Testing Bits – 12/6/15 – 12/12/15

Here is this week’s collection of articles, blogs, and announcements covering the days of 12/6/15 – 12/12/15.

Articles & Blogs

• 5 best practices for realistic performance testing – Amichai Nitsan – http://techbeacon.com/5-best-practices-realistic-performance-testing
• 7 Performance Testing Fallacies Undermining Your Test Strategy – Sofía Palamarchuk – http://www.stickyminds.com/article/7-performance-testing-fallacies-undermining-your-test-strategy
• 10 Easy Ways to Make Developers Hate You More – Thanh Huynh – http://www.asktester.com/10-easy-ways-to-make-developers-hate-you/
• A more optimistic conclusion? – James Christie – https://clarotesting.wordpress.com/2015/12/09/a-more-optimistic-conclusion/
• Automation is a Technique, Not Testing – Jeff Nyman – http://testerstories.com/2015/12/automation-is-a-technique-not-testing/
• How to find value in customer experience testing – Jennifer Lent – http://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/opinion/How-to-find-value-in-customer-experience-testing
• HUMBLE: Agile Accessibility Testing Strategy – Albert Gareev – http://automation-beyond.com/2015/12/11/humble-agile-accessibility-testing-strategy/
• Questioning skills – Mike Talks – http://testsheepnz.blogspot.com/2015/12/questioning-skills.html
• Testers = Translators – Brendan Connolly – http://www.brendanconnolly.net/testers-translators/
• The end of the QA manager? – Alex Siminuic – http://test-able.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-end-of-qa-manager.html
• Transferring testing skills – Lisa Crispin – http://lisacrispin.com/2015/12/06/transferring-testing-skills/
• Where do we testers invest our testing effort and time? – Jyothi Rangaiah – http://chroniclesoftesting.blogspot.com/2015/12/where-do-we-testers-invest-our-testing.html
• Why say QA? – Rich Rogers – https://richrtesting.wordpress.com/2015/12/08/why-say-qa/
• Why Does (Story) Size Matter? – Joe Nolan – http://sauceio.com/index.php/2015/12/why-does-story-size-matter/
• Why the Testing Pyramid is Misleading – Joe Colantonio – http://www.joecolantonio.com/2015/12/09/why-the-testing-pyramid-is-misleading-think-scales/
• Why you should hire junior testers – Katrina Clokie – http://katrinatester.blogspot.com/2015/12/why-you-should-hire-junior-testers.html

Tools

• Appium Tip #13: Use Inspector or uiautomatorviewer for UI Element Inspection – Lasse Häll – http://testdroid.com/news/appium-tip-13-use-inspector-or-uiautomatorviewer-for-ui-element-inspection
• Comparison of JavaScript browser automation and test specification libraries  – Alister Scott – http://watirmelon.com/2015/12/08/comparison-of-javascript-browser-automation-and-test-specification-libraries/
• Create Custom Selenium IDE Export to WebDriver – Anton Angelov – http://automatetheplanet.com/create-custom-selenium-ide-export-webdriver/
• Real vs Headless Browsers for Automated Acceptance Tests – Alister Scott – http://watirmelon.com/2015/12/08/real-vs-headless-browsers-for-automated-acceptance-tests/
• Symbiont Now Supports Capybara – Jeff Nyman – http://testerstories.com/2015/12/symbiont-now-supports-capybara/
• Top 10 Devices for iOS App Testing – Ville-Veikko Helppi – http://testdroid.com/news/top-10-devices-for-ios-app-testing

Conferences/Events/Meetups/Organizations/Training

• BBST foundations revisited – Christian Kram – http://www.testknight.de/bbst-foundations-revisited/
• GTAC 2015 Wrap Up – Michael Klepikov, Lesley Katzen – http://googletesting.blogspot.com/2015/12/gtac-2015-wrap-up.html
• The BBST Foundations course: Week 3 – Beren Van Daele – https://enquiretst.wordpress.com/2015/12/06/the-bbst-foundations-course-week-3/
• The final TEAM meetup of 2015 – a great end to a great first year – Lee Hawkins – https://therockertester.wordpress.com/2015/12/11/the-final-team-meetup-of-2015-a-great-end-to-a-great-first-year/

Miscellaneous

• Podcast: Ep 30 – Oh, Arse – Let’s Talk About Tests – Gem Hill – http://letstalkabouttests.xyz/index.php/2015/12/10/ep-30-oh-arse/
• Podcast: EPISODE 81: Mastering Selenium WebDriver [PODCAST] – Joe Colantonio – http://www.joecolantonio.com/2015/12/10/episode-81-mastering-selenium-webdriver-podcast/

Items of Interest for Testers

• Yahoo’s Engineers Move to Coding Without a Net – Tekla Perry – http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/computing/software/yahoos-engineers-move-to-coding-without-a-net

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