Testing Bits – 12/13/15 – 12/19/15

Here is this week’s collection of articles, blogs, and announcements covering the days of 12/13/15 – 12/19/15.

Articles & Blogs

• 3 Tips To Help Testers Ask Better Questions – Katrina Clokie – http://www.ministryoftesting.com/2015/12/3-tips-to-help-testers-ask-better-questions/
• A Christmas Retrospective – Stephen Janaway – http://stephenjanaway.co.uk/stephenjanaway/experiences/a-christmas-retro/
• Hiring for skills and team diversity – Katrina Clokie – http://katrinatester.blogspot.com/2015/12/hiring-for-skills-and-team-diversity.html
• How to Reproduce a Non-Reproducible Defect and Make Your Testing Effort Worth It – Vijay Shinde – http://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/how-to-reproduce-a-non-reproducible-defect/
• Roles and Fluidity – Alan Page – http://angryweasel.com/blog/roles-and-fluidity/
• Test Oracles – Daniel Donbavand – http://www.testingtesting321.com/2015/12/203/
• Testing Skills #9 – Differentiating between wants and needs – John Stevenson – http://steveo1967.blogspot.com/2015/12/testing-skills-9-differentiating.html
• The Important Lessons I Learned This Year About Software Testing – Jason Ogayon – https://onesoftwaretester.wordpress.com/2015/12/15/the-most-important-lessons-i-learned-this-year-about-testing/
• Value in contributing or learning – when to automate tests – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – http://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2015/12/value-in-contributing-or-learning-when.html
• What I’ve learned from monitoring four years of web page bloat – Tammy Everts – http://www.soasta.com/blog/page-bloat-2015-web-performance-monitoring/
• Why Isn’t Testing Easier? – James Thomas – http://qahiccupps.blogspot.com/2015/12/why-isnt-testing-easier.html

Tools

• 5 Most Important Features to Look for in Test Management Tools – Sanjay Zalavadia – http://quicksoftwaretesting.com/test-management-tools-key-features/
• Appium Tip #14: 3 Tricks for Faster Appium Test Script Creation – Lasse Häll – http://testdroid.com/news/appium-tip-14-3-tricks-for-faster-appium-test-script-creation
• Bug Magnet – Daniel Donbavand – http://www.testingtesting321.com/2015/12/229/
• Data Driven Testing with Nunit 3 – Brendan Connolly – http://www.brendanconnolly.net/data-driven-testing-with-nunit-3/

Conferences/Events/Meetups/Organizations/Training

• Australian Testing Days 2016 – Call for Proposals! – Rajesh Mathur – http://www.dogmatictesting.com/2015/12/australian-testing-days-2016-call-for.html
• Building Your Mobile App Quality Strategy: STARWEST 2015 Interview with Jason Arbon – Jennifer Bonine – http://www.stickyminds.com/interview/building-your-mobile-app-quality-strategy-starwest-2015-interview-jason-arbon
• Cambridge Lean Coffee – James Thomas – http://qahiccupps.blogspot.com/2015/12/cambridge-lean-coffee.html
• Does the Agile Testing Process Work? – A #BAST Lean Beer Summary (1/5) – Michael Larsen – http://www.mkltesthead.com/2015/12/does-agile-testing-process-work-bast.html
• Free (and Almost Free) Training for QA Engineers – Joe Nolan – http://sauceio.com/index.php/2015/12/free-and-almost-free-training-for-qa-engineers/
• Recapping DevOps East – Opportunistic QA – Chris Riley – http://sauceio.com/index.php/2015/12/recapping-devops-east-opportunistic-qa/

Miscellaneous

• Cartoon: Power Breakdown in Zurich – Torsten Zelger – http://simply-the-test.blogspot.com/2015/12/power-breakdown-in-zurich.html
• Podcast: AB Testing – Episode 32 – Alan Page, Brent Jensen – http://www.angryweasel.com/ABTesting/?p=103
• Podcast: Ep 31: Tales Of Derring-Do Bad and Good Luck Tales – Gem Hill – http://letstalkabouttests.xyz/index.php/2015/12/17/ep-31-tales-of-derring-do-bad-and-good-luck-tales/
• Podcast: EPISODE 82: Software Craftsmanship – Revenge of the SDET [PODCAST] – Joe Colantonio – http://www.joecolantonio.com/2015/12/17/episode-82-software-craftsmanship-revenge-of-the-sdet-podcast/

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