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 June 28th – July 4th, 2020

Testing

• #accessiBe Will Get You Sued – Adrian Roselli – https://adrianroselli.com/2020/06/accessibe-will-get-you-sued.html
• Building a QA team – Part 2 – Graham Ellis – https://www.gesqa.com/post/building-a-qa-team-part-2
• Building a QA team – Part 3 – Graham Ellis – https://www.gesqa.com/post/building-a-qa-team-part-3
• Coaching plans, training and learning in the workplace – Rob Lambert – https://cultivatedmanagement.com/workplacelearning/
• Cynefin Foundations – Learning Journal – Module 2 – Toby Sinclair – https://tobysinclair.com/2020/07/03/cynefin-foundations-learning-journal-module-2/
• Efficient test case design techniques to boost coverage – Gerie Owen – https://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/tip/Efficient-test-case-design-techniques-to-boost-coverage
• Interview #1: Being a Freelancer from Tester Perspective – Emna Ayadi – https://emnaayadi.wordpress.com/2020/06/30/interview-1-freelance-tester/

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 June 21st – June 27th, 2020.

Testing

• A Working Definition of Software Testing – Alan Richardson – https://www.eviltester.com/post/fundamentals/working-definition-of-software-testing/
• Cost of Delay Vs Cost of Poor Quality – Duncan Nisbet – https://www.duncannisbet.co.uk/cost-of-delay-vs-cost-of-poor-quality
• Finding My Voice As A Tester – Marie Drake – https://www.mariedrake.com/post/finding-my-voice-as-a-tester
• My experience of working from home full-time during the pandemic – Lee Hawkins – https://therockertester.wordpress.com/2020/06/24/my-experience-of-working-from-home-full-time-during-the-pandemic/
• Needed more than ever: courage – Lisa Crispin – https://lisacrispin.com/2020/06/21/needed-more-than-ever-courage/
• QA Needs Chaos Engineering To Benefit a Distributed World – Kolton Andrus – https://theqalead.com/topics/qa-needs-chaos-engineering/
• Six Ways Testers Can Help Programmers Clean Up Their Acts – Cameron Laird – https://blog.gurock.com/ways-testers-help-programmers/

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 June 14th – June 20th, 2020.

Testing

• 5 Reasons Why Product Managers Should Have a Close Relationship With Software Testers – Daniel Knott – https://www.applause.com/blog/product-manager-relationship-software-testers
• 5 Strategies for Effective User Stories – Raj Subrameyer – https://www.ranorex.com/blog/what-makes-up-good-user-story/9
• 10 exploratory testing techniques for QA professionals – Amy Reichert – https://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/feature/10-exploratory-testing-techniques-for-QA-professionals
• About Knowledge – Redux – Maciej Wyrodek – https://thebrokentest.com/about-knowledge-redux/
• Are Best Practices Really The Best? – Kevin Tuck – https://blog.testproject.io/2020/06/14/are-best-practices-really-the-best/
• Cognitive biases and how they influence software testing – Prashant Hegde – https://qablog.practitest.com/9-cognitive-biases-of-software-testing/
• Design Systems and Testability – Michael Battat – https://applitools.com/blog/testing-design-systems-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 June 7th – June 13th, 2020.

Testing

• A Primer on Continuous Testing – Vasudevan Swaminathan – https://www.stickyminds.com/article/primer-continuous-testing
• Be Your Best Advocate: How to Track Your Career Value – Dee Ann Pizzica – https://blog.gurock.com/your-best-advocate-career-value
• Breaking the Test Case Addiction (Part 10) – Michael Bolton – https://www.developsense.com/blog/2020/06/breaking-the-test-case-addiction-part-10/
• Do Your Tests Wobble? – Arlene Andrews – https://dev.to/arleneandrews/do-your-tests-wobble-25k1
• Is There Such a Thing As Too Much Testing? – Bas Dijkstra – https://www.continuoustesting.com/is-there-such-a-thing-as-too-much-testing
• Managing to Test – James Thomas – https://qahiccupps.blogspot.com/2020/06/managing-to-test.html
• Reacting to change – Pair-blogg #2 – Lena Wiberg – https://testing.pejgan.se/2020/06/13/reacting-to-change/

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 May 31st – June 6th, 2020.

Testing

• Fighting Defect Clusters in Software Testing – Nishi Grover Garg – https://blog.gurock.com/defect-clusters-in-software-testing/
• How Does a RECRUITER See Testers – Mihaela Sfat – https://blog.testing-land.com/tester-seen-by-recruiter/
• In uncertain times, product quality is key: 4 ways to amplify QA – Ronald Cummings-John – https://techbeacon.com/app-dev-testing/uncertain-times-product-quality-key-4-ways-amplify-qa
• Productivity is simply containers of work with rules – Rob Lambert – https://cultivatedmanagement.com/containers-rules/
• Smoke Testing vs. Sanity Testing – What, Why & When – Sri Priya P Kulkarni  – https://blog.testproject.io/2020/05/31/smoke-testing-vs-sanity-testing/
• Someone else will do it – Jesper Ottosen – https://jlottosen.wordpress.com/2020/06/03/someone-else-will-do-it/
• Tester’s Diary: Taking the Ego Out of Testing – Rachel Kibler – https://blog.gurock.com/testers-diary-taking-ego-out-of-testing/

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 May 24th – May 30th, 2020.

Testing

• 6 Breakthrough Functional Testing Trends for 2020 – Kevin Dunne – https://blog.testproject.io/2020/05/26/6-breakthrough-functional-testing-trends-for-2020/
• Agile: Walls Dysfunction & People – Pete Walen – https://rhythmoftesting.blogspot.com/2020/05/agile-walls-dysfunction-people.html
• Avoiding Death By Exposure – Peter Houghton – http://www.investigatingsoftware.co.uk/2020/05/avoiding-death-by-exposure_28.html
• BDD in 2020 – Alister Scott – https://alisterbscott.com/2020/05/28/bdd-in-2020/
• Desk Tests, Continuous Tests, and Everything Between: How Much Automation Different Tests Deserve – Cameron Laird – https://blog.gurock.com/desk-tests-continuous-tests/
• Example of lightweight feature documentation – Alister Scott – https://alisterbscott.com/2020/05/29/example-of-lightweight-feature-documentation/
• How to go from performance tester to performance engineer – Scott Moore – https://techbeacon.com/app-dev-testing/how-go-performance-tester-performance-engineer

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 May 17th – May 23rd, 2020.

Testing

• 60 great resources for performance engineering teams – Joe Colantonio – https://techbeacon.com/app-dev-testing/60-great-resources-performance-engineering-teams
• API Mocking – Dave Westerveld – https://offbeattesting.com/2020/05/19/api-mocking/
• Do We All Need To Become SDITS? – Callum Akehurst-Ryan – https://callumakehurstryansblog.wordpress.com/2020/05/20/do-we-all-need-to-become-sdits/
• Five Years of Mob Testing, Hello to Ensemble Testing – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – https://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2020/05/five-years-of-mob-testing-hello-to.html
• Musings from a remote pairer – Steven-burton – https://www.testersfindaway.com/2020/05/19/musings-from-a-remote-pairer/
• How Do You Catch More Bugs In Your End-To-End Tests? – James Lamberti – https://applitools.com/blog/catch-more-bugs/
• How to be effective AND liked – Rob Lambert – https://cultivatedmanagement.com/effective-liked/

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 May 10th – May 16th, 2020.

Testing

• 26 Types of Software Testing: The ABC’s of Testing – Sri Priya P Kulkarni – https://blog.testproject.io/2020/05/10/types-of-software-testing/
• Bump or bumps charts – Bob – https://randomtechthoughts.blog/2020/05/13/bump-or-bumps-charts/
• Capital cities and US place names – Bob – https://randomtechthoughts.blog/2020/05/10/capital-cities-and-us-place-names/
• Continuous Testing: Creating a testable CI/CD pipeline. –  Callum Akehurst-Ryan – https://callumakehurstryansblog.wordpress.com/2020/05/15/continuous-testing-creating-a-testable-ci-cd-pipeline/
• Delivery Teams and Popping the What Stack – Jeff Nyman – http://testerstories.com/2020/05/delivery-teams-and-popping-the-what-stack/
• Devising A UI Test Plan That Works Like A Charm – Harish Rajora – https://www.lambdatest.com/blog/devising-a-ui-test-plan-that-works-like-a-charm/
• Don’t Wait For Me – Ash Winter – https://diagramindustries.com/2020/05/14/dont-wait-for-me/

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 May 3rd – May 9th, 2020.

Testing

• 5 Steps to Getting Started with Risk-Based Testing – Shawn Jaques – https://www.stickyminds.com/article/5-steps-getting-started-risk-based-testing
• Be A Critical Thinker To Be A Better Tester – Joel Montvelisky – https://qablog.practitest.com/critical-thinker-better-tester/
• Career Talk by my manager – KC – https://testkeis.wordpress.com/2020/05/06/career-talk-by-my-manager/
• Checking vs Testing – Jason Arbon – https://medium.com/@jarbon/checking-vs-testing-71538bf456ab
• Choosing the Right Threat Modeling Methodology – Alan Crouch – https://www.techwell.com/techwell-insights/2020/05/choosing-right-threat-modeling-methodology
• Everything you need to know about software penetration testing – Stephen Bigelow – https://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/tip/Everything-you-need-to-know-about-software-penetration-testing
• How diagrams could help you with your Test Strategy – Samanta Cicilia – https://medium.com/assertqualityassurance/how-diagrams-could-help-you-with-your-test-strategy-501457b86840