Testing Bits – 6/29/14 – 7/5/14

Here is this week’s collection of articles, blogs, and announcements covering the days of 6/29/14 – 7/5/14.

Articles & Blogs

• 10 things you can do as a developer to make your app secure: #7 Logging and Intrusion Detection – Jim Bird – http://swreflections.blogspot.com/2014/06/10-things-you-can-do-as-developer-to_30.html
• 10 things you can do as a developer to make your app secure: #8 Leverage other people’s Code (Carefully) – Jim Bird – http://swreflections.blogspot.com/2014/07/10-things-you-can-do-as-developer-to.html
• A Beginner’s Guide to System Testing – Bhumika Mehta – http://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/system-testing/
• A discussion on do testers really need to code. – John Stevenson – http://steveo1967.blogspot.com/2014/06/a-discussion-on-do-tester-really-need.html
• A New Model of Testing – Paul Gerrard – http://www.eurostarconferences.com/blog/2014/7/2/a-new-model-of-testing
• A question on exploratory testing from Quora – Pradeep Soundararajan – http://testertested.blogspot.com/2014/06/a-question-on-exploratory-testing-from.html
• Are You in the Right Testing Job? – Aldo Rall – http://www.ministryoftesting.com/2014/06/right-testing-job/
• Bug Advocacy Part II – Nicola Owen – http://nickytests.blogspot.com/2014/07/bug-advocacy-part-ii.html
• Building Better Bug Reports – Claire Moss – http://www.stickyminds.com/article/building-better-bug-reports
• Coyote Teaching, Lousy Estimates, and Making a Pirate – Michael Larsen – http://www.mkltesthead.com/2014/07/coyote-teaching-lousy-estimates-and.html
• Data Testing vs. Functional Testing – Eric Jacobson – http://www.testthisblog.com/2014/07/data-testing-vs-functional-testing.html
• DIY: Smart Tips to Test! – Santhosh Tuppad – http://tuppad.com/blog/2014/07/01/diy-smart-tips-to-test/
• Don’t waste hard work with badly written Test Reports – Andrei Contan – http://andrei.contan.ro/test-reports-just-loud/
• Getting Started with Agile Scrum Methodology: The Complete Guide for Software Developers and Testers – Shilpa C. Roy – http://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/agile-scrum-methodology-for-development-and-testing/
• How do I make testing faster? – Allan Kelly – http://allankelly.blogspot.com/2014/06/how-do-i-make-testing-faster.html
• Hybrid Mobile App Testers: Beware of Code Injections – Mike Brown – http://mobileapptesting.com/2014/07/01/hybrid-mobile-app-testers-beware-of-code-injections/
• Implicit requirements – Simon Schrijver – http://simonsaysnomore.wordpress.com/2014/06/30/implicit-requirements/
• Interview “Technical” Testers for Broad Skills – Jeff Nyman – http://testerstories.com/interview-technical-testers-for-broad-skills/
• Learning to Read Code? Here’s my Short Primer! – Joe DeMeyer – http://opentoscrutiny.wordpress.com/2014/07/01/learning-to-read-code-heres-my-short-primer/
• Learning to code – just learning – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – http://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2014/06/learning-to-code-just-learning.html
• My Look at Requirements – Albert Gareev – http://automation-beyond.com/2014/07/02/my-look-at-requirements/
• Native Mobile Application [Android] Testing Manual For Beginners – Shilpa Priyadarshini – http://intensetesting.wordpress.com/2014/06/30/native-mobile-application-android-testing-manual-for-beginners/
• Off the top of my head – Some skills & personal qualities that a tester can benefit from – Fiona Charles – http://quality-intelligence.blogspot.com/2014/07/off-top-of-my-head-some-skills-personal.html
• Remember, WHY before WHAT and HOW – Anand Ramdeo – https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140701144614-3037808-remember-why-before-what-and-how
• Replicate iPhone add number feature – Karlo Smid – http://zagorskisoftwaretester.blogspot.com/2014/07/replicate-iphone-add-number-feature.html
• Security Testing for Muggles: An Interview with Paco Hope – Cameron Philipp-Edmonds – http://www.stickyminds.com/interview/security-testing-muggles-interview-paco-hope
• Seven Key Success Factors for Professional Tester – Hoa Le – http://howtesting.blogspot.com/
• Some Random Facts About Passwords – Irina Ivanova – http://ivanova-irina.blogspot.com/2014/06/some-random-facts-about-passwords.html
• STP Podcast – Automation In Testing with Richard Bradshaw – Chris S – http://secondsignofmadness.blogspot.com/2014/07/stp-podcast-automation-in-testing-with.html
• Testers: There is No Such Thing as Too Much Detail in Your Bug Reports – Tammy Shipps – http://blog.utest.com/2014/07/01/too-much-detail-in-your-bug-reports-a-good-thing-or-a-bad-thing/
• The Manual Tester is dead! Long live the Manual Tester – Daryl Searle – http://dsearle.wordpress.com/2014/07/04/the-manual-tester-is-dead-long-live-the-manual-tester/
• There Is No “Non-Functional” – Jeff Nyman – http://testerstories.com/there-is-no-non-functional/
• Why Accessibility Testing Is Essential – Anish Krishnan – http://www.techwell.com/2014/07/why-accessibility-testing-essential
• Why I am context-driven – Joep Schuurkes – Joep Schuurkes – http://dewt.wordpress.com/2014/06/30/why-i-am-context-driven-joep-schuurkes/
• Working With Recruiters When Hiring Testers – Rob Lambert – http://thesocialtester.co.uk/how-to-work-with-recruiters-to-hire-testers/

Tools

• RESTful API Testing with Behat and Guzzle – Shashikant Jagtap – http://shashikantjagtap.net/restful-api-testing-behat-guzzle/
• Selenium + AutoIT: How to Automate Non-Browser Based Functionality – Joe Colantonio – http://www.joecolantonio.com/2014/07/02/selenium-autoit-how-to-automate-non-browser-based-functionality/
• Taking Screenshots Using Selenium Webdriver – Manu Parashar – http://intensetesting.wordpress.com/2014/06/30/taking-screenshots-using-selenium-webdriver/
• ThreadSanitizer: Slaughtering Data Races – Dmitry Vyukov – http://googletesting.blogspot.com/2014/06/threadsanitizer-slaughtering-data-races.html

Conferences/Meetups/Organizations/Training

• On the AST and CAST and Conferring about Testing – Pete Walen – http://rhythmoftesting.blogspot.com/2014/07/on-ast-and-cast-and-conferring-about.html
• Reflections on Let’s Test – Lee Hawkins – http://therockertester.wordpress.com/2014/06/29/reflections-on-lets-test/
• Software Testing World Cup – An Experience Report – Ash Winter – http://testingisbelieving.blogspot.com/2014/07/software-testing-world-cup-experience.html
• Testathon with Spotify and iZettle – Daniel Knott – http://dnlkntt.wordpress.com/2014/06/29/testathon-with-spotify-and-izettle/
• Testing Games with Erik Davis at Software QA & Testing Meetup – June 2014 – Matt Hutchison – http://blog.testingcurator.com/2014/07/01/testing-games-with-erik-davis-at-software-qa-testing-meetup-june-2014/
• WTA-52 – Going Deep with “Deep Testing” – Michael Larsen – http://weekendtesting.com/archives/3598
• WTEU47 – Time to Chat! – Neil – http://weekendtesting.com/archives/3603

Attention: Ohio Testers

7/29/14 – Columbus, OH – Software QA & Testing Meetup – Ruby/Cucumber – A Live Demo – http://bit.ly/1wxEu4Y

Miscellaneous

• Book Review: Growing Agile: A Coach’s Guide to Agile Testing – Lisa Crispin – http://lisacrispin.com/2014/07/01/growing-agile-coachs-guide-agile-testing/
• Podcast: Episode #43 Scalability And Estimation – Mark Tomlinson, James Pulley – http://www.perfbytes.com/scalabilty-and-estimation
• Podcast: Episode #44 Data Driven Performance – Mark Tomlinson, James Pulley – http://www.perfbytes.com/data-driven-performance
• Podcast: Episode #45 PerfBytes Live BBQ 2.0 – Mark Tomlinson, James Pulley – http://perfbytes.com/perfbytes-live-bbq-2
• Podcast: News Of The Damned – UK Special Report – PerfBytes – http://www.perfbytes.com/news-of-the-damned-uk-special-report
• Podcast: STP Radio – Richard Bradshaw Automation in Testing – Richard Bradshaw – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UonH_5-X14k
• Podcast: Automation in Testing Podcast With Software Test Pro Radio – Richard Bradshaw – http://www.thefriendlytester.co.uk/2014/07/automation-in-testing-podcast-with.html
• Slideshare: Testing As An Activity – Stephen Janaway – http://www.slideshare.net/sjanaway/testing-as-an-activity

Items of Interest for Testers

• Is Your Career Rewarding? – Michael Sowers – http://www.techwell.com/2014/06/your-career-rewarding
• Meet the uTesters: Marek Langhans – Ryan Arsenault – http://blog.utest.com/2014/06/30/meet-the-utesters-marek-langhans/
• Net-a-Porter integrates testing and development  – Cliff Saran – http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240223507/Net-a-Porter-integrates-testing-and-development

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