Posted on Sunday, August 30, 2015

Testing Bits – 8/23/15 – 8/29/15

Here is this week’s collection of articles, blogs, and announcements covering the days of 8/23/15 – 8/29/15.

Articles & Blogs

9 Reasons Microservices Matter to Architects, Developers & Testers – Les Worley – http://blog.smartbear.com/readyapi/9-reasons-microservices-matter-to-architects-developers-testers/
10 Ways To Initiate Change In An Organisation That Doesn’t Want To Change – Rob Lambert – http://thesocialtester.co.uk/10-ways-to-initiate-change-in-an-organisation-that-doesnt-want-to-change/
Accessibility & Usability Testing Pathway – Katrina Clokie – http://katrinatester.blogspot.com/2015/08/accessibility-usability-testing-pathway.html
Bad Requirements – A Software Tester’s Nightmare! – Namita Kohli Arora – http://www.testingexcellence.com/bad-requirements-software-testers-nightmare/
Getting the Existing Team On Board with Automation (Scripts) – Greg Sypolt – http://sauceio.com/index.php/2015/08/getting-the-existing-team-on-board-with-automation-scripts/
How Many Words Do You Have Left In You? – Michael Larsen – http://www.mkltesthead.com/2015/08/how-many-words-do-you-have-left-in-you.html
How to practice software testing – Erik Brickarp – http://erik.brickarp.se/2015/08/practice-software-testing.html

Posted on Sunday, August 23, 2015

Testing Bits – 8/16/15 – 8/22/15

Here is this week’s collection of articles, blogs, and announcements covering the days of 8/16/15 – 8/22/15.

Articles & Blogs

4 More Reasons Bugs are Missed – Cullyn Thomson – http://qablog.practitest.com/2015/08/4-more-reasons-bugs-are-missed/
10 Ways to hire niche employees – Rob Lambert – http://thesocialtester.co.uk/10-ways-to-hire-niche-employees/
12 Rules of Success from Steve Jobs – Mike Lyles – https://mikelyles.wordpress.com/2015/08/22/steve-jobs-12-rules/
23 stats you should know about mobile web performance – Tammy Everts – http://www.soasta.com/blog/23-stats-mobile-web-performance-monitoring/
99 seconds – a long time and a short time! – Lee Hawkins – https://therockertester.wordpress.com/2015/08/22/99-seconds-a-long-time-and-a-short-time/
Automated tests do not improve your testing process. Testers do. – Bas Dijkstra – http://www.ontestautomation.com/automated-tests-do-not-improve-your-testing-process-testers-do/
Being a navigator in Strong-style Pairing – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – http://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2015/08/being-navigator-in-strong-style-pairing.html

Posted on Sunday, August 16, 2015

Testing Bits – 8/9/15 – 8/15/15

Here is this week’s collection of articles, blogs, and announcements covering the days of 8/2/15 – 8/8/15.

Articles & Blogs

4 Ways to Boost Your Test Process with Service Virtualization – Bas Dijkstra – http://www.stickyminds.com/article/4-ways-boost-your-test-process-service-virtualization
A Little Lesson on Paired Work – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – http://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2015/08/a-little-lesson-on-paired-work.html
Acceptance Criteria Abuse – Eric Jacobson – http://www.testthisblog.com/2015/08/acceptance-criteria-abuse.html
Away from Fear: Kindness-driven dialogue-oriented testing community – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – http://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2015/08/away-from-fear-kindness-driven-dialogue.html
Being a Driver in Strong-Style pairing – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – http://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2015/08/being-driver-in-strong-style-pairing.html
Considerations when Performance Testing Native Mobile Applications – James Willett – http://james-willett.com/2015/08/considerations-when-performance-testing-native-mobile-applications/
Creating a Unit Testing Strategy – Gil Zilberfeld – http://www.everydayunittesting.com/2015/08/creating-a-unit-testing-strategy-part-iv.html

Posted on Monday, August 10, 2015

Software QA & Testing Meetup – August 2015 Meetup Scheduled

Attention Ohio Testers:

Last month’s meeting was full of great discussion as we discussed “testing vs. checking”.

August 25th’s meeting will have two focuses for the evening and promises to be quite informative. Here is the planned agenda:

1) CAST 2015 – A look back

For those that were able to attend CAST 2015, we will discuss your personal Experience report(s).
For those able to watch any part of webCast 2015, we would like your view about the event as well.
Open Discussion on Lessons Learned from the conference. Action items that you might have gotten from the event?

2) Testing Language

Inspired by the recent blog series by Jean–Paul Varwijk on Testing Definitions (http://arborosa.org/) and after July’s meetup, our group thought it would be a good idea to get to a common vocabulary or “testing language”. We will begin that journey in part two of the evening.

Concepts to look into include:

Posted on Sunday, August 9, 2015

Testing Bits – 8/2/15 – 8/8/15

Here is this week’s collection of articles, blogs, and announcements covering the days of 8/2/15 – 8/8/15.

Articles & Blogs

6 Most Common QA Test Lead/Manager Interview Questions (with Answers and our Tips) – Swati Seela – http://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/qa-test-lead-interview-questions-and-answers/
An evolution of the testing industry and testers – Brett Hinton – http://technophiletester.hintonweb.com/2015/08/05/an-evolution-of-the-testing-industry-and-testers/
Android Fragmentation Report – Daniel Knott – http://adventuresinqa.com/2015/08/05/android-fragmentation-report/
Beta Testing for Android Apps – Daniel Knott – http://adventuresinqa.com/2015/08/03/beta-testing-for-android-apps/
Can DevOps afford to ignore cognitive testing? – Rajesh Mathur – http://www.dogmatictesting.com/2015/08/devops-implementation-bugs-by-cognition.html
Confidence – Lisa Crispin – http://lisacrispin.com/2015/08/04/confidence/
Creating a Unit Test Strategy – Part III – Gil Zilberfeld – http://www.everydayunittesting.com/2015/08/creating-a-unit-test-strategy-part-iii.html

Posted on Thursday, August 6, 2015

Tweet Bits from #CAST2015 – Day 2

As promised, here’s another edition of Tweet Bits focusing on Day 2 of #CAST2015 containing notable Tweets from the conference.

Wow! What a great day of Tweets with valuable information.

August 5, 2015 – Day 2 – #CAST2015

Andy Tinkham ‏@andytinkham
@PeteWalen, @dynamoben, Dee Ann, AST board, facilitators – thank you for your hard work & for making #CAST2015 so accessible from afar

Clint Hoagland ‏@vsComputer
Surprised (but not surprised) that an emergent theme of #CAST2015 is the upcoming absorption of the testing role by the development role.

Josh Meier ‏@moshjeier
When a tester joke falls flat at a testers conference you may be doing it wrong @PeteWalen #CAST2015

Jean Ann Harrison ‏@JA_Harrison
#CAST2015 I didn’t think I could be so inspired by not physically being at the conference. WOW what a conference! Not missing next year!

Allen Johnson ‏@allenjfly
I’m on Twitter overload,it’s hard to even keep up, much less post, when I’m learning and collaborating this much #CAST2015

Posted on Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Tweet Bits from #CAST2015 – Tutorial Sessions & Day 1

Here’s another edition of Tweet Bits. By far, CAST is one of my favorite conferences to follow on Twitter and they also have an awesome webCAST.

Below are some of the more notable Tweets that I read from the conference in it’s first couple of days while watching #CAST2015 on Twitter.

I hope you enjoy. If you like these, be sure to check out all the Tweets for yourself. Watch for CAST2015 – Day 2 Tweets coming soon.

Thank you to all those that took the time to live Tweet for all of us that could not make it to the conference.

August 4, 2015 – Day 1 CAST

karennjohnson ‏@karennjohnson
Thanks for tweets from today’s conference ~ feel greatly supported by the testing community. #CAST2015

Steve Pheley ‏@spheley
Use mind map to visualize test concerns for each feature in a release and write session charters @allenjfly #lightningtalks #CAST2015

Posted on Sunday, August 2, 2015

Testing Bits – 7/26/15 – 8/1/15

Here is this week’s collection of articles, blogs, and announcements covering the days of 7/26/15 – 8/1/15.

Articles & Blogs

Abstraction Levels for Tests – Jeff Nyman – http://testerstories.com/2015/07/abstraction-levels-for-tests/
Being a Skilled Tester – Philip Heath – http://www.thattestingguy.com/being-a-skilled-tester/
Bruce Asks All Things – Joe Strazzere – http://www.allthingsquality.com/2015/07/bruce-asks-all-things.html
Can Bug Bounty Programs Replace In-House Testing? – Sanjay Zalavadia – http://www.techwell.com/2015/07/can-bug-bounty-programs-replace-house-testing
Creating a Unit Test Strategy – Part II – Gil Zilberfeld – http://www.everydayunittesting.com/2015/07/creating-a-unit-test-strategy-part-ii.html
Feedback: Giving, Receiving and Seeking – Ruma Dak – http://knowledgetester.org/2015/07/29/feedback-giving-receiving-and-seeking/
Five Ways Not to Test Software – Noel Wurst – https://www.skytap.com/blog/five-ways-to-not-to-test-software/