Testing Bits – 5/1/16 – 5/7/16

Here is this week’s collection of articles, blogs, and announcements covering the days of 5/1/16 – 5/7/16.

Articles & Blogs

• 10 Mobile App Testing Mistakes to Avoid – Daniel Knott – http://adventuresinqa.com/2016/05/03/10-mobile-app-testing-mistakes-to-avoid/
• 10 Skills to Be A Great Tester: How A Tester Can Be A Great Tester – Bhumika Mehta – http://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/how-tester-can-be-great-tester/
• Agile Testing Mindset and the Role of the Agile Tester – Amir Ghahrai – http://www.testingexcellence.com/agile-testing-mindset-tester-role-agile-team/
• Automation: Redirecting the Magic Bullet – Brendan Connolly – http://www.brendanconnolly.net/automation-redirecting-the-magic-bullet/
• Behaviours Design Pattern in Automated Testing – Anton Angelov – http://automatetheplanet.com/behaviours-design-pattern/
• Blog: Testers Don’t Prevent Problems – Michael Bolton – http://www.developsense.com/blog/2016/05/testers-dont-prevent-problems/
• Embracing The Top Trends in Software Testing – Shyam Ramanathan – https://www.stickyminds.com/better-software-magazine-article/embracing-top-trends-software-testing

• First steps into testing in a Continuous Delivery setting – Bas Dijkstra – http://www.ontestautomation.com/first-steps-into-testing-in-a-continuous-delivery-setting/
• Software testing is not activity that could be performed by irreplaceable robots – Viktor Slavchev – http://mrslavchev.com/2016/05/02/software-testing-not-part-3/
• Managing Test Flakiness: How to Make Tests Stable, Scalable, & Maintainable – Nikhil Kaul – http://blog.smartbear.com/automated-testing/managing-test-flakiness/
• Managing Your Relationships – Relationshipping Your Manager – Ben Kelly – http://www.ministryoftesting.com/2016/05/managing-relationships-relationshipping-manager/
• Mindmapping: A Killer Way To Increase Your Test Coverage – Prashant Hegde – https://testhuddle.com/mindmapping-killer-way-increase-test-coverage/
• Mobbing and competing solutions – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – http://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2016/05/mobbing-and-competing-solutions.html
• My Software Testing Origin Story – Brett Hinton – http://technophiletester.hintonweb.com/2016/05/05/my-software-testing-origin-story/
• Performance Engineering and Load Testing: A Changing Dynamic – Alex Podelko – http://alexanderpodelko.com/blog/2016/05/02/performance-engineering-and-load-testing-a-changing-dynamic/
• R is for Reputation (My A to Z of Software Testing, Part 6) – Colin Cherry – https://itesting.com.au/2016/05/03/r-is-for-reputation-my-a-to-z-of-software-testing-part-6/
• Session-based Test Management using Evernote – Brett Hinton – http://technophiletester.hintonweb.com/2016/05/07/session-based-test-management-using-evernote/
• Testers* [do|don’t] (help) [prevent|detect] problems** – Damian Synadinos – https://mysoftwarequality.wordpress.com/2016/05/06/testers-dodont-help-preventdetect-problems/
• The Ultimate Tester: Curiosity – Maaike Brinkhof – http://blog.xebia.com/the-ultimate-tester-curiosity/
• Toujours Testing – James Thomas – http://qahiccupps.blogspot.com/2016/05/toujours-testing.html
• When resume padding hides true software tester skills – Matt Heusser – http://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/answer/When-resume-padding-hides-true-software-tester-skills

Tools

• Appium Tip #24: Best Appium Resources Online – Ville-Veikko Helppi – http://testdroid.com/news/appium-tip-24-best-appium-resources-online
• Do not use WebDriver APIs in the Test Script – Alex Siminuic – https://seleniumjava.com/2016/05/08/do-not-use-webdriver-apis-in-the-test-script/
• Mocking a RESTful API using Nock, Supertest, Mocha and Chai – Toby Sinclair – https://tobythetesterblog.wordpress.com/2016/05/01/mocking-a-restful-api-using-nock-supertest-mocha-and-chai/
• Notes on Accelerating DevOps Collaboration with Sauce Labs & JIRA – T.J. Maher – http://www.tjmaher.com/2016/05/notes-on-accelerating-devops.html
• Setting up a Virtual DEV Environment with VirtualBox, Vagrant, and Docker – T.J. Maher – http://www.tjmaher.com/2016/05/setting-up-virtual-dev-environment-with.html
• Why you need cloud load testing, and how to find the right tools – Todd DeCapua – http://techbeacon.com/why-you-need-cloud-load-testing-how-find-right-tools

Attention Ohio Testers

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Conferences/Events/Meetups/Organizations/Training

• CITCON Europe 2016 – my first experience with this conference – Dolly Pente – http://altom.ro/blog/citcon-europe-2016-first-experience-conference
• GTAC 2016 Registration is now open! – Sonal Shah – http://googletesting.blogspot.com/2016/05/gtac-2016-registration-is-now-open.html
• My 5 Biggest Takeaways from the BBST Bug Advocacy Course – Nicola Owen – http://nickytests.blogspot.com/2016/05/my-5-biggest-takeaways-from-bbst-bug.html
• San Diego Quality Meetup 5/4/2016 – Dave McNulla – https://dmcnulla.wordpress.com/2016/05/05/san-diego-quality-meetup-542016/
• Six months into the speaking year 2016, what changed? – Maaret Pyhäjärvi – http://visible-quality.blogspot.com/2016/05/six-months-into-speaking-year-2016-what.html

Miscellaneous

• Podcast: 100: Testing IS Harder than Developing with Gerald Weinberg – Joe Colantonio – http://joecolantonio.com/testtalks/100-testing-harder-developing-gerald-weinberg/
• Podcast: AB Testing – Episode 38 – Alan Page, Brent Jensen – http://www.angryweasel.com/ABTesting/?p=121
• Podcast: Ep 49: Leading the Witness – Gem Hill – http://letstalkabouttests.xyz/index.php/2016/05/05/ep-49-leading-witness/
• Podcast: Testing in the Pub Episode 29 – Testing IOT and More With Kim Knup and Rhian Lewis – Stephen Janaway – http://testinginthepub.co.uk/testinginthepub/podcast/testing-pub-episode-29-iot-kim-knup-rhian-lewis/
• Webinar: Join this Roundtable Session on the Latest Trends on Software Testing – Maayan – http://qablog.practitest.com/2016/05/software-testing-latest-trends/

Items of Interest

• Android 6.0 Marshmallow Adoption Continues Slow, Steady Pace – David Bolton – https://arc.applause.com/2016/05/04/android-distribution-may-2016/
• Browser Trends May 2016: Firefox Finally Overtakes IE – Craig Buckler – http://www.sitepoint.com/browser-trends-may-2016-firefox-finally-overtakes-ie/
• Microsoft’s IE loses top browser spot to Google’s Chrome – Gregg Keizer –  http://www.computerworld.com/article/3063679/web-browsers/microsofts-ie-loses-top-browser-spot-to-googles-chrome.html
• This hacker makes an extra $100,000 a year as a ‘bug bounty hunter’ – Julie Bort – http://www.businessinsider.com/hacker-earns-80000-as-bug-bounty-hunter-2016-4