Testing Bits – 1/4/15 – 1/10/15

Here is this week’s collection of articles, blogs, and announcements covering the days of 1/4/15 – 1/10/15

Articles & Blogs

• Automate Your Way to Sanity: An Interview on Mobile with Josh Anderson – Cameron Philipp-Edmonds – http://www.stickyminds.com/interview/automate-your-way-sanity-interview-mobile-josh-anderson
• Bringing Development and Quality Assurance Teams Together – Raj P. Sharma – http://appdevelopermagazine.com/2264/2015/1/8/Bringing-Development-and-Quality-Assurance-Teams-Together/
• Bringing manual and automated testing together – Cullyn Thomson – http://qablog.practitest.com/2015/01/bringing-manual-and-automated-testing-together/
• Employees are People Too – Colin Cherry – http://itesting.com.au/2015/01/08/employees-are-people-too/
• Encouraging Exploratory Tests. Interview with Alan Richardson – A1QA – http://a1qa.com/blog/encouraging-exploratory-tests-interview-with-alan-richardson/
• Fish Tank , a Test Model for Android and iOS apps – Dhanasekar S – http://testingideas.wordpress.com/2015/01/08/fish-tank-a-test-model-for-andorid-and-ios-apps/
• Learn to use browsers’ DevTools – Irina Ivanova – http://ivanova-irina.blogspot.com/2015/01/learn-to-use-browsers-devtools.html
• Lego, students and testing – a love story – Andrei Contan – http://andrei.contan.ro/lego-students-love-story/
• Regression – Gil Zilberfeld – http://www.gilzilberfeld.com/2015/01/regression.html
• Security Testing Made Simple by Smart Test Managers – Software Testing Genius – http://www.softwaretestinggenius.com/security-testing-made-simple-by-smart-test-managers
• Should QA and QC reside in the same department? – Reinder – http://reinderotter.blogspot.com/2015/01/should-qa-and-qc-reside-in-same.html
• Testing Economics – Gil Zilberfeld – http://www.stickyminds.com/article/testing-economics
• The Full Circle: What to do with our “old school” test experience – Derk-Jan de Grood – https://djdegrood.wordpress.com/2015/01/04/the-full-circle-what-to-do-with-our-old-school-test-experience/
• The needy interviewer – Clarie Banks – http://howigotintotesting.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-needy-interviewer.html
• The ultimate series of Software testing interview questions (Part 4) – David Tzhmach – http://www.dtvisiontech.com/2015/01/the-ultimate-series-of-software-testing.html
• Transitioning from a Traditional Tester to an Agile Tester – Michael Sowers – http://www.techwell.com/2015/01/transitioning-traditional-tester-agile-tester
• Treating Test Code as Production Code – Gareth Waterhouse – http://www.testingthewaterhouse.com/2015/01/treating-test-code-as-production-code.html
• What is Test Harness and How is it Applicable to us, Testers – Swati Seela – http://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/what-is-test-harness/
• What team do you play for? – Augusto Evangelisti – https://mysoftwarequality.wordpress.com/2015/01/04/what-team-do-you-play-for/
• White Papers and Who Owns Your Education? – Jeremy Carey-Dressler – http://about98percentdone.blogspot.com/2015/01/white-papers-and-who-owns-your-education.html
• Who is stopping developers from doing unit testing? – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – http://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2015/01/who-is-stopping-developers-from-doing.html
• Why Excel is so Wildly Used For test plans… – Benjamin Weese – http://www.qahipster.com/blog/why-excel-is-so-wildly-used-for-test-plans

Year in Review / Goals 2015

• 2014 Year in Review – Lucas Dargis – http://lucasdargis.com/2014-year-in-review/
• 2014 – My Year in Review – Quality Captain – http://www.qualitycaptain.com/2014-my-year-in-review/
• A Testing Professional’s Resolutions for 2015 – Deepika Mamnani – https://www.techwell.com/2015/01/testing-professional-s-resolutions-2015
• Taking stock of 2014 – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – http://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2015/01/taking-stock-of-2014.html
• The Best of 2014: Top Posts from the uTest Blog – Ryan Arsenault – http://blog.utest.com/2015/01/05/the-best-of-2014-top-posts-from-the-utest-blog/
• Update and Plans for 2015 – John Stevenson – http://steveo1967.blogspot.com/2015/01/update-and-plans-for-2015.html

Tools

• Bug Magnet by Gojko Adzic – Daniel Knott – http://adventuresinqa.com/2015/01/06/bug-magnet-gojko-adzic/
• Bug Magnet: A Free Exploratory Testing Tool – Joe Colantonio – http://www.joecolantonio.com/2015/01/06/bug-magnet-a-free-exploratory-testing-tool/
• How to debug steps in Jmeter Webdriver sampler? Jmeter Client side performance testing – Shantonu Sarker – http://shantonusarker.blogspot.com/2015/01/debug-steps-in-jmeter-webdriver.html

Conferences/Events/Meetups/Organizations/Training

• Software QA & Testing Meetup – Back for 2015! – Matt Hutchison – http://blog.testingcurator.com/2015/01/07/software-qa-testing-meetup-back-for-2015/
• Speaker at the Romanian Testing Conference 2015 – Daniel Knott – http://adventuresinqa.com/2015/01/09/speaker-romanian-testing-conference-2015/
• Special Offers – James Thomas – http://qahiccupps.blogspot.com/2015/01/special-offers.html
• STP Con Program Announced – Mike Lyles – http://www.stpcon.com/
• Testing Tweet Bits from #CodeMash 2015 – Matt Hutchison – http://blog.testingcurator.com/2015/01/10/testing-tweet-bits-from-codemash-2015/
• Tips For a Good CAST 2015 Proposal – Justin Rohrman – http://www.associationforsoftwaretesting.org/2015/01/04/tips-for-cast-proposal/
• Why I think we should pay for online courses? – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – http://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2015/01/why-i-think-we-should-pay-for-online.html
• WTA – 57: Combination Test Design on Mobile Hybrid Apps – Jean Ann Harrison – http://weekendtesting.com/archives/3879
• WTANZ 26 – Mobile Exploratory Testing – Dean Mackenzie – http://weekendtesting.com/archives/3885

Attention Ohio Testers:

1/15/15 – Columbus, OH – COQAA – How LEAN can alleviate the overloading of QA – http://coqaa.org/id1.html

1/15/15 – Columbus, OH – GDC Columbus – Testing With Android – http://www.meetup.com/GDG-Columbus/events/219601906/

1/15/15 – Richfield, OH (Cleveland area) – NOSQAA – Unlocking the Value of Continuous Performance Testing – http://nosqaa.org/?event=performance-testing

1/27/15 – Columbus, OH – Software QA & Testing Meetup – Testing Trends 2015 and Beyond – http://bit.ly/146azaL

2/17/15 – Columbus, OH – QA or the Highway Conference – http://qaorthehighway.com/

Miscellaneous

• Book Review: Design Accessible Web Sites – Michael Larsen – http://www.mkltesthead.com/2015/01/book-review-design-accessible-web-sites.html
• Magazines: Behind the Scenes: Editor of Testing Trapeze – Katrina Clokie – http://katrinatester.blogspot.com/2015/01/behind-scenes-editor-of-testing-trapeze.html
• Podcast: 34: Janet Gregory: Agile Testing – Joe Colantonio – http://joecolantonio.com/testtalks/34-janet-gregory-agile-testing/
• ISO 29119 Petition – http://www.commonsensetesting.org/news/files/PetitionISO29119.html
• Professional Tester’s Manifesto – http://www.professionaltestersmanifesto.org/

Items of Interest for Testers

• Apple has a serious problem with software quality – Adrian Kingsley-Hughes – http://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-has-a-serious-problem-with-software-quality/
• Biggest browser news of 2014 – Howard Wen – http://www.networkworld.com/article/2863312/software/biggest-browser-news-of-2014.html
• Making ‘testing’ sexy, meet the company that tests India’s best apps – Jubin Mehta – http://yourstory.com/2015/01/moolya-pradeep-soundararajan-mobilesparks/
• Microsoft’s ‘Spartan’ browser: More details leak – Mary Jo Foley – http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsofts-spartan-browser-more-details-leak/
• UC Browser beats out Chrome and Safari in China, India, and Pakistan, ranked 4th worldwide – Paul Bischoff – https://www.techinasia.com/uc-browser-beats-chrome-safari-china-india-pakistan-ranked-4th-worldwide/
• uTest Announces Winner of QA Career Advice Contest – Linda Seid Frembes – http://blog.utest.com/2015/01/06/utest-announces-winner-of-qa-career-advice-contest/
• uTest in January 2015: The Return of Mentoring, New Contest, Rising Stars – Ryan Arsenault – http://blog.utest.com/2015/01/09/utest-in-january-2015-the-return-of-mentoring-new-contest-rising-stars/

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