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/
• Habits for Agile Testing – Gerald Weinberg – http://secretsofconsulting.blogspot.com/2015/07/habits-for-testing.html
• Games are practice for life – what I learned on Test Strategy from PvsZ – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – http://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2015/07/games-are-practice-for-life-what-i.html
• Open Device Labs – Daniel Knott – http://adventuresinqa.com/2015/07/27/open-device-labs/
• Quality Assured: What It’s Really Like To Test Games For A Living – Jason Schreier – http://kotaku.com/quality-assured-what-it-s-really-like-to-play-games-fo-1720053842
• Regression Testing – Jean–Paul Varwijk – http://arborosa.org/2015/07/31/regression-testing/
• Secure Your API…Like A Castle – Matt Heusser – http://blog.smartbear.com/security/secure-your-api-like-a-castle/
• Software Testing – Ask the Questions! – Namita Kohli Arora – http://www.testingexcellence.com/software-testing-ask-questions/
• Target-rich environments in teaching testing – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – http://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2015/07/target-rich-environments-in-teaching.html
• Testing Sanity – Ben – http://www.qahipster.com/blog/testing-sanity
• To Validate or Verify? – Ashley Hunsberger – http://sauceio.com/index.php/2015/07/to-validate-or-verify/
• Want More Innovative Testing? Put on a Different Thinking Cap – Rajini Padmanaban – http://www.stickyminds.com/article/want-more-innovative-testing-put-different-thinking-cap
• What Should Be Your Expectations From the QA Team Lead? – Swati Seela – http://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/expectations-from-qa-team-lead/

Tools

• Announcing UniTEE- Unified Test Engine Exemplified – Ver-1.0-Beta-1 – Rahul Verma – http://www.rahulverma.xyz/announcing-unitee-unified-test-engine-exemplified-ver-1-0-beta-1/
• Microsoft Edge WebDriver- What Everybody Ought to Know About – Anton Angelov – http://automatetheplanet.com/microsoft-edge-webdriver-what-everybody-ought-know-about/
• Page Object Methods Should Return Objects – Alex Siminuic – http://test-able.blogspot.com/2015/07/page-object-methods-should-return-objects.html
• Proxies: Setting up and using BurpSuite – Mark Winteringham – http://www.mwtestconsultancy.co.uk/proxies-setting-up-burpsuite-proxy/
• Selenium : How to download file in selenium WebDriver using C# – Nadim Saker – http://nadimsaker.blogspot.com/2015/07/selenium-how-to-download-file-in.html
• Stubs, mocks or virtual assets? – Bas Dijkstra – http://www.ontestautomation.com/stubs-mocks-or-virtual-assets/
• The-Internet: Page Object Model examples – T.J. Maher – http://adventuresinautomation.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-internet-page-object-model-examples.html
• The-Internet: Writing the Automated Test – T.J. Maher – http://adventuresinautomation.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-internet-writing-automated-test.html
• Why Is The Selenium Test Automation Framework Called Selenium? – Alex Siminuic – http://test-able.blogspot.com/2015/07/why-is-selenium-called-selenium.htm

Conferences/Events/Meetups/Organizations/Training

• CAST 2015: Count Down to webCAST 2015 – AST – http://www.associationforsoftwaretesting.org/2015/07/29/count-down-to-webcast-2015/
• Experiences from “Agile Testing” workshop – Anand Bagmar – http://essenceoftesting.blogspot.com/2015/08/experiences-from-agile-testing-workshop.html
• No women speakers? No Bother! – Anne-Marie Charret – http://mavericktester.com/archive/why-im-not-worried-about-women-in-software-testing-conferences/
• Presentation in DevClub About Biases in Testing – Irina Ivanova – http://ivanova-irina.blogspot.com/2015/07/presentation-in-devclub-about-biases-in.html
• Professional Growth Leads and Hacks – Albert Gareev – http://automation-beyond.com/2015/07/31/professional-growth-leads-and-hacks/
• STAREAST 2015 Interview with Hans Buwalda on the Challenges of Big Testing – Josiah Renaudin – http://www.stickyminds.com/interview/stareast-2015-interview-hans-buwalda-challenges-big-testing
• STAREAST 2015 Interview with Scott Barber on Application Performance Testing – Josiah Renaudin – http://www.stickyminds.com/interview/stareast-2015-interview-scott-barber-application-performance-testing

AST Elections

• Let’s Continue to Drive Software Testing Education Forward – Michael Corum – http://www.tnridgeback.com/2015/08/lets-continue-to-drive-software-testing.html
• Let’s Enhance the Student and Instructor Experience – Michael Corum – http://www.tnridgeback.com/2015/07/lets-enhance-student-and-instructor.html
• Let’s Make BBST Courses More Accessible – Michael Corum – http://www.tnridgeback.com/2015/07/lets-make-bbst-courses-more-accessible.html
• On Elections for the AST Board of Directors – Pete Walen – http://rhythmoftesting.blogspot.com/2015/07/on-elections-for-ast-board-of-directors.html
• On the Value of “Running for the Board” and “Being on the Board” – Michael Larsen – http://www.mkltesthead.com/2015/07/on-value-of-running-for-board-and-being.html

CAST2015 & Test Retreat

• Bringing Energy Back to Testing – Live from #TestRetreat – Michael Larsen – http://www.mkltesthead.com/2015/08/bringing-energy-back-to-testing-live.html
• How Can We Interview Testers Better? – Live from #TestRetreat – Michael Larsen – http://www.mkltesthead.com/2015/08/how-can-we-interview-testers-better.html
• On Being The “Least Talented” Person in the Room – Live from #TestRetreat – Michael Larsen – http://www.mkltesthead.com/2015/08/on-being-least-talented-person-in-room.html
• Teaching Testing to Programmers – Live from #TestRetreat – Michael Larsen – http://www.mkltesthead.com/2015/08/teaching-testing-to-programmers-live.html
• Testing the IoT – Live from #TestRetreat – Michael Larsen – http://www.mkltesthead.com/2015/08/testing-iot-live-from-testretreat.html
• What is the Career Path for a Tester? – Live from #TestRetreat – Michael Larsen – http://www.mkltesthead.com/2015/08/what-is-career-path-for-tester-live.html

Attention Ohio Testers:

8/25 – Dublin, Ohio – Software QA & Testing Meetup – Topic TBD – facilitated by Matt Hutchison – http://bit.ly/1H5yPbs

Miscellaneous

• Book Review – Fifty Quick Ideas to Improve Your Tests – Janet Gregory – http://janetgregory.ca/book-review-fifty-quick-ideas-to-improve-your-tests/
• Humor – Cross delivery – Torsten Zelger – http://simply-the-test.blogspot.com/2015/07/cross-delivery.html
• Magazine: Software Testing Magazine – Testing Circus – July 2015 Edition – Ajoy Kumar Singha – http://www.testingcircus.com/july-2015/
• Podcast: Ep 12: Give Us A Clue – Gem Hill – http://letstalkabouttests.xyz/index.php/2015/07/30/ep-12-give-us-a-clue/
• Podcast: Episode 13 – Something Borrowed – Ben, Joe – http://podcast.testreactor.com/e/episode-13-something-borrowed/
• Podcast: EPISODE 62: Fifty Quick Ideas to Improve your Tests [PODCAST] – Joe Colantonio – http://www.joecolantonio.com/2015/07/29/episode-62-fifty-quick-ideas-to-improve-your-tests-podcast/
• ISO 29119 Petition – http://www.commonsensetesting.org/news/files/PetitionISO29119.html
• Professional Tester’s Manifesto – http://www.professionaltestersmanifesto.org/

Items of Interest for Testers

• Behind the creation of Microsoft Edge, the Internet Explorer killer – Lance Ulanoff – http://mashable.com/2015/07/29/microsoft-edge-preview/
• Counting nodes as growth metrics, how this startup plans to build a single platform for app testing in India – Tarush Bhalla – http://yourstory.com/2015/07/robustest/
• Microsoft Edge vs Internet Explorer 11 – Jonathan Bray – http://www.alphr.com/microsoft/microsoft-windows-10/1001255/microsoft-edge-vs-internet-explorer-11
• Mozilla to launch new Firefox feature testing program – Gregg Keizer – http://www.computerworld.com/article/2952108/web-browsers/mozilla-to-launch-new-firefox-feature-testing-program.html

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