Testing Bits – 4/3/16 – 4/9/16

Here is this week’s collection of articles, blogs, and announcements covering the days of 4/3/16 – 4/9/16.

Articles & Blogs

• All In One Guide On Defect Density – Its Importance and How to Calculate It. – Swati Seela – http://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/defect-density/
• Be a Zero – Maaike Brinkhof – http://www.maaikebrinkhof.nl/2016/04/be-a-zero/
• Creating Positive Experiences on Mobile Apps While Users Wait – Parimala Hariprasad – http://curioustester.blogspot.com/2016/04/creating-positive-experiences-on-mobile.html
• David Graeber’s “The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy” – James Christie – https://clarotesting.wordpress.com/2016/04/04/david-graebers-the-utopia-of-rules-on-technology-stupidity-and-the-secret-joys-of-bureaucracy/
• Don’t Fool Yourself: Load Testing APIs and Scale – Matt Heusser – http://blog.smartbear.com/api-testing/load-testing-apis-and-scale/
• Engaging with your Internal Testing Community – Daniel Donbavand – http://www.testingtesting321.com/2016/04/345/
• From unwilling/unable to willing/able – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – http://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2016/04/ive-been-having-discussions-about.html

• How Every Tester Can Do Performance Testing – Mark Crowther – http://cyreath.blogspot.com/2016/04/how-every-tester-can-do-performance.html
• Integrate Manual and Automated Testing in a Test Plan – Art Trevethan – http://www.softwaretestingmagazine.com/knowledge/integrate-manual-and-automated-testing-in-a-test-plan/
• Know Where the Water Is: Communicating across Generations – Matthew Heusser – https://www.stickyminds.com/article/know-where-water-communicating-across-generations
• Learning from a customer through strong-style pairing  – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – http://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2016/04/learning-from-customer-through-strong.html
• Luncheon Meet – James Thomas – http://qahiccupps.blogspot.com/2016/04/luncheon-meet.html
• Mapping Biases to Testing: the Anchoring Effect – Maaike Brinkhof – http://www.maaikebrinkhof.nl/2016/04/mapping-biases-to-testing-the-anchoring-effect/
• (re)Defining Testing – Brendan Connolly – http://www.brendanconnolly.net/redefining-testing/
• Software Testing @ Facebook – Aditya Kalra – http://go-gaga-over-testing.blogspot.com/2016/04/software-testing-facebook.html
• Software testing: craft or engineering? – Lee Hawkins – https://therockertester.wordpress.com/2016/04/08/software-testing-craft-or-engineering/
• Switching careers in QA: From manual testing to automation development – T.J. Maher – http://techbeacon.com/switching-careers-qa-manual-testing-automation-development
• Test Automation: Now We Have To Get It Right – Paul Gerrard – https://www.stickyminds.com/better-software-magazine-article/test-automation-now-we-have-get-it-right
• Test Management Revisited – Anne-Marie Charrett – http://www.infoq.com/articles/test-management-revisited
• Testers are Knowledge Workers – Jesper Ottosen – https://jlottosen.wordpress.com/2016/04/03/testers-are-knowledge-workers/
• Testing is all that and more: A project retrospective – Part 3 – Sandra Ilcus – http://altom.ro/blog/testing-project-retrospective-part-3
• Testing is all that and more: A project retrospective – Part 4 – Sandra Ilcus – http://altom.ro/blog/testing-project-retrospective-part-4
• Three things everybody should know about test automation – Bas Dijkstra – https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/three-things-everybody-should-know-test-automation-bas-dijkstra
• Top 10 Challenges Testers Face at Workplace and How to Overcome Them – Swati Seela – http://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/challenges-testers-face-at-workplace/
• We are the Person of Interest – Nathalie Rooseboom de Vries – van Delft – http://funtestic.blogspot.com/2016/04/we-are-person-of-interest.html
• When does a change become a new product? – Rich Rogers – https://richrtesting.wordpress.com/2016/04/06/going-back-to-where-we-once-went-wrong/
• Which Android versions should I test on? – Mark Duivesteijn – http://www.spritecloud.com/2016/04/which-android-versions-should-i-test-on/
• Why ALL of your apps need security testing – Kevin Beaver – http://techbeacon.com/why-all-your-apps-need-security-testing
• Why ISO 29119 is a flawed quality standard – James Christie – https://clarotesting.wordpress.com/2016/04/07/why-iso-29119-is-a-flawed-quality-standard/
• Why you still need centralized QA in agile organizations: Lessons learned – Shlomi Zalma – http://techbeacon.com/why-you-still-need-centralized-qa-agile-organizations-lessons-learned

Tools

• Appium+Java+Cucumber Set up – Step by Step Instructions – Raj Subramanian – http://www.rajsubra.com/2016/04/03/appiumjavacucumber-set-up-step-by-step-instructions/
• Creating the Right Calabash Tests – Ville-Veikko Helppi – http://testdroid.com/tech/creating-the-right-calabash-tests
• Get Started with Protractor Testing for AngularJS – Greg Sypolt – http://sauceio.com/index.php/2016/04/get-started-with-protractor-testing-for-angularjs/
• How to Setup and Get Started with Calabash – Ville-Veikko Helppi – http://testdroid.com/tech/how-to-setup-and-get-started-with-calabash
• Introducing FluentLenium (2) – Selenium waiting game – Sławomir Radzymiński – http://awesome-testing.blogspot.com/2016/04/introducing-fluentlenium-2-selenium.html
• JMeter Tips & Tricks – Tip 5 – Martijn de Vrieze – https://martijndevrieze.net/2016/04/04/jmeter-tips-tricks-tip-5/
• The Beginner’s Guide To Explicit Waits – Alex Siminuic – https://seleniumjava.com/2016/04/05/the-beginners-guide-to-explicit-waits/
• Top 10 Selenium WebDriver Books – Amir Ghahrai – http://www.testingexcellence.com/top-10-selenium-webdriver-books/

Attention Ohio Testers

4/16/2016 – Agile Testing and Test Automation Meetup (ATA) – Get Manual Testers Ready for Automation Testing – Part 2 – http://www.meetup.com/Agile-Testing-and-Test-Automation-Meetup-ATA-Ohio-Chapter/events/230236301/

4/26/2016 – Software QA & Testing Meetup – Cucumber as a Collaboration Tool w/ Matthew Eakin – http://www.meetup.com/Software-QA-Testing-Meetup/events/230253885/

4/28/2016 – COQAA –  Bringing the Hacker Mindset into Requirements and Testing w/ Jason Petry & Eapen Thomas – http://coqaa.org/id1.html

5/5/2016 – Columbus ATDD Developers Group – http://www.meetup.com/techlifecolumbus/events/229665814/

Conferences/Events/Meetups/Organizations/Training

• Convincing Your Boss (or not) for Trainings & Conferences – Rajesh Mathur – http://www.dogmatictesting.com/2016/04/ConvincingTheBoss.html
• GTR 2016 – Speaker Series – Featuring Renu Rajani – Matt Hutchison – http://blog.testingcurator.com/2016/04/07/gtr-2016-speaker-series-featuring-renu-rajani/
• GTR 2016 – Speaker Series – Featuring Schalk Cronjé – Matt Hutchison – http://blog.testingcurator.com/2016/04/04/gtr-2016-speaker-series-featuring-schalk-cronje/
• On trolls and men. Summary of a lightning talk. – Viktor Slavchev – http://mrslavchev.com/2016/04/04/on-trolls-and-men-summary-of-a-lightning-talk/

STPCon

• Home Field Advantage: Welcome to #STPCON – Michael Larsen – http://www.mkltesthead.com/2016/04/home-field-advantage-welcome-to-stpcon.html
• Automation for the People: Live from #STPCON – Michael Larsen – http://www.mkltesthead.com/2016/04/automation-for-people-live-from-stpcon.html
• Demystifying the Test Automation Pyramid: Live from #STPCON – Michael Larsen – http://www.mkltesthead.com/2016/04/demystifying-test-automation-pyramid.html
• Continuous Testing: Live from #STPCON – Michael Larsen – http://www.mkltesthead.com/2016/04/continuous-testing-live-from-stpcon.html
• Maximizing Success with Data Testing: Live at #STPCON – Michael Larsen – http://www.mkltesthead.com/2016/04/maximizing-success-with-data-testing.html
• You Wanna (R)Evolution? Live at #STPCON – Michael Larsen – http://www.mkltesthead.com/2016/04/you-wanna-revolution-live-at-stpcon.html
• Leading Change from the Test Team: Live at #STPCON – Michael Larsen – http://www.mkltesthead.com/2016/04/leading-change-from-test-team-live-at.html
• Visual Testing: Live from #STPCON – Michael Larsen – http://www.mkltesthead.com/2016/04/visual-testing-live-from-stpcon.html
• Party Down with MS DevOps: Live from #STPCON – Michael Larsen – http://www.mkltesthead.com/2016/04/party-down-with-ms-devops-live-from.html
• Become an Influential Tester: Live from #STPCON – Michael Larsen – http://www.mkltesthead.com/2016/04/become-influential-tester-live-from.html
• Automation Challenges: Live from #STPCON – Michael Larsen – http://www.mkltesthead.com/2016/04/automation-challenges-live-from-stpcon.html
• Tweet Bits from #STPCon Spring 2016 – Matt Hutchison – http://blog.testingcurator.com/2016/04/09/tweet-bits-from-stpcon-2016-spring/

Miscellaneous

• Podcasts: Ep 46: Reasonable Doubt – Gem Hill – http://letstalkabouttests.xyz/index.php/2016/04/07/ep-46-reasonable-doubt/
• Podcasts: EPISODE 96: Software Testing as a Martial Art [PODCAST] – Joe Colantonio – http://www.joecolantonio.com/2016/04/07/episode-96-software-testing-martial-art-podcast/
• Podcasts: PerfBytes Live At STPCON Spring 2016 – Mark Tomlinson, James Pulley, Howard Chorney – http://www.perfbytes.com/node/187
• Webinars: Test Estimation Hacks with Matt Heusser – Michael Larsen – http://www.mkltesthead.com/2016/04/webinar-test-estimation-hacks-with-matt.html

Additional Items of Interest

• Testing Firm Finds That Some Workers With Autism Excel at Spotting Software Bugs – Ina Fried – http://recode.net/2016/04/02/testing-firm-finds-those-with-autism-excel-at-spotting-software-bugs/
• Web Browser Vivaldi Launches In A Major Challenge To Firefox And Google Chrome – Alex Konrad – http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2016/04/06/vivaldi-launches-challenge-to-chrome-and-firefox/#6b8da257384e

State of Testing Report

• Latest trends in the QA world – Maayan – http://qablog.practitest.com/2016/04/2016-state-testing-report/
• Results for State of testing 2016 survey are live. – Viktor Slavchev – http://mrslavchev.com/2016/04/04/results-for-state-of-testing-2016/
• State of Testing 2016 Report – Christian Kram – http://www.testknight.de/state-of-testing-2016-report/
• State of Testing 2016 Report – Derk-Jan de Grood – https://djdegrood.wordpress.com/2016/04/06/state-of-testing-2016-report/
• State of Testing Report 2016 – Daniel Knott – http://adventuresinqa.com/2016/04/04/2016-state-of-testing-report/
• State Of Testing Report 2016 – Andrei Contan – http://andrei.contan.ro/state-of-testing-2016/
• The State of Testing Survey 2016 results (and some observations) – Rich Rogers – https://richrtesting.wordpress.com/2016/04/07/the-state-of-testing-survey-2016-results-and-some-observations/