Testing Bits – 3/27/16 – 4/2/16

Here is this week’s collection of articles, blogs, and announcements covering the days of 3/27/16 – 4/2/16.

Articles & Blogs

• 4 approaches to understanding user stories – Christian Kram – http://www.testknight.de/4-approaches-to-understanding-user-stories/
• C is for Community (My A to Z of Software Testing, Part 4) – Colin Cherry – https://itesting.com.au/2016/03/31/c-is-for-community/
• Can we actually count bugs? – Thomas Ponnet – https://observanttester.wordpress.com/2016/03/30/can-we-actually-count-bugs/
• Communicating Testing through Stories: An Interview with Isabel Evans – Josiah Renaudin – https://www.stickyminds.com/interview/communicating-testing-through-stories-interview-isabel-evans
• Conceptualizing Test Intersections – Jeff Nyman – http://testerstories.com/2016/03/conceptualizing-test-intersections/
• Containers: A Tester’s Friend or Foe? – Kevin Dunne – https://www.stickyminds.com/article/containers-testers-friend-or-foe
• Engagify Before You Gamify Testing – Brendan Connolly – http://www.brendanconnolly.net/engagify-testing/

• Everyday Browsing to improve your web testing skills – Why? – Alan Richardson – http://blog.eviltester.com/2016/03/everyday-browsing-to-improve-your-web.html
• Fragile Automation – Ashley Hunsberger – http://sauceio.com/index.php/2016/03/fragile-automation/
• How Can Testers Embrace Learning and Keep the Spark Alive? – Swati Seela – http://www.testingexcellence.com/can-testers-embrace-learning-keep-spark-alive/
• How Dev Teams Are Improving Code Quality in 2016 – Ryan Pinkham – http://blog.smartbear.com/code-review/how-to-improve-code-quality/
• How Fitbit-Boston uses Automated Testing: A Brief Overview – T.J. Maher – http://www.tjmaher.com/2016/04/how-fitbit-boston-uses-automated.html
• How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Management – Ben Kelly – http://www.ministryoftesting.com/2016/03/stopped-worrying-learned-love-management/
• How to Address Flaky Tests – Martin Poschenrieder – https://blog.testmunk.com/how-to-address-flaky-tests/
• How to Make Your Test Automation Efforts Visible to Everyone on the Team – Joe Colantonio – http://www.joecolantonio.com/2016/03/29/make-test-automation-efforts-visible-everyone-team/
• How to read web performance stats: What does “making pages X seconds faster equals Y” actually mean? – Buddy Brewer – http://www.soasta.com/blog/how-to-read-web-performance-stats/
• How to Test Investment Banking Application (with 34+ Important Test Scenarios) – Laxmi – http://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/how-to-test-investment-banking-application/
• Implied Testing – Joe Nolan – http://sauceio.com/index.php/2016/03/implied-testing/
• I test, therefore I am – Thomas Ponnet – https://observanttester.wordpress.com/2016/03/31/i-test-therefore-i-am/
• Is Test Automation a Silver Bullet – Prashant Hedge – http://blog.testproject.io/2016/03/30/test-automation-silver-bullet/
• Is “testing vs. checking” just Cartesian Dualism regurgitated? – Noah Sussman – http://infiniteundo.com/post/141887918393/is-testing-vs-checking-just-cartesian-dualism
• Lightning Talks for Knowledge Sharing – Katrina Clokie – http://katrinatester.blogspot.com/2016/04/lightning-talks-for-knowledge-sharing.html
• Questions From Testers – How To Better Structure My Testing Career – Alex Siminiuc – http://test-able.blogspot.com/2016/03/questions-from-testers-how-to-better.html
• Repetition in testing – Maaike Brinkhof – http://www.maaikebrinkhof.nl/2016/03/repetition-in-testing/
• Running your tests in a specific order – Bas Dijkstra – http://www.ontestautomation.com/running-your-tests-in-a-specific-order/
• Software testing is not… – Viktor Slavchev – http://mrslavchev.com/2016/03/28/software-testing-not/
• Start From Scratch vs. Old Test Documentation – Eric Jacobson – http://www.testthisblog.com/2016/03/start-from-scratch-vs-old-test.html
• Testing Activities BEFORE and AFTER release – Mark Crowther – http://cyreath.blogspot.com/2016/03/testing-activities-before-and-after.html
• Testing is all that and more: A project retrospective – Part 2 – Sandra Ilcus – http://altom.ro/blog/testing-project-retrospective-part-2
• The Second Wave of Open Source Test Automation: An Interview with David Dang – Josiah Renaudin – https://www.stickyminds.com/interview/second-wave-open-source-test-automation-interview-david-dang
• Things I learned while being coached – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – http://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2016/03/things-i-learned-while-being-coached.html
• Twitter Has Alt Text! (with some caveats) – Adrian Roselli – http://adrianroselli.com/2016/03/twitter-has-alt-text-with-some-caveats.html
• Why Organizations Still Fail to Load Test in 2016 – Priyanka Tiwari – http://blog.smartbear.com/load-testing/why-organizations-fail-to-load-test/

Tools

• Accessibility Scanner – Daniel Knott – http://adventuresinqa.com/2016/03/29/accessibility-scanner/
• Design Grid Control Automated Tests Part 3 – Anton Angelov – http://automatetheplanet.com/design-grid-control-automated-tests-part-3/
• Introduction to Selenium WebDriver – Selenium Tutorial – Ankur Shrivastava – http://blog.testproject.io/2016/03/31/introduction-selenium-webdriver-selenium-tutorial/
• UI/API Test Framework Github Repos – Paul Littlebury – http://jaffamonkey.com/uiapi-test-framework-github-repos-2/
• Why Test Engineers Should Learn Geb and Spock – Jeff Nyman – http://testerstories.com/2016/03/why-test-engineers-should-learn-geb-and-spock/

Conferences/Events/Meetups/Organizations/Training

• Conference diversity discussions makes my kids be late from school – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – http://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2016/03/conference-diversity-discussions-makes.html
• GTR 2016 – Speaker Series – Featuring Rajini Padmanaban – Matt Hutchison – http://blog.testingcurator.com/2016/04/02/gtr-2016-speaker-series-featuring-rajini-padmanaban/
• Software Testers Clinic – A Mentor Experience Report – Richard Bradshaw – http://www.thefriendlytester.co.uk/2016/03/software-testers-clinic-mentor.html
• Tester Meetup reaches Lahore – Majd Uddin – http://knowledgetester.org/2016/03/28/tester-meetup-reaches-lahore/
• Testbash workshop: Building Quality in With Distributed Teams – Bhagya Mudiyanselage – https://bhagyagdm.wordpress.com/2016/03/27/testbash-workshop-building-quality-in-with-distributed-teams/
• TestRetreat at CAST2016 – Matt Heusser – http://xndev.com/2016/03/testretreat-at-cast2016/
• Want more women speakers? I can help! – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – http://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2016/03/want-more-women-speakers-i-can-help.html

Miscellaneous

• Books: End of an era > The Social Tester – Rob Lambert – http://cultivatedmanagement.com/end-of-an-era-the-social-tester/
• Podcast: Ep 45 – Can we test it? – Gem Hill – http://letstalkabouttests.xyz/index.php/2016/03/31/ep-45-can-test/
• Podcast: Testing in the Pub Live From TestBash 2016 – Part 2 – Dan Ashby, Stephen Janaway – http://testinginthepub.co.uk/testinginthepub/conferences/170/