testing Athlete – Bonnie Bailey – https://www.stickyminds.com/better-software-magazine-article/be-indispensable-cross-train-testing-athlete
• Exploring Gilded Rose – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – https://medium.com/@maaret.pyhajarvi/exploring-gilded-rose-f06ca76925a2
• How Do I Know My Tests Add Value? – Andrew Knight – https://automationpanda.com/2018/08/13/how-do-i-know-my-tests-add-value/
• Learning Soak Testing in 5 Minutes – Katalon Studio – http://www.abodeqa.com/learning-soak-testing-in-5-minutes/
• Mobile Testing Part IV: An Introduction to Mobile Security Testing – Kristin Jackvony – http://thethinkingtester.blogspot.com/2018/08/mobile-testing-part-iv-introduction-to.html
• Overcome painful dependencies with improved adjacent testability  – Ash Winter – http://testingisbelieving.blogspot.com/2018/08/overcome-painful-dependencies-with.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 5th – August 11th, 2018.

Testing

• A Day in the Life of an Agile Tester – Nishi Grover Garg – https://blog.gurock.com/agile-tester-work-life/
• Cloud testing: the right way to do it – David Tzemach – http://www.machtested.com/2018/08/cloud-testing-right-way-to-do-it.html
• Find the Right TDD Approach for Your Testing Situation – Jeff Langr – https://blog.gurock.com/find-right-tdd-approach/
• Hindsight lessons about API testing – Viktor Slavchev – https://mrslavchev.com/2018/08/06/hindsight-lessons-about-api-testing/
• How to get a first job as a software tester? – Sławomir Radzymiński – https://www.awesome-testing.com/2018/08/how-to-get-first-job-as-software-tester.html
• How to measure exploratory tests? – Rafaela Azevedo – https://azevedorafaela.wordpress.com/2018/08/06/how-to-measure-exploratory-tests/
• How to Measure Success in Testing? – Kristīne Corbus – https://testretreat.com/2018/08/05/how-you-measure-success-in-testing/

This week we are back on schedule and what a busy week it was from the blogging community.  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 29th – August 4th, 2018.

Testing

• 7 Ways Testers Contribute to Quality – Justin Rohrman – https://blog.gurock.com/testers-contribute-to-quality/
• 2018/07/30 Bloggers Club: What do you know about your job that the general public don’t? – The Growing Tester – https://thegrowingtester.wordpress.com/2018/07/30/2018-07-30-bloggers-club-what-do-you-know-about-your-job-that-the-general-public-dont/
• A Vigilante For Quality vs Bridging The Us VS Them Gap – Mel Eaden – http://testingandmoviesandstuff.blogspot.com/2018/07/a-vigilante-for-quality-vs-bridging-us.html
• API Testing is Exploratory Testing – Dave Westerveld – https://offbeattesting.com/2018/07/30/api-testing-is-exploratory-testing/
• Can an AI Become a Tester? – Jeff Nyman – http://testerstories.com/2018/08/can-an-ai-become-a-tester/
• Coping With The Crunch – Justin Rohrman – https://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/uncharted-waters/coping-with-the-crunch/
• Exercise – how many ways to count the values in a json array returned from a REST API call? – Alan Richardson – http://blog.eviltester.com/2018/07/exercise-json-array-length.html

Due to knee replacement recovery, Testing Bits has not been published on it’s normal Sunday schedule.  Due to delays in curation, we decided to publish a double-edition covering the last two weeks of our curated collection of announcements, articles, blog posts, and news from the software testing community.

Here is the “recovery edition” covering the days of July 15th – July 28th, 2018.  Next week, we should be back on schedule.

Testing Bits – July 15th – July 21st, 2018

Testing

• Cross-Browser Testing – Kristin Jackvony – http://thethinkingtester.blogspot.com/2018/07/cross-browser-testing.html
• Exploratory Testing on an API? (Part 2) – Micheal Bolton – http://www.developsense.com/blog/2018/07/exploratory-testing-on-an-api-part-2/
• Has opposition to ISO 29119 really died down? – James Christie – https://clarotesting.wordpress.com/2018/07/21/has-opposition-to-iso-29119-really-died-down/
• Is ‘testing’ holding you back? Stop being a bottleneck for software quality assurance – Nishi Grover Garg – https://testwithnishi.com/2018/07/20/is-testing-holding-you-back-stop-being-a-bottleneck-for-software-quality-assurance/
• Mob Testing is Different to a Bug Bash – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – http://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2018/07/mob-testing-is-different-to-bug-bash.html
• #SuperGoalingBros – OWASP Study – 10. Insufficient Logging and Monitoring – Mike Clarke – https://mikethetesternz.wordpress.com/2018/07/16/supergoalingbros-owasp-study-10-insufficient-logging-and-monitoring/
• Testing Tour Stop #15: Pair Evolving a Test Strategy with Toyer – Elisabeth Hocke – https://www.lisihocke.com/2018/07/testing-tour-stop-15-pair-evolving-a-test-strategy-with-toyer.html

Due to knee replacement surgery on July 13th, Testing Bits has not been published on it’s normal Sunday schedule.  Finally, back in front of the computer and curating again.  Be on the watch for some rapid fire postings this week.  So without further delay, here is the “surgery edition” of our curated collection of announcements, articles, blog posts, and news from the software testing community covering the days of July 8th – July 14th, 2018.

Testing

• 5 Ways to Optimize Tests for Continuous Integration – John Ruberto – https://www.stickyminds.com/article/5-ways-optimize-tests-continuous-integration
• A Bug is Still a Bug – Corina Pip – https://imalittletester.com/2018/07/11/a-bug-is-still-a-bug/
• A Definition of Done for Modern Development – Justin Rohrman – https://blog.gurock.com/definition-of-done-development/
• A Gentle Introduction to Session Hijacking – Kristin Jackvony – http://thethinkingtester.blogspot.com/2018/07/a-gentle-introduction-to-session.html
• All of us have a test environment – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – http://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2018/07/all-of-us-have-test-environment.html
• Exploratory Testing on an API? (Part 1) – Michael Bolton – http://www.developsense.com/blog/2018/07/exploratory-testing-on-an-api-part-1/
• How do I explain the testing role to my team? – Christopher Lampert – https://nevertrustadeveloper.wordpress.com/2018/07/09/how-do-i-explain-the-testing-role-to-my-team/

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 1st – July 7th, 2018.

Testing

• Application of modern testing for testing a modern application – Chris George – https://medium.com/ingeniouslysimple/application-of-modern-testing-for-testing-a-modern-application-9b06b2fdf152
• Crafting User Stories That Agile Teams Will Love – Nishi Grover Garg – https://blog.gurock.com/crafting-user-stories-agile-teams/
• Database CRUD Testing Through UI with Sample Test Cases – Remya R – https://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/crud-testing/
• Hidden in Plain Sight- Using Dev Tools to Find Security Flaws – Kristen Jackvony – http://thethinkingtester.blogspot.com/2018/07/hidden-in-plain-sight-using-dev-tools.html
• If we were to manage tests in Westworld… – Kamila Mrozek – https://dragonqa.blog/2018/07/05/if-we-were-to-manage-tests-in-westworld/
• Participating in Code Reviews as a Tester – Chris Kenst – https://www.stickyminds.com/article/participating-code-reviews-tester
• Testing Tour Stop #14: Pair Evaluating a Visual Regression Testing Framework with Mirjana – Elisabeth Hocke – https://www.lisihocke.com/2018/07/testing-tour-stop-14-pair-evaluating-a-visual-regression-testing-framework-with-mirjana.html